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I can sum up my issues with this novel with one phrase: out of place.Many plot points and power ups just seem like they're forced on him out of nowhere, conversely there are bad guys and plot points he hears about and decides to do nothing about, but it never fails that doing nothing was not a good idea, yet he keeps making the same decision. Not only do major plot points come out of nowhere, but during each plot arc there will be more and more side story interjections at random points. Which never fail to include a character who's supposed to not be able to spend much time with the main cast.The harem and romance are out of place, with a protagonist who acts alternately like an elementary school student bullying his crush or an old man with his wife of 40 years celebrating their anniversary. One of the wives in particular never gets treated as a love interest at all, before or after the engagement, she's just kind of there because the author wanted a girl of her race in the harem I guess.There are a lot of leaps of logic on the author's part and the story just became a pain to read along the way. I think if the author took the harem out of the relationships (more than 3/4 don't even look old enough to be high school students) and left it as a basic adopted family, rearranged the order of events for a better plot flow, showed any sign of growth in the protagonist or his relationship with others, it would be pretty good, as it is it's just a mess.
