The story seems very ambitious at first. It develops multiple relationships, has multiple levels of mystery, a fantasy element, a SF/gaming element, a fighting element, an element of horror/suspense...they basically want to do all the genres.
It works for a while too. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold up in the long run. Shonen style fighting takes over the story to the point that relationships just stop developing. Its rather predictable stuff following Shonen power scaling conventions. It goes on too long with this same pattern and repeats itself too many times.
There are so many interesting ideas here that just don't get developed and possible discussions that just don't happen. Relationships that are either completely static or jump ahead without any development at all. The author seems to have gotten bored with the characters outside of fighting and power scaling. The wasted setup/potential is disappointing. Battle Shonen is what the author is interested in. All the other stuff is only there for window dressing.
Although the series starts off as a 7 or 8 it drops to a 4 as it progresses. It's a five on average. Readable if you like the battles.
