The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time Chapter 83 Discussion

Promising start, but quickly devolves into your average isekai with a touch of edge. The MC gets super powerful, super quick, and if that weren't enough, the author takes every opportunity to shove your stereotypical harem characters at the baby.

The baby.

Because the MC is 1-2 when the some of the early harem members think about how they like him and/or want to have his babies.

If harem with a toddler is your thing, here's a summary of what harem members he's gotten so far from where I've read:

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We have:

• Two pieces of bikini and leotard armour haunted by spirits that the MC conveniently finds in a dungeon. To be fair, it takes a while for the spirits to gain a human form, so I'll give the author that much.
• A 290 year-old ghoul who apparently looks like a pre-teen human girl with grey skin (that's right, the author put in an "I'm actually 9000 years old!" loli). Also, ghoul women look exactly like human women aside from skin colour but the ghoul men look like monsters with the head of lions. Another boring trope.
• Multiple other ghouls of various ages really desperate to get pregnant by the MC (one of whom is a former prostitute)
• Another former prostitute, but a high-ranking vampire this time
• A Titan princess ghost
• And more to come! I assume, because if a new character is introduced with particular emphasis on their b**bs and ass, you can assume she'll become a harem member.

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Stuck through it for a while because I was curious about what was going to happen with him, the other reincarnators, and his relations with "people" (i.e. humans, elves, dwarves), but dropped it because of a couple things being the last few straws:

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• The first reincarnator is a completely irredeemable a**hole. I'd even go as far as to say he's worse than the other heroes in The Rising of the Shield Hero - at least they f*ck up because they're just dumbasses. This dude literally goes around and r*pes and mu*ders people as he pleases to get sh*t then attack the MC.
• Princess instantly becomes a harem member. At least the MC is 7 at this point instead of 1. Amazing.

It's possible that the author turns things around and doesn't have any more ridiculously 1D as*hole reincarnators (we get a brief intro to the next three and they seem okay at least), but I just don't have that much faith in this story anymore. It's your stereotypical power fantasy harem isekai with a dash of monster girls and a dash of revenge p*rn à la ShieldBro or hell, Nidome no Yuusha.

Except the revenge p*rn isn't even fun because some of the revenge targets are sympathetic (ex. Heinz, who's actively doing his best to atone for his mistakes since the moment he made them, and the reincarnators who aren't a**holes and didn't know that MC was the Undead being experimented on back on Origin). And yet the MC still wants to mu*der Heinz and his friends, and the MC still expects the other reincarnators to get on their knees and apologize profusely for the crime of... not being mind readers?

The MC isn't being written as the most sane person, sure, so it might be a deliberate narrative choice and he's going to undergo character development and let go of his hatred.

Or not, because again, this author relies waaaay too much on stereotypical tropes.

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non-spoiler-y tl;dr: I don't trust the writing to treat certain plot points they way they should be anymore because there's been way too many stereotypical isekai tropes and plot shoved in.