Academy Heroine’s Right Diagonal Back Seat Chapter 129 Discussion

This is one of the most entertaining novels I've read recently, hence my rating of 5 stars.

But it's also one of the strangest, at least in terms of how it's structured. As other reviews have mentioned, the beginning of the novel doesn't give good impressions. The main character feels like a stereotypical dumb pushover type, and the few other important characters at the beginning also come full of what seem to be average academy stereotypical drama.

I'm usually someone who tells others that if they don't like the beginning of a story, then they most likely won't like the rest. That is NOT the case here. The strange intro is effectively just a necessary prologue for what is a surprisingly expansive and well written action story.

I don't think I can explain further without spoiling some stuff, but since I really want people to read through to the later chapters, what I'll do is list exactly when major shifts in the story occur. If you're on the edge about whether to read this story or continue past the early chapters, please look through the following. I'll try to keep it as general as possible so that nothing important gets spoiled:

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First ~20 chapters: The story feels like your average academy novel, where the main character and the few characters she interacts with are all annoying. The MC voluntarily becomes a bread shuttle/errand girl for the popular type girl/main heroine from the original story the MC isekaid into. She initially seems dumb for acting like this, BUT

Chapter 31 explains that the MC was actually doing this on purpose. In fact, most of the annoyances from the characters in previous chapters start getting explained after this, and honestly, by the latest chapters it's hard to really hate any of them any more (your anger gets diverted towards many of the other villainous characters that get introduced later).

Chapter 38: This is when the story's first major action arc occurs. The story has regular action scenes and plot advances/twists from this point forward.

Chapter 50: The full background setting of the fantasy world gets revealed here. And it was very surprising, because it reveals a world with a much larger scale than I expected. It made me realize that the story could go well past the academy setting at some point, with characters having to go to different places around the world to fix problems.

Chapter 78: This chapter is the beginning of one of my favorite arcs. The writing here was particularly good, and really gets you emotionally invested in what happens. The story already had dark scenes before this, but things get particularly bad from this moment on.

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As you can see from the spoiler section above, it really took me until Chapter 78 to get fully invested in the story, but it was well worth it, and it wouldn't have been as good without all the stuff that led to it. The recently translated chapters, right up to Chapter 129, have all been great.

This has become the top novel I check daily for updates. I hope everyone who reads this review gives it a fair chance.