Hitoribocchi no Isekai Kouryaku
Loner Life in Another World

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A boy and his classmates have been summoned to another world- no wait, come back! This Isekai’s actually funny.

The story begins when Haruka is late arriving for the summoning after trying to run away and so God lumbers him with all the useless skills and jobs his classmates didn’t want, like Loner, NEET and Shut-In.

The first book takes a little bit of time to get going, as there’s quite a lot of establishing of all of Haruka’s “useless” powers, but once he meets up with his classmates the comedy really begins. Thanks to Haruka’s Loner powers he can’t be bothered to remember anybody’s name ... but his own, so everyone ends up with random nicknames like Mean Girl, Meat Head or Class Rep. He can’t even remember the name of the village he’s in and has come up with a hilariously silly name for the Inn he’s staying at.

They even hate him at the guild because he’s always hanging around and complaining about the jobs on the board even though his NEET stat means he’s not allowed to take any jobs! Half the time someone will tell him something, he’ll totally misconstrue it and then end up berating them for coming up with something so silly when it was him that got it wrong.

Haruka’s scatterbrained character and the constant confusion he causes with how he muddles things up makes these books a joy to read. He’s regularly scalded by the girls in his class for all the misunderstandings he causes and he’s always completely oblivious of whatever it is that he’s done.

As of this review there are four books out and they get funnier and funnier as Haruka’s confusing antics end up improving the lives of everyone around him. Maybe one day he’ll even find his sex appeal, which he’s convinced has been hidden in a dungeon somewhere.

Okay. I have just finished reading Volume 4 and I have to say I have never flip flopped my feelings so much on a series as this one.
I have a few issues with this series , and since I've just finished Volume 4, I can give my honest review of this series. It's another Isekai, so there's that. Not saying it's bad because it's an Isekai. I'm just saying it up front.
Okay. My first issue with this series is that there is currently no end goal. Now this is a small gripe. No demon lord, No saving humanity, no nothing. Just a class that got ... sent to another world for some reason. Nothing wrong with that. glad that it isn't yet another kill demon lord and save humanity Isekai plot. But this goes into my second issue.
My second issue is that every book so far has had its own story. However, a huge portion of the book has NOTHING to deal with the story in the book. The first book is a great example of this. The first 400 or so pages, nothing is indicating about some bad guy, then out of no where, there's a bad guy introduced in the last 149 pages that our MC must defeat because.... Not really much of a reason is even given. Bad guy literally shows up out of left field, and is bad. Speaking of MC, this has to be my biggest gripe with this series.
My third issue is the MC. His name is Haruka. He is the sole reason I have switched my opinions so many times. At some points he is competent, and other times he is a complete annoyance. He acts like a stuttering moron speaking in a incoherent language for the majority of the story. He somehow always make people hate him, yet they still like him. I don't get how the other characters can be like that. He sometimes goes into incoherent rantings and ramblings that either incorporate some of what was just said to him, or incoherent rantings and ramblings and just flat out ignore other people. Haruka also adamantly refuses to remember names and just make names up and he gives those names to other people. It doesn't matter who they are, royalty, classmates, anyone. Speaking of which.
My fourth issue. Due to Haruka giving made up names to everyone, the majority of the story doesn't even have their real names. When we look away from Haruka in little Interludes sprinkled throughout the story, they use their real names. But since we've been following Haruka for most of the time, I literally have no idea who they are talking about in these Interludes. I get confused because we have two separate groups calling the same people two different names.
I've had to try the first volume three times to get into the series. Even then it was just barely. I would've just stopped at first, but something kept telling me to buy it. I honestly don't know what it is, but it's what's caused me to buy the first volume three times. In my honest opinion, I would just skip this.