Minor plot spoilers, but I don’t wanna get flagged :P
I was debating on whether to make this review or not because of how long I have stuck and loved this manga, as I can even recall when someone asked me four years ago, “Hey, what is your favorite manga,” and I answered with this long-ass title. As a warning, this review will be LONG and a bit “nostalgic,” so if I sound like a “back in my day…” kinda guy, then you can see where I’m coming from, as this manga has truly fallen from great heights, at least in my eyes.
I guess I’ll talk about the good: This manga really was unique and special; well, at least back in the day, another manga (Villager A Wants To Save The Villainess No Matter What!) has surfaced with this exact same concept with a little less sci-fi, etc, and I must say, it’s so much better than how this manga turned out due to one word: progression.
Time after time, this manga continues to disappoint in the plot development — instead of the plot progressing smoothly with its humor, which I’ll get into the comedy later, the plot is so sporadic and disorderly. Random events happen for absolutely no reason other than filler, and the same concept is for some reason repeated over and over again — so much that I can’t tell if I’m reading the same chapter I’ve seen before. Of course, there are also some of the “satisfying” moments in the plot where the mc power-plays everyone else, but it has gotten so jarring, since it has happened dozens of times.
I really want to emphasize how bad the plot is — at this point, the story seems to be getting dragged out for no reason other than to have conflict with some humor tied in, but it’s just so disappointing each time. The plot has gotten repetitive, and all of its events seem like a “white-knight” story where the mc comes in and saves the day. At this point (chapter 62), I have absolutely no idea what is going on in the story anymore, and I want to give this manga the benefit of the doubt that it’s because I’ve taken breaks here and there.
Now, if you know me and my reviews, I absolutely love stories with romance or a romantic subplot, so when I say the romance of this story SUCKS, it really speaks volumes to how much I hated the entire experience. Really, you’d think “bad” romcom protagonists are some of the most logical men when encountering love interests compared to how the mc acts. I’ve put up with a lot of crappy, drawn-out romantic developments in my reading career, but this is just horrible — every scenario is drawn-out, and the romance is such a mess with how the author continues to create random drama and scenarios to annoy every single reader out there.
I briefly touched on the main character, but he becomes virtually unbearable later on in chapters due to his indecisiveness and cowardice, which if you told me four years ago, then I would’ve called you a fool and quit dogging on my “favorite character…” Oh, how far you have fallen — the main character has ZERO progression to this day; he continues to act like a child in every event or encounter even when his life is on the line, and he never steps up until HIS ENTIRE LIVELIHOOD IS AT STAKE FOR THE 500TH TIME. You’d think he’d learn, but he continues to live by the good-guy mantra or “I shall not kill…” which, can I say, is absolutely stupid and ridiculous due to how the opposing party acts. Spoiler alert, author, NO ONE enjoys a main character who can’t muster up the courage to kill or even harm other people who put their values at stake. Instead, the mc continues to laugh off every matter and “humiliates” the opponent, but like I said before, the same-old repetitive actions just get boring, so they appear weak.
As for the side characters, I know they’re made with the intent of them being dumb and sacrificial for the main character to have his “hee-hee-ha-ha” moment against, but there’s a limit to how stupendous they should act in order to have an engaging and logical story.
The last part I’ll note on is the comedy — truly, I once found this manga absolutely hilarious with each “different” or “unique” plot development with how silly and goofy the mc acts, but unlike this story, people change and get used to the same jokes. If your friend made one great joke one day, but he keeps on saying it every other day, then would you not tell him to “shut the __ up?” Well, that’s how I feel about this humor — even with some attempts at newer jokes, they just fall incredibly flat due to how uninteresting the story is.
Somewhere along the way, this manga lost its identity and concept; because of this, I can only look at this manga with regrets and sorrows due to how this manga, “Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu,” has become nothing but an “I used to enjoy that.” This was one of the first manga I read, and it pains me to say this, but this has become nothing but a big waste of time.
Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”
