I wanted to give this an honest opinion, so I read it all the way through before rating. And honestly it's actually pretty Damm good. Although I hate the fact that the author took 10 chapters to explain the MCs skills, but I guess this is just a free write with no outline. But the translation is fking awesome! It's so refreshing to have a translator that you can tell speaks English first. It's worth reading just because of that, I mean it's a kindle quality... more>> translation. <<less

Welcome to another overly generic isekai, featuring s*aves yet again.

Seriously, a couple chapters in, I actually needed to take a break just to make sure I didn’t already read this story somewhere else. But no, it’s just mindblowingly generic.

Another couple chapters later

I needed to take a 2nd break. This time because our MC turned from an apparently more or less sensible/relatable adult, into just another d*ck driven idiot willing to waste his entire fortune on a s*ave. With no foreseeable future income source on top. And don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mind scumbag MCs. But I want them to be consistent. Not this; “change their personality by 180° whenever the author wants to add a s*x scene, for comedic value, or whatever other random reason”.

But as I obviously have nothing better to do with my time, let’s continue reading for now

With all the criticizing I did so far, let’s say something positive.
It’s quite well written (talking about the Japanese WN, not the translation - I didn’t read the TL). The author keeps a good balance between narration and dialogues and keeps internal monologues to a minimum.
Characters, other than the MC, are fine as well. While they can’t get rid of the feeling that they are too convenient.

But to conclude

After reading the first volume, I say this is probably your average, decently written, isekai. Sadly enough, it just feels like it’s the same story I read 100 times already slightly rewritten, adding 0 creativity from the author’s side to make it any more interesting.
I personally don’t see any reason to read any further hereafter, nor can I recommend it to anyone who has had their fair dose of isekais already.
But well, can still give it a try, I guess.

Premise doesn't seem very interesting to me, but I popped in and read a few chapters since another review said the translation was good. I thought that maybe MSB had upped their quality.

Nope. Translation still sucks. Not in TinyTL levels, but still bad enough to break immersion. I don't know what that guy is talking about with "speaks English first" because I could do a better job in elementary.

I'm grateful people translate works from other cultures, and if choppy English is what we get then I'll read through it. I... more>> just don't want people the misunderstand that this is a "high quality" translation. MSB needs a few good editors to go through and clean up their translations. Especially ones with a good creative streak that have the ability to rewrite and change sentences that don't translate well.

Overall it was just an awkward read, lots of being unable to tell who's actually speaking because of their terrible practice of using brackets to denote speech and marking who says what since in the original language the characters have different verbal tics that tell them apart. <<less

It's just a solid, decent read. The characters and their interactions are well written, I didn't find anything I dislike in novels usually, and that's rare. Very good for a one chapter a day pace, although I'm not sure what speed the author uploads new chapters at.

If I had to point out one thing I didn't enjoy is that the illustration of one of the main characters doesn't match the image built by the words, but that can easily be overwritten by your own imagination.