- #1
Cool Concept and world, absolutely tr*sh MC and pace.The protagonist is your absolute most beta of betas. He goes on and on about law of the jungle and kill or be killed mentality, but just seems to completely lack any will or strength of character and despite that constant talk has yet to even really injure anyone. He's infinitely forgiving and does that thing where he'll just ignore crimes and scare off criminals and pat himself on the back as if he's solved the problem. He's your most typical "does what he's told" ball-less protagonist I think I've ever seen.And then there's the pacing. It feels like you're skipping chapters at a time. Problem arises, instantly solved. Plot points that would be entire arcs in other series last a chapter. Spoiler
They introduce a bully, a chapter later he's groveling and reformed and calling the protagonist a great guy. They re-introduce the characters who betrayed the protagonist, and he does nothing after being confronted twice. And his "I'm finally going to put an end to this" resolution, he stabs one of them in the leg, and the author points out he intentionally did it in a way not to permanently injure the guy. Then a chapter later that guy is revealed to be a traitor and gets his compatriots killed, as if this was a built up master plan, even though literally a chapter earlier he was just harassing the MC on the street as if he had no plan whatsover.
[collapse] There is no pacing.And then there's the women, all of whom are introduced just to immediately swoon over the MC. 20 chapters in and almost every woman in his age bracket introduced so far blushes if he farts in their direction.It's worse than generic, it's poorly done generic. The only reason it gets a 2 star is because the translation is at least competent.