World Customize Creator

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On one hand, it's the typical premise of a Japanese teenager getting transferred into a fantasy world. The ability he gets is unique, highly powerful, and activated through an interface straight out of a video game he used to play. Yep, sounds like every other cliche isekai out there.

On the other hand, the fantasy world feels real and is filled with characters who have their own motivations. Entire countries want to exploit the protagonist's powers, so there's lots of politicking and scheming. Others just plain fear him. Some want to befriend him. He has to build himself a place in this new world and for ... that social maneuvering is even more important than his powers.

It's a weird one for sure: elements of video gamey isekai combined with actually good world building, politicking, and diverse characters.

Disclaimer: This review includes spoilers form chapter 1

"World Customize Creator" is a surprising manga. Typical male protagonist encounters something called "dark god", gains powers and gets transported to another dimension, which looks like taken straight from a fantasy RPG. Stereotypical as it seems, this series makes up for mediocre premise by it's brillant execution.

Upon being transferred to another world, our hero is intrigued that people who live there speak his language. Upon a suggestion received from a local healer, he tries to eat several different food ingredients and spices to test whether this world's food is poisnous to humans form ours. Just to be clear, ... it is not lampshade hanging made for comical effect- characters are geniuinely concerned about those issues and treat them as a mystery that is yet to be solved.This trend is maintained, as our hero encounters all the obstacles and problems typical for the genre, but continues to respond to them in a surprisingly reasonable and realistic way.

It should be noted, however, that this series isn't about cold, calculating robots, far from it- many characters are unreasonable, hot headed and impatient, while even those who are logical and calm tend to act on impulse in a very realistic way. That is the most prominent asset of "World Customize Creator"- it's sheer realism, almost unbefitting of something that seemed like a harem manga. This series isn't a masterpiece of any sort, but it's certainly worth a read, more so than many "mainstream" manga.

This manga has one blaring issue. They introduce ideas without ever explaining the background. For example, they talk about something, and the characters seem to already know what it is, but they don't explain until much later what it is. I'm other words, it is hard to read because they don't introduce ideas before
Before using them. The plot, characters, and art seem good (so far), but this oversight has really had a negative impact.

Potential spoilers for an example: (very rough paraphrasing)
"I'm going to the blue garden"
"What?! Won't the king be upset?"
First, this is the first time something like that has been ... mentioned. Why did the character react like that? We don't find out until much later that it is a city