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This novel should be called "A Wild Power Fantasy Is Here!", since that's all there is to the novel, one of the most gross and blatant power fantasies I've ever seen. Pretty much everything about Ruphas makes me wanna throw up, and the way the author abuses the words "infinite", "googleplex", "omnipotence", it's just annoying and downright hurtful to the story. This novel is easily on the lower end of the barrel when it comes to isekai, and totally the worst attempt at a power fantasy I've seen. Also, f*ck Alovenus, everything about that character from her mere existance completely ruins any attempt of redemption ... for this novel. Overall, avoid this novel as if it were posion, because reading it totally felt like poison.

After a few chapters, you notice this series is an affectionate parody of high fantasy settings with OP MCs. Every cliché trope you can imagine will be referenced, and if one of the characters doesn't point the falls in logic said trope has, then be sure the narrator himself will.

Lloyd is your typical nice guy MC, but he's so extremely OP to the point that he can defeat demon lords with little difficulty - however, the catch with him is that he comes from a village of legendary heroes where he was raised by a god, so he was labelled as the weakest on that ... village, which led to his perception of power being so disturbed that he considers stuff like 10 meter tall monsters to be simple bugs. He's basically an anti-thesis to Saitama in that way, he defeats everyone effortlessly if not downright one-shot, but he doesn't even notice as much due to his weird upraising.

Every other main character also has a main joke to them: Marie has being hilariously abused by her master's magic, Riho is only in it for the money, Selen is a yandere stalker who can't think of anything but Lloyd, Alka is a 100+ years old loli who is a shotacon, and Phyllo is a girl of few words that has problems following the flow of normal conversations which leads her to wrong conclusions. Expect to see the author looking for ways to milk every one of those jokes for what's worth.

Overall, this is a fairly good comedy novel, but unless that mysterious villain working in the background manages to eventually shake the status quo, I can see this basically going the same route as One Punch Man of simply overusing their jokes as much as they can.

Don't take this one seriously - a very cliched quote, but overall, one that very much sums up the best way to have the complete experience this series is intended to give, on a very intentional level. This series is basically exactly what one would expect from the ridiculous premise it gives us: it is an over-the-top, Super Sentai-esque series filled with ecchi (Super Sentai is the Japanese series that inspired Power Rangers btw). This series is aware of itself, in contrast to other series of this kind, being very clear on knowing what it is, it doesn't try to look like some pretentious drama ... for the sake of it despite lacking the actual ability to deliver in said stakes (unlike some other series whose names I won't mention here), and it instead milks the cheesy, silly and bordeline parodic premise it has for all of its worth. Working pretty much to be some kind of a love letter to the ecchi-action series we have seen in the many years before while embracing its silly nature that doesn't shy away from showing its Super Sentai roots, Dokyuu Hentai HxEros is one of those great series to read to simply have fun.

This series is massively overrated. FLCL is basically a series that follows that Seinfeld motto of being "a show about nothing", because there isn't really a plot here, and while yes, the Atomsk name is brought up a lot, it ends up being irrelevant to the overall narrative as he's basically only there to be a massive Deus ex Machina. The only other characters I could bother remembering their names were Naota and Haruko, since every other character is extremely uninteresting or just plain annoying like that girl that sexually harasses our 12 years old main character (which he likes, mind you). Every single volume ... is divided in two halves, each adapting an episode of the anime, but without the fluid animation and great soundtrack (which were the only saving graces of the anime imo), the series just ends up a plain bunch of nothing with no explanations and whose "plots" are basically just "weird things happen to Naota and Haruko acts like crazy" repeated over and over again. I honestly read the novels expecting to get more hindsight of the anime, but ended up liking the anime more because these novels pretty much don't add anything and in fact lack the good things of the anime (the only actual addition of the novels is a better explanation via monologue of Haruko's feelings towards Naota). Overall, unless you really, really liked the anime and want more of the same (but lacking the animation and soundtrack), I don't really see much reason to read this novel over any other sci-fi one.

Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is what people should be attacking instead of Isekai novels. Isekai novels have managed to go too far on their premises that only get sillier with time and are an easy target of mockery, but most of them are mediocre due to being just pastiches one of another. THIS? If people looked at this, even the most cliché Isekai will look like breath of fresh air. Characters are as a stereotypically 1 dimensional as they can, the plot is nonexistent, the fan service is abundant despite being severely lacking at the same time, I would have an opinion on the world ... building if there was any, just about everything in this novel fails. You need to turn your brain off to even get some enjoyment from this, because it doesn't even work as a guilty pleasure tbh. This novel is honestly the proof Hobby Japan will publish anything that has cute girls on the cover, and that's all this novel has going on in it, the only memorable character is the MC's incestous sister, and for all the wrong reasons. Seriously, if you think the Isekai genre is stale state and has make you lost your faith on LNs, read this one and you'll see they could be doing much worse, because I see no other merit to reading this and I would, in fact, recommend avoiding it.

I don't even know where to start with this series. Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou is a novel that pretty much tries to force you to like the jerkass protagonist it has, a totally unsympathetic demon overlord who's infinitely more powerful than everyone else in the cast and who's constantly praised by all the girls despite showing no calms on killing their family if he wants to for no real reason. Hiroshi, a member of the main cast who serves as the foil to Akuto, is called "the hero of the story" by many in-universe, and for a very good reason, he's much better written and ... interesting than Akuto ever was, and he should have definitely been the MC if the author didn't want all girls to be sucking a jerk's dick, which is what all female characters on the series amount to. The series doesn't even know its identity, constantly changing between being dead serious about themes like the freedom of robots to having jokes about high school girls going around with a dildo on their school. The surreal metafictional elements that pop from time to time before overtaking the series completely by the last books is either a curse or a blessing depending if you like metafiction, but one thing is for sure, it wasn't replacing any plot because this series doesn't have any real story beyond "let's have our massive jerk of an MC fight Hitler wannabes so he can appear as the ultimate hero" and being borderline episodic on that matter. Even the bittersweet ending gets worse because the only likable characters are the ones who end up suffering while Akuto gets his dick suck even more, even by GOD IN PERSON! Overall, this novel had a nice premise, but its execution was just horrible and left a lot to be desired. In all honestly, unless you're an edgy 12-14 years old, this novel isn't for you.

One advice to anyone who wants to start this series: start from Volume 1, doesn't matter if you watched the anime, it's better if you read the novel from the begining so you don't lose the insane amount of foreshadowing this series has. And please do me a favour and don't drop this novel unless you've read Volume 3, why you ask? Well, it's because Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut is the perfect definition of the "it gets better" mantra.

The first 2 volumes are very generic, with Lux being extremely overpowered and unrivaled. But then, the third volume shows a deeper plot, the characters start showing ... their true nature beyond that generic outside cover, and the battles go up a notch.

It is, however, the events between volumes 6 and 14 that truly show why I rate this series as a 10. Much more complex and compelling antagonists such as Singlen appear, Lux is constantly thrown against the ropes due to the new levels of threat he's fighting against, the girls are developed as individuals while their relationship with Lux moves forward, all the while the interesting mystery of the world's nature exists on the background.

And then volume 15 manages to top everything before it, giving us one of the most amazing battles I've ever seen on a light novel, explaining us who the main antagonist Fugil is, and setting a way darker tone that lets the political drama aspect the series had been scratching up to that point fully shine, with all the next volumes following from everything promised in here.

So despite starting as an apparently generic and unremarkable novel, the true nature of this series is amazing political drama with epic battle scenes and antagonists that totally steal the show and your heart, all while giving us a harem with actually developing romantic bonds not only from the girls' side, but from Lux's as well. Edit: And to tell you about who ends with, the answer is True Harem Ending, he marries all.

So I invite you to enjoy this beautiful, fully translated light novel about the story of the birth of a true hero.