Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai Chapter 539 Discussion

I like this series, to those that say its unrealistic etc. I just have to ask you, Why are you reading an isekai fantasy novel and expecting a realistic story? Read novels with "Modern Day" tags if your looking for realism now to my rating.

This novel for me deserves a 4.0 star score just basing on the story being true to it's themes. Looking at the tags, genre's and even the synopsis the overall theme of the story is quite obvious.

To start this off World Building, giving the slow pacing the story has which was obvious from the start, the world building was not really focused on much. But as the story goes on and the MC gets more freedom we can see more of the world and it's decent to say the least.

But now we focus on the best part of this novel, the plot, which I would rate quite high since this is to be honest the best part of this novel. First, we don't have s*upid actions done by the MC which has zero consequences, every action has a definite reaction and certain things even the smallest mistake is used by the author logically. What I'm saying here is that we won't see any BS where the MC causally does something amazing and no one cares how and why he did it. Those who read the story read the spoiler-

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So you may wonder how about his inventions etc. How can no one see errors in his actions you may ask? For one if you actually read a bit of the story you would know that the MC unconsciously created an image which helps him in that department. He learned to read quickly and loved reading books, he played with magic and did a lot of unconventional things. Moreover! He lives in a family where both his parents are geniuses on their own right, Nord is a genius swordsman whose skill will be elaborated further on in the story, same is true for his mother Elna.

Now there are hints of suspicion but whether or not they ignore it, we don't actually know, mind you the story is told in a 1st person perspective, by the MC and we do get some other perspectives but those are few and far between.

Overall the whole scenario and events are well planned and very well executed for a web novel

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Now onto the second best part about the story, the character interactions. Is it good? Yes, are they cardboard cut-outs? No. To elaborate, the characters seem like cardboard cutouts but that's because we only see in the perspective of the MC. Yes, some characters have a them going on with their own characters but they do have character growth and if you read between the lines and don't always take the MC's words for it you will see this character development which is honestly well done by the author. Those who complain about certain characters look at the spoiler.

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Now Eleanora, the MC's older sister, some paint her as only a bully, but remember when the MC pointed out how the girl could cut a stone in half with wooden sword? How her ability is so monstrous and deadly? Well then if she really was just an abusive b*tch why is the MC only left with muscle pain after their training and not with broken bones? The answer is simple, the MC is exaggerating since he's lazy, he was "forced" to train but even the most spoiled children were probably dragged out of their rooms to play outside instead of roblox.

Come one people, the MC is basically a child until even chapter 539, even teens are forced out of their mothers basements from time to time to get some fresh air much less a growing child.

And before anyone speak about child ab*se, let me remind you, the MC never had any dangerous life threatening injury. The worse he got were bruises, most of the bad people talk about were the training episodes but I again emphasize, the MC's body never really got damaged all that much! It's the MC's exaggerations, if they really beat him up with ill intent then the MC should be waking up with a cast instead of with a fake, "Muscle pain~" statement.

Also why is everyone talking about the MC being "threatened" by the adults into training? I believe everyone at some point was "threatened" by their parents or family members through their fears such as the doctor, the dentist, being grounded whatever the child fears. The MC is basically just being threatened through what he fears the most which in his case is physical activities!

Moreover the other characters, Elna, is considered a fully developed character being the parent, so is with all the adults. Most character developments occur with the younger children and that development would not be fast and instead slow! Look here the story truly started when the MC was age 6 and now we're at 539 and he's still 7. No major conflict or anything occurred just a kid doing kid things with his family. If you expect a smiling kid or anyone near him to change in one year where nothing substantial happened then you're either inexperienced or too into dark and edgy stories which this one is not

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Now finally the last thing to look at is the theme, this novel has a lighthearted, slow, slice of life theme. It's literally the story of an overworked office worker reborn, probably with age regression, hinted even at the start of the series by the God and many other aspects which I won't elaborate on, find it yourself or read for real and not just skimming through pages trying to finish 100 chapters in1 day. Skimming pages reading hundreds of chapters per day makes you ignore other details except for cliché's and the like.

Overall if you are someone wanting to waste time this is a nice slow read, if you are someone wanting to waste time but don't have the time to and just want to make your mind wander off this is not the story for you. This is the story which you read and enjoy with a relaxed mind.

P.S. Read a novel for what it's worth, everything about this novel screams slow life with no action, why come here expecting some epic adventure? Slow life is literally on the title, and I said this before but I'll say this again. The story doesn't go over some big war or change in life, there's no big baddie, devil king or evil god for the MC to defeat. God literally shoved him into a peaceful life. If you want a story with epic developments and all that fun stuff read something that does not say "I want to Live a SLOW LIFE".

Tip: Look for stories with Evil in the name, drama in the tag or psychological if you want something exiting. Honestly, I don't know whether people are dumb to expect big action and epic character development in a slow life