I Became the Academy’s Genius Shikigami Summoner Chapter Completed Discussion

I MTLd the whole thing so this is purely about the story.

Pros:

• NO ROMANCE (they're too busy training and surviving), MC is more like a mentor to everyone... it kinda feels like a resource management sim but the resources are the other characters? So he's basically building the best deck to face the doom scenario at the end
• Calm Heroic Humble Self-sacrificing Smart/Strategic MC, can also be said to be OP without it being annoying *imo since I've read quite a lot of tr*sh-like OP MC novels so I think this one handles it well
• MC made a solid foundation for himself planning everything from being a nobody to a somebody
• Reasonable power scaling throughout the story considering that the MC chose to be a summoner and uses created/subordinated monsters as his main fighting power

Cons:

• Most recurring major characters are female (I'd say 80-90%, I honestly grew numb to it at some point)
• Has basically a planned step by step plot (could be off-putting/bland for some people but it was explained well by considering MC's background/personality)
• The fights can seem repetitive and have a similar pattern

On to my more personal opinion, I don't usually have high hopes for stories w harem tag and it certainly alarmed me when most of the major characters the MC encountered were female but other than that it's actually a rather enjoyable read. Sure I found it rather cringy at first but then I start enjoying the cringe?? strange but it didn't even last that long as I began rooting for him to complete the plot successfully.

I quite like the MC. I think he's a lovable munchkin character that worked hard for it. He's just a guy who's completely obsessed w the game he got transmigrated into, he's a top ten ranked player for the game and also part of the dev team in making future unreleased sequels to the game. If you like cheat-like OP MCs this is for you, since he conveniently has a library skill that records all the spells he has used in the game. Anyway, the adaptability and experience shown from all the PVP he went through to keep his rank made him OP, though I find it strange that the game would be so detailed to show all the process of creating a spell n stuff for him to exploit and break the formation in certain ways to counteract an opponent's magic, but meh I'll overlook it. Either way, I find him to be a pretty cool character. The MC is like; 'this a hidden hell difficulty mode that was only rumored about? Woah cool Imma beat it and achieve a good ending >:) ' this made him feel quite endearing to me. Then again I also really like self-sacrificing MCs ^^

Overall, it was a very straightforward/predictable read but I find it to be quite a charming overcoming adversity trope, so I'd say it was a decently fun read.