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Its okay-ish for binge reading, but not really worth following weekly.

Plot
Guy gets Isekai-ed as the first son of a baron(noble) of a small town. He has a unique skill called appraisal, where he can look at people's current stats and their potential/max stats. eg: power 14/53. The empire seems to be falling into ruin and in order to protect his people from the inevitable war, he decides to gather strong allies under him. The story is mostly him finding strong underlings and raising through the ranks of nobility using the strength of his underlings.

Review
One might see a very strong similarity between this MC and the ... MC of "How a realist hero rebuilt the strong kingdom". In my opinion, realist hero has better writing where MC doesn't have any "skill", but relies on his knowledge. Meanwhile, this isekai completely forgets the "Isekai" part after the introduction. It is just fantasy pretending to be Isekai.

Anyway, I kinda liked the peaceful vibe of the first three episodes of the anime and decided to shift to manga. I was sick and couldn't sleep. And I decided to binge this manga to distract myself. I completed 128 chapters within a single day, and it was not bad enough for me to drop it. But it wasn't exactly good either.

The MC is a "nice" guy who wants to build a world where there's no war and even the most vulnerable sections can live a decent life. The idealism kept reminding me that this is not a story for adults. MC's the kind of guy who will even forgive the enemy soldiers because they all have "families waiting for them at home". So, just keep your expectations in check.

Another shortcoming of this story has to do with war strategies. The strategies designed by these genius characters are supposed to be mind blowing, and yet, they never really feel like actual strategies. Its just the usual "Ha! I already figured out your plan and made it part of my plan.". Now, we simply go back to flashback where the countermeasure was planned. Plot armor carries them a LOT. The characters being all idealistic was already irritating. And them pretending that they are little geniuses was so obnoxious.

And finally, the concept itself is kinda.. sad?. Its one thing to know someone's current stats. But your potential is decided at your birth and then your fate is sealed. It felt really unfair. Your birth already decides your family and by extension, your status in an aristocratic society. Now, these "stats" feel like a slap in your face. If you have low potential stats, then no amount of hardwork can overcome that limit.

The MC doesn't have any OP powers except for appraisal. He is completely carried by his underlings. I don't know if its a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand, MC is not OP. OTOH, he finds OP pokemons and they will just hard carry him throughout the story. He definitely is a hardworker and a decent character, but he's not interesting at all. All he does is say completely predictable nice guy words and nothing else.

The art is good and clean.

Overall, I think this story had potential in the beginning. However, due to the limitations of writing and weekly pacing of chapters, it remains a mediocre work. You can read it, if you have nothing else to do. But I won't go out of my way to recommend this to anyone.

Plot
4 heroes are summoned from different worlds, to help fight against the demon kingdom. MC is one of the heroes, and much more OP compared to everyone else. He decides that this world is shit, and to entertain himself, he will "play"(rape) with "toys"( female characters) using his magic (mind control, hypnosis, hormone manipulation etc..).

Review
MC is walking around the town and finds two men sexually harassing a woman in a dark alley. He beats the two of them unconscious, makes the woman super horny using his magic, rapes her until she's unconscious, steals money from her wallet and leaves them all in the alley. ...

That should tell you what this series is all about. Its just an OP MC mind-breaking women (from all races) and raping them.
Now, that itself is not a bad thing. Everything has its niche. You don't judge shounen for having lots of fights or shoujo for lots of romance or hentai for lots of sex scenes.

But this series still has its flaws:
1. Every human girl looks the same. The princess, her sister, maid and a random woman in an alley. All of them look the same. round face, big tits and thicc thighs.
2. The weird plot gimmicks like having three other heroes for no reason. They serve no purpose and should have never been introduced. All they are useful for is to show that MC is super OP compared to them.
3. The story. Starts as a generic Isekai, but with every chapter, it becomes dumber and dumber. He literally gives a "massage" (groping and squeezing ass/boobs) to princess's sister and she thinks its actual massage..

OTOH, its nice to have a proper evil MC. For the first rape, the story tries to justify it as punishment for trying to betray our MC. But, from the alley incident onwards, MC becomes more and more unhinged. He rapes if he wants to rape. He revives dead people, just to splice their head open and extract their brain to gather intel. He will perform brain surgery while a person is still conscious. This is very dark and really hammers the point home that MC is an pure evil .

Overall
I dropped it at chapter 8. Even if we ignore all the rape, the hentai trying to be an actual Isekai with a bad plot is irritating. I am not really in the mood for generic Isekai shit. If you like rape (including non-human races) or an evil MC, then you will like this series. Otherwise, just skip this.

