- #1
I liked this well enough; I didn't mind the flaws like the inconsistent MC, the lack of stakes, etc. The characters' interactions were interesting and fun, and the world was being built and explored, and plot threads were beginning to take shape.So... why is my rating two stars? Well the author never stopped building and exploring the world and adding more plot threads, but with the same cliches. It just kept getting more and more complex, and every time they resolved something you'd have two more threads added. Eventually it got to the point where I just couldn't stand it any more; the author kept retreading the plot threads but in greater numbers again and again.Honestly, I could have stomached it for a while, especially if they had kept up the character interactions, but instead new characters just get introduced to drive the same returning plot cliches again and again, and old characters get thrown aside for hundreds of chapters. It made for a really boring retread of the same stories.I liked the beginning; that was fine. But it never ended. Honestly, it feels like it could have ended 400 chapters ago, before the author had gotten out of hand with all these repeating plot themes. He just never stops with them. It's done slightly differently, but you eventually start to catch on.The author just wanted to keep making more, but not to make quality. It keeps repeating the same story beats over and over and never goes anywhere. Eventually, it starts to wear on you more and more until you can't take anymore.All the author needed to do was to tie up the loose threads and focus on a coherent small group of characters rather than just make more story with new characters that keeps following the same plot points. It's really grating by this point; 8 volumes, where around 4 of them are meaningless meanderings of an author out of ideas who just keeps returning to the same concepts.It's insane. Can you imagine if someone were to write the same thing phrased slightly differently for paragraph after paragraph? It's really obvious after a certain point that they really don't have anything left to write about. An author needs to keep focusing on keeping the story moving, but instead of going anywhere, it just meanders forever.Honestly, there's no way you wouldn't notice it. It'd be like if this review more or less consisted of the same exact sentences over and over again, phrased slightly differently. By now, you'd definitely be starting to be annoyed. And when you expect it to come to some sort of conclusion, the author just