- #1
After reading Volume 1 of the official English Light Novel:So far it is “okayish”. The writing is all over the place, either the author has never written a story / book before or the translator used cheap machine translation and just edited the worst parts. It also is pretty clear that in the original they just collected the webnovel chapters without further editing since almost every chapter starts with a recap of some sort. That is fine for webnovels but in a “one piece” novel? Come on!Another thing I thought of kinda weird was when the servant asked the MC if he knew how to take a bath and the answer was the japanese version, scrubbing down first and when clean get into the bath (to sleep or whatever ^^). NO, that is NOT how you bathe! I understand that historically in Japan families used the same bathwater or still share it in bathhouses. The correct way to really get clean is to get into the bathwater, let your skin get soft and then scrub it off. When done you take a shower to rinse it off. So if there is no need to save water there is no need to do it the Japanese way. And why would a “western” fantasy world bathe like the Japanese in the first place?I do like the magic system, it is kinda fresh but of course it is convenient for the story. Else, the story progresses like a million others of this kind. MC gets transported to another world and has no clue where he is. When he reaches the first road there are some bandits attacking a noble and MC rescues him. And bang, MC gets all connections and hospitality he needs to live a comfortable life in that world. *Yawn*.Also the level system is not congruent. So even a small rabbit in the monster forrest is level 300. That means the other monsters must be way higher. While in the human parts a level 500 means you’re a sage and the strongest of the strong. That makes no sense. If a rabbit is level 300 then a wyvern must bei level 3000 or so. Even the MC wouldn’t be able to take that down easily. The auther should have gone with level 30 for the rabbit so that an ordinary soldier would be able to take it down with some effort. The scaling here isn’t really well thought out.The whole thing screams “cheap testrun”. If future volumes will be the same sloppy “collection” this series will be discontinued (as LN) soon.
