The World of Otome Games is Tough For Mobs

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Office worker Leon is reincarnated into a particularly punishing dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he remembers everything from his past life, which includes a complete playthrough of the very game in which he is now trapped. Watch Leon spark a revolution to change this new world in order to fulfill his ultimate desire…of living a quiet, easy life in the countryside!

Associated Names
One entry per line
MobuSeka
Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu
Otomege Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu
Thế Giới Otomegame Thật Khắc Nghiệt Với Nhân Vật Quần Chúng
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (LN)
乙女ゲー世界はモブに厳しい世界です
女性向遊戲世界對路人角色很不友好
Related Series
Ano Otomege wa Oretachi ni Kibishii Sekai desu (Spin-Off)
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04/16/24 Dobelyu Wai v13c2
04/09/24 Dobelyu Wai v13c1
04/02/24 Dobelyu Wai v13 illustrations
04/02/24 Dobelyu Wai v13 prologue
10/27/23 Dobelyu Wai v12 afterword
10/27/23 Dobelyu Wai v12 ss
10/24/23 Dobelyu Wai v12 epilogue
10/17/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c20
10/14/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c19
10/10/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c18
10/07/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c17
10/04/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c16
09/30/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c15
09/26/23 Dobelyu Wai v12c14
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The Shhh Knight
The Shhh Knight
March 11, 2024
Status: v12c20
This is the one of the few isekai I have zero complaints about. It’s funny, silly, ridiculous and yet isn’t so off the trails that it isn’t unrealistic because there are deep reasons behind it all. The story is always on track despite the timeskips.

Although there is a harem... more>>
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the situation is very clear unlike other stories- his girls got engaged to him in a hurry, which caused problems to show up in their relationship. There is also obvious trust issues, such as when his third girl showed up. They don’t understand each other well enough and their relationship is in fact shallow- hell, it’s suggested they like and trust each other way more than the MC. The author shows this all, and it’s amazing.

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Also I love how the seemingly “mr perfect” male capture targets from Otome game actually have negative IQ.
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This is actually because in the original game setting, Olivia- the main heroine of the story and game has the power to control people hence the strange IQ drop. However she has almost zero contact with them this timeline which is even more confusing.

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If you kind of hate how other authors suddenly f*** up their isekai, feel slightly interested in a girl’s dating sim background, give this one a try, I think you’ll love it. <<less
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DankEntity21
DankEntity21 rated it
August 5, 2023
Status: v10
It's been a bit of time since I have read this, but I remember it to be quite a fun read. It was one of the rare few times I felt a bit empty after finishing reading/watching something interesting. I made this account since I saw a lot of people complaining about the MC being spineless, not making a move on his lovers, and stuff like that. Regarding that, there actually is a side story that showcases what their relationship will be in the future. I think it was in... more>> v10 or v9, can't quite remember, but it kinda explains why so many people haven't seen it yet and are complaining. It's a side story about a far future where, basically,
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Leon has imp**gnated all of his lovers

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If you're interested if there will even be relationship progress in the future, I guess you should just read the spoiler above. Aside from that, it has a pretty interesting premise and lovable waifus (though few). It also has a decent world-building, well, if you're willing to read the Marie route that is, a lot of lore was explained there for some reason if I remember correctly. I can understand how infuriating it is though, with how seemingly no progress has been made regarding Leon's relationship. Still, this story has a special place in my heart nonetheless. I'm not a native English speaker so I hope this review is somewhat understandable. <<less
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yamibae
yamibae rated it
May 29, 2023
Status: v10
I cannot describe the MC as anymore than a tool. Everyone will be glad to know the MC's personality does not change, he is still very much a spineless cowardly tool of a character stuck with pacifist ideals even if it means the people around him getting hurt while being used by almost everyone else. He has one of if not the strongest "cheats" in this other world but is honestly so useless with it that he might as well have stuck to being a "mob" character after all.

