Clearing an Isekai with the Zero-Believers Goddess – The Weakest Mage among the Classmates (WN) Chapter 313 Discussion

I would say maybe 3.5 show better my vote then 3.0.

I did enjoy this story, mostly but there are some part I consider flawed.

Worldbuilding: 7/10.

The worldbuilding is interesting, we don't see often direct partecipation from gods in these kind of series. There are some elements that could have been explored more (for example why and how the class were transported to that world, why Aya was an exception)

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More in detail, some important questions are avoided and forgotten. For example when the group go in Rozes capital, they cross an anti-monster barrier, but Aya, now a lamia, is totally unaffected. Same thing in the Great keith and Highland capitals. No one that knows about Aya race, asked anything.

Even in chapter 311 a demi-god barrier was deployed, affecting the taboo monsters in Iblis's castle, and Aya was totally unaffected, while Mel was affected hard. Now this was explained in-story as there are exception, but the only one that could have sneaked a lamia exception in the barrier was Momo (this is by assuming that everyone contributing to the barrier cast the same spell), and that no one else found that strange. Unless Aya being a monster is now know to more important people after the 1 year skip, but this is not stated anywhere. (Is not even clear if Sofia herself knew, as she entered the scene later when Aya revealed herself to Furie, albeit Eir could have told her, as Althena could have told Noel).

Or when Alexander commented Aya "Invicible Time" as "putting a leg into Divinity". It was totally ignored after. Even after Makoto and the others learnt that rainbow is the symbol of divinity and divine spells.

Also this is again an example how mindlessy inserting time travel can ruin the self-consistency of the story, if the rules aren't grounded at the start.

First of all there are some elements that make think about a "stable time loop". The coffin in Momo residence, that we seen pre travel, Momo behaviours themselves. Abel statue changing colors, and only Makoto is able to recognized it, instead suggests a progressive tampering with the timeline. Then at the meeting it's the resurrected GDL to tamper with history (couldn't have done that if it was alive, and there isn't a loop), and sending makoto back is a described as "not happened before".

Not a good job on this I have to say.

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There are other little grievances with this, but they are honestly minor, and maybe are already resolved (or will) in the LN or adaptation (I already seen some differences between the first chapters of the WN and LN/Manga). Most require a couple of lines more, other a bit more, but still small. The only one that's more difficult to fix up is the last in the spoiler.

Characters 6.5/10

The MC is barely passable and he mostly hasn't a significant emotional growth.

Makoto is a sociopath, thanks to his skills, and while he do recognized sometimes that they are affecting him, he "forget" the moment later. While he being dense in relationships sense is understandable at the beginning, and some of the situation are hilarious, it stop being in this way after a while, and their interjection mostly seem comedic reliefs.

Aya and Lucy have more growth, as they grow more attached to Makoto and to each other. However while Lucy is shown improving her emotional state, from totally insecurity to a person with overall more self-esteem, albeit she still have quirks, Aya is supposed to highly emotionally unstable

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being reincarnated in Leberintos and having her isekai family mu*dered

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and hellbent on revenge. It was shown that way at least near the chapter with Makoto reunion. Then after the left Laberintos

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and having killed the Harpy Queen

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she ask for her sister location to Furie, disguising as a fortune teller in Synphonia

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Story: 7/10:

Overall the story is quite good, and quite enjoyable. Seeing makoto find unusual solutions to problems is quite the main point of this WN.

Makoto itself doesn't seem to have a fatal flaw. A possible Fatal flaw can be his uncontrollated recklessness (due to his skills), but while this did give him troubles, it's not causing a loss for him or his friends. (Albeit sometimes thanks to the goddesses that act as a personification of the story plot armour)

Lucy is the only one that have a proper fatal flaw. Her insecurity in fact at the beginning (but overall in the first part of the novel) is actively preventing her growth.

There isn't a proper midpoint for Makoto (a midpoint can be identified for Lucy's own story, where she start resolving her fatal flaw), but seeing spoilers, there seem to be an event that can be seen (with my limited info) as a "death experience" (this is a term used by some narratologist, as Dara Marks).

Translation: 8.5/10

Translation is quite good, well comprensible, there are some little mistake here and there. Nothing relevant (except a big one in chapter 294, but I don't know whetever the issue is in the translation or an error in the source material)

Some idiomatic speech figures could have adapted instead of being rawly translated and explained in a note. (Same with the honorifics, I'm not a fan on having the honorifics reported, albeit I'm aware that they could have been difficult to adapt in english (maybe easier in other languages)). It's not like there are cultural references that are important to the understanding of the setting (like could be with Yeon Lok Eun for example)