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The novel is too deeply flawed in so many ways that I can't recommend it to anyone.First of all, as a mage, he spends way too much time developing his close combat skills. Not saying it's bad to have some self-defense, but if you can insta-cast magic you don't need to practice using a sword... Plus, the skeleton summoning is incredibly powerful yet the protagonist A) continuously underestimates them and his own magic abilities despite constant evidence and everyone telling him otherwise and B) doesn't even stop to consider maybe he could summon more skeletons and strengthen them until he has enough to do what he wants. Also, he needs to be taught about every dark magic spell he uses. He was a chuunibyou, and he couldn't come up with any dark magic on his own? Really?Next, the summoning itself and how the summoned people are treated makes no sense. I mean, the princess goes so far as to summon them because she needs them for something, but then treats them like tr*sh and even goes out of her way to kill them off. Spoiler
Even if they're s*aves, they won't be motivated to become strong and help her if she treats them and their friends so poorly. Actually, she treats everyone else I've seen her interact with poorly but somehow still has a great reputation... Also, the existence of mass-produced items that can allow anyone to control people just by putting it on the victim's wrist is both scary and unrealistic. If you can summon powerful humans from other worlds and create ens*avement items, can't you put that effort into solving your problems in other ways?
[collapse]Finally, the side characters are just annoying. I don't mean some of them, I mean basically everyone attacks the protagonist at every opportunity for "comedy", the romantic interests throw themselves at him only at the worst of times in the dumbest of ways, enemies are also chaotic s*upid, basically everyone aside from the skeletons is useless. And their master is the most useless, or else they'd solve all the problems in one chapter.There are some funny moments, but it's mostly just painful to read.