Overall a... more>> skip, I speed glanced through a majority of the novel after V3/4 where it started dropping off and the depths of MC's inadequacies started to show. Absolutely a far cry from the start of the novel personality wise, and honestly most of the problem is the author purposefully shoving a herbivore personality on the MC while trying to make him perform acts that are otherwise not, the disconnect makes no sense. <<less
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Bwapples
Bwapples
October 6, 2022
Status: v6
This novel should've ended after the first arc because everything from then on simply feels like filler. I'd give it a 4.0 if it simply ended there however the author continues with the story despite there being no foreshadowing. They seem to understand that this was an issue when they wrote v4, v5 to foreshadow future events but it's simply too late.
This is a recurring issue throughout the novel where the author purposely avoids world building, the audience has 0 understanding of how each nation differs and their respective cultures despite having a plot device that could simply provide that information.
It honestly isn't a worthwhile read beyond V3, the character interactions are too limited and we're stuck with constant gag characters to fill up the novel as the plot develops in various ways beyond the hands of the MC despite having complete information of everything around him.
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wizardofaw
wizardofaw rated it
June 19, 2022
Status: v10cprologue
I wish I could give this novel negative stars. Prologue to volume 10. MC is human garbage; author has to force a long the plot. I think the author thinks it's funny in its juxtaposition. The real joke is the writing allowing this indecision it's like "maybe, maybe not... maybe." Except for the audience and the author who both know all problems are temporary and there is no suspense in the novel. The first 50-80 chapters were alright shortly after chapter 100 the wishy washy-ness hits extremely hard disallowing any... more>> belief that this read will be remotely interesting in plot. I started reading this because I enjoyed the manga, it was nice. <<less
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Permadentitas
Permadentitas rated it
March 17, 2022
Status: --
Beware, I made this review specifically to express my hatred for the MC.

This is a unique take on the genre with the male MC reincarnated into a otome game. The MC unfortunately become mob. Emphasize on the mob part, as it seem the author want to present the MC as some kind of mob char. He succeeded, he created a character that if he wasn't the MC with all kind cheat, he fit well as a mob who probably killed by the good guy.

I'm on the side of reviewer who... more>> hate the MC, because the author seem to have dilemma of whatever the MC is an MC char or a mob char, so he stick to the middle. Great author!

Other than the MC, other characters were descent as they were at least memorable. The plot was interesting, the world building is unique if the author intention is to show how bad an otome game world is. The developement is interesting.

Recommended if you can overlook the MC attitude. If you can't, than you are masocist for reading this. <<less
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Yash Allen
Yash Allen rated it
August 17, 2021
Status: v8
Interesting plot but not quite good at romance if you are seeing from romance perspective. If you are seeing from story or plot perspective this is good but In my opinion starting first 3 LN is interesting because of MC and other volume from 4th It becomes Interesting because of heroine of another game. this is harem and it is a story without ending but have Climax. Worst thing about this novel is Concept of romance or heroine are same throughout the story but yeah due to otome title it... more>> is acceptable. 1) Honestly I don't like very much Heroines in first 3 volume which are main heroine and villainess. But from 4th volume, Heroine of another game is interesting and likable....

In this Light novel MC gets dragged in 3 game of otome throughout 8 volumes. <<less
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eatanddrink
eatanddrink rated it
January 13, 2021
Status: --
The main protagonist is denser than a neutron star, and what more annoying is that they kept references to how dense the protagonist is and how MC himself hates the dense character. This plus the fact that the MC would self-reference how many bad moves he made. This novel has redeeming qualities but you will have to deal with a incredibly dense protagonist.
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Natsume99
Natsume99 rated it
October 1, 2020
Status: v5 epilogue
If your are looking for romance, then this is not for you. The protag always seem to run away from the main heroines, and even though they are
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married

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the romance is not fleshed out at all. This is why you can say that the protag is hectare.

However, the protag is a badass during action scenes and some of the characters are well developed (See short stories). Story is decent enough to be readable.
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GabeZhul
GabeZhul rated it
April 29, 2020
Status: v2
This would be a pretty interesting read, if not for the protagonist and the inherently illogical nature of the setting.

Premise:

The MC was your typical, cookie-cutter average Japanese guy. His little sister practically blackmailed him into playing an otome game, because its gameplay portions were simply too hard for her. He completes the game, even going as far to buy P2W cheats in the in-game cash shop to progress, but then he dies of what is implied to be overwork, only to be reincarnated as a background character in the otome... more>> game he was playing.

Setting:

As others have pointed out, the biggest issue of this story is the completely self-contradictory setting. Apparently, because "this is an otome game", women are held in the same regard as men were in a feudal society... except not really. The narration repeatedly insists on that women hold all the power, and men are considered to be second class citizens, except it's still a kingdom with a king, men hold and inherit all the noble titles, men are in charge of the military, and all the important authority figures shown are men too. In other words, the "twist" of the setting exists for the sole reason to justify some girls and women being b*tchy and treating the MC like dirt without any consequences.

