The Academy’s Weakest Became A Demon-Limited Hunter Chapter 194 Discussion

I don't think anything in this story absolutely jumps out as phenomenal, but it's extremely competent and intriguing. It combines all the fiction junk food you want into an extremely palatable read.

You have the harem, which is filled with very interesting girls with diverse personalities that keep the story interesting.

You have the typical "video game system power up" isekai, which is handled perfectly fine- though I sincerely question the people who "made" the game letting one stat turn you into a demigod against basically the only enemy that matters, it's certainly not unbelievable coming from a guy who leveled swimming in the original Deus Ex.

Finally, and this is where I think there's definitely some distance between this and its contemporaries, you have the intrigue of the secret identity. The trope that carried american comics for decades is here and it's excellent.

The author clearly knows the ins and outs of the genres he's writing and it shows. The story only gets more and more interesting the more goes on- though admittedly there's some volatility where the conclusion of each of the heroine's ultimate "arcs" is far more engaging than the refractory periods where characters just need to live their lives.

So overall, I don't think you can really do much better than this when it comes to the isekai-video game-magical school genere. A niche to be sure, but it's got contemporaries that are professionally published that are still enjoyable- and this story is definitely at least as good. Easily worth the shot.