- #1
Well we got here, this is truly one of the most average among average there are, good God, this series really knows how to not even get close to the line of good, the best that this novel gets is decent, it won't get good, most of the times it's average, bad times get mediocre and the worst are plainly boring, coarse and miserable.The problems with this novel are numerous, too many to count because you will lose interest around a third through, some people think this is a snack reading, and I beg to differ, this isn't good enough to be one, well if you think that snack readings means skimming through most chapters, reading around 10 lines per paragraph then this might just make it, but if not it really won'tWell let's just get into some problems and points of the novel:
- The characters, I believe I should talk about the characters before the MC, since, yeah they are both bad but those beside the MC are worse, much more so, just think of it like this there are like four profiles to every character, two for women and two for men if you are a women you are either profoundly in love with the MC, having become a princess in distress, being in perpetual heat for the MC and not much else and the other one is just sorta there, without much personality aside of being a woman, their name, and their mecha, that is it for the women, they also suffer greatly from being a supreme case of one-dimensional characters with nothing special to their name they are all forgettable and the biggest distinction between each one is their name and how they treat them based on their age
- Now for the men the two distinctions are you are an enemy with s*upid thoughts, borderline caricature in your ambitions (including the antagonist in the story) or you are a friend which isn't really useful, and have a weird personality or just plain personality, that is all for the men, you may have noticed that it is shorter than the womens, and that is because the author probably doesn't care about any of them and would much rather give the women screen time
- Since this applies to both men and women I'll put it as an extra point, they are all super dumb without capabilty to have rational or just average and proper thinking, examples would deem spoilers and I don't really care to show them so just trust me on this one (I ought to put some disclaimer there are some characters that are fine, and one that is good, the only good one is Jean to be honest)
- The MC sucks, he is denser than a black hole, made stronger by plot armor, his personality is "I don't really know why but everyone thinks you are cool, strong, kind, a good guy, super lovable, a leader, someone you can trust, blah blah blah", basically a non-apologetic self insert, and a pretty bold one in that it doesn't try to either hide it or make anything interesting about him, also just doesn't care about what anyone else thinks when he makes choices and isn't surrounded by them it's like he forgets their existence as soon as he passes like 3 hours without them and isn't on a mission, actively disregards any advancment women do unto him that isn't the girl he likes, which in and of itself isn't inherently bad, problem being that he doesn't even acknowledge anything about it, not even to give them some type of response, he is also the type of protagonist that gets told everything to do by everyone else in regards to the story, just gets dragged around by everyone
- The antagonist is a true cartoon character with flimsy motivation and nothing to write home about (short because that's just the way it is)
- The plot blows, it is non-existent in the first hundred or so chapters, where there is nothing to do but "just keep going, continue the story, write something maybe the MC like, meets some people like their classmates or whatever, they fight here and there, perfect, this is the novel right now", then around the 200th the antagonist comes with pretty dumb reasons to be the way he is, and despite being somewhere along 300 IQ thinks like one with 20 for anything that is not a machine, and the rest of the plot becomes the MC dealing with what the dude does
- The fights, now with this one, I am pretty mixed, they aren't anything special the way they describe anything isn't really unique, and doesn't leave much for the imagination, but they aren't badly written and are sorta enjoyable, overall the battles are probably the best part of the novel, there are some exceptions where you have some background where some characters are thinking about something during the fight, but putting it aside it is ok, decent really, if the whole thing were like its battles I'd consider this a better novel, the snack reading it is described as by some, although most of the time there are no stakes as we all know that our protagonist won't lose and if he does it's because the plot wants it, putting aside the fact that they are used for convenience they are fine
- The measuring system in the novel is pretty much plain, nothing special, all you have to know is that the MC is like above and beyond anything close to what they have there, that is it, they don't explain much about how the machinery functions other than cosidering the measuring value, but I don't know if this can be put against the author, as this would be very in-depth and very hard to properly explain, so it is hard to put it against him but I think this is something to be taken into account
- The world seems fine, the setting isn't bad, not much to say in regards to this, it isn't heavily explained or talked about, sometimes they explain countries, national borders, alliances, in terms of political-geographic stuff and in terms of scenery it sometimes explains mountains and rivers and the likes, just where they are currently or the battlefields they fight in, the explanations about either aren't bad, or at least it's like its battles, most of it decent, surprisingly, without taking into account one spoiler situation that occurs when the antagonist appears due to no foreshadowing and reaching to basically make it happen, this stuff is mostly decent