As for the metaphysics, the story is incredibly vague about them. There is no detailed magic system, nor are the floating islands, airships, or mechs explained; any details about them are just hand-waved as "this was a game", even though it obviously isn't anymore. The closest we get to proper world-building is when the MC discovers the location of the stash where the cheat items he bought from the cash shop are stored, and it is mentioned that the "old human civilization", which included an actual Japan, was destroyed by the "new humans" who had magic, but then the whole thread is dropped and never brought up again.

Characters:

The MC is inconsistent. He is a young man who has an overpowered mech, airship, and AI that can destroy countries, yet his primary worry is about not getting married to an old woman in a political marriage. He is a shit-stirrer who picks fights with powerful people and dresses them down at any chance he gets, but at the same time he is an absolute pushover. He is suave to the point he practically seduces the queen of the country over a misunderstanding, but at the same time he is incredibly dense and cannot get a clue about the signals the two pretty girls he finds cute are sending him, because "he is just a mob" and decides he doesn't have a chance with them. In other words, he is your typical, annoying pushover JP MC who gets really irritating on the long run.

The side-characters are okay. The female leads forming the MC's harem are all decently likable, the MC's reincarnated sister and his reverse-harem of the original capture targets are decently unlikable, but there really isn't anything to write home about them.

Plot:

There isn't much, to be honest. The MC has no long-term goals aside of his compulsive drive of finding someone to marry in the academy (ha-ha, because that's what young women would do, and this is a reverse word, so it's the guys doing it, ha-ha, real funny.../s). He is constantly jerked around by the circumstances, and since nobody in power seems to care the slightest about his overpowered equipment, most of the story revolving around petty school life drama instead. This might later change, as I have read stray comments about a war later, but I sincerely doubt the MC would become any more proactive.

Final verdict:

This had potential either as an absurd comedy, or a deconstruction of some otome game tropes. It's neither, instead it's just an inconsistent story with a pretty bad and borderline unlikable MC. It's not terrible, but not exactly good either. I would score it around 2.7/5. <<less
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Rodvek97
Rodvek97 rated it
March 4, 2020
Status: v5 epilogue
In terms of the quality of the story line for Volume 5, I think it has a less interesting story compared to the previous volumes. I quite enjoyed this volume 5 which discusses the development of the relationship between Leon da Noelle which in its web novel version is only slightly discussed. You could say for this volume as a small storm before a big storm hit, considering volume 6 will raise the story of volume 5 of the version of the web novel which became the volume that I... more>> look forward to. <<less
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sinancan
sinancan rated it
February 19, 2020
Status: v5 epilogue
One of the good otome game genre novels with mob protaganist.

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Even though there are parts that I didn't like when reading this novel, overall it was enjoyable. I don't mind mob protaganist but MC has laid back attitude and won't make moves until he felt like it or it's necessary. He has mob protaganist mentality. He is annoying most of time but takes action when it's necassary.

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First part of the story (up to V3 Epilogue + Extra story Rude and Rauda) was better than second part (V4+). Short story Marie Route was interesting too (there are 3 parts for now but it might continue until the last volume).

First part ending was satisfying for me.

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Secod part more like new story on world tree continent with new main heroine.

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Chaos OBell
Chaos OBell rated it
December 20, 2019
Status: v4 extra
Okay, I'm going to defend this novel a little that I loved so much.

First of all, we should consider it as a parody of the average isekai otome. Mobseka is a novel just to entertain and hang out, it is not a masterpiece, although that is subjective, since it is a work that is based more on comedy.

This novel mixes a romantic comedy with the genre Isekai and the Otomes. That makes me like it a lot.

The own Leon (MC), speaks of how s*upid and illogical that is the same... more>> world where it develops, and still, in volume 3 give reasons why the Kingdom gives preferences to women. The history of the Principality is also interesting, as is the history of Hertrude and his younger sister.

What about the characters?

