@Soveregin
Did you only read the manga?. You sound like you have a short and limited amount of information relating to this series. I don't know how the light novel went, but so far from what I've read in the web novel it is not MC fault. From how the way you write you sound like you don't have a clue on what's going on with the plot in that world. I don't feel like I'm talking to another reader that have read this series. All you write is sound like a generic view on a fantasy/isekai revenge trope. Here I'll give you the link to the English translated web novel https://bnatranslations.com/the-revenge-of-the-soul-eater/. So far it only translated until volume 2, but that should be enough to proof my point.
A player that is cursed to never leveling up but instead of being pitied and put on special care for the disabled is instead hated and discriminated. Now he'll get a cheat and will take revenge on this heartless world by doing hentai plot stories!
Nothing against revenge stories, but this stinks to high heaven of a neet or shut in just hating on society.
Imagine designing a whole story to make your readers immediately pissed off because they identify as the bullied mc and then give them dopamine rushes when said mc rapes and kills those who abused him.
Now imagine being an average person, perhaps a young teen who was never really bullied reading this kind of story, identifying with this extreme antisocial behavior, dopamine rush and everything. I frankly don't know if it does any harm to the ones reading this, but I personally find it gross these kind of stories are made at all. I guess most manga was always produced to be quick gratification pulp fiction trash. Or was it?
Hm.. Leaned a bit too hard on that bully party that it made me think if this world is even alive or just a murder sandbox looking at these comments. I get what it's trying to do but so far, when the inn-keep is in on the treatment, I have to ask: is he really the lowest of the low? A character tells the MC that there are other professions out there but is that even an option? The MC says it is but it's a wee bit hard to accept as he is spiraling down from despair. All I got from this chapter is "the world is shit" even the handwave explanation of legendary heroes not attaining lvl 100 didn't convince me.
While the art is amazing as expected...the story is some badly written edgy revenge story.
I decided to check out the novel (the translation quality for this trash title is somehow so good compared to the more popular ones out there) and it turns into a mess not long after this first incident.
Why should I care about the MC? All he's done is be a useless waste of skin. If I were his family or his former adventuring party or the adventurer's guild I'd have kicked him out too.
Being unable to level up in a game mechanics RPG world makes everything everyone has done to him totally justified. Yeah, they were pretty dickish when they gave him the boot, but that doesn't mean he deserve vengeance on them or whatever.
You can't have a revenge story where the revenge targets were correct to kick the MC to the curb.
The novel version is actually pretty good in my opinion. The revenge is justified although the series is not just about revenge and more about the MC proving his worth to the world and also to the people that abandoned him. The beginning is not as edgy as others and sets up future planned events and a free falling plot line. One of my main issues is that the sexual shit isn't really needed and if it gets more sexual its getting dropped.
Too bad, I kind of liked how they started building a proper background for the MC before making him OP.
Too many mangas recently make a two-to-ten pages background, make the protagonist OP by the end of first chapter and then he strolls through everything with little to no effort.
However, going by the manga alone, I side with @Soveregin from a few months ago: this MC totally deserves most of what happens to him.
* Getting kicked out of his clan: he is weak and the clan seems to only exist as a guardian of the kingdom. If he doesn't have the strength to fight monsters, he doesn't have a place in the clan. They could and should have been better people. Having a plan for unsuccessful children, such as giving them an alternate career path, would have been much better than sending them out in the world without any help. Some grudge is understandable but overall, he was kicked out of a warrior clan because he had no potential as a warrior. Harsh, but it seems like this whole world is insane, so this is the lowest insanity level I see here.
* Getting kicked out of the guild: not sure if the guild book is indeed clear about it, but the MC has worked on low-level quests only for years, enjoy the privileges of the guild with little return value. Any company or organization has to cut off employees who don't work their share. If you've got a warehouse employee who is performing at trainee level after several years, he's definitely lazy or incapable. He might good at something else, but if he insists on working this specific job, he's useless. The MC here wants to be an adventurer, but has done nothing but level-entry herb collection. Try as he might have (and we have only one side remark as a hint that he did even try), he didn't show any progress in swordsmanship, so all he could do was sneak around to get a few low-value herbs. Basically, novice quests. Even how he was kicked out was mostly done ok. In modern times, it would have been more decent to do it privately, but he was the one being whiny about it. He could have just taken his dismissal with some dignity and looked for another career altogether.
* Getting kicked out of the party: that was the one in the most derisive way and that party definitely some grudge for it. They were the ones being insistent on recruiting him, and he was a member of the party apparently for a few months, and seemed to fulfill his role to some extend. It's only when he confessed to being stuck at level 1 that they had a change of heart and kicked him out. (If that's not the course of events, the manga did a terrible job at depicting the actual events.) In the long run, he would still deserve being kicked out, but maybe not in this way.
* Getting used as monster bait: ok, this one is the one thing that he actually should have a grudge for. Even if he's weak and shouldn't be in this forest, he got actually attacked and injured by a former fellow adventurer to serve as monster bait. I can understand that it was a desperate move on the girl's side, but deserving some hate from the victim. No objection there. Not that the MC should have been there in the first place. He knew the place was dangerous, he was unqualified to adventure there and there were several disappearances. But he didn't deserve to be shot with magic in this way.
So, up to there, aside from the last point, all that happened to him was because he was unfit for adventure and insisted on that career anyway.
If you think that is not enough for being kicked out, I'll re-use one metaphor: imagine someone has a terrible track record at medicine school (say, he can't make a difference between a lung and a kidney), and for this was not allowed to learn surgery. (duh!) But then, he still shows up in hospitals, insisting that he should be allowed to do brain surgery. Would you allow him to perform brain surgery on you? Or would you kick him out of the hospital?
I'm not sure about you, but I would definitely kick him out. Maybe with some civility (in real life, we're not in a medieval setting), but I would still be firm that he will not be allowed to operate on my brain, or anyone else's as far as I can allow or prevent.
So this is yet another manga with a MC who has never given anyone a reason to think he is capable with the sword, still insisted that he was despite his clear lack of result, and resented the world for not seeing his hidden genius. In a world where "civility" is the last of anyone's concern.
@mismarca in particular:
Once again, if the world is more at fault, the manga makes a terrible job of portraying correctly.
And "the webnovel is better" is not an excuse. If the webnovel is good, that's nice, I guess. That doesn't make the manga good because there is good material behind it.
As someone said about bad movie adaptations: "read the book" is not an excuse for a bad movie.
Now that the manga exists, it has its own existence that must be internally good. If it cannot exist outside of the webnovel, then something has been done wrong here.