Plot
Average Salaryman summoned by demon lord and was asked to be one of the "yonko" (4 people working directly under the demon-lord). The demon lord's unshakeable confidence in our MC, boosts MC's self-confidence and MC decides to do his best. The rest of the story is just him achieving a lot of feats using his "salaryman" knowledge of negotiations and business.

Review
I definitely liked the manga at the beginning. It was a comedy Isekai about an average salaryman suddenly dealing with a lot of powerful monsters. A lot of them monsters he dealt with were often weirdos and that made it an easy read. Of course, ... by the end of the arc, he will always accomplish any goal using his smart salaryman thinking (or asspulls, but whatever. this was never going to be a masterpiece anyway). The demon lord is a really great guy and one of the main attractions of this series.

But as the plot progressed, at some point, this became a serious story. It started dealing with racism of demi-humans and demons, war strategy, child abuse of a loli (really heavy abuse and tragic back story), cartoonishly evil villains and other serious shit. Now, I hate reading this manga. It was always a trash Isekai in terms of its writing. But the comedy was okay enough to pass some time, so I overlooked its shortcomings. Now, without any comedy, its just like any another trash Isekai. I think I will drop it here. If I am gonna read a trash Isekai anyway, there's definitely better ones out there.

A proper Isekai with super natural elements and comedy.

Trigger Warning: The series kills people (including classmates and gods) like its just a comedy routine. Some may find it offensive.

Plot
An entire class is summoned to Isekai and granted gifts (powers), so that some of them can become "sages". But 4 were not granted gifts and abandoned by the rest of the classmates. Two of them are killed by a dragon and when FMC wakes up MC (who has been sleeping through this entire plot), MC kills the dragon instantly. And so starts the adventure of our MC to return to his world. Anything that stands ... in his way shall be killed instantly.

Review

1. The series is very meta. It refers to a lot of Isekai tropes and the characters directly make jokes on them.
2. The series never takes itself seriously. It mixes sci-fi tech like robots, gundams, androids, secret organizations etc.. with medieval level fantasy concepts like magic and kingdoms. We even have super natural entities like guardian angels, ghosts, etc.. So, it would definitely feel different than other Isekai.
3. The characters die like insects and that is often played for comedy. It doesn't matter how much you buildup a fight, its still gonna die within 10 seconds of a fight. Its a running gag for the entire season.
4. This is first and foremost a comedy. If you are not laughing by second episode, maybe its not really your cup of tea.
5. This is also a mystery. We get a lot of flashbacks from MC's past, and there are some really great slice of life moments in there.

I think that should give you a rough overview of what to expect. Its definitely messy with a lot of stuff mixed in. But, compared the usual garbage like "I reincarnated as X" or "hero kicked me out, so I _" or "With my cheat skill, I _", this series feels refreshing.

Plot
Our MC wakes up in the body of a small time villain, Cale, inside an Isekai novel. Cale is known as the trash of the country family because of how he always drinks or gets into fights or breaks things etc.. The hero (who himself is Isekai-ed.) of the novel was supposed to beat up Cale for being annoying, and move on to the rest of the story. Instead, our MC decides to become more powerful, so that he can lead a peaceful life. He uses his knowledge to gain power, and make friends with hero and hero's future allies.

Review
Story
Its not bad. Everything always ... goes well for MC. Hero and every character that was supposed to join the "hero" in the novel, ends up becoming friends with MC instead. Everyone trusts our MC and rarely question him. There is no tension at all. For some that might be bad, but you can also think of it as an easy read. We do have pretty female characters, but there's ZERO romance.

The story also has decent pacing. Things just go from one goal to next without any break and this stops the plot from getting stale. But the story seems to be super long considering the scale of the enemy organization. You will need to read 8 - 10 chapters to get the general vibe of the series. Although, we will travel and see plenty of different lore and plots, I would say the general quality of the series stays roughly the same. If you are satisfied by chapter 10, then you will still be satisfied for 100 more chapters. If you are bored (or annoyed) at chapter 10, you should definitely drop this series.

Art
The best part of this series. Like most such manhwa, its filled with pretty backgrounds and cute chibi cartoons.

There's not much else to talk about. It feels like a slice of life adventuring story with MC and his friends. Everyone is nice. If that's your thing, then this series is for you. But one way or the other, this is the series that you will forget after a full night's sleep. You won't ever look back and think "what a great series". So, really really keep your expectations in check before starting.