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The protagonist, Leon, is my favorite protagonist today. Initially, I had found a fairly average MC, however, as vol 1 progresses, you will see that he is a character with Hachiman syndrome. That is, despite not being asocial, he is cynical, arrogant, self-centered and selfish in many occasions. He has a personality similar to Hachiman in that aspect, and we can see more of his personality by reading the novel in the first person. He is an unconventional protagonist, and does not try to be the typical MC of romantic comedy or isekai. They say that the protagonist is a fool to get the Livia's objects at the start? That is, he was going to marry an old woman, obviously he decided to do that since otherwise his life would be ruined.

Did he fall in love with Livia for no reason? I don't think, Livia has her charm, her personality contrasts quite a lot with Leon, and that's why he fell in love with her. And Anjie, because she seems to be strong, but deep down she's pretty too. After spending so much time with both of them and discovering their personalities (and that both have large breasts), Leon would obviously fall in love with them.

Luxon is a character that also serves for comedy. It mostly annoys Leon, and is a character that seems to be important to the story with that of the reincarnated.

Marie is equal to Leon in several aspects, the own novel makes it clear, but at the same time, it is seen that she loves her older brother. It's not exactly bad, just selfish, but she still loves her older brother and depends on him several times.

The five idiots are good for comedy, and before someone says they are not funny, HUMOR IS SUBJECTIVE. Not to mention that even Leon got a little more relationship with them, mainly during the time he was with Brad and Greg, or with Chris.

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In conclusion, it is a novel that fascinated me a lot. It has good comedy (is subjective), its characters are not typical of an average romantic comedy, and the MC is the best of all. The tsukkomis of the MC are funny, and I love their thoughts too.

Nice novel <<less
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BookWorm65
BookWorm65 rated it
December 19, 2019
Status: v3c2
At first, the story is fairly interesting and seeing the MC's actions and reactions to his surroundings is quite fun. The world-building and the characters are very shallow but I wasn't expecting some amazing quality going into this novel and so was enjoying reading it.

BUT, I got tired of the MC's ridiculously annoying personality after he just wouldn't grow up even though many things backfired onto him. He doesn't want to be promoted yet keeps doing things otherwise. He has an extremely wishy-washy mind... he doesn't want to get involved... more>> with the main characters too much but also can't leave them. So he keeps swinging from one end to the other. Oh and he's an extreme pushover and does s*upid things like not killing his enemies because he just doesn't like it (even though the same enemies were willing to mu*der him and his friends just seconds ago). There is just no character growth and I was constantly getting frustrated reading this so I dropped it. <<less
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Fallenstreet01
Fallenstreet01 rated it
December 12, 2019
Status: v6c2
Just caught up with the novel and I gotta say this story is pretty good overall.

The premise is pretty basic: ... more>>
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guy dies and gets isekai-ed into a weird adventure/otome game where men are society's lowest step, being practically work s*aves for rich women; he naturally is reborn into a mob with no other future than to become the manservant of some random old woman, so to avoid that fate he decides to become an adventurer by getting the most powerful cheat item in-game and gain enough fame to become independient of his family and live his life idly, but his plan backfires and gathers the attention of the kingdom who enlist him in the royal academy where the otome's main story will happen.

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At first sight, this novel is another of many other 'MC reborns in another world and everything goes his way thanks to [X] OP power' but the more you read it the more you realize that's not the case. Firstly, Leon (MC) is far from your average protagonist: he's neither a beta pushover who just happens to be a good person, nor your goody-two-shoes who wants to save others just because yes. He's a super sardonical, selfish, witty half-as*hole who, while has a good moral compass and has no desire for conflict, will definitely pick a fight on anyone who pisses him off. The OP power he gets early on, Luxion,
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a psychopathic AI-controlled battleship with enough firepower to send the entire world to hell,

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is constantly there to remind him of how OP is he, but ultimately not using his full capacities due to personal preferences.

But what is the strongest point of the story, in my personal opinion, is Leon pseudo-antagonist, Marie
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another reincarnated person who, unlike Leon, decided to live lavishly in the Otome game by stealing ALL the love targets from the otome protagonist and making her own reverse harem, without knowing how important it was for the love interest to fall in love with the protagonist storywise, and who also happens to be deeply related to Leon in his previous life.

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She's without a doubt the most interesting character of the novel, because her entire personality is flawled and rotten to the core, having practically zero redeeming qualities but at the same time her flaws and selfish actions have direct consecuences in Leon, the main story settings and especially in herself, making her a somewhat pitiful character who is the worst victim of her own doings and, at some point you kind of wish she could take the MC role from Leon because she's honestly a nasty but hilarious woman!

