I really liked it at first. But 70 chapters in, it becomes kinda meh.

I will try not to give much spoilers and details. But the author really wants to make the MC look like a heroic, self-sacrificing soldier. That is fine and all as I liked it in the beginning. But 70 chapters in, it is still the same thing over and over. I know this is a story about soldiers, but it is way over the top. Every character looks up REALLY favorably and highly to MC and his... more>> fellow soldiers. It made me feel like the author is overdoing it at this point. How much is it overdone? It is to the point that

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all the nobles, the emperor, and the emperor's kids try to make him look good and honorable

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One last thing I gotta complain about is the medal of honor. This one

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For a medal that was supposed to be so hard to get that less than a hundred people got it since the founding of the empire. Why would he get it for simply saving a train from being hijacked?

I know that because of his actions, he was able to save nobles from other countries and was able to prevent a coup or something like that. But it will make you think. If it is this simple to get a medal, then surely. Other people should have gotten them as well.

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Author is overdoing it and make it feels repetitive. <<less

Premise of this is, some time ago MC was a freshman at the academy and fell in love with FL. He eventually tried to approach her but it didn't go well. MC, humiliated and emo, did the melodramatic thing and took a leave of absence to enroll in the army. I guess he was thinking it would be a short stint to get away and have something to take his mind off it, right? Well, no, like a week later war is declared vs the elves, and guess who's assigned... more>> to the front.

Story actually begins after the war ends and MC is able to return to the academy (still a freshman), the horrors of war still on his mind. He wants to quietly re-integrate but things keep happening to pull him back into the fray & limelight. FL has mixed feelings about her role in all this, things make their relationship more complicated, military want to give him a special medal for accomplishments, extremist elven insurgents don't think the war is over, most of the people MC knew are about to graduate now, etc etc.

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Good read IMO, but this isn't going to be for everybody. Some action, some romance with a FL and later a couple other characters who want to polish his medals, but so far most of the actual story events seem to move around post-war recovery. In more ways than one. There's a lot of focus on remembering and honoring veterans, fallen soldiers and sacrifices. Less actual trauma going on than I thought there would be, though, given it basically having been fantasy Vietnam.

I don't really see any overarching grand plot in mind so far, it follows event to event of MC's life right after he returns from the war and how he keeps getting involved in aftermath. Dude has the devil's luck, it's ridiculous at points, so he gets more decorated and honored over time. Why he's being put on a pedestal isn't initially obvious, MC is unreliable and underplays himself a lot (and for one part legit didn't know he had accomplished something big) but details get revealed as the plot goes on. Oh, and you can 100% ignore the reincarnator aspect. There's no purpose to it that I could notice, the only role it played is to introduce a few characters as being relevant to the world.

Solid translation quality, no recurring problems I noticed. Few weird sentences, but overall it's one of the better ones out there compared to most of what you see lately. <<less

Honestly, this seems like a series with potential considering the above average translation and plot. The 2 drawback would be the lack of details concerning people or surroundings in the writing but that seems to be common in this type of literature. Secondly, the fact that I don't know the translation site all that well meaning I don't trust that they won't just drop the novel and dip one day. Other than those concerns, the characters and the settings seem alive to an extent. That is all from me

It has a unique writing style that really prevented immersion for me. It's basically a bunch of conversations and inner thoughts with next to no description or narration of anything else.

The conversations and thoughts aren't particularly witty or interesting either.

Seems to have a fairly good grasp on a returning soldier's mindset but I just can't get past the writing style and lack of plot.

I'd say give it a try to see if it works for you though because I think stylistic things are very personal when they work or not.