MC gets into a party of women... who don't try to romance him (and vice-versa) and even root for him and another character once they are introduced.
Furthermore, the MC is overpowered in a way that makes sense, and introduces the concept of adventurers not being a highly regarded job. Between a situation at home and his desire to explore, his job choice isn't a random thing.
There's actual thought put into the characters and why each of them are there, and the plot progresses quite naturally.
Also, it deals with some surprisingly heavy topics without sugar-coating or over-exaggerating them.
Sure, there's a couple hiccups that make me worry slightly
The one villain was given a backstory that seemed to try and get the reader to sympathize, but failed to do so, and that actually was for the best. Also, one new character mentioned a harem, but that character is also not a core character so it may just have been for a joke
but so far its been a refreshing and mostly competent story.
Edit: Yeah... my worries became more true. This story's biggest weakness is when it shows characters to be evil and then tries to backtrack that in the most absurd ways. Its inability to let evil characters be seen as evil by trying to reconcile evil behavior with sad backstory is a massive detriment to the quality of those parts of the story, as well as to the logic with how hard it tries to do so.
Bad guy (Glenn) demands to sleep with the 3 women in the main character's (Will's) party. Those 3 women are disgusted and one of them (Satsuki) tries to punch him, but Glenn catches her fist, enjoys the pain she's in, and is about to do something else to her (while licking his lips) when Will uses his overwhelming magic to show off it won't be worth continuing.
Turns out Glenn's backstory is that of a spoiled noble. But that's not sad enough, so the author twists the logic and tries to blame the environment he grew up in for not being adequate enough to handle his genius.
That's right, Glenn has a supportive family but is bored, so he sleeps with women and pays them off when he breaks their hearts (probably leaving many of them as single mothers with little chance of getting married in the future in this medieval setting). But Glenn's a good guy everyone, it's his environment that made him evil....
Give me a break, author, this philosophy of yours is broken and always will be. Stop testing my suspension of disbelief just because you don't want any character to be seen as evil.
Then Glenn declares he never forced himself on any woman later on... when he was in the process of doing so when we first met him.
This need to justify evil actions literally caused the manga to both show and tell he's bad, but then contradict itself to say he's actually not bad.
Thankfully these parts are usually not related to the plot... until they are. You see, demons eat humans because apparently they're
starving to death.
So the animals weren't enough? And you're trying to make me sympathize with them because they decide humans can be their only food source?
Yeah, no, kill the demons—the good humans at least don't eat sentient species and are objectively the good guys here. Oh, wait, the author tried to justify Orcs
raping and eating
elves, too.
Look, the story is great when it comes to the adventure and the main cast. It's worth reading. Just know there are deep flaws that get worse with time.
(-5)
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