- #1
I wasn’t able to make it very far. There are a million 1-star reviews where people go into a ton of detail on what they don’t like - I agree with all of them.Instead, I’ll focus on what I think was the author’s greatest mistake.The first chapter.The author follows THE typical isekai story start, and the typical class transport start.The typical isekai start is where you give a very small amount of info on the MC and their original world initially, and then fill that information in later using flashbacks or through interactions with other characters. It works well typically, it keeps the story moving initially by avoiding an info dump, it gets to the ‘other world’ where the story is going to take place quickly without wasting time on a world that will have very little relation to the MC. Most isekai stories only have an original world so that there can be an ‘other world’ and sometimes to explain the MC’s knowledge or power.The typical class transfer start is has some common points, like the lack of background info initially given, usually it’s limited to general relationships and class groupings. Like the isekai starts, this tends to work well, as it’ll tell you who is friend and who is foe, without getting bogged down in an info dump or too much background. As the story goes on more info about individuals and relationships can be revealed to keep the story moving, it also allows for surprises to keep the story interesting.This novel, however, suffers fatally because of this. The author decided to change it up a bit and start off with the MC being bullied and asked to go buy drinks for the bullies. The MC then proceeds to go to the roof and promptly throw himself from it, committing su*cide. As you can quickly see, it ends up feeling abrupt, like it came out of nowhere. It feels completely unproportional to what we’re shown.With something as big and serious as su*cide, I think the story would have benefited from some more background and introduction initially. As it was the MC was a complete stranger, I wasn’t emotionally invested in him at all. His su*cide didn’t make me feel all sorts of complex emotions and make me wish revenge on his bullies, it was so abrupt I was just confused. Had the author taken a bit of time to explore the MC’s life, to explain the bullying more, to make you connect with the MC, I think the story would have really s**ked you in. Instead, though, it follows that standard isekai and class transport start and I’m left having an incredibly hard time connecting with the MC and getting into the story. I can’t understand the MC’s grudge and suffering because I’m just being told ‘he has a grudge and it’s totally justified because of his suffering’ instead of experiencing it myself.In the end, I think you should always give a story a shot. I’m not you, just because I didn’t personally connect with it or like it doesn’t mean you won’t. I have absolutely no complaints about the translator, they do truly fantastic work, and I think the story itself is written quite well. I just stumbled at the start and it ruined the story for me.
