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Honestly, I'm getting tired of this novel. Every time something interesting or cool happens or the MC seems on the verge of a breakthrough in character development it all gets torn down or nullified.It feels like the author is confused at how character growth occurs in a novel. You need to actually show the character OVERCOMING a trial or tribulation for there to actually BE growth. If you keep sending the character back into the same situation, over and over, then you've done nothing but waste the reader's time.Spoilers up to and including Chapter 217:Spoiler
So MC's mental state is basically back in the negatives thanks to his Isekouhai and the family drama and his own refusal to read Twitch chat. And now he's gonna get eaten again again. AND just when you think the MC does something really neat by stacking darkness so thick he accidentally creates a zone of elemental darkness and summons THE Great Dark Spirit to fight off the Great Water Spirit. Doesn't matter, Great Water Spirit can summon an Elemental too and have it chase the MC. Why would you build that hype moment with "Summon: Elemental" just to ruin it immediately? Why go through the whole "healing arc" with Jeanne and Rifreya and reviving Nanami just to throw it under the bus for cheap drama?
[collapse]When is the MC, and this story, going to actually move forward? We've had two arcs now with the same basic story beats. It's ok for bad things to happen to characters in your story, often times it makes for some of the most compelling reading. But your characters actually need to overcome these adversities at some point or you end up with a stagnant story.I'm gonna drop this for now and pick it back up after another 50 chapters or so come out. I like the little lore snippets we get here and there about this isekai world and I'm interested in where those plot threads are going. I'm not interested in reading about MC's mental breakdown of the week because the author can't get any new material.