Overall, the story accomplished what it set out to do, with the poster character's journey from start to finish. Fear is one character the author does right, and it shows. Frankly speaking, if her character was screwed up, the story would not have been nearly as good. To do this, the character has to be likable and endearing. Yes, Fear is the resident Tsundere, but since when are tsunderes automatically considered a bad character type. It depends on the execution. Also, Fear has other qualities that don't limit her to the character type. Naturally, the story follows her journey to lift her curse while meeting an assortment of people and gradually learning to become apart of a family, school class and neighborhood. Her arc conclusion is very fitting and heartwarming.

As for how the story spreads out. The volumes usually consist with one incident each, beginning and concluding in the same volume introduced with a few exceptions. With the conclusion of each incident, Fear learns more about the world and establishes relations with a character introduced in that volume.

Now, hold on, I keep mentioning Fear, the poster girl of the story. While she is an important character, isn't there an actual protagonist of this story? Yes, there is, and he's one of the reasons why despite the earlier praise, I rate the story a six. As much of the good is present, there's plenty of bad too, and very notable that it can't be ignored.

Our protagonist is Haruaki Yachi. While the protagonist, he has no reason to be such. Haruaki rarely does anything of plot relevance. He's also the generic MC, who's kind to a fault, and has no personality. Whether it's Pakuaki Yamimagari, the school superintendent, Maximilian Pendragon, one of the token classmate characters Taizou, or even the restaurant worker guy that later Kukuri has a crush on, they all have more personality than this guy. If that wasn't enough, his kindness includes scolding Fear or Kirika, because they risked themselves too much, even though he'll risk himself when his powerlessness gets to him.



The only reason Haruaki is the protagonist, instead of Fear is because of the harem. To be honest, it's just a lame attempt to get fanservice and common genre cliches in the story. That's all it serves. You have the love interests get jealous of the slightest bit of touch between the protagonist and one of them or another girl. They're divided into classic character types. The author plays up every known cliche and in the most annoying way possible. I already mentioned Fear being the tsundere. However, we also have the childhood friend with big "assets". Next, you have the class representative. Unlike Fear, these two never get any development outside being love interests. Kirika's biggest development was to stop being content with watching from afar, and seriously enter the battlefield with her rivals. I really wish I was joking, but no, that's really the only big development for her. Despite the fact she's used to introduce the Lab Chief's nation, nothing else comes from her about it once she leaves the organization. Silver-lining, it brings in another character Un Izoey, who takes up Kirika's position as the connection to that side. IMO, she's one of the best characters of the story. Konoha just doesn't change. Period.

All these fanservice and harem cliches mix in with serious plots of the story, but they don't mesh well. Some of these lighthearted situations come in rather less than ideal parts. For example, it's a high stake situation; the tension is so thick you can cut it. Then suddenly something ecchi happens for no reason, and the tension is all lost. Why can't I get any consistency here? It doesn't help the fanservice isn't arousing simply from text descriptions, and the comedy from harem situations are stale. The fact the same type of situations keep happening over and over doesn't help. Any reader will quickly get tired of it.

IMHO, Fear shouldn't even have been in this harem. She would have served better as a sister-like character for Haruaki. Being in the harem detracted from her character. There's this plot thread, where she wonders if she's capable of feelings of love. It develops in the later volumes that she wants to seriously search for the indulgence disk to confirm those feelings. Why does it become a problem? It didn't start out that way. Fear's main goal is to lift her curse. The indulgence disk help by sealing away her mechanisms of torture and execution. Previously, she wanted to fully blend in with society, and experience human concepts of comradeship. However, since she's part of the harem, hence destined to fall in love with Haruaki, this later becomes wanting to confirm these feelings of hers, and wanting to stay by Haruaki's side forever. That her previous desire of developing comrade-ship with others gets lost in the process is what makes this a huge problem.



It's a story you're going to need plenty of patience to read. In order to get to the parts that make the story worth reading, you're going to have to shuffle through some sand. I recommend it to those who won't mind the ecchi and overused cliches.

... Last updated on July 21st, 2015, 8:15pm

Well, the series started out well, with a pretty good premise that was a bit standard but handled pretty well at first. However, as you continue reading, you find out pretty quickly that every book is the same over and over again. (With the exception of the short stories which are probably the best part of the entire series.) Everyday stuff happens, then bad guy shows up and we spend the end of the book handling the bad guy only to have them usually return again later.

Then at Volume 14 things just go wrong in my opinion in many ways and although the main issue of the volume is resolved the series in general I felt never recovered. I'd like to say why but I don't want to spoil it for those planning to read. Also, be warned that there are unanswered questions when it is all over on top of it, though it does have a proper ending. I would only recommend reading it if the story really appeals to you, but be warned that the ending might not be worth the time invested.

a very great read,hope someone continue translating this series