After a long year, Sakayanagi Arisu and Ayanokouji finally faces each other.What would happen in the upcoming special exam proposed by new director which ensures to drop two student from two losing class.
The intensity of the exam is top rated as usual. Twists are common for this novel and I felt satisfied after completing it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
This story if ever dropped I will harass you(author) until there is another chapter. That is how good this book is, from the battles to the author's sense of humor just makes this book better. that is all
This novel has a lot of reviews already, but I like it a lot so I will give one myself despite everything.
Writing Quality: So far I've seen no mistakes, and if there are then they're too few to notice. Great usage of synonymous and English well written.
Stability of Updates: Amazing, this novel has almost 400, 399 by the time I make this review. I caught up when it was at about 60ish and in a few months it reached up to 400, so yes it has a great schedule and the author is serious about it as well. Definitely a novel that is going to finish and not be dropped halfway.
Story Development: You can divide this between the actual story and the harem's development since it is a harem, and a quite big one at that. I don't know what to say here. The actual story is amazing, it is what keeps hooked up, although the harem part is not bad (it leaves a lot to be wished especially since I'm more of the vanilla type, but that's my opinion), I still prefer the actual plot side of the novel. More than the Kingdom building, I would call it Kingdom toppling. Despite the fact that he's indeed building a Kingdom within the already existing one, what's fun as hell is the procedure and the way he's destroying the royal family as well as the aristocracy within the Empire, that's what got me hooked up...
There are social and political games but they're not too deep for an uncultured person to understand and the fact MC plays the game when he could just end it with his almost unlimited power (literality, MC is OP but like way too strong, he has rivals though and the fact that power doesn't play a major part in their rivalry but actual scheming is what makes the immortal part work for me since they do act like people that has lived for thousands of years) is also a plus.
Character Design: This is another plus for this novel. Every character here is original and stuck to itself to the core. You won't find people betraying their characters for passions or lust or whatever BS emotion here. MC is an immortal Sage that simply decided to live his last life as an immortal in debauchery before ceasing to exist, and he sticks to that to the very end. Every single woman in the harem has her own personality, emotions, some have relationships etc... And they play the part really well, the enemies or antagonists is one of the best parts of this novel. None of them is an idiot, they are scheming, crafty, some are very powerful, some are haughty yet cautious, you won't find the typical stupid young master and if they're here then they will be drowned in the middle of the scheming of the higher characters rather quickly.
World Background: Nothing to say here, 4 stars since the world isn't really that big compared to others I've read but it is explained in a simple way and it is good enough to serve as a proper description to imagine the scenario but still, it could've been better in my opinion.
Now my personal opinion and it has light spoilers so you're free to keep reading, though I think what I wrote above should be good enough for you that is reading this review.
I like single pairings but I also like harems, everything as long as there are honest upfront and no cheating or lying (basically, I don't like harems where the woman doesn't agree to be in it, unless... She's a villain and is getting what she deserves) I rather like vanilla too but I don't reject some spiciness either. This harem's every girl is unique, the way they're conquered (this word can only apply for some of them since there are some who he forced himself into) is unique as well, I've read so much already that normal things don't catch my attention and this gem is one of such.
I don't like MCs that are OP and just go around destroying everything left and right, this one if perfect: What's better than an OP MC? and OP antagonist that can fight him to a standstill while they keep rivalling each other, like L and Light, everything went to the rubbish bin when L died, in this case, it is similar. I believe it will lose a lot of charm once the Empire is conquered but still, that's within the author's plans as much as I can tell.
Let's resume this: If you don't like women's opinion being disregarded in the relationship then this is not for you (it doesn't happen with all of them, but it happens with most) MC will just force his way or conquer them whether they want or not, one way or another. The good point is that he moves his cards well in order for the grieved women to not stay like that forever.
If you don't like harem this is not for you.
If you don't like MCs that are OP but don't destroy everything and take everything they see by force but rather use their mind, then this is not for you. (MC is not only OP in strength but also in intelligence and the later is the resource he uses the most be it to conquer women or to destroy his enemies, strength is only used when extremely necessary)
if you like political games, this is for you.
If you like Netori, this is for you.
If you're R18, obviously... This is for you.
And sadly, if you're into rape, this is for you. No matter how subtle compared to others, there is no denying that this novel has rape. Forcing a woman to have sex against her will regardless of if she's good or evil or if she ended up liking it or not... Is rape. I do the author a favour by putting it here last since I don't consider this being a point bad enough to deter people from reading this.
Peace.
Here I am, waiting for the next release, and writing this review in the meantime. I’ve decided to be succinct, so here it goes.
