- #1
Not the best story, and not the worst.Unlike some of the other reviewers, I have no issues with the MC's self-professed amorality, it seems to be the defense mechanism of an emotionally and physically ab*sed child. He does make excuses for his minor lapses into altruism (in a "methinks the lady doth protest too much" way), so there's SOME amount of humanity left in him despite his trauma and paranoia when it comes to the REST of humanity who aren't "innocents."Things seemed to get interesting as more and more Otherworld inhabitants started popping up in GLORIOUS NIPPON, but THEN things seem to take a decidedly horrendous downturn as of the last few chapters.It seems as if these chapters and the ones that preceded them are either parts of entirely different novels or written by different authors. Maybe the alleged author of the story changed ghostwriters or something, but what started out as a somewhat edgy and chuuni slice-of-life tale in a world rapidly sinking into hell has somehow morphed into one of those idiotic harem "comedies" complete with the power-reversal trope that Nipponese Otaku seem to enjoy touching themselves inappropriately to, complete with the surly Meido character who's there to bully the male lead, despite the difference in status.I suppose it's fine if that's your thing, but keep your disgusting fetish to yourself, Mr. Ghostwriter.But yeah, once the maid gets introduced (and it isn't even HIS f*cking maid), things go downhill fast.SO probably 4-4.5 stars for the story pre-introduction of Otherworld denizens to GLORIOUS NIPPON, but minus about 2 stars for the maid and the tonal shift.Quite unfortunate, it was a pleasant bit of snack-reading until then, so I'd recommend reading until the latest arc, then abandon afterwards once you start wishing hideously awful things upon the newly introduced character and the (alleged) new Ghostwriter for introducing her to the story.Hopefully someone who's read ahead in the Japanese can spoil if that rotten maid meets a horrible demise so I can skip to that part and cackle evilly at the thought of Nipponese Otaku sperging out at the thought of their now-deceased Meido-waifu. Update: Looks like the new ghost-writer is firm in his maid-and-power-reversal fetish, MC is still getting sweated out by the obnoxious maid character. Hey, I can understand maid fetishes, but as far as the power-reversal thing, I've witnessed it IRL, so a hard NOPE from me (many moons ago, my roommate at the time discovered that we lived down the hall from a professional dominatrix, who went and degraded dudes for money. Most of her clientele were not what you would expect-- corporate executives, fairly well-known people from certain industries, generally, men with some impressive professional accomplishments with status and power, but their fetish was getting humiliated by this not-quite-a-whore. Having struck up a friendship of sorts with our neighbor, my roommate became privy to some of the goings-on and details of her occupation, which either he or the dominatrix relayed back to me when they hung out at our apartment, most of which was pretty gross from the perspective of someone who ISN'T into having the foot of a woman on the back of their neck.So yeah, got to hear some pretty disgusting stuff with regards to this power-reversal fetish thing that Nipponese Otaku seem to think is so appealing. Anyway, it all ended when the cops busted her and raided the apartment a couple of months after my roommate's discovery. Good times, good times).Anyway, tl;dr: Damned maid STILL isn't Minecrafted, and now there are more of them.