Now, where do I start? The premise was interesting, thought it might be a good read.
But the protagonist is too weak and reliant, therefore it feels like it's going to drag along quite a bit, while none of the characters are likeable. The protagonist is okay-ish, but a far cry from being truly interesting. Example: Someone with less personal vibe, who gets the plot to run smoothly, like the MC of Solo Leveling, might not be super interesting, like the MC from Trash Count, but both of them give their own flavor to the story, because Solo Leveling is fast paced (not too fast or anything, but it never gets "stuck" anywhere), so you don't need extra flavor and while Trash Count doesn't necessarily get stuck either, it's a more long running story in its own right, which needs to be carried by more in-depth and interesting characters, especially with the MC being the core of the story, that one needs to be able to lift everything. In this one, the story is dragging on, but the protagonist is too bland to do any heavy lifting here.
Aditionally, most characters, in fact, all the characters in the Protagonists age bracket, except for his brothers (which do not show up often, as they aren't meant to be that important and aren't on friendly terms anyway) are female. One of which is an annoying bitch, another is bland as fuck, and the last one is a walking participation award and a pain in the ass on top of it. You can probably guess which one is which, but even if you can't, I'll leave it up to your imagination. I don't want to waste any braincells on trying to go into the make ups of their characters in order to tell you how creatively brankrupt these solely-for-fanservice characters are.
I guess, after chapter 20 or even along the lines of chapter 20, which I haven't yet read, unless you count the first three panels or so, he will finally attend this stupid academy. But realistically, even if he does find some people I don't hate there, I already know three out of four people he will meet and remember in this academy arc will be females for his harem.
To top it off, call me superficial, but this is a story about a guy with cheat knowledge, who's OP anyway. I'm all for the MC having something holding him back or people who are stronger than him, but this isn't about that. Everything he does just seems so... badly executed. He always gets in trouble, making not even greatly strong beasts seem way overpowered. And everytime he encountered a bigger opponent, he needed one of his waifus to save him. And yet, they still didn't give off the vibe of being useful, it simply seemed like the MC, who was supposed to have insight, was so unrepared, he had to rely on someone saving his ass in order to not fail. The narrative is trying to make the waifus seem dependable or useful, while still keeping their "Damsel in Distress" vibe active. Neither of these attempts work for me. Instead, all they do is put shade on the MC's capability.
Thanks for your comment i was going to read it, but now I saved time
No read it, it gets better trust me. I thought the same thing when I was first reading it then dropped it for over a year, now I came back and I just decided to ignore the plot hole in chapter 26 ish and later it got fixed and was so much better
I must say, I admire your tenacity.
No, dear, he's not. Also, he doesn't look like a psychopath "right now", he IS a psychopath, so he always looks like one, because his face is that of a psychopath, no matter what he looks like in the moment.
I love Ilay, but we gotta keep it real.
Kei acts the way I did when I was too vain to wear glasses on certain occasions and didn't have contacts yet. FYI I'm super blind without glasses.
Well, the author does exaggerate if that's what they are going for, but as I see it, it would make sense.
I mean, I could foresee every plot twist by chapter 5 or so, it's just too cliché and constantly wants to have its cake and eat it too. It's anything but smartly written, but at least it could entertain a bit, minus a few setbacks that counteracted some of the few things I originally felt were done well compared to others.
But now we are here. They now got divorced, but the emperor literally telling the dude to get a divorce and beat her to the punch just tool even that last bit apart completely. There's situations in which feelings simply don't matter, they are irrelevant, and big political coups are usually one of those. By roping their divorce into a plot planned by the emperor, all the things that came before and the act of the divorce itself feels meaningless now, like some unimportant thing that happened before. I wished authors would stop roping the original bad relationship into some other shit. I never liked it in other stories either. Because handing someone their own ass properly just fails to have meaning when their misbehaviour wasn't actually because of their stupidity or ignorance, but because it just didn't matter, since there was some big plan behind it that was bigger than just a partner being unfaithful.
Judging him for being unfaithful feels like persecuting a serial killer and judging him for the things he steals from his victims as mementos.
I just read somewhere that this has been dropped, but it was on a German Site, which makes sense, because a Publishing House had acquired the license for this Webtoon for it to (originally) be published earlier this year, but fumbled the ball somehow and had to renounce the publishing. I don't know why it happened, though. Now I'm wondering if it was dropped for real and that happened around the time Season 2 ended.