Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

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It's your basic Isekai, but instead of being an overpowered adventurer or something similar, the main character becomes a king. Souma the main character (like all Isekai protagonists) has the superpower of convenience. He is able to remember pretty much every little detail needed to run a country. Sure he is a college student who studies this kind of stuff, but even then his memory is godlike.

Souma is transported to a kingdom that is going through a lot of troubles, so the king of that country hands Souma the crown, and ... he is forced to fix all the problems while preparing for a demon invasion.. typical fantasy stuff.

Overall the story is good, with generic Isekai characters that are at least likeable. The art is pretty good, and in my opinion better than the light novels, which feels more generic then the plot.. but I digress

I recommend this to fellow Isekai lovers like myself as its a somewhat different take on Isekai, as it doesn't have an overpowered main character to some extent. Its good for just turning your brain off and just enjoying.


This is my first review so I hope it somewhat helpful :)

It truly pains me to write that I'll be dropping this. Minor spoilers below.

The premise of this manga is so interesting, and it is performed so well. In many ways it is like the slime isekai, except it feels much more believable. The politics are engaging and somewhat realistic, and the characters are enjoyable. It's no masterpiece of writing or intrigue, but it's definitely quite good.

I knew something was up when I saw the harem tag on various websites though, and that should have been warning enough, but I carried on. That was a mistake. The art-style used when drawing the female characters is honestly ... pretty suspicious as is, but around chapter 40 the harem finally becomes official and the protagonist starts marrying left and right.

The most dissapointing thing really, is that he hasn't even made any romantic moves on his first wife yet. So he's basically gathering women like Pokémon, and they of course fall in love with him by the dozen. It's so clear that the female characters' writing is seriously suffering from having to fit into the harem framework. Strong warrior-general types get reduced to small school-girls when confronted with out protagonist, and girls who 10 chapters ago state that they'd absolutely want to keep him to themselves (sensible) are suddenly fine with him having a harem "for the sake of the kingdom".

It's just typical isekai nonsense, and I personally can't stand it. It ruins any chance at serious romance, since it will always be a turn-based ordeal, rotating between the heroines. If I wanted wish-fulfillment I'd be reading a trashy rom-com or something.

As it stands, the writing of many of the most important characters just stops making sense whenever the protagonist is involved; and on top of the blatant sexualisation that was already taking place I just can't beat with it any more.

By all means, if these things are not an issue (or even a plus) to you, go ahead and read this. Everything aside from this is quite good, and the art is also nothing to scoff at. It's quality manga, it's simply a shame that it had to be sabotaged by this sweaty harem garbage.

It's generic. Isekai with heavy harem setting.

There's nothing interesting about any of the characters and the world building is very bad.

The MC is japanese guy that was going to enter university, them is teleported to another world as the hero, the, after showing his vast modern knowledge is given the throne. The guy them starts pulling all kind of modern reforms in a magical medieval world that is the feudal era, and ALL makes sense, there's practically no cultural/educational resistance to anything the guy is doing. It's like the writer has no idea how a world in that low state of education will behave when ... confronted to so drastic changes.

The harem is a complete turn off, the women simply fall for the MC, there's no romance, no character development. The moment 2 of these characters needed to go undercover as commoners in the city, and their clothes were modern japanese school uniforms, with short skirts and all, it was the moment I lost any hope of improvement in something that was already very bad written.

Is simply bad. Don't waste your time.