TL;DR: This novel is readable, but I can't say it's worth your time. If you don't care about reading something at the peak of mediocrity (like me, lmao), then go ahead and pick it up. If you don't, you're not missing out on anything.

Often in a story like this, I judge how well the characters are written by imagining them dead (a bit morbid, but bear with me). However, when I imagine protag-kun suddenly being removed from the story, I can't think of a single detriment it'd have towards the... more>> world. Would they miss out on someone capable of bringing society to a greater height? Would the people who knew him become sad when they learn his life got cut short? Or would someone even scoff, saying that "it serves them right" out of contempt? No matter how you frame it, I can't imagine a situation where anyone other than his family would care that much. Even his relationships with the girls are pretty superficial, and they'd probably just cry about it for a while before moving on. Seeing as he's supposed to be the character this entire story is driven by through his pursuit of strength, I personally don't care for him much.

This is why I've come to the conclusion that protag-kun is a blank slate character meant for the reader to self-insert into and revel in how cool and strong he is.

I'm fine with that, but not when the entire narrative suffers because of it. Nothing is explained unless it has something to do with the norms so that protag-kun can defy them. People only exist in the narrative to gawk and point about how powerful protag-kun is. Regular people walk around only to come across protag-kun, underestimate him, and get their asses handed to them. If my opinion changes, I'll come back to edit this review. <<less

Interesting premise, could potentialy become addled with the usual cliches.

P.S. Word of caution: the translation is on the below average side of things so the enjoyment of the story might be lessened

This is a story that could go one of two ways:

1. The MC spends the rest of this volume, or at most one more volume, powering up by mastering various disciplines. After that the real plot starts where the MC resolves a suitable crisis which requires him to call upon all the abilities he's managed to gain over his 5-10 years of training.

2. The author runs out of ideas after volume two and the story turns into an aimless slice of life where the massively overpowered MC has nothing important... more>> to do and just spends his time getting into repetitive and pointless romcom antics.

Assuming this story will take route 1, the execution so far is worth a four star rating. Hopefully I won't need to come back and revise this review.

PS: other reviewers have mentioned translation quality. If you haven't read many novels on this site and were lucky enough to only be exposed to the highest quality examples prior to this story then you might be disappointed by this translation. On the other hand if you're read enough novels to have experienced both truly good and truly bad translations then this one won't seem particularly notable. Quality is about average. <<less

Great Novel, fast updates, nice plot, the only flaw I see is the translations, tho it's below average, it's not hard to understand, the translator is doing the best he can to make it easier to understand, for me, this flaw isn't really a flaw, I really like it