Doggone Academy Chapter -- Discussion

I've been putting this off for a while due to the good reviews and the genre - which I'm a huge fan of.

The start is fairly okay. It delivers what you expect from this type of novel.

The main problem here, and the reason why I'm making this review, is that the chapters are super mini-sized.

Now I know I'm reading this for free, but Jesus Christ. 600 words for one chapter? It's not even as if the release schedule is super consistent. If we got 7 chapters a week at the very minimum I wouldn't have complained.

It's really hard to get immersed in the story if all it takes to get the to the bottom of the page is four swipes of my finger.

I was expecting to keep myself entertained for half a day at least, but in a few hours I had almost caught up to the latest chapter, and that's with me taking breaks in between.

Also, another issue is that sword light thingy. It feels like an easy and cheap solution for every single issue Damien can't handle.

I'm not that deep into the story so there might be details I'm missing. Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. I might be completely wrong.

Still, it feels a little overpowered. And it shows when Damien easily slaughtered a herd of ghouls which a knightly order would have a huge problem dealing with.

Joyce, a talented and no doubt highly trained knight could barely wound one. Damien, who barely has a few training sessions under his belt, killed all of them.

I'm okay with that, but I came into this expecting the MC either to be extremely talented or to put in so much effort he could bridge the gap between the two.

Then again. Let's pause for a bit. We're at the beginning of the story, so I might be a little harsh with my judgment. I blame the translation speed for this. It takes 25 chapters for the original to reach the academy arc, in here it takes 50. We're getting split chapters - would have been nice if the translator labeled the chapters as such. "Chapter 1.2, Chapter 1.3" etc.

At least I'd have waited a few more months before diving into this.

Either way. If you're reading this. I'd suggest you to try it out. Especially if you're into this genre. The story is good and so is the translation.

I'll most likely come back to this when this story has at least 150 chapters translated before updating my review. Hopefully it gets better.