I really like this one, the MC does not sympathise over others misgreaves nor is he a complete dunce. He is smart, selfish and possesses a true God like power which he himself comments on quite often. He doesn't have any world conquering goal nor does he want to play the Vigilante of the weak Card...he is in a true essence a "World Adventurer" and sticks by that.

One thing that separate this piece of work with others in the same genre is that the supporting characters are very well fleshed out and get their own screen time, there is also a great Coherent Plot happening in the background coupled with matured themes (Politics, racism, Socio-economic environment) which ropes in the world building quite fluently.

The MC is your perfect scoring, introverted Japanese highschool student. Gets thrown into an unbelievable situation, but remains calm because he is one of those ~cool~ Japanese males. He'll never help anyone for free because it's too "troublesome" and he only needs to look out for number one.

Despite being a complete jerk, he'll probably come in contact with some beautiful ladies that are in trouble but he'll refuse to help until the last minute. Winning their hearts forever, despite showing zero affection. Most likely he might even fight the four other heroes and he'll win, because he's that cool.

Let's not forget, his powerful weapon is a Katana, despite being a fantasy setting.

Because ~~NIPPON BONZAI~~

... Last updated on October 31st, 2014, 8:29am

an MC with OP ability.............with limitations
1. Mana - he cant spam it. he cant use his ability to regen it.. as for wh, read ahead and lose some SAN points with GT
2. Backlash - he dont know the real limits of his ability
(some people sayin why dont he just become a god? he'll proly die from backlash before he ascends)
3. Time limit on other effects (fly, fire, etc.)

the MC is a real jerk that wont work for free...... but will do almost anything for delicious food (like goin to war) that's why people are charmed by him.
HAREM FULL OF LOLIS with some/one normal.

more of MC's magic

Like the former review said, the main character is what you consider a simple person that just want to do his own thing. He will lie, cheat, steal, and do whatever he want to get what he want. In some sense he is similar to a villain. Now as weird as it might sound, this is actually what most people in his shoe would do, even if they don't admit it.

Put it in another perspective, imagine you're suddenly kidnap and put in a land where you have no knowledge of and was giving something on the line of "you're a hero, I want you to save us and risk your life to fight this demon" by your kidnapper, a demon that you yourself never interact with and have no knowledge of.

You choose to not follow your kidnapper plan and run away and found out you have unique power. Along the way you meet people that are quite different from you, imagine it is like your first time seeing a dolphin. If you don't get the reference, read up on dolphin. Anyway, you have two option when meeting these new people that live in a culture you never heard of, you either assume they won't do anything to you and act like they're civilize people or you can use your new found power that you can use to protect yourself by acting high and mighty.

But this is just my perspective on how you should read this manga. Don't read it asssuming everything will turn out the way it should be, read it from a perspective of a teenager getting kidnap and put in a strange land.

It is one of the best light novel you've ever read? probably not. It is a slow light novel that slowly tell his travel. The story line so far is quite slow and is similar to most "travel to a different world rpg" novel. So far there are no "holy fuck I didn't expect this to happen" moment but it have a lot of potential that the author could explore to help increase drama of the story. So far those potential are somewhat showing on chapter 18-19 but how it start/end no one know.

... Last updated on November 24th, 2014, 10:19pm

It's the usual LN. Author write something, telling the readers what to think, but never really show anything.

The MC suppose to be really smart. With perfect scores in school without even attending a class. Well that's what the author told us. But in reality, this a character who's not smart enough to figure out there's tons of exploit to use on his OP character.

I'm guessing that this would be another Weed adventure. A psudo-story where the world revolve around the hero. with imbalance world. With convenient deus ex machina, kick off everytime the author can't figure out how to resolve a plot, an arc or even a simple scene.

Maybe he'll find a legendary weapon, hidden quest, maybe a hidden legendary skills, etc etc per volume, just by walking around, and getting lucky, because well... "plot".

And what's up with the opening scene? I read the same scene in probably 6 different LN. Is there a site somewhere on the internet, where this LN "writer" could just download the templates?

But to be fair, the MC could be an interesting MC, using a Strong Lead trope. Too bad the author did not realize that, for Strong Male Lead trope to be good, it need the counterpart Strong Villain trope. And definitely not as simple as making all your opponent stupid and weak.

--Update- chapter 16
The writer already ran out of gas at chapter 16. More and more of slow moving filler chapter showing up, that made me think that the author doesn't really have a story. He probably just making it up as he types. Which is not a really good idea most of the times. And one thing for sure, this series is not an outlier.

And yeah, I seconded what @CrazyPanda said. I think the author's average IQ limit the IQ of the MC. Hence why we got an average intellect, that is also selfish and boring... douche for an MC.

Dropped my rating to a 6.

... Last updated on November 6th, 2014, 11:11pm

So far (about er 7 chapters in) the series is your typically series of a loner who gets transported to another world with people who are the heros. Typical because... I'm looking at you 'Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou' and 'Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari'. The world setting is similar too, with the level ups and the gamer info and 'save our world' and special one who doesn't seem special....
But I'm giving it a 6.... and not dropping it because the MC is not a pushover. Right from the get-go he's all "The mages made a mistake in summoning me, and I can't go back home, but who cares. Taking care of myself is my first priority. Since you obviously made a mistake in summoning me, I'll just leave. I don't need any support, just let me have the freedom to roam as I want." Okay, he was more.... er... let's say rude... no that's no the right word to describe the MC.... Well, he knew that he was no part of a group from the beginning so there's none of the 'trying to fit in' stuff and the 'why does no one like me'. Yeah...
Reason 2, as to why I'm not dropping the novel even with all the cliches... I like the MC's 'special' power. The power of words (WORD MASTER). As a fan of reading, I've gotta say that is appealing.

