Just as a reminder that everything on mangadex gets rated an 8/10 by default, even if nobody has ever rated it before so ratings will always be a bit rigged. It's current rating on mandadex is a 7.86, but when I checked it on MAL it had a rating of 6.94 which I found more fitting (even though it should've been a bit lower). And if yall want to know it's novel doesn't even have a rating on MAL since it only has less than 360 members (currently
Man I remember reading chapter when when it came out and kinda just forgot about it there because I didn't really like the writing of it, glad I followed my gut feeling since people reviewing this manga says the writing is overall a bit weak.
A review on MAL said it was something like a mix of "Overlord" and "Fukushuu wo Koinegau Saikyou Yuusha wa" which I can understand given the OP waifus, secret society ish, how MC was to get revenge, and that this manga can get bloody... but that review also said that it kinda fails in all those aspects and I agree. Of course I don't have time reading every chapter considering I found this updated in the homepage and checked it out but I did skim through most of it. And man it doesn't really feel like a revenge story. You can immediacy tell it has power fantasy writing just by the vibes from reading this (and I personally dislike power fantasy since they usually have noticeable bad writing) and that the fact it feels more, lets say slice of life (can't think of anything better), than edgy, compared to most revenge stories are written. In fact the whole revenge plot feels like a secondary plot sometimes, which shouldn't be the case since this manga was sort of, oh i don't know, marketed as a revenge story?
I also don't like how it has "tragedy" as one of its tags because other than chapter 1 nothing feels tragic when comparing to something like "Tokyo Ghoul", especially because the ending of chapter one screams the literal opposite of tragic. MC is also overpowered as hell along side every single minion he has so getting his revenge should be pretty easy and yet when he does get some of his revenge it doesn't seem all that satisfying since it's done pretty simple and not very creative like "Fukushuu wo Koinegau Saikyou Yuusha wa". And the thing is if you're going to have a story where MC is basically a god then you have to make things interesting for them to get or do their revenge just like "Fukushuu..." (its a long name). Hell "Overlord" deficiently wouldn't even had been half as popular as it is if Aniz jsut started nuking every human in existence within a week. But what's weird is that this has the tags "tragedy" and "award winning" yet doesn't have "gore" despite showing pretty bloody panels and people getting their torso and arms cut off in like under 20 chapters. Also the "award winning" tag is probably cap since compared to other popular mangas this has a lot of criticism, isn't well known (at least in a good way), hasn't actually won any awards from what I tried finding (doesn't help it's from a foreign country and in a different language so google isn't much help), and the writing compared to actual award winning manga/manhwa/oneshots/(web)comics isn't even close.
We also immediately get a timeskip of 3 years in the 3rd chapter where MC officially becomes OP and exacts his revenge, which I personally think isn't a good writing choice. We don't get to see MC struggle on his journey to become powerful enough to even try starting his revenge or even see if he's had any significate character growth compared to how we first met him, whether it be MC becoming more 'mature', coldhearted, or steeled his resolve of revenge. An example of a protagonist journey to become powerful enough to exact his revenge would be Arifureta (one of my favorite novels), as Hajime actually learns to let go of his revenge despite it being a reason why he was able to push himself to survive in the first place and we got to see the 'how' and 'why' he's so different compared to when we first met him, to him becoming mad for vengeance, and him when he leaves the dungeon as a whole different person.
And yeah that's just about all I can rant for since it's honestly more fun to read poorly written stories to rant about them later than to read it and force myself to try to enjoy it. It's what I started doing with "Disaster-Class Hero" since it had top tier art but one of the worse writing I've ever read. I'm also going to throw this on the back end of my bookmarks just to read it and laugh at it while looking at the art, since the art is good tbh.