The issue for what I don't rate the story with five stars is because while it's an interesting story, it does have some terrible flaws in its structure. First and what I see as the biggest problem, is that Leon's romantic interest are too two-dimensional. Probably this was made intentionally, but during the first two volumes Olivia and Ange are practically booktext definition of 'beta love interests', practically they have nothing interesting to aport to the story other than the damisels in disgrace Leon has to save. This is later fixed at the end of V2 and all V3 but their existence still hold so few weight storywise that they could be easily replaced by other girls and you wouldn't notice the change.

Secondly, is the obliviousness of Leon. Here is where Leon's strongest point as MC becomes his greatest weakness, he's very straightforward and decisive when it comes to get an objective done in the most efficient way, but if he doesn't have a goal in specific to pursue, he suddenly becomes a lazy dunce who can't figure left from right and is simply swept along with the story. He's terribly paranoic and blind to others' feelings and most of the time, he'll just assume others want him to do him wrong even when they're doing him a favour,
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and in V3, when his love interests showed genuine feelings for him, his natural course of action was to run away because he didn't know what to make of it and only got together with them because his entire family, both romantic interests, his friends and even the royal family set him up and cornered him in a way that he had absolutely choice but face their feelings head on

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And thirdly but not less important... the chapters are too short! Not all the time, but in several occasions, details of the story are left to interpretation for the reader or relegated as side info in the background when it could become active part of the plot.
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An example would be the explanation of the old humanity and new humanity. So far we've given few glimpses and small details of that part of the story, but given that that's an important part in the background of Luxion and Creare, another AI that appears later in the story, you would expect it were more relevant in the plot, but no... unless the author is saving it for later volumes, that's it.

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Well, overall it's a good novel worth reading if you have some time to spare. I can't see it becoming an iconic story over the years nor it will gather a huge fanbase, but it's definitely a must-read if you like this kind of stories. <<less
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pee222777
pee222777 rated it
November 11, 2019
Status: v4
Not much to talk about the main story. Started out pretty good, then went downhill later on.

Marie's side story is really great though. It's a cute romance story about a mob protagonist, falling in love with his mob girlfriend and doing mob stuffs when important events are happening, then sh*t hit the fan and they'll have to be involved with the main characters. This side story really is what this light novel should've been.
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ResidentialPsycho
ResidentialPsycho
October 24, 2019
Status: v3 epilogue
This is a comedy/action/school life/mecha series, but most of the focus is on the comedy. The action is passable, but it could definitely have more intense, detailed, and vivid moments. It really falls short at the critical moments, which leaves an action-junky like me a bit crestfallen. The school life doesn't make much sense. The mecha history is cool, but no background or explanation is given about that at all.

The setting exists, but it's largely nonsensical and filled with plot holes. Even the reasons for how sexist the society in... more>> the first game has become doesn't make sense. Regarding the setting and background information, I recommend readers do what the MC does and ignore it. These things are not thought out. There's magic with mecha and monsters and demons and dungeons, but there's this weird sexist society with a reduced proportion of men. No explanation is given for any of these things, and there is zero information on magic even by the end of the third volume. No magic system or explanation has been given at all. If magic is hardly used, then why is it so important? Details about the classes at school are absent with the exception of tea ceremony, and physical training at school is only mentioned once. Even though the society is extremely sexist against men, women can have as many s*x s*aves or male lovers as they want. Many common women can't get a husband because there's such a shortage. At the same time, men become so disheartened trying to win the hearts of women, they sometimes end up coupling with one another by high school graduation. By the way, men are still the heirs of their households and carry their family lines, even though the women are in charge. What?

I forgot to mention the dash of sci-fi that matches with the mecha. Even though there was a highly advanced civilization with space ships, advanced healing technology, and world-destroying weaponry in the past, somehow all of this was lost when the new humans took over? What? How does this make sense? World background, where are yoooou?

The plot is all over the place as well with abundant unreasonable developments.

So it's my recommendation to pretend the world background and common sense do not exist in this series. Just think of it as a comedy.