This is truly a special manga. I have read and reviewed so many Isekai manga/anime, but I never took any of them personally. It was just some author telling a story to the best of their abilities and me judging them according to my preferences. But this series is different. It made me feel so angry and frustrated, that I could feel my blood pressure rising.

Plot
MC is a genius structural analysis researcher (chemistry + physics at molecular level). She dies during earthquake and gets Isekaied by goddess. MC chooses the skills structural analysis and structural editing. She's born and at 5 years of age, ... the church summons children to check for the saintess ability. another girl happens to be the saintess and MC happily returns home. She starts using her skills to create stuff and also teach others about advanced magic. But it seems, the saintess is doing some shady shit and MC will have to cleanup after her.

Review
MC OP af.
1. structural analysis: It can read/analyze anything *including* humans. You can literally analyze someone and it shows you what their current status affects are and other info. So, you can learn almost anything you want.
2. structural editing: If the previous skill could tell MC everything, this skill allows MC to do whatever she wants. She can change the breath of a wyvern monster from fire to heal. She can remove medical conditions. She can take raw metal and just change them into any finished products.

MC is the most retarded character I have ever seen in all Isekai.
On one hand, Not a single chapter goes by where she doesn't fuck up by revealing unnecessary info. The second chapter shows her making curry at 5 years of age... without EVER stepping in a kitchen. At age 7, she takes a bunch of raw mithril ore and crafts it into jewellery by "just thinking and pouring magic into it". Even dwarfs can't do it. She even makes earrings which serve as wireless earphones so that she and her friends can communicate. She also shows a new recipe with fish and mayonnaise. The thing is.. she didn't have to do ANY of this. The parents mention multiple times that talent/knowledge as great of hers is very dangerous, but this dumb bitch has faced zero consequences.

OTOH, she is too nice towards everyone (including a girl who literally tries to kill her). Even gods and angels know the limits of being forgiving.

And the "villain" is.. just evil for the sake of being evil. She is trying to screw over MC and even tries to kill MC, but.. there's literally no reason for it. and she's as dumb as the MC.

I think part of the reason for me hating this series is how dumb everyone is. Including the Gods themselves. Literally the entire first arc over 15 chapters is about a god omitting a clear description on a heal skill.

Then, we have the plot itself. It moves at a rapid pace, but there's no creativity at any point. Its just MC being super nice to everyone while remembering how her past life used to be shit. The villain seemed interesting at the beginning, but by chapter 10, you realize that its all just dumb characters doing dumb things with no rational motives.

Overall, I would not recommend this to anyone. Part of it is probably personal bias (I really hated it). But the main reason would be the plenty of alternative generic Isekai manga out there. There is no single redeeming feature in this series that makes it better than the other Isekai.

Plot
MC and his twin brother are 7th and 8th princes. MC is known as the dull prince, because he neither has any talent nor puts any effort in his training, unlike his twin brother. But MC is secretly (OP) a genius and famous SS rank adventurer using fobidden Ancient Magic_TM, and pretends to be a loser on purpose to avoid unnecessary attention from royalty/nobility. When a succession war breaks out, he decides to support his younger twin brother as the next emperor candidate behind the scenes.

Review
Positives:
1. Has the relatively unique premise of siblings fighting a succession war.
2. Sets up the mysteries very well and ... gives us the feeling that there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. eg: Ancient magic, Death of the first prince etc.
3. MC is a chad (some times).
4. The relationships are really wholesome and heartwarming. MC and his brother are really supportive of each other. We need more positive vibes like this.

Negatives:
1. The writing is childish. We have multiple characters using magic tools to "hide" their faces with optical magic. and yet, MC for some reason always goes into town without hiding his face. Imagine a royal prince of the most powerful empire just walking in the market lmao.
2. characters feel more cringe than competent. MC himself flipflops between a chad character and a "good guy who sacrifices himself for the sake of others" character (like hachiman from oregairu).
3. Instead of making MC smart, the series makes all the other characters dumber. Some of the nobles are so dumb, that any "smart" plan by our MC to manipulate them feels like bullshit.

Overall:
Its just a decent series with some very obvious flaws. If you keep your expectations low, then this will make for a good binge.

This is kinda hard to judge. But I will try.

I was super curious about the title, so I decided to give this a try. Considering the title, I was expecting a comedy + ecchi in the spirit of immoral guild or gushing over magical girls..., but instead, I got a dark hentai about tentacle rape.

