The Extra’s Academy Survival Guide Chapter 52 Discussion

Pretty meh. It doesn't do anything so bad to make me drop it, but there's lots of bad writing habbits.

• Mountains of useless exposition
• Weird disorienting back and forth time skips
• Dense male protagonist plus harem

So the useless exposition. There are massive chunks of text that serves no real purpose. The author just threw it in there because he wanted to. The game the story is based on is divided up into multiple acts. Each act has a boss. The protagonist, is aware of walkthroughs for each boss. The author posts these before an upcoming boss fight. They are closer to a spoiler than anything I'm interested in reading.

The time skips are just done really poorly. You'll have an upcoming event, then it skips forward to after the event and they don't tell you they've done that for like half the chapter when you finally start putting all the weird information together. Then they go back and do the event. Good timeskips will inform you that they happened.

Final criticism is self explanatory. I'm a guy, I can appreciate a harem, but in a novel, they just add a lot of useless exposition to the story. I'd rather the protagonist just get a girlfriend so we don't have to play this game having two girls bending over backwards to get the male protagonist's attention while not getting it.