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this is probably one of the most bland, boring, derivative, and unoriginal stories I've ever read. This was honestly a waste of time and I don't know how I managed to get through 3 volumes of this.
i picked this up after reading the manga because I'm a sucker for isekais, and I thought that the power system was interesting. Also the MC using his game knowledge to ab*se bugs and a bunch of other features in the game to his advantage was cool, and seeing him rushing through dungeons and bosses with well thought out strategies was nice, and I thought that the novel was actually pretty interesting.
and then I read like 50 more chapters of it and then all of my expectations were thrown out of the window because this just gradually devolved into the typical female harem male power fantasy isekai story.
dont get me wrong, I dont mind predictable or generic stories, but when you bring absolutely nothing new to the table and have every single cliche in the book, thats when a story becomes really unsatisfying and unenjoyable. Oh yeah, and with shallow ass characters and an unlikable protagonist
first of all, lets start with second, the protagonist. He's one of the most intelligent, perceptive, and charismatic people in the entire novel who's able to solve everyone's problems despite being a shut in neet? And most of his thoughts and decisions just made me roll my eyes
he runs through a dungeon and gets 30 billion CL from a bunch of mithril. What does he do with his newly amassed riches? He spends it on a bunch of mansions that he doesnt need, instead of, say, helping other people like eko's beastman village which is literally stuck in poverty? Or helping out the bunch of homeless people and thieves riddled across the land (which are literally like half of his servants). Or maybe freeing a bunch of s*aves with his money instead of just a hundred? Oh, but of course none of that coincides with his ideals and so he doesnt do any of that. After all, hes only focused on becoming the toP iN tHE wOrlD!1!!!11111
speaking of which, he travels to isoreus, a place in another country, and fights a demon wolf girl named anko for four months, essentially leaving everyone he knows behind, just to get her. I didn't have any issue with that, and honestly leaving his teammates to train their skills by themselves was pretty cool, and so was getting a new powerful ally, but risking his life unnecessarily was honestly not it. He nearly gets killed by anko because "rUnNnINg aWAy iS FoR pUSSiES" (which makes the goblin thing he brought along to be basically useless?), even though him dying would have caused everyone he left behind at the seven mansions he purchased to wonder what the hell happened to him. His death would also make the duchess's efforts completely futile, and his absence would have also led to the empire taking over the kingdom, which would eventually cause Maine's death, but of course he doesn't care about any of that because why should he. And when he finally gets her through pure complete chance and a gamble on his life, he begins commenting on her MASSIVE b**bS numerous times because hes a straight male harem protagonist
speaking of harems, literally everyone around is either flat out in love with him, or sees him as a god (coughcough the one hundred s*aves yukari indoctrinated coughcough), which honestly gets annoying.
even after all that, I still decided to read it. Why? Maybe because somewhere in my heart there was the small, minuscule hope that the story would become better. Maybe I thought that this typical, generic isekai story would give me something new. Maybe I was thinking that it would somehow subvert and exceed my expectations. Maybe I wanted it so badly to prove to me that I wasn't underestimating it.
it did none of that, and when he decides to make love to yukari (who he barely talks to after four months and honestly doesnt even have that strong of a relationship with) for an entire night in, you guessed it, chapter 64a, I just couldnt take it anymore
oh, and dont get me started on the gay macho man trope they used as a disgusting, pathetic attempt at humour (it's not cool)
im mad and disappointed that a story I thought had so much potential at first halfway became such a massive waste of time.
i feel cheated. Give me back my time please [collapse]