The Support Ate it All Chapter 359 Discussion

MC finds himself in a game he always played and is set on a mission for world peace by using his cheats, game knowledge, and raising allies along the way.

To preface, I started reading this when there was no harem tag, and read mostly MTL, so my understanding of the story may be inaccurate.

However female characters started to be clingy with MC and be repetitively shallow with their antics, that I felt like skipping sections & started to wonder if this was a harem, and I am back to check NU page & harem got added, so thank you to the kind soul who added it

Overall I am dropping due to the poor characterization with the harem aspect, as I just feel like skipping whenever the romantic portions show up. A lot of other stuff I can easily gloss over which I'll mention below.

Pros:

+ MC strategizing, planning, guiding, and succeeding in training & fights utilizing his knowledge & cheat can be fun to read

+ Pacing is decent; I like how the fights don't drag

+ Side characters do have some substance, since they all seem to have a background/family/some motivations/ some life beyond the the academy

+ Some foreshadowing makes you look forward to future events, it feels like author did put thought into planning. Like for example, some dungeon storylines are connected, and I was interested to see how they pan out if the characters continue the dungeon storyline...

Cons:

- Clingy female characters with repetitive antics

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Since they are in school, yes I can reason girls in school do have interest in romance... but it feels somewhat shallow & somehow dumb?

So far where I'm at, the females are helped by MC thanks to his guidance.....

• there's a rich lucky sleepy girl who wants to use MC as a pillow & butler.. she ends up only being motivated to train and improve if MC offers something like being her pillow or some date.
• another fire mage who has a crush on MC and wants to get closer to MC (she is my least favorite & most frustrating to read, as she needs confidant (s) to divulge her insecurities over her crush & need other people to ask MC to confirm her curiosity... such as 'is MC actually a special pillow?')....
• There is also a thieves club president character who wants MC to only join her thieves club (all of the clubs want MC and even the white mage club allows their members to join multiple clubs, but thief club pres is not OK with MC joining other clubs; he belongs to her as she started the rumor of her wooing MC so he's hers) wants to be involved with everything even making the same goal to save the world with MC....

As you can see they feel dependent over MC because MC helps them train... but they also want to stay by his side.

Also if you hate moments where the girls fight over MC's attention, this definitely has squabbles over MC >.<"

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- Side characters have rather rigid/stagnant personalities that it can be predictable at times.

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I thought they'd be a bit more dynamic/unpredictable because they are new to MC (MC doesn't know any of the student characters as they are new faces)... but they play their expected roles.

For example, MC's dependable male friend who is a swordman is always grateful to MC for helping him getting stronger and will always tag along if asked... He is basically the yes-man support friend.... There's an archer character who hates MC for beating him and will always fight MC if faced off against MC, and similar fight will play out.

I also thought because MC never seen these student characters that even the antagonists would be different & a surprise for MC, but I guess in this game world, the antagonists are always the same characters... (because MC knows exactly which random boss enemy would pop up soon & where they'd show up & how to fight them as he obtains skills via cheat right before situation happens) but the characters being raised are randomized/different I guess....

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- connected to above point, repetitive plots that make the world feel much smaller

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Since the academy doesn't feel large with how little amount of students are in the same class as MC (yes there are different grades and clubs so it feels larger when those are in the picture but I'm specifically referring to MC's class), MC ends up fighting the same few classmates, and since MC is OP, he beats them in a similar way... The author does try to make it different with the setting/background & for more important side characters though, so MC can show off something new/give new advice...

So it is not copy pasta in a sense as the author does give a different twist... but I feel like this makes the academy much smaller and less grander if MC is just gonna randomly fight against the same few people multiple times.

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- MC in this game world doesn't have a 'background'/origin story (idk if author will reveal this later on)

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But I found it very strange that a professor had to do a background check after MC was already a student in the school, and thought he was a bad guy.. only to find out MC has no connections or anything... Wouldn't the Dragon Academy test students and check backgrounds before accepting anyone because they don't want spies in the school? Feels sloppy to do background checks after accepting them XD

Also MC basically lives at the Dragon Academy... like it feels like there's no life story prior attached to this body before arriving at the Academy after playing the game... Maybe author will reveal this later though?

But so far vibe wise, I'm guessing, he'll just go back & forth at the dorm or one of the girl's houses since the girls want him to come home with them

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- This is more my opinion, but I expected MC to be a bit more capable

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MC never loses in fights as he always is prepared to survive, but this is not the portion I am referring to, though this point can be a con for those who like character development.

Of course I get that his current body needs to be OP first, so people acknowledge him and accept his guidance. (Also yeah why not make yourself s-rank while you're at it lol)

But I assume because he raised 1000 s-ranks in game, that he'd be much more capable of gathering & raising more diverse people (so even if the person is a loser with crap skill, MC be able to turn a loser into s-rank)

But so far, everyone around him already had potential to be an A-rank.

So it doesn't feel there is a struggle or challenge tbh.

However I don't know if MC only made 1 s-rank every game attempt (not 1000 in one game attempt) so I guess just confused why he technically is only directly supporting like 1 male friend & 3-4 females at about 350 chapters in... when I thought there should be way more people to raise to fight for world peace XD

Like idk if the plan is to even make 1000 s-ranks in this story.. but yeah the progress feels very slow, if this is the case tbh. (Like I don't mind the pacing, but at this pace this will probably be a novel that will easily be in the 1000+ chapter range)

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