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So far so good. I read the manga first, so I can see how the monsters look like. And they're looking really slick! Even the ugly monster are looking good. So when I read the novel, I can just easily imagine how they will look even if I never saw the newer monsters.Also, Renge/Renka really looks like that one vtuber whose name starts with K and ends with ronii. As her fan, I kinda just immediately love Renka too, lol ðŸ˜Anyway, for the serious stuff, it got pretty solid world-building. The fights are like SMT-style fight, with summoned monster and all that. They have racial skills and acquired skills like that in SMT, too. But, they evolve like digimon, instead of fusion like SMT, when they're fed with another monster card.For main character, MC is realistically childish, like a normal high-school boy. There are times when he's shown to have higher mental strength than normal person, though. I wonder if it was because of the Zashiki-Warashi (Renka), or if it was his innate talent. He has competitive spirit, friendliness towards his summons, and persistence to chase his goals. He's the classic-type of MC for this kinda stories. You know, like Ash Ketchum, Yugi Muto, Tai, Ban Yamano, etc. Not exactly the same as them, just similar type.As for other characters, I can only comment on his monster harem members, which are really fun to read. Personality-wise, I personally love that the author decided to make Mea/Mare a gyaru Imp/Empusa, and Renka a tsundere Zashiki-Warashi. I can easily imagine how the dandere Yuuki (Cu Sith) would act, and also loving that Eliza basically has no sentience at all at first, but grew into a kuudere. Very cliché, but I guess it's called cliché because it just works. (I only mentioned the manga monster girls harem here) There's not much else to comment on. If there's a negative about it, then, it's just that it has so much cliché in it. So, cliché haters are probably going to rate the novel with 1 star.Solid 4/5. Actually 4.2/5, but there's no one-fifth star.