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- About the world of magical girls: You can imagine it as the showbiz world. It's toxic the same, if not more.
- About love: There's no harem if you scare of that. To reassure, I have a keen interest in finding romance cues in every novel I read, but all I see are dead flags disguised as romance flags. Let's forget love, let alone harem, the "depiction of cruelty" tag is NOT a lie.
- About the characters' background: I don't see any mystery tag or genre on novelupdate, but there sure is something running in the background. A creepy past that the more you undercover, the more the urge to find out what's happening grows.Spoiler
Who is MC's dead sister? Who's the girl that's haunting and transforming MC? What exactly has happened 10 years prior? What's the god's and monster's relationship? Why's MC's classmate so sus?
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Why does the cult care too much about MC's transform form? Why can't I answer a single question above although has read that far???
- About the characters' background: I don't see any mystery tag or genre on novelupdate, but there sure is something running in the background. A creepy past that the more you undercover, the more the urge to find out what's happening grows.Spoiler
- The main character's ability: "Gluttony". Yes. Same name with a lot of imba abilities as other isekai jp novels out there, but the content is entirely different. The price you need to pay for our MC ability is tremendous, and the growth potential is NOWHERE near imbalance at others. I am willing to go as far as saying that it's an ability to use with caution, and better NOT USE IT AT ALL. The trade-off of strength and pain, stress and consequence of opening a 'pandora' is simply hazardous but somehow becomes a perfectly balanced ability. I don't know how the author did it, but find it enjoyable all the same.
- Others' ability: Unique, add a lot of ability combinations. This isn't a solo game (though MC did solo some tough mobs) but a team game, so this is very welcome.
- Character's growth: You ask MC about his goal? To survive, that's all there is. The author sure knows how to surprise me with the growth of character. MC in chapter 1 is different from himself (?) in chapter 50, and the same in chapter 100. Each step of growth is solid to survive.
- The 'politic': If you scare about bs politics, racism, or the author's knowledge about it, then don't worry. He/she knows what he/she's doing. Spoiler
Japan getting isolated is a matter of course if the same thing happens in the real world. Thus, the fictional Japanese getting biased is PERFECTLY normal. None of the abandoned countries will have a positive view of the ones who have abandoned them. It will be stranger if they aren't. My point is: that the characters can get biased, but the narrator's view needs to be 100% neutral, a thing the author has kept well. I am not reading a kid story, but a dark novel that has a lot to think about, so no point to lower reality hard mode to fable mode for easier reading, thanks.
[collapse] - Personal -1 star: I have mixed feeling about the secret of MC getting revealed to some sus (I like the kind of MC that treat secret as his pride, you know?) and Spoiler
when his sister awakens her ability. Don't know why I dislike it, just because
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