Living a Maiden Game in Hard Mode

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The Galactic Prince is a maiden game released in 2038.

The heroine falls in love with various characters in the universe 1,700 years in the future.

A boy in the far future who had such a dream gradually believes it is connected to reality.

If this was the standard version with the flower garden development, he would have laughed it off.

However, the progress seems to follow the ported hard mode version, with an interstellar war about to break out.

Aware of the imminent destruction of the capital planet, he joined the military academy in order to get onboard the space fortress.

Associated Names
One entry per line
I Live in the Hard Mode of an Otome Game
Otome Game no Hard Mode de Ikite Imasu
乙女ゲームのハードモードで生きています
Related Series
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Recommendations
The World of Otome Games is Tough For Mobs (2)
Little Tyrant Doesn’t Want to Meet with a Bad End (2)
Akuyaku Reijo Ni Koi Wo Shite (1)
I’ve Been Reincarnated as a Villainess’ Older Brother (1)
The Strongest Interstellar Commander (1)
Unparalleled Path ~ Reincarnated as the AI for a Space Battleship ~ (1)
Recommendation Lists
  1. Mecha,Space,Sci-fi,fantasy webnovels
  2. Rmnce (JP)
  3. My List LN/WN Otome Game (Male Protagonist)
  4. Harem Novels I have read
  5. Follow list

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05/15/23 Sads Translates… c127
05/08/23 Sads Translates… c126
05/01/23 Sads Translates… c125
04/24/23 Sads Translates… c124
04/19/23 Sads Translates… c123
04/17/23 Sads Translates… c122
04/10/23 Sads Translates… c121
04/03/23 Sads Translates… c120
03/27/23 Sads Translates… c119
03/20/23 Sads Translates… c118
03/16/23 Sads Translates… c117
03/13/23 Sads Translates… c116
03/06/23 Sads Translates… c115
02/27/23 Sads Translates… c114
02/20/23 Sads Translates… ss
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Rasselon
Rasselon rated it
September 20, 2021
Status: c5
This is convoluted mess.

I am a big fan of this genre, and I could tolerate some bad things, but this... is just abysmal.

There are no characters, only one exposition dump after another. There are no narrative, only quick notes "that happened and after a year this and after another year this; by the way let me tell you about how starship engine works". Instead of presenting a story author chaotically jumps from one fact to another. It is not worldbuilding, it's just a collection of ideas, not presented properly, but... more>> written as is.

I am rooting for the author to practice, work on his style more, and I hope his next novel will be much better. For now, it's not worth reading. <<less
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Jade.zero
Jade.zero rated it
May 16, 2021
Status: c8
Not bad. The setting is really cool, and the dialogue is good. What I don’t like though is that the story progresses really fast. 8 chapters in and nearly 2 years have passed. A lot of things happen, but it’s all generally just summarized by the author. You also don’t get a lot of time to develop affection for characters as we cut in and out of the story a lot between time skips. A good amount of the chapters are info dumps as well. MC is pretty badass though... more>> so that’s a plus. What this novel feels like is more of like a wiki page with excerpts from the story in it lol. Anyway, 4 stars from me cuz I’m a sucker for Sci-Fi and cool MCs PLUS harem oh god I love harem (I’m a degenerate sorry). <<less
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Gladiator02
Gladiator02 rated it
August 16, 2021
Status: c34
How I like to describe this story is the intro texts of Star Wars. Or a wiki page of a video game. There's no real character development and always world building. Seriously though by saying no character development it's not even an exaggeration. Because so far about the Mc's personality, I only know:

1. He's smart and a good strategist

2. He likes maids with cat ears (nice)

That's really it. I know nothing about how he reincarnated, what kind of life he's been through until the story starts, both worlds included.... more>> The girls too all I know is their family backgrounds (politics) their appearance and they like MC.

There's also one thing really important. The otome (gal game) setting of this world is nothing but an advertis**ent. There's %1 romance in this. And in a world with a main plot about romance everyone is having political marriages. Everyone's after MC for his high stats and nobody cares about romance at all.

Another thing is wasted parts of world building. It's sci-fi with magic. But in 34 chapters I read noboy did a single magical thing except operating a spaceship with it. And Mc's recognized potential him having huge magical power benefits him nothing more than operating a larger ship. There are spirits too, they can spy on the enemy and detect enemies. That's all they can do.

