This story is a children's story, and should be treated that way. If you are rating this as a story for adults, you should rethink that.

It's currently a sweet slow life story about getting pets in a fantasy world.

agree with blackrabbit, started to mtl the wn, and the author does a good job setting up things for down the road, but seems to want interject some convienances and the MC doesnt seem to age much the entire time while the author seems to write that the older orphans age quicker... puzzling, can kinda see where the author is trying to go but again wether its manga or ln time off for those, even with some regular? updates, overall the story as the MC not aging which is a... more>> bother like alot of slowlife writers, its fine to start the MC at an early age, but the transtion if planned to semi or adult writing for the MC usally stops with writers, slowlifes while wanting to pack in alot of details and explainations is good, but no MC age progress after this long is troubling... its still an interesting story even mtled but dont expect a group to finish this, still would recommend it just understand it similar to alot of popular slowlife writers and it paid off? at least since there is a manga adapt and ln? <<less

This is a frustrating novel. It has hints of an interesting plot and characters with some individually well-written bits, but simply does not come together to form a coherent whole in any reasonable timeframe. The pacing is G l a c I a l, with a lot of repetitive events and chapters where nothing much happens. At least 60% of it feels like it could have been cut without really affecting the story at all. A handful of the characters get some personality and development, but far too many... more>> of them are little more than cardboard cut-outs. The more-or-less female lead doesn't even get a name, instead being constantly referred to as the protagonist's little sister. The plot seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the way, with a setup for a potential conflict dropped into the story a few times with all the subtlety of a brick and then completely forgotten about for dozens of chapters and counting. It's managed to get less actual story into one hundred chapters than some novels get into one.

It's disappointing, because I wanted to like this. But I just can't. It's just so very, very dull. <<less

I really wanted to like this. I tried my hardest.

It's just too dull. The things that happen are not really an issue, it's just the details are often lacking. It definitely reads like a "first draft", like the author just summarized certain parts with a plan to go back and flesh them out later. Honestly, even if the author did that, it would probably still be an average 3 star. There's a lack of agency on the part of the characters.

For instance, the characters have been extremely active for a... more>> lot of chapters, but there's been no changes of any kind due to that. You'd think that a bunch of kids running around doing adventurer stuff successfully and taming a ton of monsters and doing a lot of (good) crafting/cooking would lead to some reaction of any kind to the adults around them...

Plus, the main character just does too much and doesn't get enough credit for it. We also don't get enough mofu mofu or cute girls doing cute things, but we don't get much "wow, how did you do that?" despite the kid having easily over a hundred tamed monsters of various types, being able to use lots of magic, having lots of knowledge you wouldn't expect from a 5 year old, etc. There's just never a payoff of any kind that makes me feel like "oh, he accomplished something". I don't like stories where protagonists get praised for simple things, but it's weird how casually everyone accepts the protagonist's actions. <<less

Average isekai slow life..

There really isn't much happening in the story.

I can't say that there is much character development as there is not much progress due to MC being a very busy 6 year old child..

Chapter 1 to 290 is from 0 year old to around 6~7 years old, although the MC has a lot more freedom when he turned around 5, he is just doing a lot of stuff from carpentry, blacksmithing & alchemy he just keeps on doing a lot of stuffs that a child his age could... more>> be considered abnormal yet since this is an isekai it is perfectly normal due to the existence of STATS, so if you think about it normally you will lose it.

There isn't really any goal other than improving his lifestyle in the orphanage & getting ready to become an adventurer.

And for the love of.. I just can't find the name of his little sister & it's bugging me the whole time.. And a lot of other names are also like that, Ojii-chan, obaa-chan, director, land lord's son, Bear peddler, merchant group, adventurer group, gatekeeper, in his familiars only until Queen have proper name then the rest are named after their race..

Fun start but became a little bit boring when story keeps on dragging, maybe the novel will finish when he finally becomes 15 when he can register as an adventurer.. <<less