Maybe im easy to please, but how is this series only a 7 star? Even on kappabeasts website its a 3. This is an easy 4/5 and at least 8/10 for me 😅. I wanna see what happens as MC frees the minds of his old party. If the 1st one is anything to go off of, its not gonna be pretty.
I'd guess the lower rating are from people who never made it through the initial stages, where this thing, which is definitely what Mother's Basement would classify as One of Those Fucking Things, goes through of the generic steps of:
1) Man who'd always given his all for his party but has a "strange/misunderstood" gimmick is back-stabbed by his party.
2) Man discovers as soon as he leaves the party that his strange gimmick is overwhelmingly and insanely overpowered, and he never needed the party at all. (Bonus points to the writer if the "strange" power really is weird and clunky, minus points if the power is obviously and blatantly awesome.)
3) Man proceeds to reap the benefits of always being awesome while free of his party of parasites.
4a) Man's in-party girlfriend who was absent during his betrayal/banishment finds out he was betrayed and leaves the party to go find him AND/OR
4b) Man buys/rescues underage (usually demihuman) slave and (accidentally or deliberately) grooms her to be his new girlfriend.
5) Man eventually gets revenge against his former party, who are were grossly incompetent, evil, or both.
6) Man continues to go down the wish fulfillment checklist as he wins against everything, gaining power, fame, and bitches.
This work does a lot of things right to make it stand above most of Those Fucking Things, but it undoubtedly
is One of Those Fucking Things, and there's enough fatigue with those that I imagine a lot of people bounce right off this.
I'm still curious if we're going to get an eventual reveal that Kaede is a transmigrator/reincarnator/regressor, since she has the tell-tale Appraise ability and she keeps displaying knowledge specific and relevant to the main plot.