He gets pushed around by people and is all too happy to be screwed over.

I'm not too fond of character's lacking everything in the brains department, even more so when he's far from the only character where that's true. It's just that the protagonist, somehow, is completely out of touch with reality and with an added dash of being an utter moron and airhead, he seems incapable of noticing even slightly how his actions might be abnormal.

In essence, the author trips himself up by denying the entire concept of the world's common sense being even slightly different from our own. The author explains this away by the 'logic' that the 'common sense' is supposedly 'different' in this world, but the story proves this theory wrong. The protagonist is a doormat who seems to fail grasping even basic common sense despite being reincarnated from modern day japan. Everyone seemingly only has one or at most two sides to them, in other words, they're all flat. Questionable motives, utterly illogical relationships etc. The mc is only OP and better than everyone else because the author seems to think it's cool, not because it makes sense, because he earned it or any other reason, I can't really get behind that unless it's a true comedy/gag novel with nothing else going on, not this mess of a pretend drama(the author tries to put in drama, action and stuff like that but fails spectacularly over and over again, it feels way too artificial/ridiculous).Įven if we ignore this, and I am perfectly capable of doing so, it doesn't help that everyone around the protagonist are retarded. Why is he this powerful? For what reason? Why would kanji be usable? Why would the amount of characters be what matters instead of the amount of effect/power these words contain? There are no clear power levels for any of the characters, clearly the author just adds whatever he feels like. Unlike a decent novel or manga, it isn't justified even a little. We have the mc that is ridiculously powerful for no good reason. I would say this is catering to children, at most early teenagers. It has all the tropes that makes you question if the author isn't a bit too stuck in the times of 20-30 years ago. It's pathetically bad in terms of story and characters. Maybe I could've enjoyed it immensely back when I first started out reading manga at the age of 8-10.

The characters in this manga sickens me to the core.

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