- #1
It's alright. 4/5 stars. There's a bunch of things to like, but it's unfortunately dragged down by how the author chose to bloat the work. Since this was originally a WN, I'm not sure if the original was like that, or if when it was formatted to LN it lost something.As the other reviewers have noted, it's not NTR at all, but more of a pure love story, which is great and all. The issue lies in how the author decided to make all the conflict in the story -instead of via plot- to be ham-handed meta issues. For all of volume one, it's completely arbitrary memory loss. The MC transmigrated into a VN... and can't remember much of the details about his own life. So he suddenly can't remember his own life of reading the VN plot, and he also has really random memory loss of the body he occupied. Like he can remember his mom, self, main cast, past, daily life, and so on. He gets a full set of memories.... except nope he totally doesn't, and it only comes up when it needs to for plot reasons. So there's a ton of unnecessary drama where he doesn't know how to act around the FL that if he had all his memories, of either life, he'd be totally fine. Oh, but nobody in-game-world seems to notice his distinct personality change, which makes no sense. Like if you got all the memories and supposedly acted in-character, but then COMPLETELY FORGOT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND THE FL, and randomly started distancing yourself, promising to help the FL and the 'main protagonist' get together, it'd be super unnatural.And for volume 2, he can't remember how the fan-disc went, even though he played it (and the fan-disc is the story regarding the main heroine, aka, the entire revenge plot, which is the driving force behind the ENTIRE plot). Again, super convenient for plot reasons.Honestly, changing people's mindset isn't an easy thing as it is. If the author had chosen to go that route, and made the story about changing the FL's yandere-ness, and the 'protagonists' lameness, as the main character worked for a happy ending, it would've been just fine. Instead we get this deus ex machina memory-loss plot.... sigh.Anyway, leaving aside that one major detriment (repeated in all 3 volumes), the story is actually pretty good. The main character is pretty decent, albeit severely hampered by the author nerfing him. The FL is a nice blend of adorable, erotic, and yandere, and the supporting cast is... decent. Some are meant to be 2-bit villains, but all but 2 of them actually get their character developed. That being said, the story is definitely mostly about the main couple, with even the 'protagonist' taking a distant 3rd.The story is pretty fluffy. Really not bad. Lots of good things, one or two MAJOR bad things. All-in-all I give it a 4 of 5 stars.