Ochikobore Datta Ani ga Jitsu wa Saikyou: Shijou Saikyou no Yuusha wa Tenseishi, Gakuen de Mujikaku ni Musou suru
The Useless Brother Is Now the Strongest: The Mighty Brave Is Reincarnated and Nonchalantly Rules over the Academy

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5.8/10
Read: 13/21
Bookmarked? No.

In a story, there’s a fine-line of an intentional cliché being used to drive the plot and one for pure gag comedy. However, this treads on the middle line where it’s hard to understand if the author purposely made a gag story or if the author intended this to be serious. Either way, in both aspects, it’s done poorly as the gag relief moments aren’t that fun to begin with nor are they serious enough to evoke catharsis. The major selling point of this manga is the demon lord waifu… yeah, that’s pretty low.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired & A Huang Teizan ... Original)
10 – God’s penmanship
9 – Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 – Instant bookmark
7 – Entertaining
6 – Good to pass time
5 – Why are you reading this?
4 – Bad.
3 – Typical garbage.
2 – My head hurts.
1 – Retirement is a thought.
0 – “Did they even give you a story?!”

Fair 3. I read that this is pretty heavily altered from the novel (cba looking it up, this adaption is pretty bad mostly) but from what I was able to make out, it is a whole different genre/approach and not my cup of tea either. Gonna make this quick.
tl;dr: Fun for ~7 chapters. MC turns into actual side-char after ch16 and worst char is suddenly main focus. Everything established (feelings) is thrown out, all women act differently and 80% of interactions are cringe NTR-bait-jokes of ALL women falling for the new male MC. Maou is fully ruined ch20+21. Every female cast member is ready to ... jump ship instantly. The prior MC is now a support with barely any impact apart from pushing the new MC. It is bizarre.

It starts off generic but fun. The characters are quirky, what is happening is mostly enjoyable and the usual shallow isekai story-/worldbuilding speedrun is starting. It stays that way for ~7 chapters.

A whole character, a "redemption-arc" and start of development are forced into one singular chapter. Whiplash. The character is supposed to be annoying but is then instantly redeemed but it just is not working. It ends up NOT being the case of "well done author, I hate him!", it is "what dogshit convenient writing and what a weak unnecessary character that ruins everything around when appearing".

The reader then immediately is bombarded with new characters and some questionable writing around prior cast members happens. A whole lot of nothing mostly, soooo, whatever. Even the series itself brushed over it.
Skip ahead to the end of the next arc and the MC-switch happens. It is so fucking weird seeing your main focus switch to another character that is infinitely worse but instantly acknowledged by the whole cast and gets an infinite amount of free powerups and character improvements while being the main member of continuous NTR-bait "jokes" that are just not funny, poor taste, out of place and timed weirdly all while being completely forced every single time.

Maou also is a whole different character (in chapters 20+21). She is randomly fully changed only to force the NTR-"bait" "jokes" ("bait" because her new character just goes plain too far and it is written disgustingly poor taste to make her seem like she is fully detached from former-MC apart from him being her "master" and her being 100% ready to cheat (after what was established before)).
There is no genuine love/romance in this manga anymore. 2 major established characters have to swoon and borderline fall for the new MC after doing the most mundane noob stuff that just has to be accompanied by the most conveniently asspulled "character growth" that has to be acknowledged x10 by EVERY female. This is some revolutionary stuff right here.

The series completely lost me. Everything from the beginning, gone. Almost all characters, no exception, are trashy (unironically, trailer trash levels) now. What happens is lame. And there is no direction from here on out. There is no genuine romance, no true harem, no comedy, no intense fights, no intrigue, no story/world to build upon, no real antagonist. Nothing.

I can wholeheartedly call this adaption a failure. Can't say anything about the source. I would feel bad if this was done to my work, tho. Makes me wonder just how involved the author truly is.