I get that the entire shtick of this comic is the MC's one track mind centered solely on food consumption, but I really dislike how the characters around him are beguiled by it.
Yes, he is really suffering from a debilitating illness. It's the misinterpretation of his actions that I hate.
What people are interpreting as Good Boy Charm is MC acting on his own selfish desires to the exclusion of everyone around him. Even the game is trying to teach MC that helping other people benefit is a good thing. It's a novel concept for him that he resists unless he knows ahead of time what he will gain from doing it. I'm totally cool with MCs who are selfish psychos that don't hide it (or are purposefully hiding it to be manipulative), but I'm not cool with MCs who are selfish psychos but everyone, including himself, accepts and encourages the behavior just because the situation ends up helping people.
If the author wanted to play it that way for comedic purposes, then I need it to be a bit more extreme. His condition is certainly extreme enough to play it that way. I enjoy comedic misunderstandings, but this is too subtle for me to find funny, and instead I find it annoying as hell.
Another commenter dropped the story at Ch 82. Having now read it, I understand... It introduces a black character, which is great. BUT. Hah...
He's from a poor village in Africa. Not a specific place, or even made up place. Just Africa. Cringe. And then it turns out MC's father came to this village and fed the starving kids great food and gave them gaming VR capsules to play the game. That's some major lazy writing circa pre-2000.
But hey turns out the black kid is a ranker and a tamer, who pledges to follow MC and then the MC tells him to wash dishes. So now the ranker logs into the game to wash dishes.
Yup. Good job, author!
Fights are boring because MC is too OP and doesn't break a sweat. He just wins and everyone is amazed. Yawn.
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