I liked this one. It's absolutely not something that special, but I actually enjoyed reading it without getting bored like I do with most of the generic crap out there today. It was amusing and interesting enough to keep me sitting through it. It's totally worth reading once. Remember that the story is nothing special just like most other romcoms, you read it for the comedy and light-hearted mood and perhaps because of some of the fan-service as well.
There's only a few thing that really bothered me and that ruined a lot of it for me, which brought it down from an 7-8 in grade to a 6, and the first thing is the the childhood friend and some parts of the mcs personality. First of all, I don't think a childhood friend is a good idea in a harem manga/novel/anime, at least not if the mc is in love with her. Not to mention that she's the generic/stereotypical childhood friend that we see everywhere, the abusive and possessive type that wants to control the mc, hits him when he does something, seems to believe that she's entitled to be the only truly special one and who is also a tsundere that can't show her feelings properly. To top it off, the mc loves her from the beginning and throughout most of it all, he keeps on trying to show that only she is the "special one".
I mean, it's a harem manga. Why should one girl have a big leap ahead of everyone else, especially with such a crappy personality? The reader can't relate or immerse themselves because we DON'T KNOW their background or what has happened, we never got to see it build up, even if it's very easy for the author to say that it's natural since they're childhood friends, how can the readers agree? We all choose our favorite girls depending on their interactions and time spent together, but she's a cheat character that got first spot because of a non-existent backstory(to the reader) and there's no competition for that "main wife" spot that we usually see, and that cheat character are also one of the most unlikable stereotypes available. So, later on they pretty much all accept the polygamy situation, but she still wants him to love only her and the mc himself just seems to be with the other girls because he likes them, not loves. To make matters worse, the childhood friend had a lot of drama before they all accepted it and she was the only one that was actually really against polygamy and tried setting up some rivalry bullshit and brought down the story as a whole. The author also loves to keep rubbing it in at every opportunity he gets, how the mc loves her the most and shit like that, the readers understood it the first time, no need to keep saying the same thing just to make us remember it, just when I put my mind off it and get properly immersed into the story after becoming annoyed, the author does it again and annoys me once more, completely screwing up my enjoyment, I should really drop my rating to a 5 just because of that, but I won't out of respect for the rest of the story that I really liked.
So yeah, I freaking hate the childhood friend character and the author made a piss-poor decision in her, probably because a lot of japanese authors seems to love it when the female has the pants and abuses/tries to control the mc, so I guess that crap is just his preference(we know they're closet masochists, it's not really a huge secret since they show it off all the time). Because of all this, I will need to read a chinese novel or two to get this bad taste out of my mouth, I'm getting fed up with all these pussies they call main characters. It'd be great if people could stop using the mcs as pavements to walk all over and stomp on while they can't fight back.
This manga is totally worth a read, but you might want to skim through the chapters with all the drama concerning the childhood friend and ignore the mcs thoughts about only truly loving her that he kept up all the way through. Fuck, you don't go around having a harem if you can't even love the others in a romantic way, I get that one is a bit special amongst all of them, the so-called "main wife", but if it's a harem the mc needs to also properly love the others(before accepting them as lovers/wives), even if it's not to the same extent. We were made very aware of the fact that he only truly loved one of them even at the very end at the wedding.
Oh, and the ending itself was HORRIBLE. It's was a "happy" ending, but we still get to know that he only truly loves the childhood friend human. It felt as if the author got sick of the story or just got axed and hurried through it all. The last few chapters we all of a sudden, OUT OF FCKING NOWHERE, get to know that damn, all the goddesses needs to go back to heaven for a good long time(no hints WHATSOEVER throughout the entire manga, NONE, it's not even mentioned that she can't skip work or anything else, the author clearly just pulled it out of his ass). So, then the human childhood friend that the mc favors is left alone with him for perhaps a good few years and nothing really happens. We get time skip after time skip rapidly all the way to university with a lot of big life choices skimmed over in a sentence or two, we're left wondering what the heck is happening but we do know that the author is trying to show off the McXChildhoodFriend pairing. Then there's this weird out-of-the-blue re-confession and then the three goddesses just pop right out of thin air to intervene and he asks only the childhood friend to marry him and all of them answer yes, even though the author made it clear that he meant the childhood friend, and then we skip to his wedding which we get a few pages of and then they just sleep together again(the author kept zoning off all the other characters and really giving some serious spotlight to only the childhood friend even through it's a harem manga) and BOOM, manga over. It was a somewhat "happy" ending, but it was one of the worst I've seen. Pretty much a whole manga's worth of content was summarized in a few chapters. It also made me believe that the author regretted making a harem manga because all the other girls except for the childhood friend was treated like minor side characters at the end, they're there and their positions suggest that they're supposed to be as important as the childhood friend, but it's clear as day that they're not to the author who should never write a harem manga again because he suck at it even if he's good with comedy. Where can you find a screwed up harem manga that clearly aims for a multiple-wife scenario at the end yet everyone but one is just "liked a lot" and not "loved", even after he marries them? I feel really sorry for these girls, if you don't truly love them you should not marry them.
Oh, I am also sorely disappointed in the fact that he doesn't seem to become a god or something like that to keep his THREE goddess wives company later on, the worst thing that can happen in a romantic manga/novel/anime is when one die of old age and the wife/husband lives on. In Japan, there's millions of gods and that's also the setting of this manga. He even gained godly powers thrice, once he became a "temp" god instantly when entering heaven and twice did he become a god dealing with pervy stuff. It's clear as day that it's NOT impossible to become a god and two of his wives are clearly EXTREMELY high up while their father is the highest ranked god. It'd probably be simple to become a god and become a life form similar to the majority of his wives, but this possibility is NEVER mentioned and we don't get any hint that he might become one later. WHY? If you have THREE goddess wives to whom a human lifespan is but a short time, then you're fcking obligated to become a god if that's a possibility. Instead he chose to become some crappy priest to let them come and go whenever they want or something vague like that, probably because the author has hots for the childhoodfriendXmc relationship, humanXhuman. I wonder why he couldn't just let all of them turn into gods, it'd make more sense than this crappy ending.
Sigh, this was a long rant. If you read all of this, congratulations for managing, haha. I tend to get out of control when I am annoyed with something. Do remember that although I went into great detail about what I disliked or hated, I did find it enjoyable and a good read. I find that the negative parts are actually the parts you'd want to read the most when you look at reviews, because you want to see if the things the reviewers found negative is also something you personally can't stand and therefore decide on whether or not to read it. There's always plenty of people writing positive stuff, so I usually don't go into great detail about that.
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