The Darkness Was Comfortable for Me

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“I will have the 1,000 people I have chosen go to a parallel world.”

Chaos spread once those words of God were displayed to the whole world.

Kurose Hikaru, whose childhood friend had been chosen, was killed together with her on the same day she was supposed to be transferred. However, for some reason, Hikaru didn’t die and, even though he wasn’t chosen at first, he ended up as one of the [Otherworlders that will have all their actions live broadcasted to Earth].

Transferred without any preparations at all to that accursed land, he faced threats innumerable times and somehow managed to survive with his Gift, the Dark Spirit Abilities.

“I must not die. I am sure the people on Earth are all rooting for me after all…”

This is the story of a young boy who is tossed about by the gazes of the viewers, yet eventually manages to raise his head and walk forward.

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Ore Niwa Kono Kuragari ga Kokochi Yokatta
俺にはこの暗がりが心地よかった
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DropOnAMountainPond
DropOnAMountainPond rated it
June 3, 2021
Status: c31
If you like reading Reddit message boards, this is the one for you! About every 4th chapter is a solely a chapter of the Earth viewers commenting. Pretty realistic view of toxic internet trolls. So if that is what you love... then dig in! Other than that, and having a third of the first 30+ chapters being a mentally broken self-loath fest, it’s not bad.
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i1111991
i1111991 rated it
June 1, 2021
Status: --
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When his friend was killed, he ONLY feel sorrow, NO anger. The culprit not even getting caught yet! Its Like getting killed is something natural, like dying of old age or a natural disaster. I can't relate to this kind of maso MC at all.

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The only good point is unlike other s*upid story where everything will goes well for MC, at least it wont go that smooth for this MC.

Update: tr*sh. Only for "M"
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JumpsfromCliff
JumpsfromCliff rated it
February 27, 2024
Status: --
Arghhh I feel like a hater, but it's too hard to read.
Him wanting to cry in his darkness is just to much and makes the title a joke... being 15 is no excuse whatsoever, 200 years ago it was pretty usual to have a child at that age... How can you call yourself a Human (The Apex predator) if you just run away and say it's impossible to do this and that. I am ashamed that JP and Germans are considered close. There is no way to get strong... more>> if you hide like a bug and don't have a plot armor. Give this novel the Gender Bender Tag ! It makes you want to rewrite it to Netori... so the fcking MC just kills himself.

i would name this novel:

My sisters and Childhoodfriend aren't here, so I cry in the the darkness that hides my face. <<less
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KOMODO1999
KOMODO1999 rated it
August 25, 2023
Status: Completed
I was just looking at "mushoku tensei"'s page and it's interesting how people will automatically dislike something just because it's isekai, even if it's a masterpiece of character growth or about important social problems like cyber bullying like "Darkness was comfortable for me" or even racial discrimination like "death mage".

I'm beyond getting angry or offended, I'm just a little sad for them that they miss out on such good stories just because of being biased. Though they probably deserve it.

I am angry however that they bring the score of these... more>> stories down and prevent people from finding them and can't see it as anything but malicious.

Not cool. Not at all. <<less
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vkbdpb
vkbdpb rated it
July 31, 2023
Status: Completed
This is an okay isekai OP MC with yandere harem. An interesting world (God creates isekai survival livestreams and bulletin boards for chat, isekai world with dungeons and great spirits and "Loved Ones") with interesting characters, but the delivery is often mediocre or wasted potential. But I enjoyed it very much as a guilty pleasure, which is why I actually finished reading all that was available. I recommend this a read if you're able to turn your brain off.

Cons:

  • Surprise Yandere: every female in his harem are seemingly retconned to be yandere. They would all die for him and want in his pants.
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    Probably even his underaged sisters, as several times they explain Hikaru's resistance to his harem's s*xual advances is due to his sister's "training", which is explained later by the sisters themselves akin to grooming.

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  • Deus Ex Machina: other reviews mentioned this already. Classic tropes of absolute luck saving the day.
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    Like arriving just in time to save the cat girl's life, or one of his harem's life. Like a key skill unlocking just the day before (or even in the middle of battle) just so the OP MC can use it to defeat the big bad. Or literally God's menu giving direct survival advice.

