Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

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So, at the time of this review I have read 30 chapters, and I have never read the light novel so I have nothing to compare it to. Now then, let's start this review!

Story-8
Now while the story isn't super original, but it's pretty good. Essentially, OP main character goes to new world without the help of Truck-Kun, and gains a harem with a good amount of Lolis. Not too many, not too few. So while it may get dull at points, it's a pretty good story with enjoy pleasure for everyone, so long as you haven't read the light novel (which is different than a ... "WN" if anyone knows what that is, there are like 3 or so iterations of this series out there).

Art-8
Lolis drawn well. Waifu material. That's really all I noticed about the art. It's pretty good. That's it.

Character-9
At the time of writing this, there haven't been any horrific characters introduced, and everyone is like-able. There isn't a single character that I truly dislike in this manga. And I really enjoy the Mc's reactions to all the the stuff that his harem members do.

Enjoyment-10
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this manga, even though there are only 30 chapters out there. I mean, if you enjoy harem mangas with over powered main characters in a "new world" setting with lots of dialog, then you'll enjoy this manga. But if you don't like reading, then this may not be the manga for you as some of the chapters feel like you are reading a chapter in a normal book. Dense with words.

Overall-8
Honestly, the main reason I'm writing this review is because the only two reviews on this manga are pretty negative due to comparisons to the light novel, and since I haven't read the light novel, I can give an impartial review. As I stated in the enjoyment section, I really enjoyed reading this manga, even though it can be a bit chunky (not the translators fault). I honestly can't wait for more chapters to be released, however it is on a month by month release schedule due to the difficulty of translating (again, another issue with the amount of text and redrawing necessary) and the monthly releases. However, if you are interested in this manga, then reading up to chapter 30 is a good stopping point, with no severe cliff hanger and a nice semi conclusion to the story till that point (by nice I mean you feel like you can now wait the month or more for the next release).

STORY:
Generic MC gets isekai-ed into a game with OP skills. He gets some slaves and adventures with his newly-formed harem. I dislike the fact that there's a girl who likes him (and so do his harem too) and yet he pays some prostitute to relieve himself.

ART:
They look nice, I must admit and that's the only reason I tried to keep reading this.

CHARACTER:
Annoying MC that feels like a wimp when it comes to women. His harem have some annoying and some meh characters.

ENJOYMENT:
... Isekai is a hit or miss, and sadly this missed me. But hey, at least I tried 31 chapters.

OVERALL:
Idk man. It feels so generic. Find something else to read instead.

I've read 5 chapters of this manga but it felt like 20, in a bad way. I don't mind info dumps, but there are info dumps every single chapter. Fuck, a potato croquette in this manga gets an info dump. It's abnormal. I know what food is. There's also an info dump for a random broken wall, a random watch tower, a random berry found on a random field, on the act of taking a shower, on the act of cleaning clothes, on the act of buying clothes, on the act of buying stuff from a stall on the street, on literally EVERYTHING.

Explaining every single ... detail of everything isn't world building, it's driving the reader into boredom. I want to read interesting things, especially at the beginning of the story, and not detailed information about shared bathrooms or how people only take a bath once every 10 days. I just don't care about that. These kinds of details don't deserve entire manga pages dedicated to them, it should be something mentioned in passing on an appropriate occasion, not something that needs an encyclopedia page dedicated to it.

Anyways, that's my reason for not wanting to continue reading it, but if you like a somewhat cautious OP MC that seems to be into role-playing as Villager A even though he's so fucking OP that he can literally kill gods and do whatever he wants, you might like it. He'll still ask for details on every single random action and every little thing just so he can take his role-playing to another level and not stand out, but to each their own, I guess.

The art is fine, although some panels have so much shit on them that looking at them hurts my brain. Simple but high quality is just a concept that doesn't exist in the heads of the creators of this manga/story. If you see something on a picture you're likely going to get walls of texts dedicated to explaining what's on the picture sometime soon.

tl;dr: Terrible first impression for me, and according to the other reviews it doesn't get better at all even 30 chapters in. 5/10.