This is the type of story writing and story telling that is killing the writing industry.
It's a story disguised as a complex one, but at the core, it is simple beyond belief.
The twists and turns of the plot are simply there to briefly trick you even though you've already known the outcome of a certain event.
All its "complexity" just seems like the author getting new ideas and then cramming that idea into the story, realizing it doesn't end in a favorable outcome, and then finding ridiculous ways to explain why the favorable outcome was achieved.
This is just over-hyped beyond belief.
--An update--
I never imagined my review would get top.
I've had countless angry fans raid my inbox and comments. Most want to just berate me, but some do want more information. For those few people, I will add some more:
The interaction and dialogue between characters seems off. To me, they do not communicate like a normal person. I know they are meant to be odd people, but the writing made it difficult to understand or even become interested in what they had to say. The best way I could describe it is if aliens came to Earth and only studied humans via anime. And then they tried to write a story based around two awkward anime characters, that's what this felt like.
Some people have pointed out that it is due to bad translation. My first language is Japanese, I read all Japanese literature untranslated.
As stated before, the "complexity" is just a mess. The many "rules" of the world are not defined, but this seems to be very intentional, but not to provide "mystery" or "twists". It seems as though the author made it so they can add or modify rules for their needs. The "twists" only seek to surprise us without adding any value to the plot. Situations in the novel change, drastically at times, for no apparent reason but only to meet the author's objective. This is a classic blunder by bad writers. They have a beginning and an end, but they don't know how to write the middle to tie the two. "the man fell off the cliff...but didn't die because a dragon saved him! and the dragon never comes back into the story"
Hope this helps
