The Academy’s Time Stop Player Chapter 8 Discussion

While I often dislike misunderstanding comedy, this novel has much worse issues even before considering that.

It reads like an otaku wanted to cram in as many shounen tropes as possible.... It should be telling that the two positive reviews before this say "I like this because it's like [insert other novels here]!" This is a neutral point to me because "generic" is only bad if you dislike the genre. Of course, the author doesn't combine the tropes particularly well so far, but I'd be willing to give such a novel time to develop.

There are two main issues that made me drop the novel, here.

• The first and most glaring issue to me is the protagonist's ability. Time manipulation of any time is one of the "forbidden powers" that are just too strong and convenient that they easily overpower every other aspect of the novel if they can be used without special limits. With this kind of power, any time the protagonist has a problem in the future I'll think of an obvious solution he could have used his time stop to easily fix it that he won't even think about. Also, what he's able or unable to do within time stop is not super well explained so the author can just arbitrarily decide in each situation. "Bonus" points lost because it's a typical hentai superpower but he hasn't even considered using it for personal amusement, even though it's the obvious thing to do*.
• Apparently a student with an unknown ability who's mediocre in knowledge and only marginally faster than the second place in the practical skills test can be #1 in the class solely on the basis of destroying everything in the venue including the venue itself. This shows that the student either can't control his ability well, doesn't care to control his ability, or just really enjoys destroying everything around him. Putting him on top of the class on that basis is equivalent to encouraging the rest of the students to pursue destructive power without caring about things like collateral damage or other kinds of abilities... Instead of misunderstandings, it looks instead like everyone interprets everything he does in the best way possible.

tl;dr if you like an OP protagonist in a fantasy battle academy with lots of cliche situations, a bored and boring protagonist who will somehow attract all the women who show up, and a game setting that the protagonist knows all about, but wished that you could tie all those things together with misunderstanding comedy, this is probably for you.