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Seirei Gensouki gets off to a great start. The first three volumes are fairly interesting and get the series off to a decent start. Near the end of those volumes, though, everything basically stops. Half of the writing becomes people apologizing to each other just continuously. As of volume 8, it seems like an even greater proportion of the writing is just formalities and apologies.

Any character with an ego is portrayed as a bad guy, which means that no characters that you're meant to care about have any personality to speak of. This is typical for an isekai protagonist, but usually the characters around ... the protagonist are interesting to make up for it. That is not the case here. Every character feels exactly the same as every other character: sad, flat, and romantically interested in the protagonist.

The art is generic as hell. I often can't even tell which character is which in the art, as they all look basically the same. That wouldn't be so much of a problem if every piece of art wasn't just a group of characters standing around.

The story starts with a goal, then loses sight of it very quickly. It feels like a slough to read through the most recently-published volumes because it just doesn't go anywhere.

I recommend the first volume, but any more than that is not going to improve your view on the series.