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Pro:

  • Bulletin Board messages is a great hype train for me. This is like reading YouTube/Twitch comments. It's mileage may vary depending on how you like that kind of stuff. It's also a great way for the author to do character development and world building outside of the main character perspectives.
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Haxe
Haxe rated it
May 22, 2023
Status: Completed
This is a really good novel, as of currently, its web version is fully translated thanks to Reigokai

Now, getting into the novel, what makes it good, is the amount of characterization and interactions given to it, the main start point, as given by the synopsis is, a God appeared and chose an amount of people to transfer to another world, and its set up so people from Earth can view and interact as if it were a livestream of sorts with the transfered ones, where they can send comments or... more>> with the amount of views, the ones at the top can get bonuses and so on, pretty much like a reality TV show, and here is the kicker, it shows how much the author knows of these kind of things, as it mingles the MC pov with bulleting board chapters as if from internet forums who react on events or so around the isekai.

MC is in a really bad spot from the start, to a point that deeply scars and traumatizes him, and this is excerberated by the hurtful comments he gets sent at first which are the finishing blow to his already weakened mental at the start, and the novel explores this, its start is the most stressful, you see a lot of moments you want to avert your eyes or skip ahead due to how heavy the thoughts of the MC are, and as it goes you see it slowly restore or decay again, and the way it mingles with this react chapters really tells how much the author knows the tropes and how internet denizens act, at times is full of hate, other times with a lot of insensibility, support, etc, and many times, during these chapters, us readers, could feel as if we were being read ahead due to how it predicts our reactions, you can really see it on the chapter by chapter discussions when it was translated, a lot of comments would have almost equal reactions to future board chapters or things like that and even here with some reviews that missed part of the point of the series

Of course, it has its own weak parts, some can be left to suspension of disbelief, like how impressive MC sisters are, although it also fuels part of MC issues, as well how, the early parts are super heavy in terms of emotions, to the point you can get infuriated due to our position as a reader, which seems to be the case on some of the reviews, the novel of course also has its own light moments once the worse has happened, dont worry about if MC becomes too op or whatever, the main point on here, is the descent and climb up of our MC sanity when everything is staggered against him in such a cruel way, heck, even Mushoku tensei author has reccomended this web novel some time ago due to how its themes are similar in the sense of development and growth rather than a power trip <<less
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Sendura
Sendura rated it
December 26, 2022
Status: Completed
I did not really want to do this, but this story is a solid 4, 5/5 you can give it a 4 or 5, and I get it. It has a lot of adventure aspects that are nice to read through and some character/world building (they do not develop much in the span of the first 200 chapters.

The pace is somewhat slow, but even then we do not really got too much information about the world. I feel like we are teased some side information for later arcs, but these... more>> later arcs will never come I guess. The story just end the moment our 2 childhood friends reconnect and start their adventure, that the reader would never see anything about these stories to come is just sad, but it also makes the story until that point not really worse so still 4/5 points.

Maybe you like never ending stories... this is one of them (even if it has an end). Or maybe the author needed to just start over with a diffrent story (he mentioned that it was only the first half of the story), because he made to many small mistakes here and there. Sometimes it`s better to start from zero than try to save what you already have.

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LibraWhite
LibraWhite rated it
February 25, 2022
Status: c206
I'm not going to write a review about this novel because other reviews are detailed enough. Instead, I'll write about the experience of my reading.

The experience of reading this novel is like watching India shows. The MC has an inferiority complex, MC's negative thinking all time, slow-paced story, misunderstanding that takes to too long to be solved. Suddenly, a villain appears to poke MC's weakness so the MC would self-doubting again. And I do think that the author's hobby is torturing his MCs & readers. Why? You can check the... more>> author's other work, Neetoku Otoko, for comparison. <<less
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Tenku_kun
Tenku_kun rated it
December 10, 2021
Status: c179
I liked the story in the beginning where it focused on the main character and showed us the world through his eyes, kept things interesting and mysterious, the message boards were a nice way to explain some of the things that were going and to express what the public felt. Then came the POVs, which at the beginning were few and far in between, I didn't mind Rifreya's POV since it explained something very relevant in the coming chapters, Celica's POVs felt a bit long but they also explained a... more>> major plot point, though I don't know if that was the best time to explain them, but Nanami's POV... It should straight up just be a side story,
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we're shown her training, point selection, and now how she survives in the beginning along with her message board.

