A great piece that fails nowhere.

A few caveats though. By attempting to enjoy this type of novel, you'll have to try to do a few things:

• • Ignore the various worldbuilding-related arsepulls that all seem to benefit the protagonist one way or another.

• • Believe that bad characters are bad not because the author can't write, but because the in-novel author can't write.

• • Accept that the protagonist himself will never fail.

These are things that veteran readers of this genre do naturally, but I thought it important to put into words.

Moving on and talking about the characters, I have a lot of praise.

Despite what I've ominously said about bad characters, even those are incredibly compelling. I never really felt that a character's concept ever overtook their humanity.

It's fantastic work.

The protagonist himself is the greatest beneficiary of this. He's a cunning manipulator with unexpected vulnerabilities. But nowhere in the novel thus far was this stated, it was all shown.

His tendency to take the easy way out through deception also comes back to bite him in various social situations.

It's all quite charming but I've done a terrible job putting why so into words, I feel like. Please form your own opinion.

The combat system is very reminiscent of DnD. It borrowed various aspects, blew them completely out of proportions, and made them real-time. It's enjoyable whether you're familiar with DnD or not.

Worldbuilding and detailing are excellent, not because it's unique or expansive, or compelling, but because of the presentation.

Various aspects regarding the world are never too on-the-nose. It feeds you mere droplets, priming various Chekhov's guns one line at a time, biding its time.

This caters to all sorts of readers. The more weary ones who only wish to turn off their brains and read, can do just that with extreme ease. The ones who wish to savour every last detail and speculate also get a treat every development.

I'm serious. The novel even mirrors Sherlock Holmes at times during certain arcs. I'll even double down if you want to argue this point. Add @kamoto on Discord. I dare you.

Though, with that said, the setting is nothing special. If you're someone already familiar with this genre, I doubt you'll find too many novelties here. It's just a well-executed entry to this trope.

If you do decide to give this a try, I hope you'll have as much fun as I am.

Its an isekai game insert plot with an academy setting. Tack on a weak villain protagonist (who just happens to be a top 10 "hotty" in school) developing a harem, and you have a nuanced piece of wish fulfillment.

The tone of how the power curve starts, allows us to lend some plausible emotional credit to the protagonists achievements. This lends more credibility to the sense of the harem element.

The plot runs through in what I would call a "gentle themepark" ride of a story. It's not trying to be abrasive... more>> to make or accentuate the character's qualities. The harem element is philosophically the most repugnant sensibility here in terms of things... but pragmatically its not even that offensive if you're just a glutton and bored.

The story has me reasonably interested, and I'm excited for more... however it's not gotten the formula to the point where I'm dreading the update schedule.

In this way, the entire story feels very agreeable. I'm not addicted to a well executed dopamine extraction machine. The story feels like the writer has room, to develop more elements, or analyze in greater detail others... and the sensibility to make me trust, that it will likely not rock the boat.

That notion of trust in the mindset, is a reasonably excellent quality in the writing. <<less

I normally take my time to write our long, comprehensive reviews, especially with series I love as much as I do this one. Genuinely, waking up in the morning, I always anticipate seeing a new chapter appearing for me to read, and tend to read it before doing literally anything else.

That said... seems I don’t need to write a review this time. Kamoto said quite literally everything I wanted to. If you want an extremely good, comprehensive review of the series, you should pay attention to and read theirs. They... more>> summarized what makes the series so great excellently. <<less

Great premise and start but it just unfortunately did not carry all the way, the pacing gets weird somewhere around half of tbe story and the ending, typical of Korean novels like this, is bad enough you could call it a fanfiction of itself.

The build up to important fights, problems and events was top-tier and reading the growth of the main character was fun, but when time came for them, they were very anticlimatic and easily solved. The entire novel consisted of the MC easily beating his enemies as... more>> the underdog using weird tricks or abusing knowledge only he knows, there's no actual fight, he only one/two shots enemies and the rest of the chapter is a long explanation of why that was possible.

I also wanna mention the misunderstandings, one of the main reasons why I read the novel. They don't really go anywhere and you will just be left disappointed at the end of it all, if you were also reading the novel for them.

There is a lot of wasted potential in this, and I expected a lot more from how good the initial chapters were. It'still worth a read regardless but just be aware the ending and final arcs will be disappointing. <<less