Number 1: The writing style, Re:Monster feels like it is the diary of a chuunibyou child with a god complex. The constant actions and notes of the thoughts of the main character make this series feel like it was written by a chuuni, who psychopathic in nature, has been gifted with ever growing god like power. The story also frequently uses annoying phrases like "by the way" "with regards to" "oh by the way" and "Oh just so you know", which may not sound bad, but after reading those exact words at the start of a paragraph for the 600th fucking time, you will be aggravated as well. Not to mention these words completely destroy the flow of the story, and are often followed by convenient plot points the author couldn't bother to insert naturally. It often leaves us feeling like this was written by a child telling a story of how he saved the world. And frankly makes the main character seem like a moron, who has a strange habit of forgetting extremely important details, or has had his past edited to fit his needs.
Number 2: The characters are completely and absolutely flat. No character aside from the protagonist has any depth. They are flatter than a stick note. None of them go through any significant character growth, and we scarcely get to see in their minds and learn anything notable about them. The most character we get from them is lust or their actions. Rou, the protagonist and only character with depth (which only can be said since we view the story from his perspective), is a psychopath, completely devoid of emotion and empathy. He completely disregards all life not directly related to him, or unlikely to influence his life, or the lives of those affiliated with him. While I don't think these things automatically means he's a bad character quality wise, but with the already poor writing, it feels like a magnifying glass that amplifies the size of the overall poor quality of the series. As he seems like an uninteresting character as he shows almost no genuine concern for his supposed lovers or children, and when he does, it looks and feels extremely superficial and contrived. Which reminds me, it seems like half the people related to him are suffering some perverse Stockholm Syndrome. They all seem to love him even though he is technically their enslaver. Yea he gives them the opportunity of freedom, and "protects them", but he sure as hell has done nothing to earn their love.
Number 3: The world system. The world in which Rou lives is like a game, in which levels and jobs are extremely prevalent to both monsters and humans, I won't go into depth of the system mainly because it was never explained as well as it could and should have. Yes, the system regarding the world, namely the "Book of Psalms" or what ever has had minimal memorable explanation, and translation in regards to those specifically has either been poor at best, or simply incomprehensible in the English language. The world system when translated to English makes very little sense, and seems extremely gimmicky and unnatural. Honestly, I don't like when this kind of system is put into a reincarnation / isekai series unless it is a genuine game. It feels gimmicy and makes the world seem less natural unless executed especially well, the Slime isekai I mentioned earlier is no exception.
Number 4: The story, or rather lack of. There is zero story, and zero plot. It's only about Rou's and his group's "growth", aside from that, the stories are episodic, which can easily be good, but this series drones on and gets repetitive real damn fast. And as mentioned in the first complaint, a vast majority of the "plot points" feel extremely contrived, and like the world was edited to fit his needs simply because the author was too shit to remember them, or insert them fluidly or naturally.
Anyways, my actually scoring for this series are as follows:
Story: 1
It's pathetic really, it's just Rou fights this, gets stronger, then fights an even bigger thing and gets stronger. Oh and picks up a new harem member or kid along the way. I'll be somewhat fair and say, it is very difficult to stay interesting as an episodic series. Keeping the reader's interest is no easy task or at least readers who have no particular attachment to isekai.
Art: 6
Average, the art in the story are what you'd expect from most light novels. I will grant that the covers are usually quite well done.
Character: 1
A total joke, none of the supporting characters have any depth, and Rou struggles to feel two dimensional, let alone three.
Enjoyment: 1
At first, for the first give or take 50 chapters, I enjoyed it, seeing a character get strong from the ground up as well as develop their environment, but it quickly fell into repetition and lost it's appeal. It's also very hard to make short term growth feel realistic or genuine as very few things in human life provide such a degree of instant gratification.
Overall: 1
It's a nice concept, but poor in execution, especially in character, writing style and story... Whoops, that's everything.
PS, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT WHAT THE FOOD TASTES LIKE, MY GOD, FUCK OFF WITH CONSTANT RECOUNTS OF HOW AMAZING EVERY SINGLE YOU EAT TASTES, NO ONE GIVE A DAMN!
Rant aside, it's always the same thing, this thing tastes better than the last thing I ate, but it has a different texture.