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Its straight up too much POV, she just doesn't feel like a deuteragonist and so, so many chapters showing her actions when they currently seem to have no relevance to the protagonist just feels like a drag. <<less
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guih34
guih34 rated it
December 5, 2021
Status: c120
I like the setting overall and I find it enjoyable, that said, the MC is such a downer and goes on rants with his glass heart just makes my eyes roll. I understood in the beginning, but every 3-4 chapters goes the same depressing misunderstanding does not get cleared and he acts like a ret*rd with no common sense whatsoever, he boasts about his sisters being genius and one being a tech god, but he don't have a clue about people flamming/trolling him?
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anon9051
anon9051 rated it
December 3, 2021
Status: c12
The only thing that carries this series is the premise as far as I can tell, which to be fair is pretty interesting. However the writing and pacing are absolutely atrocious. I'm not typically very picky when it comes to writing but it's so bad that I can't even get immersed in the story. If you're new to web novels or you're able to look past how jarring the writing can be than you may enjoy this, but it's not my cup of tea.
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dwaram31
dwaram31 rated it
December 3, 2021
Status: --
The MC is such a coward while the female protagonist fell in love too quickly and out of nowhere. No reason whatsoever. The author wrote the MC as someone that is brave and never gave up on challenges, but he is so conscious about people watching him, which is ridiculous. Out of 1000 challengers only him that are so conscious with the viewers. Even real neet hikikomori have more guts than him. And worse the author actually wrote the whole novel revolving around his cowardice, which is just the worst.... more>> I just don't have the patience anymore to read where the MC actually resolve his past trauma. <<less
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Benjam35
Benjam35 rated it
November 5, 2021
Status: c170
Overall a good book. World building is good and I like most of the characters. The MC's reactions to everything is pretty realistic and seeing the way they are portrayed is pretty nice. Sometimes characters with weird or strange attributes also have their uses which is refreshing. Sometimes an author will have a character who is strange and never acts like they have any direction other than 'must be there for the MC' but that isn't really apparent here with one exception that I will mention later.

I think that the... more>> system is pretty unique with the usage of spirits and how they act in the world. I like how you can be loved or even hated and both actually have their advantages and disadvantages. With the current party makeup it will be a interesting difference as it goes on.

Sometimes you will get into these long recaps about what just happened. That is sometimes annoying as people back on earth talk about things. I think that could be lessened now that the MC's no longer accused of, spoilers for anybody who doesn't want to read past this point btw,
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mu*der.

I think his sisters are fine being smart but at the same time they have a level of sucking that is not good. One of his sisters is just way into the MC and I have always hated that trope. The other is cold and calculating making her seem rather psycho and out of touch. If the old world dropped into the background with only knowing their viewer count I would rather it dropped them off only mentioning them from time to time as the MC thinks about them.

I thought I would hate the girl with silver hair (sorry not good at spelling names, especially foreign ones) but she turned out to be a somewhat decent person with a good background. I hope she doesn't dissolve into a girl who just simps for the boy because that would ruin this story which is why it only has 4 stars instead of 5 because it is a fear of mine.

The other French otherworlder is an interesting character who is a hated one and I am looking forward to seeing her fight. At the same time I have similar worries and the added worry about the growing number of girls. Also now his childhood best friend who he saved is coming and I am not actually looking forward to it. I have never understood how having more than one girl is ideal or a fantasy because that sounds so draining. Enough of my personal feelings though. Maybe it will go well and the girls will begin dating other people and their party will grow with some interesting male characters. Well, it is wishful thinking, as long as the girls don't lose their traits I think it will be fine.

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Anyway it is a good story, I hope it keeps going and that the new developments that they are hinting at are good. They have some good things set up so I'm hoping it goes well. <<less
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Alkra
Alkra rated it
September 17, 2021
Status: c62
Well written, but the unique "comment section" chapters ruined the immersion significantly. Can't really help it tho as it is integral to the main story, but I kinda hoped those chapters are shorter.
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frustratedguy109
frustratedguy109 rated it
August 28, 2021
Status: c120
The setting is fresh because of the livestream aspect and the incident that occurred with the childhood friend. However, it is otherwise just a generic isekai story. I also don't like the MC.

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When he finds out that he's become a Chosen, he doesn't inform the audience about the family massacre of his childhood friend nor ask God if his friend survived. He just automatically assumes his friend is alive even though she was stabbed 5 times in the abdomen. Is it denial?

The first time he practices his magic he faints when he runs out of mana/mp/whatever because there's no way to tell how much he has. When he wakes up thanks to an alarm (which he did not set) he thinks about how lucky he is that the barrier didn't disappear while he was out. Then he immediately starts practicing his magic again.