In terms of writing quality, it is not bad. Mediocre or even slightly above average. Compared to other novels I read on this site, prior to the creation of my account, it fares quite well, but not so well that it stands out. There are sentence structuring errors here and there and incorrect spellings for certain words/terms which slightly draws away from the experience. Not by much, but for a neophyte grammar critique, such as myself, the effects are significant.
In terms of consistency in updating, I can’t really comment much since I have been binge-reading up until this point, but over the past few days, I don’t think there have been any changes, although you are free to correct me if I am wrong. I have also not found any indication of the author’s update schedule or anything similar to estimate how many updates they are planning to make per week, which is fine, since some authors don’t operate on a strict schedule, but for me, I don’t find it particularly reassuring to not know how many chapters I should expect.
The story development and characters are by far the key elements here. They outshine the majority of the decent novels I’ve read in the past few months, even encouraging me to create this account for the sole purpose of reading it.
Both the plot and characters are unique and intriguing, the latter even more so. The experimentation of the dual-protagonist system is, in my eyes, a significant success on quite a few levels. The inter-personal dynamics were also highly well done. Especially in regards to the key characters and the main duo themselves.
Their decisions throughout the story are logical and more or less realistic, or at least in relation to a majority of other novels (I won’t mention any names) that allow their characters to go on multiple nonsensical jumps in logic to arrive at a certain outcome. Some might argue that there are too many time-skips in the beginning chapters and I will have to say that I partially agree. While I find it reasonable to skip over their infancy, the segment regarding the separation from the protagonists’ home town, for example, was done way too abruptly and glossed over in a few sentences.
The separation felt far too abrupt, even for me, considering the presence of Rean and his ‘filial’ sentiments.
That connects to the topic of the narrative’s world building. I can’t say the world building is average, per se, but it certainly isn’t top-grade, in my opinion. Of course, it is still leaps and bounds ahead of most other cultivation-type novels, but I feel that even taking into account the ignorance of the twins and their non-existent information network, the world seems a pinch too shallow in my eyes.
Also, I feel the need to applaud the author for not developing any form of romance. Thank you for that. Really, I mean it. Though, as soon as any semblance of romance shows it’s disgusting face, I will be forced to drop this series, unfortunately. I am sick and tired of romance. It’s like a drug. You get a fleeting high when you start to use it, but then with continued exposure to it, not only do you become immune to it, it starts to become a poison for your mind and body. At least, that’s what I have found out.
Overall, it is a great novel, but for whatever reason, it seems to be overshadowed by the authors more prominent work ‘Is that a Wisp?’, which I have not yet read, unfortunately. The pacing is great, and the balance between high-tension scenes and more casual scenes are very well done. The author has managed to find success where many promising others have found naught but failure.
In any case, I do hope for updates sooner rather than later. Those two are very interesting to observe.
Now again as fellow bros how can I not give my brother 5 stars but seriously.....you did a great job in this and also I can clearly see that you are improving your skills that's very nice....I hope you get contracted soon
first story that makes me actually like the MC as a human not as a character Tbh a lot of novels here are either edgelord guy or hero guy or the lovestruck girl with 20 IQ this one is the first that can actually be relatable if you were in the protagonists shoe's (she was bullied and stuff) I'm not really good at writing reviews and whatever but just wanna say that MC is relatable and cute and badass
I've read it until chapter 39, so far, I don't really like it tbh, there are some situations where the MC could have done it better, some weird things like calling the system DADDY or Keeps saying that his personality is like that because he's zodiac sign is a GEMINI which is kinda ridiculous.MC is smart but sometimes its kinda frustrating where the MC has a system with so much potential but he's can't really bring it into full play. Even the Readers in the comments have much more creativity and imagination than the MC.Its only interesting one I found is the setting where the MC as a Demon can be Summoned into another world and make a deal with Mortals, which he can exploit to gain more souls, troll people, or by spreading despair to make the souls with negative emotions becomes of a higher quality.This novel is not really that bad but its not that good either, at least for me.The main thing that turns me off is that I kinda find the MC lacking some of the Mentalities of a Demon, I know he's a human at first and have some human qualities but I got turned off when he used a Very rare high quality soul to make a pet just because he's lonely, sure he can use it as a battle companion but in that time he really doesn't need it and can use the very rare soul for a much better purpose but nope, he wants a dog because he's lonely. Maybe I'm just asking too much since I'm picturing an MC fitting of this novel should be the ones like Fang Yuan from R.I., since that would really bring the potential of this novel into full play.Maybe I'll be proven wrong in the later chaps, so please just reply to me if it got any better in the later chapters.
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This is probably the most underrated novel of its genre. The characters are well designed and are believable as humans. The world is very well designed and the comedy is on POINT. Its a shame for the whole industry that it seems to be dropped?. I’ll still wait for it to be updated and read it the second its updated once more.
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