First of all, if you don't like the anti-hero style of protagonist (and now i mean actual anti-hero, now the japanese version of it showing up in media which usually gets exported to the west which frankly very much isn't), wherein the protagonist behaves in ways often considered "bad" for no sake other then to benefit himself, i would well and truly not read this LN. The protagonist is quite often selfish for no reason other then to maximize his own benefit from a situation.

Now first of all, for my own opinion on the comments on the LN being pedophilic, him being portrayed as intelligent but not acting it, and him being a "douche" so to speak (which many have mentioned).

1. Whilst his little group consists of essentially always little girls (with the one guy added in every time as well except for the MC), there's no innuendo, no sexualization of their relationship in any way, and frankly the most romantic notion being mentioned in the LN is just it sometimes hinting at 1-2 of them having a crush on him, and all of this is way more then a giant majority of LNs

2/3. Saying he acts like a douche and saying he doesn't act intelligently is nearly exclusive in the context of this LN, as it is utterly and repeatedly expressed both outright, and hinted at, that most of his acts are simply to maximize his own gain from an encounter, or simply because he doesn't want to. He might not follow the absolutely ridiculous notion of intelligence that japanese media tends to subscribe to with the "sherlock holmes"esque deduction and flawless month long plans, but he sure as hell is intelligent, he can bend essentially every situation he's in to the most profitable one possible result for himself, and due to the fact that his behavior is a result of him essentially ignoring his emotions and being as profitable as possible in a world where that's mercenary, saying that he's selfish whilst still saying he's not intelligent is really really odd.

Overall i found it to be an excellent piece of writing, it had a good enough story but what i really enjoyed was the protagonist, he's a true mercenary (except possibly for the fact he almost always tries to make sure a deal he makes with someone be as profitable as possible for them as well) and apologizes in no way for it, i found the much more realistic depiction of what you would need to do to survive in an alternate world delightful (on a few occasions he chooses not to help people because he knows they have something he needs until they give it to him, and doesnt just rush in "Because we must help them!"), and i absolutely loved the fact that the only reason he's involved in the "main story" of the world itself, is because one of the key figures involved in it had something he wanted and traded it in exchange for assistance. In summary, a story driven by the protagonist who's a selfish pragmatist and feels no need to apologize for it, and makes a story based on a premise that's used quite alot impressively different from the piles and piles of tiny variations of the same bland premise and same bland protagonist.

P.S I'm on chapter 190 which is as of this posting the current chapter of the story (translated that is), and please post chapter if you do a review, without a note where you are your review is utterly useless and can be outright harmful

... Last updated on January 22nd, 2016, 6:05pm

I first started liking the MC and the story a lot, but there are just lolis everywhere and he's kinda arrogant as fuck. I don't know why there has to be so much lolis and he has to act like he's hot shit. Every now and then I can deal with his attitude, but sometimes it's a bit too much. Like sometimes out of the blue he decides to a douche to everyone for a dumbass reason.

Some of you guys may disagree with my opinions on him, but that's how I truly feel about him. It's okay for the MC to be an anti-hero, but there's a difference between that and a douche.

I like the MC's character in Konjiki no moji tsukai. It's probably one of my favourite clichés of aloofness that a Japanese light novel may have.
I also have to say though, one thing that I am really glad about is the fact that although the MC gains a harem, there isn't too much action. I don't despise, but I pretty much dislike harems because it sometimes disturbs the plot in the story. If the relationships are non-disruptive, then sure, but sometimes it can feel like the author is trying to force many relationships on the MC to make the MC more 'popular' or something like that. I may be missing the point, but this is all I can think of now.
No offense intended to lovers of arifureta, but the reason I dropped it is because of the harem situation in it. It completely felt like that the girls were shoved on the MC, and the frequent show-off situations of the girls were kind of ticking me off. I'm really sorry to the author that I feel that way, but I can't stand those kind of harem situations.
I'm glad Konjiki no moji tsukai is currently still at a level I can stand, and I hope it also stays that way.
I feel kind of bad for saying all of this, but I want to let all my thoughts out.
I hope the story does not lead to a situation where the author over accentuates relationships and harems.

... Last updated on June 12th, 2015, 4:49am

Someone! PLS kill me!!! Too many lolis ><

Why cant the Japanese keep it in the pants? It started so well! First 30 chapters there was no indication for harem with the MC but then... loli harem over the top under age heroines. What's so wrong about moderation?
And that MC is so... is he supposed to be smart? Intelligent? Knowledgeable? He is going around acting like a hot potato in a way that if I had met him in real life I would have smacked him real hard. The worst part is that the world bend on his logic as if he is the smartest shit ever born.

Well I know that I bashed pretty badly the novel so far but if someone is wondering is it worthy to read actually the answer is yes. Aside from the obvious lack of solid character building for the MC, a lot of the scenes are entertaining. The plot isn't much but the writing style somehow makes it worth it. There are a lot of these unintentionally funny moment to look forward to.