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One of the settings of the story is the Russian attack on Ukraine. Which is used really well for the story at large. Even part of the setup for how the world might end was done decently (Russia deploying nukes against Ukraine, pushing the world towards potential Nuclear war). However ultimately the way the MC seems set to save the world is simply by helping her vtuber friend whose mother is a candidate, win the USA election.
Like hey, elect one president the world is destroyed. Elect the friend's mom, we get world peace, situation resolved. And a magical campaign from Japan spread through some vtuber acquaintances, and streams subtitled/translated into foreign languages will turn the tide of the American election.
It's just..... underwhelming, especially considering the story and build up prior.
Like what about using her lingual abilities to organize a grass roots international campaign to support Ukraine. Becoming an icon who perhaps gets invited to the UN to speak as a young innocent internationally popular girl, who can speak dozens of languages flawlessly. Or perhaps organizing and influencing a peace grassroots movement in Russia that goes viral.
Or before the Ukraine stuff was set up, something like she becomes a international mediator or help unite the world and come together in new common understanding. Or lead a movement to completely disarm nukes or something.
Not..... merely get involved in a political campaign.
It really makes me a little sad. Because I read all kinds of stories. Some are intelligent engaging stories. Some are brain dead genre clones of other series. Some are well written, some are horrible. I try to enjoy them for what they are and are trying to be. And for this to have been built up and written pretty well, for this to be the problem and solution, just makes me feel hollow. I was actually interested and engaged in where this was going, for it to be so simple, clear and boring.
[collapse]Granted the story may move in a different direction in the future and I may have misread where this seems telegraphed to go. Maybe this is just step 1, and the real saving the world stuff happens later. But if this is it, frankly "somehow Palpatine returned" is far more interesting in comparison.I still like the characters and everything else. Especially how some of the stuff was explained. Language cheats were always fun.SpoilerSpoilerMC reincarnated in the past and had actual met his reincarnated self when he was killed (vice versa after reincarnation MC briefly met her former self who was killed. And MC had language cheat and forgot the all the youtubers she used to follow because of a growth in part of her brain. Which was excellently foreshadowed by the MC forgetfulness of nonvtuber stuff which was part of the side effect of the growth
[collapse]Anyways, if you love action, this story is not for you. If you like vtuber series, you probably will enjoy.
