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These days the "comedy" tag doesn't guarantee one the experience of comedy. I enjoy laughing at jokes as much as the next bloke, but despite that I personally find it really, really challenging to find myself laughing at Asian WN/LN that supposedly got tagged with "comedy". Despite how interesting or entertaining an Asian WN/LN is, their "comedy" hardly lands.Now it might had to with difference of what is considered "hilarious" between cultures. So I can't blame these authors for writing jokes that just can't land. Comedy is subjective, anyway.But this piece of work is something else.As much as I regret that I didn't read the original, I can see where the author is taking the story with this remake. Perhaps he always meant that the MC is just a frame to the story. The true story the author was trying to tell is the lives of the people (un) fortunate enough to be assigned under MC's tutelage and how he had affected their lives. It makes sense that the POV changes a lot. It is meant to chronicle their instead of his story.Now, comedy is a hit or miss thing. The comedy in this story don't always land. And I agree with one of the reviewers in that one of the particular running gag is currently dangerously overplayed (the metal bat joke). But here's the reason for my high rating:The jokes here tend to catch you off guard. The wackiness. The sheer amount of lack of common sense. The hyperbole. The trolling. Sometimes you see an attempt by the author to make you laugh and it didn't land, only for you to lower your guard and then a random sentence out of nowhere delivers the punchline and you will find yourself chuckling-------- at the bare minimum. An extremely rare feat in my book.Just don't take the story too seriously and you'll feel a lot better every time you finished reading bits of this lighthearted literature.