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7.2/10


Badass, emotionless bastards or vulnerable, reliant characters, which main character archetype does the larger demographic prefer? Of course, the former, as characters with flaws and a lack of strength aren’t enjoyable to read comparatively to the breeze-through opponents and constant sudden/proven power-ups. As such, this manga is bound to have worse reviews than any generic “trash” despite being nearly identical in every aspect. I won’t go out and say the wiki plot device is the most creative nor is the mc’s familiar, but I will say that the author decided to gamble and step outside the box by creating a harem, fantasy character that does ... attempt self-improvement without disregarding their emotional intelligence.

The mc doesn’t exhibit any thoughts of vengeance (Idk wtf the other reviewer was complaining about) nor do his ideals change out of the realm of realism based on his previous self. For being a game fantasy world, this is probably one of the most realistic where the mc doesn’t get constant exploits to boost his power out of nowhere. Though, with that being said, not much is explained besides for the basics which definitely is not enough world building, especially for this manga’s trope.

This manga isn’t the best of its trope, but it does take a rather creative direction in the main character; apart from that, everything else is subpar or lacking which ruins any high quality potential this manga might’ve had. Don’t bother reading this if you can’t stand emotionally weak/idiotic characters or slow progression, if you are impartial, I’d give it a shot.


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?!”

Another edgy, vengeful, battle academy manga with some isekai elements. It's clear by now that the battle academy mangas (of the harem kind especially) churn out the highest amount of poorly written, uncreative, and cringey stories. This manga is no exception.

It starts with an MC that wants to be the main character and has a huge ego but turns out he has one of the weakest familiars. And as is usual for this kind of shlock, every classmate of his makes fun of him for being a weakling. Now you know how stories like these develop, the MC either got a power or ... familiar that people underestimated and is actually OP, or the MC comes across some plot device that allows him to become strong. The manga aims for the latter.

Now here's where the issue starts, most battle academy mangas like these play on the feeling of being "the eminence in the shadows"/"secretly op dark horse a few know about" more than the edgy isekai vengeful kind of thing where the reader wants to get back at the world or some others to regain his self esteem, kind of like the "equal rights, equal fights" folk who fantasise about being #MeToo'd to then be able to get back at the other sex, whom they feel has been raised to a higher standing while degrading them (Cough shield hero cough). This manga embraces a feeling similar to this quite strongly.

What makes this even worse is how blatant the abovementioned feeling is in this work, there is no subtlety to it, the MC starts out acting like a hotshot who proclaims he wants to be a main character only to be degraded by his classmates and teacher verbally in a way that no suspension of disbelief works in making it seem realistic and that it wasn't done blatantly to write the abovementioned kind of story, there is no subtlety whatsoever. Guy swears vengeance upon his classmates and the mangaka even writes a scene where the next day after making fun of the guy one of his classmates comes to give an apology, the MC brushes him off sulkingly with a "whatever" while anothes classmate glares at him and he glares back from a distance with his thought bubble reading "what did i ever do to you". Again this goes to show the lack of subtlety and makes it obvious this is a pure victimhood-revenge fantasy.

The lack of subtlety is so jarring that it is genuinely one of a kind trash even for these edgy, revengey, kind of light novels and mangas. The generic art, characters, and the lack of any positive creativity in any aspect at all only accentuates the trashiness.