The World of Otome Games is Tough For Mobs Chapter v5 Discussion

Honestly not sure how I randomly got into reading this novel. But anyhow it somehow got me stuck and into spending half a day to read the 5 LN volumes that are translated thus far. So I have to say that it somehow got me quite engaged.

To start of the story is about a typical beta jp male main character who is pretty gruff and smack talks a lot like he's some stereotypical villain but as mentioned hes a beta so even though he pretty much from day 1 has the power to take over/destroy the world he never ever uses force unless it is really necessary. He will also refrain from killing even during battles/wars and make it much harder on himself since only maniacs kills ppl.

The character overall is fun and likable in my book though again the beta part is as always annoying, for instance his reason for reincarnating which in mentioned in the first part is that his little sister towards which he's a total gofer/s*ave to, forces him to finish the otome game cause it's to hard in a couple of days which leads to him having to play it for a few days straight without sleep + stairs = his death.

This then continues into the story in where he as mentioned is pretty much all powerful cause of his cheat but he doesn't want to use it while also spitting out a bunch of reasons for staying/doing stuff he just said he'd never do.

Before mentioning the supporting characters, which are mostly female it is worth to mention that the world or at least kingdom he starts out in is a female supremacy kingdom. Some spoilers on this part, or well info given along the first and second volume.

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Pretty much in the kingdom males has to fight in the wars as soldiers, work and earn money for the family, expected to get married before the age of 20 and etc. Overall men has to do all the work while females are expected to be spoiled and taken care of, this is mostly for nobility. What really horrible however is the fact that it is expected for females to have a harem often in the form of exclusive s*aves or lovers, now reverse harem is fine and all but it goes beyond that in the fact that a common demand is that the man will work while the woman is given a house that will house their around 10+ lovers and the man then has to pay for the house and her lovers/s*aves while she plays around and sleeps with her lovers. Even going so far as to forcing her husband to smile while having to raise children born from the lovers/s*aves.

This in turn has led to many men having a mistress which instead lives with them and gives them children instead. Men unable to marry or enter the academy at around age 15 is often times "sold" or forced to marry older women who, sometimes leading to them promptly being killed as soldiers since when a soldier dies the wife is given a pension. Which has led to certain women marrying young men and then promptly having them killed to make money.

Overall the whole thing is just way over the top seeing as men holds all positions in power regarding, military, commercial, politics etc while the female wives just plays around, spends money, tortures and ab*ses men in most cases.

It is later revealed that the whole reason this whole women supremacy thing even exists is because the kingdom a few hundred years back in time wanted to weaken the nobility by encouraging and enacting certain privileges for females, but it somehow went overboard cause the women after getting an inch went after a whole yard and then some.

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The female characters are overall good but they are also the only females who are not rotten and more normal compared to the normal female in this world.

The two main heroines are Olivia and Angelica, Olivia is the otome games MC and is the kind, innocent and naive type of character, while Angelica is the otome games villain being proud, rash, dependable and levelheaded.

Outside of these three characters there are mainly 6 supporting characters that I can mention without going to much into spoilers.

Marie who is sort of the semi villain of the story, she is another reincarnator who sets out to steal everything that was suppose to be Olivia's from the game, mainly her status and harem. To not go to much into spoilerland she is fully engrossed in the whole female supremacy theme and is quite the annoying and selfish kind of person, who uses her game knowledge and previous life experience of manipulating an enticing men to easily conquer the five ikemen.

The five ikemen basically the harem group Olivia was supposed to get but that is stolen by Marie, they are all pretty much the same in that their all rich, handsome, of high nobility and utterly s*upid. The author at first describes them as having different looks and personalities but eventually they just become a single entity in my opinion.

The plot is well so-so since it's just a lighthearted repeat of the same thing over and over, with the author often having the MC mention it's an otome game so stuff just don't make sense deal with it, to then try and flesh out and give reason and logic to stuff and why it happens but mostly it just makes it weirder or appear s*upid.

What probably drew me in is the simple fact that it is mostly lighthearted, easy to read, you don't really have to follow the plot (you could probably skip chapters without missing much, I honestly skipped the battle parts at some point) and some parts gave me a good laugh.