"Story"
1. Introduce a bunch of characters
2. These characters go to the monster cave to find out the cause of missing people (characters from previous arc)
3. monster kills all the males and rapes all the females until they get mindbroken (addicted to monster sex).
4. go to step 1 for next round of ... characters.
There technically is an overarching plot, but what would you expect from a hentai? Its barely passable as a story.

Review
As is apparent from the story, this is a hentai with tentacle monster raping everyone that comes into the cave. So, there's *lots* of sex scenes with some intermittent battles. Literally, nothing else. We only get some brief relief when we are introduced to some nice new characters, but of course, we know how they will all end up. The art is decent too.

The sex scenes are a little too disturbing for me. The monster seems to be fully sentient and tries to do some NTR shit like paralyzing the male and then raping the female right in front of this face to really mess with him.

This series obviously targets a very particular niche and that is why I have mixed feelings about this. Every manga has some ideas, and we should judge a manga based on how well it executes those ideas. I would tell most readers to not start this manga. BUT, if you are here from some NTR/Rape/Tentacle shit, then you have just hit a goldmine. This manga is literally made for you and it does a very good job at that.

Its a fun and dumb harem trash.

Plot
MC was "bullied" by three other kids by forcing weird punishments on him upon losing games. He goes to tokyo and returns as a high schooler after 5 years. He has prepared in every possible way to defeat those bullies from his childhood. But turns out, that they are actually girls, and yet, in the true spirit of gender equality, MC will still try to defeat them in games and complete his revenge by punishing them. Meanwhile, the girls who have always been in love with him and "bullied" him for attention, are now planning to finally make ... him fall in love with them.

Review
I should start off the review by saying that this is really really dumb harem series. From the very first chapter, you know exactly what you are getting into. There's no "story" here. Its just harem ecchi comedy gimmicks at full force.

The series more or less follows the same template/formula.
1. MC challenges the girl/girls to a game (with maybe multiple rounds)
2. Either the MC or the girls lose a round.
3. There's an ecchi penalty for the loser. The ecchi will be limited, so don't expect much.
4. play more rounds with more penalties, until the chapter/arc ends.
5. Go to step 1

We just keep repeating this loop, and rotate the focus between different girls. All the girls are great and worth shipping.
1. Big booby rich girl: She's lewd and openly declares that she will go to any extent to win against the other girls.
2. Wrestler innocent: She's really athletic and an extrovert. But she's innocent when it comes to ecchi.
3. gamer streamer horny: She's an introvert living alone, but she's the horniest of them all. masturbates while thinking about MC.
4. ???: The hidden route and I will avoid spoilers.

Finally, the main attraction of this series is our MC. He's not some lonely loser getting noticed by a popular girl. He is actually talented in studies, sports and everything you can imagine. works hard and respects other people's effort. OTOH, he also simps for a v-tuber. But, overall, I think this is a guy who actually deserves the girls.

I think the series does a good enough job rotating the focus among all harem members. There is some shallow "drama" at times, but the series maintains its fun wholesome harem ecchi vibes throughout the story. If you belong to the target audience of this series, then I would definitely recommend giving this a chance.

Plot
When MC celebrates his 30th birthday without losing his virginity, he gets the power to read minds by touching them (comically called cherry magic and MC labels himself as cherry wizard). With this new found magic, he realizes that his popular/handsome coworker has a secret crush on him. Romance ensues. There's actually two couples in this series. One is MC and his popular coworker. Another is MC's friend (an author) and a young dancer.

Review
This is Romance + Drama set in a workplace setting. The story itself is pretty generic, with the cherry magic serving as a hook.
It has great pacing and makes every episode ... count. The overall vibe is also really sweet, wholesome and makes for a relaxing watch. There's some drama, but fortunately, most of the problems get resolved pretty quickly.

There will be some comparisons to "My new boss is goofy" (Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen), as both series are boy's love of colleagues in an office setting. But "My new boss is goofy" is hilarious with its goofiness, and is more of a SoL/Comedy with a hint of romance. While, this series also has some funny moments, its much more focused on romance + drama and focuses on telling a complete story.

One of my favorite side characters is a fujoshi colleague called "Fuji"saki :) She's always watching our main couple and screaming internally. Our MC also happens to have some hilarious misunderstandings with her. I wish she had a little bit more screen time as I loved her comedy track (and she's pretty cute).

The first episode represents the vibe of the anime very well, so you can just watch it and decide if it is to your taste. I am not gonna claim that this is a masterpiece. But it is a decent and relaxing BL anime, with plenty of doki-doki moments. That is what I am here for, so I consider this a good series for giving me exactly that.