- #1
I tried to read it, but while volume 1 is still acceptable, volume 2 made me run out of patience.The main issue with this novel is that it's very infantile, and that is due to the extremely infantile main character (bro admits that he hadn't grown up after high school, but then he has no issues acting like a 3-year-old and his thinking is actually congruous with it). His actions are infantile, his internal monologue is infantile, and ergo the narration is infantile. It doesn't help that he's a naive idiot (e.g. in chapter 12 or so of vol 2, he easily promises granting any favor no matter what it is in return for being taught something, and even though the other party was going to tell him what it is, they now didn't, because the MC cut them off and made this extremely weighty promise, and I just know that the author is later going to use it for some ass-pull development, or rather it'd have been one without this foreshadow... which doesn't change that it's extremely forced and it's only possible to advance whatever plot it is by deactivating MC's thinking). Compounded with the fact that it takes waaaay too many chapters for the protagonist to grow the F up already, this novel has proven insufferable for me.Which is a pity, because the setting, the side characters, and at least to some extent the magic system show promise (I won't elaborate on these, since other reviewers did).