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This is a somewhat decently told harem progression power fantasy with a stereotypical dense harem protagonist. That one-line should explain exactly why the ratings fall where they do. It's not bad, there are some ridiculous misses on the front of logic and math and the entire premise just sucks, but hey, I made it to chapter 144 and am still going-ish...If you skip to chapter 6, the start is pretty good. Chapter 6 skips all the pre-life nonsense as well as the power selection. The series covers everything that happened pre-life and power overviews over and over again later anyways. Chapter 5 if you want the power selection.Once the series actually starts, it's pretty good and it focuses properly on the plot and the intelligent advancement of Hikaru's powers and properly establishes him as an underdog.The worst part in the early chapters is the viewer commentary. The author makes one of these every few chapters and he stretches it out so it fills an entire chapter. It covers literally everything that happened in the prior few chapters and gets tiresome really fast. The series is definitely a downward spiral as the author adds more harem members, he spends more time focusing on their nonsensical "attraction" to the protagonist. The first one is fine, but it completely falls apart once the second one comes in. But that's like chapter 100 territory. It's especially bad because the author spends entire chapters explaining why the Hikaru is too dense to realize that he's in a harem and that the girls actually like him. The girls are all extremely upfront and straight forward about their intentions, so this is particularly painful as Hikaru has no real excuse. This taints pretty much everything good about the series and I have to skip like crazy to find something worth reading again. This series is fun, but it's all over the place in terms of logic. Like it has viewer counts that would go over the population of the human race assuming it is Earth with 6.7 billion people as the story says.My criticism of the premise is basically that they shouldn't have used god to establish the plot. There's no positive interpretation to god creating a plot like this and it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. I'd much rather this be the result of greedy aliens turning earth into a game show.