In all honesty, this novel is something I hoped to be good. I don't like writing negative reviews but this is my honest impression. It's all world building and politics with too little character interactions.

One thing I would like to add is author expects too much from us. The info load is way too high, it gets confusing most of the time. We have to have some base information and be really invested to understand that much. <<less
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TheOneEye
TheOneEye rated it
November 22, 2021
Status: --
Oh boy this summary bamboozled me for big time of 2days and one sleepless night. You might think this type where MC knows he in game world and he takes advantage of his game knowledge but no the game element only remains for first 10 chapters and MC did used his game knowledge to make himself powerful but that choice made the game in hard mode route and boy do we ever learn, MC future choices up to ch 30 are worst of worst more on that later. So otome... more>> game world setting is just a bait to lure innocent reader like me. After 10 chapters it’s just wars, strategies, political sh*t and what not ohh and boy do the author destroy the otome game female protagonist of game died in 3or 4 chapter, villainess died in first chapter (lol), capture targets? f*ck them they aren’t even honrable mention (like seriously they all died when planet blast lol), but wait author doesn’t makes us forget that this is at the end of day an otome game so he (mc) gives us bad end routes of what heroine in game but cause heroine died in early chapter make potential love interest follow the route.

Charcter: sh*t absolutely sh*t MC makes moronic choices due which sh*t ton of people goes through fate worse then death, lovable character are the one who MC throws under bus, not a single likeable charcter (MC is a douche not dumb)

World: surprise surprise!!! There is very intense world building so much intense that you don’t understand a single f*ck what is the world actually yeah folks info dump of the world is written like Shakespeare but only understood by Elon Musk yeah.... sh*t is confusing.. it’s like Britain’s trying to understand how Trump won election... it’s that much confusing... so yeah world build is intense cause I’m dumb.

1 star for translator to actually translate this mess of novel without quitting it (cause I would) oh and someone remove harem tag they are gonna die anyways so what’s the point. Tragedy 10/10 btw <<less
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dionrizqi
dionrizqi rated it
March 31, 2021
Status: --
The explanation of setting is really a mess. I hardly know everything in early chapter, author really pour everything and make it a jumble mess and I find myself skipping a lot. I like the setting and premis tho, but the author seems struggling with explanation. The naration can't flow and you don't wanna read all of it.

Miscl**ked the rating, I will give it 2.5/5 because the setting and premise somewhat interesting. I like the heroine too, as she is blew up my expectations (in a good way) of her.
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whitenight2013
whitenight2013 rated it
March 31, 2022
Status: c72
The thing to know going in is that this is not an otome game novel. I think a big problem a lot of people have going in is that they assume it will be and are disappointed when there is little romance or character interactions overall. It is a shame because the character interactions that are there are genuinely funny. The way one king dealt with his lazy NEET daughter is the hardest I've laughed in a long time. But sadly those moments are few and far between. This is... more>> mostly a space war story and deals mostly with the strategy side of things, so rather than reading about one ship weaving through enemy gunfire, it is more talks of flanking and intrigue. Still fun, but a lot of that military talk gets jumbled together and becomes confusing. Plus with the limited character interactions, it really feels like some major characters are just forgotten about for 20 chapters. <<less
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twdavis78
twdavis78 rated it
May 31, 2021
Status: c24
This is a very frustrating web novel. The author has created an intriguing well structured world with very well thought out background conflicts. Unfortunately, what is presented is more or less a detailed story outline of a novel series in tell mode which does not allow the reader to become truly immersed in the story. Many events that happen are summarized in a few short sentences when they should be at least a chapter or as much as a complete novel (ie. How the protagonist awakened in the otome game... more>> and gained his high magic power ratings). This nullifies the possibility of interesting character growth and story immersion. This story could have been amazing like Otome games are tough for mobs but unfortunately the author's choice in story telling sinks the material. Reading this an exercise in academic curiosity on what not to do when writing. Worth noting - the translators are top shelf. The issues here are with the source material. <<less
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MrCents_04
MrCents_04 rated it
April 13, 2022
Status: --
I hate to say this, but the story is full of unnecessary outline. It is lacking of proper conversation, and unlike other light novels, this should be categorized as a novel. Too much nonverbal explanation.

