"The work is trying to do too much, and letting things fall from their grasp."
Ok so, I don't really like this one. I just hate hardcore bullying, cause this... this is just not ok to happen. Kill them or leave them be, stop playing with your food like a cat after disemboling a mouse. Beyond that, the who litrpg is just pretty much ignored and doesn't add much to the story cause stats and levels are suggestions and somehow the MC just knows what some skills do, but also doesn't to others..... genuinely how does he know what the influencer skill does when he wouldn't have prior experience, and you can't say cause he has appraisal as he claimed he didn't know what some skills did. Moving on further, the mc is a chimera.... yet he looks like a dragon.... I find this heretical.... moving on futher still, there's something in the mc's status that doesn't make sense to me unless we are missing one exact bizare backstory. And finally, alot of the skill names and shit is just ..... sigh, let me explain it simply the pacing is shit. You know one of those Mafia ads where the level 1 guy suddenly becomes 100 for stealing the girl? Yeah, that's this manga in a nutshell....
Personally I wished they focused more on the slice of life side of things early, to make a focus on the Female Lead and how her main solstice is her pet that she helped who fights back against the bullies..... instead we got constant extreme bullying, terrible backstories, too fast pacing, and thought to be female protagonist is instead male monster protagonist, and a shounen psychological action story....
Refer to the top on my final opinion. In this case the novel may genuinely be better, but I wouldn't know