later on the thing I looked forward to most, evolution, ended up being skipped over since the author seems sick of his own novel and wants to rush it to the point that he does want to write. MC picks a random evolution at his 6th evolution and doesn't tell us which of the 3 he picked and then time skips through a couple more evolutions before finally getting his final evolution from the dungeon which we do see but there is no choice in that one.

Basically, it was often unknown who was speaking. It was like this:

[speech] [line of narration]

[speech]

Now, the issue is that at least sometimes first speech was done by person A, line of narration described the reaction of person B, and the second speech was still made by person A. Really confusing as hell. I don't know if it was like this in the original language, but if it was, the least the translator can do is move his f*cking ass and put the speech together or something so that we know who's saying what. Unless even the translator has no clue.

His former self seems to be eroded quickly, and he assumes a monster persona of sorts, but this persona is pretty boring, and before it develops into something, it turns out he seems to be a merger of two people (one from earth, one from the other world, but it feels like Toika is just teasing the readers, and he's been one and single individual from the other world from the start), with the second one being some powerful dude, but he has no memories of it. The issue is that even if he slowly regains those memories, his character growth is close to zero. There's simply no compelling reason to care about him. His motivations, for one, are very simple and I don't feel any resolve or desperation in him as he tries to fulfill his goals. It's just like he's merely randomly growing stronger because.

The only one that is close to MC and vice versa is L, but she like others is very poorly characterized. She seems to be the lover of the past version of the protagonist, but their interactions are really poorly written and it doesn't feel much like it. At most it feels like they are in a relationship that is in a slump, and they're on the verge of breaking up, which MC does not know what to do with, and the woman is trying to fix the relationship as if against her better judgment, forcing herself to do so.

As for others, they don't really deserve individual paragraphs. The second most prominent harem member is an elf, but she is both shallow as a character and has a very weak relationship with the protagonist (especially from his side). As for others, another person like L who calls herself L's sister just appeared before I stopped reading, and while it's too early for me to judge her, the first impression was pretty weak and superficial (somewhat similar to Helena (was it? the succubus) from EEIR where she had a weak first appearance and felt forced compared to other heroines). Next, there is one human girl whom MC has once spared/saved in his early days and who has barely any presence and characterization, and there is mc's sister (I somehow feel she might become part of the harem, esp since it's implied that they are not blood-related), and she is more or less similar to the elf in terms of characterization.

For example, the first boss fight against the goblin king had absolutely zero tension. He got a ring from the shopkeeper that allowed him to reflect the goblin king's most powerful attack, his ebony heart defended him from a mind control attack, and any other attacks do virtually nothing against the main character. The whole fight was a waste of time.