The MC is a hypocritical, half-hearted lazy guy following the cliche that "he can do things if he tries." Rather than an unreliable protagonist, he is one who straight-up lies about his feelings and goals. It feels like he's completely just following his whims and doing things willy-nilly. His actions and speech are often unrelated or even in disagreement with each other. He doesn't think things through even slightly when he takes action. Although he was adult office employee in his past life, he doesn't have any character development while adapting to this sinister world or first using his weapons or even killing people. Although he admires his dad for only having one woman he loves, he can't seem to follow those same principles. Does he think it's fair to the girls who like him to grow a harem instead of loving one person fully like he originally planned? He lost a lot of respect for me when the series truly went toward a harem route at the end of volume 3.

By the way, he thinks it's perfectly okay to suppress women--just not for women to suppress men. Every single ounce of him is hypocritical in one way or another. As for the other characters, most of them are rather shallow with minimal development as well, so they're fairly unmentionable.

This is a fun comedy series that made me laugh while reading it. However, things like setting, plot holes, and character depth need to be thrown aside to enjoy it. It's also important to just laugh at the MC's problems and try to not be too disgusted by his half-heartedness and hypocrisy. There's no suspense whatsoever to battles because the MC is too OP to worry about. This is just a fun casual read.

I'm waiting to rate this series because there are supposed to be big changes in the fourth and fifth volumes. Currently, I'd rate it 3/5. <<less
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wraith
wraith rated it
October 23, 2019
Status: v3 epilogue
I am really annoyed at the end of the third volume. The first arc has concluded and it has left me fuming at the author. The idea of the novel is quite simple, the entire world shits on the MC but when trouble arises, he is forced to take charge and become the hero. This pattern is repeated throughout the volume and the way the world treats him gets worse by the chapter and builds up to a payoff where the MC saves the day and he puts everyone in... more>> their place. Except that the payoff is extremely underwhelming and insignificant.

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The people who have hurt him and his love interests are dealt with as an afterthought. There are instances where he is abused by the students in his school and absolutely nothing comes out of it. Everything is forgotten and never mentioned again.

At the end of the third volume, the MC comes to know that someone has caused his lovers to be humiliated in front of their peers and he absolutely looses his mind and actually goes for the kill. Whoa, where did this come from? It looks like things are getting interesting. Nope, it's played of as a joke and we are deprived of the payoff.

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It looks like the author has attempted to go for a comedic angle where we are supposed to laugh at the situations that the MC is put under. I don't know if something has been lost in translation, but it just doesn't work. Everything comes of as annoying and sad rather than funny. The 5 clowns are still a big part of the story and are used for overused gags time after time. And they will be a part of the story in the future.

I am left frustrated that the MC has not learnt his lesson and grown through the trials he has faced. After everything, he still remains the same. It works for characters like one punch man cause, but not for this MC (I forgot his name. Just checked, it's Leon). He has to face real trials and abuse where he handicaps himself and then learns nothing from it. His motivations and goals are completely different from the actions that he takes. The author tries to make it so that Leon is forced to act against his goals but it is not done in a convincing manner.

Overall, I won't recommend this novel. It is interesting at the start, which might tempt you into reading further, but it's not worth it.

edit- I thought of giving it 2 stars, but am unable to change it. I guess the start was good, which should be worth something. <<less
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tbc1230
tbc1230 rated it
October 19, 2019
Status: v3c11
The story is nice and worm, a little bit cringy in regards to the little sister past, but otherwise it still a pass.

I really wonder why people will rate it as low as 1 star though
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thgilkcalb
thgilkcalb rated it
July 7, 2019
Status: v3
This is by far my personal interest [which is OP, MC is just above average and got a OP AI not himself] and it's annoyed me greatly sometimes, yet it's still worth reading [if it get to your head just skip some lines]

The greatest thing about this story for most everyone should be its new genre, but the most interest thing that keep me reading is "The Balance", almost everything is balance. Like a certain someone going around stealing things yet it's later reveal that they're all burdens... and that... more>> she CAN'T throw them away... poor little devil... [it's fine as long as all unjust MC suffer is paid back, it is paid back here but suffer 3 times then get back once. in other word, it's still freaking annoying.

But the most clear balance is, there're 2 reincarnators, 1 get the boys, 1 get the girls

Next is the bad points, well, like most japanese novel, the MC suck... not all the time though [but most of the time] and while not being hated, the heroines are not that lovely, they're too gooood... to everyone, not with MC only

PS: spoilers alert...

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volume 3 is the end of disc 1 of the "otome game", there's at least 3 disc mentions and MC only cleared disc 1 <<less
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