The aforementioned sheep gives the protagonist a helmet to hide his face, because due to the Disguise skill his charisma plummeted. The scene where it was introduced went into great details about when it can be removed and by whom and so on for pages, and then two chapters later the author apparently figured out it was silly, so the protagonist levels up, the Disguise skill powers up, and so the helmet is no longer needed and gets discarded. Again, this wasn't just some random headwear; it was introduced and explained in meticulous detail only to be discarded two chapters later.

The sorry was engaging enough up until the magic school arc. Since that moment there hasn't really been anything particularly unique or original that occurred.

The character that ruined the story is that s*upid ass. The donkey named Rurune or something like that. At first she was a little funny, but she's so annoying. Her gag is that she is a glutton. She started out as a normal donkey that could do amazing feats like win races against racehorses just to eat something she heard was delicious. Now she is a walking disaster that literally had a black whole for a stomach. She has caused more problems than the main antagonist at this point. I cannot stress how unlikable she is. She isn't funny, and she appears more frequently than the main fl.

The current state of the story is: the party goes to new location, Rurune gets into trouble because "glutton funny", MC gets new deus ex machina power or early defeats it with so effort, more people fall in love with MC.

In the first our main character goes through something called character development (a word alien to most LN writers, they cant even grasp the concept). The school setting is idiotic to the point of being insulting (seriously, a school for mostly idols). The concept behind this particular school is beyond baffling (Idk what the author was smoking to come up with this setting). Such setting could be explained in a shoujo or slice of hell type of LN, but here it just seemed out of place. I understand that it was to contrast it with the MC, which the author made him look ugly and fat (at least for the first). Was he trying to convey that beauty inside type of sub moral? If he was he did a terrible job since our MC was not likeable at all. He was neutral at best. You could sympathize and understand at best, but he wasn't without fault in the matter. Although, it is perfectly understandable for him to act the way he did after thee death of his parents, but his friends truly cared about him and wanted to support him for most matters he faced. I don't know much about japanese culture and laws but did no one made him go see a shrink, or at least have someone taking care of him? But in the end all of that doesn't matter since his classmates are irredeemable a**holes, and our protagonist ends in the wild and emotionally tortured to death. He then meets a gorilla that falls in love with him because she thinks that he is strong (kind of works here because she is a gorilla). Then he starts to fall in love, and proves his love by fighting a demon ghost skeleton (complicated and sounds ominous, he's a pretty good guy), while his common sense is being push over the edge. He defeats the guy gets the girl and everyone is happy. The story could have ended here for the most but sadly it doesn't. Everything in the later arcs is pure LN garbage.

After the first arc, the story embraces all the LN garages tropes shamelessly. It still has that kind of charming sense of humor, but the originality (ok, I'm using that word loosely here) of the first part. I knew that Saria (the gorilla girl) and the MC would become attractive in the future, that much was a given and also that the MC would become OP. I mean I knew that this series is typical LN by nature, so they would want to sell waifus and a cool or handsome MC later on. But ignoring character development of the MC for him to become and bland OP self-insert and push Saria in the background to introduce new waifus, was a bit of a shock (it wasn't, I knew it would happen eventually).
Shinka no Mi is the perfect example of LN shooting themselves in the foot, for the sake of a prolonged story that panders to otakus. It had the possibility to differentiate itself, but falls into the LN type of genre hell. It was never really praise-worthy type of writing or story telling, but it tried to differentiate from other LN and tell an amusing story. It also suffers from a bit of genre clash in the overall story, since it tries to be dark and comedic fantasy harem story. I could go further and talk about the lack of plot and the lack of information of the world/setting or lvl up system, but the first arc makes it perfectly clear that those things don't matter. Heck, the plot is pretty much what happened in the first arc. It was a if the author wanted all of it out of the way first, so that he could do something else. I didn't mind it too much since the story was trying to be a comedy before anything else, so I could excuse most things, but the dark undertone of the LN keeps reminding me that the story isn't pure comedy. So, it is kind of a mess.

He has power levels that put the demon king to shame. A dragon god that he defeated that was level 5000 had around 1/8th of the mc's stats as a level 15 newbie that can level up quickly. The MC gains a dragon god's worth of power every time he levels up twice. He gets the most extreme magic of every type as soon as he reads about that type of magic or has it drop from a monster. He gets the skills of a supreme master in swordplay. Same for crafting and everything else. However, he never learns to use any of his powers and the only time he acts slightly worthy of his powers is when his body goes on auto-self-defense mode from a cheat skill that moves his body without him having to even think. He can't even use his swords properly despite having the swords skills of a supreme master imprinted. I've never seen anyone more unworthy of his powers than this guy, because nothing can excuse his actions and lack of even slight self-confidence and self-respect, he could literally destroy the entire world easily by throwing some punches here and there and a little bit of magic randomly. There's also no excuse for him hiding his powers since it's more bothersome not to do so than reveal it, nothing can be done against the MC anyway and he could solve anything and everything instantly

Any novel where the MC can't say "no" to the girls around him and acts as if he's a worthless husband caught being unfaithful makes me want to drop the novel instantly, especially when the MC in question didn't do ANYTHING wrong, yet still cowers back, becomes meek and quiet and takes the ab*se/harsh words of the girls who pretentiously stands before him. Seriously, only masochists would like something like that. If you can't say "no" or fight back a little when you've done nothing wrong and gets unjustly accused of something, something is fundamentally wrong with you. How broken and dominated do you have to be as a human being if you can't defend yourself even when you're in the right? Just the indignation alone would make sure you wouldn't take any crap, especially when you're the most powerful being in the world