Honestly, it is an eyesore or more nice to say is, I cannot stand to read a single line.

The character is good, but the heroines have only a 5 to 6 dialogues. Which is why, I lost interest to continue.

I feel betrayed by the people who rated it to 4 or 5. This is far beyond... more>> saving.

Well, it might be better to be adapted in manga. From there, we can easily imagine or see what the author wants to convey. <<less
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ErikHarrison
ErikHarrison rated it
April 10, 2022
Status: c16
"Reading a Maiden Novel in Hard Mode"

Author writes 60% worldbuilding, 30% military and politics and 10% otome and romance. Entire chapters of just thick numbers and concepts that dont matter in the slightest. Long paragraphs on marriage contracts and military history.

The main heroine has less than 10 lines of dialogue with MC before he confesses. The author basically states there are no other options so she agrees. You can't really "like" any of the fMCs since they just dont have any dialogue, MC is also boring.

I gave up trying to... more>> find the fluff and romance in between this guys lengthy explanations. Show, don't tell dude. <<less
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Pray Alpha
Pray Alpha
March 17, 2021
Status: --
The story is quite interesting It's essentially a space drama cladded in an otome game, noble politics and war.

But the first two chapter is quite a massive infodump that probably makes a casual reader to turn away from this. Even I have some issue on some of the current story.

Aside from that, after you have the general idea of the story and the picture of plot, you can see the efforts that the author try to make by differentiate and build his world from other isekai troupe.

Translation is solid, no... more>> complaining about that.

The bane of this novel is the infodump. <<less
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boomstick3000
boomstick3000
February 8, 2021
Status: --
The setting of the Otome game is really unique and interesting: a space opera where people have magic powers. Mob MC uses his future knowledge to his advantage get increase his magic and economic power. As for the story itself, it is actually pretty good, but the way it is presented seems lacking (the translation is fine). There is a lot of long expositions on history of the universe and it lacks the "show, not tell" ability of better writers. This leads the story to be dry.

edit: It's more... more>> than dry. It's more like an outline of a story and reads like a history book. Not really recommended. <<less
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[email protected] rated it
August 27, 2021
Status: c10
If I had to describe this novel in short words its welm. Its overly underwhelming.

I'll give you an example they were talking about magic number and how to determine it. It was a whole formula based on a certain threshold, it was so complicated to just say the MC magic power is greater than normal...

The romance or lack there of just happens. I've seen p*rn with more developments. The girls want him for his magic I think...
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l2aYz
l2aYz rated it
July 3, 2021
Status: --
The author spends too much effort on world-building meanwhile the main story is very stale. Yeash, it's pretty good but noting feel unique. It just a patch-up work of many fantasy + otomege. MC just uses knowledge from the game to make himself cheat mode. But the story pretty much sums up the things he does. So, I don't really see MC effort.
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ScientificMethod
ScientificMethod rated it
September 8, 2022
Status: --
Kind of fun. But there are SO MANY plot holes and it reads like a plot summary more than a novel. There are some good ideas but this needs to pass through an editor & a few revisions.

Grab a strong drink, turn off your mind, then enjoy.
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Renovartio
Renovartio rated it
April 16, 2022
Status: --
OK I've got multiple issues.

Spoiler

First of all:

dropped a meteorite on earth

Abolished the Christian calender

That alone makes me hope Earth makes a comeback and wipes them all out.

Second: it doesn't even make sense, the story contradicts itself.

It says Earth sent out multiple colonies and is somehow enslaving these colonies. First of all, there's no such thing as semi s*aves. Second, how were you able to make your own military while being "ens*aved?" I call bs. Furthermore, how can EARTH send out colonies if EARTH does not have a centralized government? It actually says its made up of nation states/ federations still, if that's the case, then it would have been the nation states sending out colonies, not the entire planet. And if that's the case, you commited genocide against the entire planet of innocent people. Also, again, if you're being oppressed, how were you able to create a military of that size? The colonizing force would have some kind of military presence, so why didn't they wipe you out after finding out you bombed Earth?

Then I find out that The Diet set off from the beginning to commit genocide. Man I hope Earth kills all of you. The only reason I would read this novel is in the hopes that all the characters receive a brutal and well deserved death.

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This story is a convoluted mess but not because of its info dump paragraphs, but because of how poorly written it is.

