The Strongest Dull Prince’s Secret Battle for the Throne Chapter 256 Discussion

I'll apologize in advance as I don't usually write reviews so it might be a little jumbled and I'm not a native English speaker either. The review will be biased

This novel is mediocre not good not bad either as it has a very promising story but I can't feel anything for the characters as the MC kinda gives chunni vibes and MC's brother has personality of a typical do no evil shonen protag, there are a lot of unnecessary side characters and sometimes the plot is straight up dumb.

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Finne's family which is s dukedom is said to be a prominent family but the one guarding the gate is his son seems kinda dumb

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The reason why MC doesn't reveal that he is silver is because of his great grandfather who went berserk but now that he is an ss rank adventurer and the emperor relies on himSpoiler

their talk before that turtle monster subjugation quest he offers him a status of duke which means that he is willing to accept someone who uses ancient magic into his family proves that even if he reveals himself there won't be that many disadvantages

[collapse] so what if he reveals himself does the empire have enough power to detain a SS rank adventurer not mentioning the fact that the hero will prioritise MC before the empire so the only person who has the power to do so is on his side. The MC is kinda nive and why does he have a little inferiority complex even though he is a f**ing SS rank adventurer is beyond me there are only 4 others who can match upto him in the entire continent.

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kinda naive and hypocrite in the rebellion arc he tells the youngest prince that if someone tries to kill you you have the right to kill them but when Zandra has tried to assassinate him only thing he does is to remove her from the succession war which too is ineffective in the rebellion arc still doesn't kill her. The MC preaches he cares about the people still doesn't punish those responsible

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There are too many cliches to count I'm a firm believer of cliche doesn't mean bad but atleast have some uniqueness it feels like a soap opera and it kinda gets predictable when you know MC is gonna win any way.

Sometimes the backstories are placed at random moments like how Finne was related to MC beforehand and why did MC decide to become an adventurer was just tossed into a random chapter like a fun fact. I can't get attached to the MC as they show no reason why he turned out the way he is except for the fact that it was due to his mother's teaching method.

Reading this I can't say except that it feels like I'm reading the anime version on Naruto due to the excessive fillers the story is okay, I can ignore the cliches, dumb reasoning but all that along with author milking the arcs gets boring.

Another complaint is that there is no romantic development going on with the MC even his brother proposed before him and many times the MC has tried to cuck himself and the time Finne tried to introduce ntr into the story by offering herself to the female director of that merchant company kinda makes it bland and even annoying.

The comedy can be considered non existent as almost all the jokes fall flat MC isn't humorous either and his brother is also always serious so it gets monotonous, the author's attempts at humour are bad for example girl on girls s*xual harrasment is funny, lo*icon fat older brother, hero's chest is flat and the adventurers banter whenever MC does something are bland.

The story seems to be deviating from the original plot to make his brother an emperor, I'll make a prediction that this is somehow related to demon king which is causing all the changes in his siblings and he will be summoned somehow and that's how the fight will go there are already some signs of that visible. If the author was able to properly depict politics it would have been much better cause politics is by no means boring sometimes I see things happening irl much interesting than fiction so it could have made it much more interesting.

Well I'll give it 3.5/5 for now but I think I'm going to skip a lot as I read in other reviews that the rebellion arc is quiet long.