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Typical Japanese novel. It started with a comedic and interesting premise, but it's ruined with 1.5 dimensional characters with forced plot that makes 0 sense.The other characters will just keep their mouth shut about something really important just because, just to reveal it near towards the end so that the extremely dense protag will solve the problem (even though the protag himself tries to display someone that's different from other protag and not being dense).Then there's also the problem with the protag himself that's plagued in Japanese novels. He's a 30 something y.o inside a 16 y.o body but he acts like a 12 y.o.The plot will grind and repeat this for every volume, he'll act a little cool at the end after being dumb as a pig for the entirety of the arc and boom, happy end with a bunch of plot holes. This has repeated itself 5 times through 5 volumes already.It's like he gets 0 character development, which is another problem that plague Japanese novel. Why do they never learn?This is why I prefer Chinese and Korean's, I gave it a try thinking it'd be different and that it'd be mainly comedy but the comedy feels too forced the longer it goes on and fails miserably at being funny. The part where the story tries to dramatize and take itself seriously is just as I said, dumb protag -> realizes the problem near the middle -> solves problem and act cool at the end of the volume -> repeat.