Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs

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Overall:
If you like Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lion, this manga evokes that exact feeling and it's really great


Story:
For a manga which title sounds like a stupid one off, this one is actually great.

The isekai trope is used in great effect not to provide stupid exposition or making 4D chess moves, but merely to provide some extra context as to why MC acts the way he does, which is mostly reactionary. The world building is rich without relying on massive expositions like Mahouka, and it's focused more on political relationships than romantic relationships

Befitting a shounen MC, he has OP weapons with Deus ... Ex Machina that he gets to use when the proverbial excrement makes contact with metaphorical rotating aerial impeller, in turn allowing him to amass wealth which in turn allows him to just pay off whatever and whoever it is he needs to deal with. This is used to great extent to allow the MC to be a fucking asshole. In a way, it's like seeing a cheap chinese copy of Tony Stark and it's actually pretty enjoyable. Let's not pretend we don't like it when fucking Iron Man obliterates his foes with giant laser cannons

I like the fact that romance isn't pursued too hard, there's near complete lack of the MC being dense as the girls blush trying to say the million metaphors for "I love you". No bath peeping episodes, no swimsuit episodes, it's great.

I do however wish that political downfalls are explained better instead of being handled off screen


Art:
Art is amazing although the robot action sequences clearly could benefit from some more experience. Despite the important characters having clearly unique designs, the robots are surprisingly difficult to keep track of and melee combat in particular is hard to even process.

Other than that expressions are well drawn and the mecha designs themselves are actually pretty good

Also, personally the manga drawing is far more pleasant than the anime drawings, it's more shounen like. Technically the anime has more otomege look to it which I suppose is more appropriate for the setting, but it's pretty clear this work wasn't directed to shoujo market in the first place


Character:

First off, the males:
The MC is actually pretty basic "I'm a nobody but mess with my friends and I kill you" person. He's actually more akin to mary sue considering that not only he never fails, he's using 21st century modern philosophy of human rights, clearly meant to mean he's an upstanding person kind of like how Rose in Titanic is shown to be a progressive lady. He's got OP Deus Ex Machina, he knows it, and uses it every time he could to be as big of an asshole as he can be. In a way it's like watching Tatsuya from Mahouka except this time there's no incestuous sister clinging to him and he has more than 2 expressions

The 5 main males are actually well defined with obviously otomege characteristics but they are in fact presented as pretty normal human beings except being hypnotically smitten by the "lead heroine" and physically incapable of looking bad. They're never particularly important and interactions with them involves obviously otomege dialogue but that's part of the charm, a well balanced counter to the MC's douchebaggery so to speak if only to keep the MC from displaying his douchebaggery for a few pages

The heroines are.... well there's the obvious "shy, pure, innocent girl" that is Olivia but Angelica is surprisingly well written for a manga that claims harem tag. Unlike other female characters in other stories where the first time they're seen there's an exposition about how they're good in literally every fucking thing, Angelica is presented simply as a noble trying to look the noble part doing noble things because that's what nobles do, and she struggles with it. The impact of politics where there's no such thing as loyalty is used to great effect and the character grows organically at great pace


Enjoyment:
Just like Tatsuya and Mahouka, part of the enjoyment is watching the MC obliterating everything that comes his way with barely any effort whatsoever. The other part is watching the political intrigues, shallow as it may be, and the world building surrounding them. There's actually no 4D chess going on, the political intrigues are mostly shown on screen and for a silly harem mecha manga it's good to not have to wrinkle the brain trying to read between the lines

It's actually not bad. The first chapter is a little rocky, but from that point on the story keeps improving by leaps and bounds. It's a typical wish-fulfillment isekai, but the main character is smart & has an actual personality. I enjoyed the challenges that popped up throughout the manga that had to do with being reincarnated. Literally at one point (you probably know if you've read it) I literally went "ohhhh" at how the main character got burned for the way he was seeing everything. I also actually really enjoyed the worldbuilding, it's a nice mix of sci-fi and historical, and all of the ... drama between the nobles is entertaining stuff. There are some I guess deux-ex-machina elements- but they are fully explained, are part of the goals of the characters, impact character development and have harsh consequences for their use later. Overall, this manga was surprisingly entertaining.

Story 5/10:
Your classic isekai wish fufillment troupe. Mc has the ability to do anything he wants but decides to play doll, getting harem members. Everything that occurs so far falls within the troupe.

Art 8/10:
Beautifully drawn, which brings life to an imaginative world.

Character 4/10:
Mc is your standard docile isekai protagonist who has no ambition of his own but only gets serious when people around him are endangered. Oblivious to relationship so the story can carry on. (Adding more harem members) No idea why it is always written this way? Maybe to make it guilt free for self insert since Mc didn't conciously do something wrong according ... to the readers moral.

Enjoyment 8/10:
I'm a sucker for troupe like these and story was written in way I could read without turning my brain on.

Overall 6/10:
(5+8+4+8)/4≈6