It's unbelievable that so few animals/monsters in the forest are nocturnal and that so many of them seem to be deaf or nose-blind. How could he realistically make it out of the forest just by covering himself in darkness? I don't blame him for not climbing a tree when attacked by the second pack of wolves though; he was exhausted and panicking, not thinking straight.

When he makes it out of the forest and finds out that he's the prime suspect for his friend's death, he becomes an emo and shut-in. He barely defends himself or describes the actual culprit. I find it hard to believe that someone can be that fragile and suffer so much trauma just reading ~5 text messages.

I'm surprised that he consistently kept so many real time viewers. In the forest, his routine was basically sleep in barrier, grind skills in barrier, then sneak through the forest (the only-semi interesting portion). Afterwards, his routine is to mope around in his room or sneak through the dungeon. I don't see how so many people can continue being interested when he's already proven there's no chance of him being discovered or interacting with anyone/anything. There are other Chosen (who actually does things) to watch.

When Alex (another Chosen) tries to pass him a message from his sisters, he refuses to hear it. How can he be so traumatized that he thinks that his family is going to flame him as well? That just proves that he doesn't know his family at all, especially given the fact that his sisters are extreme brocons.

I'm surprised that the first arc (120 chapters) was only 1 month. He spent 10 days in the forest and 14 days in the viewership ranking race. It sure seemed like he spent a lot longer than a week moping and sneaking about the dungeon on his own.

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mentalmen
mentalmen rated it
August 24, 2021
Status: c105
Slightly better than average. Quite interesting at first, but the protagonist's lack of resolve to sacrifice someone else to achieve his goal shaped his character as a generic isekai protagonist. His childhood friend getting killed and the main character being blamed for her death created a nice tragic vibe at the start, but the author utterly failed to use it to his advantage to develop the story in that way made the story half-assed at best.
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ChickenMannV1
ChickenMannV1 rated it
December 26, 2023
Status: epilogue
This was an enjoyable read actually. Though this end a little quick still a good read. Might come back and read this again. Still want to see the continuation if this novel tho.
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hyahhaa
hyahhaa rated it
June 24, 2023
Status: Completed
Not satisfied. I heard this is just the first part of the whole story, but I hope Author give us the next part soon, as I really enjoying the ride.

MC is a wimp, go away if you expect ruthless, overbearing, or something along the lines kind of MC here. Even I got frustated when MC is being too wimp-y at times.

Lots of overshadow and plot twists, as MC struggled to survive the cruelty of fate (or maybe the god simply want to see him suffer. You'll know why I think... more>> so when you progressed through the story). A lot of things happened that makes the MC's misunderstanding got dragged for a long, long time. You can guess the rest.

This part is like a journey of the MC growing as a human, and heals from emotional trauma he got from his past. Make you kinda rooting for him too.

Author also implements new thing I haven't seen yet in other novels so far, that is kinda like the comment sections on YouTube Live. It's not perfect, as Author themself said that it's just an experimental thing they do, but it made me feel like I'm part of the viewer of the MC's stream that's rooting for him.

The harem part is mediocre, although I like the characters. FLs have humane sides to them, although not perfect. <<less
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miscreant
miscreant rated it
March 3, 2023
Status: Completed
I would probably say it's more a 3.8/5 but that does round to 4.

I'd say the weakest part of the story is the "misunderstandings" tag that isn't really done well. If it is done well then it's subtle and amusing. In this case it is done with the subtlety of a 40 ton truck and at times I felt the plot and characters were warped to artificially maintain a misunderstanding.

I'm a bit unsure if the livestream aspect of the story was really needed along with the reaction chapters from the... more>> viewers. I guess it does allow author to insert a toxic audience but the whole Earth arcs mostly felt like side chapters since there is very limited direct interaction between them.

The ending was a bit abrupt with most of the goals previously set not really being met although you'd assume they'll eventually complete them. <<less
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doooom32
doooom32
January 27, 2023
Status: Completed
a good read only down fall is a lil short for me despite accepting the ending I wouda still liked the story to continue but thats just my feeling with all that I enjoy and in sure many can sympathies with no one want the story that there enjoying to end... more>>
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cant tell u how much I was hoping for the great dark spirit to becoem part the harem and watch teh interactions between the women

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was a nice addition and the way it contibuted to the story felt pretty natural his interactions with the women well I cant say much id liek to say with my mind set of a 30 somethign year old I would act similar but id most likly at his age have sucume to temptation. As for the whole forum part teh series. I liked it and I kinda wished for one with teh epiloge. Over all a good read and a nice side dish from all the other generic isekai out there <<less
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