(Read up to ch 145)
The main character started off okay but became plain unlikeable. By Ido arc I can’t stand him anymore. Dropped.

... Last updated on April 13th, 2024, 11:49am

It's real nasty. But if you're into kids it's probably great. (IMO)

The art is the first thing of note, particularly because the battle scenes are very good and almost everything else is dynamic. The girls are pretty, the grown men are decent, and the younger guys... are girls. For some reason this artist can't seem to draw younger guys, so they draw young female bodies doing adult female poses. And the main character is one such character. It's a bit disturbing, to be honest.

The various subplots that happen around the main character are average, which for OP isekai stories, means it's above average. It's no "That Time I Was Reincarnated As A Slime" but it's consistent and well paced.

The fight scenes are incredible set pieces, and those alone could make a worse story readable.

But the main character's personality... I feel like there's something missing. They aren't bad, just incomplete. At first their kind of empty personality is funny, but the longer it goes on, the more I dislike it.

Anyway, I don't know what to think about the manga as a package. There are pros and cons, and they don't really meld together, so they remain distinct. I guess that makes it more memorable?

Oh well, it's one of the decent isekai; just a bit empty.

Mc wishes he studied more magic before dyding

Gets reincarnated

Leanrs so much about magic that he beocmes overpowered

Any sign of female intomamcy, he rejects (which was gunny at first, but is so annoying)

Any girl he meets seems to fall for him

This is a really enjoyable story. It features solid writing, a fun cast of characters including an overpowered character who can stomp everyone but is nonetheless enjoyable to read about (this is not an easy feat of writing!), really enjoyably depicted action sequences (e.g. there's one chapter that consists entirely of a non-stop sword combo), great use of color (often the pages are in black and white while the magic is in color), some genuinely emotionally compelling sequences, and so on.

Downsides: In later arcs the side characters get more time to shine, which is fine because they're fun enough, but slows down the pacing. Call that the One Piece problem. Also, there's lots of fan service which I personally don't care for. And most damningly, the friggin' volumes, which you'd expect to be the best version of the story, are in black and white. So they lack all the great color usage, and the lower contrast makes some scenes much harder to parse, especially busy action sequences.

... Last updated on May 26th, 2023, 2:17am

(Review is for up to chapter 120)

Best reincarnation manga that I remember to have read, yes better than the slime one, the magician one and to even another variant which is the overlord one.

Also, among OP MCs, even though the personality and development is not fully consistent and there are some confusion due to flashbacks which involve many chapters ago, this MC has one of the most unique characteristics among all the series and movies I've read and watched (a few hundred I guess).

I really like how the story develops, with a lot of the side characters and former enemies still being relevant in future chapters, and although the MC is OP, there are actually a lot of plausible and interesting enemies, not just strong and stronger enemies which seem to sprout out of nowhere just for the MC to encounter and fight. A lot of the enemies have actually appeared earlier and became stronger over time and affected a lot of other things before they encounter the MC.

And most of all, I like how the MC tries stuff despite being very bored due to how strong he is (similar to saitama in OPM, and this is actually very true in real life, when people reach a pinnacle and realise there is no comparable rival or opponent, thus things gets boring).

I don't recommend it, this starts decently, but you get fed up with the mc's personality by chapter 30.
Things seem fast, but the mc never ages, stays a child forever, and this goes hand to hand with the authors fetishes, more on that later.
Mc is strong and is a Genius to a G. Sees that, oh! I see. Proceeds to imitate it and become better than the original.
This is merely a power fantasy with a shit ton of fan service directed to pedos in general due to the massive, massive amount of ass and crouch shots of the mc, who should be 10 years old right now and is a male.
Not only that, he seems to meet may girls and almost all of them are also used for fan service, most of them aren't really off age if you get my meaning.
Plot? There is something here, but it's more about a boy going here and there and doing this and that with absolutely no determination because he is pretty childish/only cares about magic.
fight going on in the background? who cares, gotta learn this from the cute pet.
Could have taken care of it? Of course, but the author needs to insert the new girl into a super perverted situation and let the wolf monster lick her all over and the boss grope her all over, of course, no one comments on it.
People are unrealistc friendly, as expected of a Japanese comic.
Overall, this feels like an avarage isekai when it isn't. Not worthy it, especialln when after a 100 chapters, the mc doesn't age at all and remains a shota so the author can fap to it.

Took this from a disqus comment and i completely agree with it.

Read till chapter 60s

To say that this series is like One Punch Man is a misunderstanding of what this series or even OPM is about.
The MC is a maniac for magic. He got killed by nobles who despised him for being a commoner trying to learn magic which he couldn't succeed at cause magic in this world is very class based and if you aren't basically born a noble you can barely use magic.
The MC, even in his dying moments does not detest the nobles but instead is not even paying attention to them but rather towards their magic which he calls beautiful as it kills him.

Then he gets reborn as a noble and is now capable of using magic.
Cue the rest of the manga.

Its not like One Punch Man where the story is about this guy who reaches the pinnacle but what next.
No, this manga is about how like stealthily psychotic the MC is. He doesn't have morals or attachments or feelings any more than what would help him in his pursuit of magic, going to whatever lengths necessary, thoughts about morality or decisions are not even in the picture. His helping people is a side effect of him being curious about what new things they can possibly teach him.

Absolutely a great read. Btw its very comedic and the art style absolutely fits the darkest moments as well as the comedic innocent ones or the slapstick moments.
10 out of 10
I actually find it really hard to believe this great work is written by the same guy who did "The Mage Will Master Magic Efficiently in His Second Life" which is a second rate work at best

AND I LIVE FOR THAT.

If you're going to make a manga trying to emulate Saitamas absolute and total power then it needs comedy and good side characters, this doesn't have that, imagine One-Punch man without it's side characters and without the comedy that's what this manga is like.

The main character is so powerful he does not care about anything, question, if the main character dont give a shit about what happens why should the reader? it's kind of like one-punch man except it's not funny and it's not as good, the art is good and the flow of the pages are also good but it's just so damn boring, i stopped reading the manga at chapter 22 because of boredom. Also Saitama had weaknesses aka he was to strong and super bored and it was a funny manga with amazing side characters, this character is amazing in every way and is a mary sue and we all know how boring mary sues are.

... Last updated on May 30th, 2021, 3:58am