Zihvuda's manga / #school life(17)

It would be alright, but it has a slow start and A LOT of exposition. Any time anything is brought up, a long ass stream of narration and exposition comes in. It slows the pace of the story down to a crawl and you get several chapters where things that should be a bit quicker to happen, take forever. The story is about a kid who moves from the countryside to follow his girlfriend into an adventurer's academy. Rumors wreck his relationship with his girlfriend, and because his abilities stagnate, he's bullied and shunned by the student populace. MC finds a samurai lady to train him in the extremely dangerous nearby forest. The training seems to be only marginally helpful, and then he defeats a dragon and gains better abilities. I dropped this after that cause it took forever, and I ended up being bored. Also some other factors, but I wont spoil them here. The art is good, and the translation (no idea about the accuracy) is good legibility wise. No word salad, so you wont be stuck trying to decrypt every sentence. Also no useless gratuitous fanservice for our underaged characters. Well, so far anyway. Also it doesn't seem to be a harem either, which is good for those who dislike that sort of thing.

I wont bother with giving my own summery, it would be difficult. This story made me feel a lot of conflicting emotions. And a lot of second hand embarrassment, to the point I'd frequently have to do something else. Also a lot of wtf-moments or what-the-fuck-ery. It's definitely interesting, and if you're already familiar with this author's other stuff, then you'll likely have a blast. Personally it was a bit too wild of a story for me to really get emotionally invested in, so when real sad and dramatic moments happened I was aware of them, but not really affected. It's kind of the same as when I tried reading Gintama, except that Gintama was far more frustrating than this. This was a fun read in a way, and it seems to have really worked for a lot of people. I managed to finish the story and I do like how it turned out and I don't regret giving it my time. It's a shame, cause I do absolutely love "How to Fight"/"Viral Hit" whatever the title is these days, but this author's other works just don't work for me at all. The story is ok, if you like manager kim or lookism, you should probably like this too. There's references here and there to the other in-universe stories by this author. Oh, um.. the translation ranges from ok to "I wish these were translated by someone else". For some reason this author's works attract translation teams who may be great with korean but barely able to string two sentences together in english. It's definitely not word-salad level of bad when it gets bad, but not what I'd term good either. The art as always is brilliant! Never got any complaints about the art.

A high schooler dies after bullies force him to play games for a weeks straight in order to mine for rare items (Thanks for the predatory gambling games industry!). He gets sent back to a week before his death, but with a game system window that slowly lets him unlock skills but also gives him quests he doesn't initially want to do. The system inflicts terrible punishment if he abandons or tries to refuse a quest, so he's pretty much forced into it, and life doesn't seem that much better at first, just different. It gets better though. I like the story, but at the same time it has a lot of flaws. It's a fun read so I recommend it for that alone, but if you like to think about the stuff you consume, even a little, you'll start to maybe enjoy this a little less. There's some weird stuff that isn't explained, the girls are kinda drawn weird, and it seems this is borderline harem as there's quite a few girls interested in MC. The villains are all one note, and while entertaining the fights scene progression reaches superhuman levels without anyone actually being superhuman. Except for MC that is. The bully council bothers me. We don't find out why it's a thing, and MC just... stays in it, even though he hates bullies? And so far he only fights bullies (plus a few adult criminals), but I still don't understand why he stays cause he's still ostensibly part of the system. There's some interesting mystery regarding the death of MC's father as well as the identity of the system administrator. The art is pretty good, though yeah, the girls are a bit weird... like they've been stretched to make their ass and thighs thicker, but still having a thigh gap somehow. It's very weird. Most of the guys don't look like the high schoolers they supposedly are either. The translation seems to be ok, the english is above average for this site. Which is to say it's good. All in all I do recommend giving this a go and seeing what you think for yourself- Even though the mc is a victim of bullying fighting bullies, there isn't any sort of revenge aspect to it at all. It's all just self defence for the most part. Well except for when there's attempted sexual assault on a female character close to MC that is.

Eh... I want to like this, I do, but the beginning was kind of rushed... hell everything seems kind of rushed, so the character development and growth doesn't hit like it should. Emotional beats are also weak because of this. The art is good and pleasing, but also bad in that everyone looks the same age. There's children - teens - and middle aged men. All women look like they could be any age and are just there for fan service. You got the shy one with self esteem issues, and then you got the wild one who's confident, but also a massive tsundere. Girl's aren't super skinny, which is something I've not seen before in a shounen manga, but yeah, they have no character. To be fair the boys don't seem to have much character either. Anyway, getting back to the art, the teachers look like they're all teens. There's no difference between a dude in his 20s and high school kids. They are all as tall, all as developed, all with the same face. In conclusion: I didn't like it, and I don't particularly recommend it to anyone else. Unless you liked demon slayer! If you liked demon slayer, this should be right up your alley!

The art is average, and it's very shounen but also isekai. I like the story, but I'm giving it a low rating because of the creepiness that is the author choosing to focus on a bunch of high schoolers mooning over Mc who is a full adult (even if he's in the body of a teen). It's weird. MC is a writer, but discontinued his story cause he hit writer's block. He then get's swept away into his own novel? Webtoon? one day as an extra and basically has to live in the novel and try to find his way back home. The game system within the novel gives him pretty op abilities, but also kind of forces him to involve himself as much as possible with the main characters and plot of his original story. As I said, the setting and characters are pretty enjoyable despite some faults. Like for example the pro heroes being portrayed as rather useless and bad at their jobs for the most part except for like... 1 exception. Also one of the girls more than others (though all of them are interested one way or another in mc, it's a very weird not harem that still feels like a harem) keeps misunderstanding things and develops a crush as she believes that mc could have feelings for her. I don't like that, it's uncomfortable especially cause it's focused on so much. Other members of the main cast, like the dude that's supposed to turn villain later just disappears from the story for aaaages, and barely shown to be the threat we are told he is. Also MC gets his own lolita girl to play daddy to, which isn't bad in itself, but he basically killed and now is raising her to use her, so she's basically his slave, and I don't like it much. The readers haven't been given a reason as to why he'd need her, but yeah... there she is. Anyway, I do recommend the story for the general plot and serviceable to good translation, but it's got some elements that are annoying/squick inducing. Fanservice isn't a thing in this, so if that's what you're looking for, this isn't the place to find it.

Apparently, according to this webtoon, grad students in korea get turned into slaves by their professors and aren't allowed food or rest. >_> Yeah... ok. This is the story of a poor grad student who just managed to graduate and immediate gets run over and reincarnates into a fantasy world. He grows up and attends a magic academy. He's OP, but not in a fun way. He's just naturally really talented, mature cause he already had the mentality of an adult and good at everything because of him being used to things thanks to being a grad student. Except that's bullshit. He's spent at least 16 years growing up in this world and not doing grad student things. He may have recollections, but because he wasn't actively practicing those things his skills and instincts will have deteriorated during those 16 years. Or however old he's supposed to be when he enters the academy. We're never told what he's a graduate student of, so that further muddies the waters. He barely struggles before getting the hang of things and it gets less and less fun to follow. He's also pretty bland. Merely "nice" and driven to get himself a career. But there's barely much else to him. The rest of the character's aren't that much better either. At the beginning he's supposed to struggle more than the average student because of a certain attribute he has, but it literally causes no issues for him. He's still the top of the class and learning things faster and better than others. I usually like OP protags, but because this is basically slice of life it makes it much less compelling and after a while it gets boring. The art is alright, though there is a bit too much reliance on exposition narration rather than showing things with art. The translation is alright, but as said the art could be used show more rather than leaning so much on exposition. It's middle of the road, and therefore in the end, quite boring.