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Overall I really want to like it because it has a lot of good characters and an actual plot, but between the super hazy power levels and the changes to the plot over time I don't feel comfortable giving it even a 4/5, so I had to settle on 3/5.The issue with power levels is that the author keeps pulling them from nowhere. We're repeatedly told in fights that the current top tier guys move so fast that the lower ranked guy can't even see them move unless they're completely concentrating, yet we're to believe that a handful of lower ranked guys can take them on? Same thing with monsters/humans being pulled from nowhere after it being established that people at certain power levels are rare, and then the main character happens to meet a ton of people on that level coming after him randomly or gets into fights at that level. Perhaps it was me just not really understanding the explanations, but the explanations of the magic itself are also questionable, being incredibly vague in a lot of important parts to understanding why certain things (like magecraft) are even important or useful.All that would've been fine if the series had maintained its status as more of an adventure novel with him slowly advancing and focusing more on taking a deeper look at Asley's mentality, but it quickly becomes generic with the setting of him being a 5000-year old magic maniac quickly becoming irrelevant and him transitioning into the average dense harem main character. Talented mages of the current era are better than him at a lot of magic despite magecraft being almost gone in this era, and so his 5000 years feel pretty much wasted in terms of his actual abilities.All that being said, the gags are genuinely good and Pochi is a great doggo with her banter with Asley, so I'd still recommend it if you like fun character interactions.