Anyone claiming that you need to reread it or that it's complicated must not have graduated middle school yet. It's not deep, it isn't hard to understand, it's just poorly written.
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derris
derris rated it
February 22, 2022
Status: c39
Novel is pretty good, but I tend to have to pause and collect my thoughts to remember or recall information. This is my first sci-fi light novel so there are a lot to remember such as the types of ships, how ships function, star systems and planet names, and etc. It is pretty interesting so far, but I wish there would be more dialogue between MC and female cast as a lot of it is mainly world building. This can be mistaken for a reincarnation or isekai due to title,... more>> but the MC has knowledge because he played an otome game he found from Earth which pretty much contained all the knowledge. <<less
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Snowman256
Snowman256 rated it
January 9, 2022
Status: c13
The world is quite fleshed out, the plot moves quickly, the chapters are long, and the translation quality is good. I really like the novel's potential, but I have to caution that this novel is not a light read. Essentially, the MC is a soldier of the Empire, like in Star Wars, and the novel is about how the Empire absolutely tr*shes the Rebellion because why would an upstart rebellion actually ever overthrow an non-overconfident empire in their home ground.

  • The world isn't particularly complex - its your standard isekai, except with some military and space elements, but the author overcomplicates everything by putting numbers on everything and expecting that you'll remember the numbers five very long chapters later. The author also creates huge tables and maps of all the world's logistics and divisions, and there are dozens of proper nouns and names flying everywhere without much introduction or a reason why we should care. Naming is also inconsistent, with The Coalition of Humans sometimes being called Group B for no apparent reason.
  • The characters are also weirdly underdeveloped. The MC's fiance is just described as a conniving prude who's after his genes and won't allow him to even go on dates with her (yes, and he consented to this relationship). The MC's lover is just described as a nice girl, and we basically learn nothing more about her - she barely affects the plot or participates in battles. We don't even know much about the MC - he cuts off his family like it's nothing as soon as he gets some money and status, and his goals are pretty unclear.
  • Many important plot points are completely overlooked. The basis of the novel is that the MC received a prophetic dream that the world is a game, and that he used his plot knowledge to steal mana from all the students. There was no mention on why he knew how to do this, and even though very powerful people knew he was the culprit there were no ramifications? The original game heroine was supposed to have a big reveal that she's a hidden princess in her third year, with big fanfare and media coverage, but instead it's just a random event that the author threw in so the MC could meet an overbearing father?
  • Some battles are simulated, run with combat android simulations, while others are with the people themselves. It's really hard to tell one from the other, so sometimes people (i.e. Their android) die/get an R18 ending and then appear the next chapter completely fine.
Overall, I like the authors dedication, but I can't find much reason to care for the characters or the world.
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Harto
Harto rated it
September 11, 2021
Status: c40
This is not a light novel.

If you come in expecting some soft light hearted fluffy story with a dense protagonist like any other light novel, you will get the surprise of your life. For those without experiences with sci-fi media, this may not be the novel for you as the author chose not to clarify anything about general sci fi terms.

To aspiring readers who are still reading this paragraph after the first one, my advice to you is to read the paragraphs slowly. You will miss out on details, and... more>> you will get confused the longer the story progresses. Give in to it and continue reading till you hit the ending of the first arc at chapter 38. After that, reread the novel and you will get a clearer picture and a general understanding of what’s happening.

All in all, a pretty good read. 3.8/5. The universe is interesting, the technology borderlines on it being fantasy and the protagonist is the usual OP Gary Stu with precog understanding of what’s to come. There is not much romance and the girls do seem like one dimensional cardboard cutouts with not much growth. What really got me into the story was the political drama behind the scenes and the outcome at the end of it. There is not many like this out there especially in the JP light novel scene. <<less
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perryvitcon
perryvitcon rated it
July 21, 2021
Status: c33
It's the Otome game mod for Stellaris, what's not to love! Yes, the way it's presented is dry, but that's the charm of a rough gem. I can tell that this work have a lot of heart from all the silly ways the author has used to build the world.
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Hibiki
Hibiki
March 16, 2021
Status: --
The Story itself is quite interesting, But.. The way it being told is like quite lacking and sometimes confusing.

Author is using 3rd POV most of the time and rarely using the Character POV.

The Translation is Good and Smooth, rarely have a typo.

Overall, its good
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