Hikagemono demo Yarinaoshite Ii desu ka? - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - Off to the Battlefield

[Haydrion101]

"What can go wrong, will go wrong" comes to mind.

 

[GoodShit]

The issue I've always taken to this sort of introvert/NEET/bum-given-a-second-chance sorta thing is that their past experiences are always so incredibly wack. And I understand this may be because despite having my introverted times, I was never really ostracized and bullied like these characters, but it does make these series less relatable to me when the "trauma" they overcome is people being comedically evil and disproportionately mean for no reason.

I can somewhat relate to the protagonist. When you’re full of anxiety, even the smallest remarks can feel hundreds times more horrible. The people around her might not be actual devil but she feels like it and that makes things worse. It’s a memory flashback, it doesn’t need to be accurate

 

[IamaTire]

Yep, I became so much of a degenerate that I can only see Yuri.

I recommend to read some non yuri romcom to cool it down.

 

[RKADE14]

My brain is 50% friendship, 50% shipping.

 

[Solipsist]

The issue I've always taken to this sort of introvert/NEET/bum-given-a-second-chance sorta thing is that their past experiences are always so incredibly wack. And I understand this may be because despite having my introverted times, I was never really ostracized and bullied like these characters, but it does make these series less relatable to me when the "trauma" they overcome is people being comedically evil and disproportionately mean for no reason.

That said, I still enjoy the self improvement narrative that many of this sort do promote. Unless it comes with a harem and on-the-nose fanservice with very little actual character change from the protagonist except a physical makeover. In which case the author has missed the mark completely and is probably just bitter that they aren't as attractive in real life as their social power fantasy protagonist and whoever the hell they saw as the social butterfly in their formative years.

Tldr; I'm a bum, I like reading about bums, but don't make the bum's story too wack or too full of bums or I'll be bummed out.

Exactly this. Often times, their woes are just too extreme and unrelatable, there's also no sign of those evil tits when the mc goes back in time. Just relatively normal people.

I think a great trick to make use of, is "unreliable narrator": it's not that they were comically evil...The MC just remembered them that way.
That'd be a good way to show why "it's suddenly so easy, I suddenly have no enemies..."

That being said, I came here to say that I don't see the point of the MC looping back to her youth.
This could've EASILY been a story about an anxious teen who decided that in a new enviornment (hs), she'll try her best.
That way, I wouldn't have the constant fear of "it was a dream all along...The MC had a vivid dream as her brain was shutting down from blood loss..."