Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki

[Solipsist]

Reading some of the old chapters, it just occurred to me how utterly bizarre this story is, MC-design wise --
TLDR: It's about some guy, who does not want to be "called for adventure", but the author constantly wants for the MC to be called for adventure, so he showers him with opportunities, and these opportunities are constantly being shut down.

Kind of baffling. If you can't write a story about a guy who just wants to chill out, why constantly drag him to the spotlight?
I can get the joke of: "Does not want to be famous? Wouldn't it be funny if he gets super famous?" -- but that joke runs extremely stale by the 4rd time it's used, not to mention it being the main theme of the story, so it'll be played ad-infinitum.
Truly a bizarre choice for an MC.

Coming back to this old comment, and now I can only think about:
"Anyone still reading this thing? It went on for so long, with a pretty weak premise, that I can't even flip through the pages."
I recall the fun thing being about this story, is the relatively creative and wacky crafting, the system interactions.
But looking at chapters 100s+-, it just looks like a SOL piece, with pretty mediocre action...

This is written by someone who has never played an MMO before. MC starts an MMO late and chooses production classes and other random stuff and gets really popular by making grape juice potions and cooking steaks. Sorry there are plenty of people who do nothing but production in MMOs, plus they'll have alt accounts for that stuff too.

Not to defend this story too hard, but AFAIK, the premise of the MC's success was his "ingenuity".
A big part of the premise was that, in a game, people are told: "Do X", so they do X. The MC saw "Do X", and tried to think like a QA guy and break the game around it.
That being said, as you put it, he "broke it" in pretty weak ways, there's a lot of garry-stu energy in this one, but it's overall "forgiven" because, at its core, the story is not action-orientated. It's supposed to be slice-of-life-ish, low-stakes, and any major success is played for laughs. So having an MC who can invent sliced-bread every so often, is less offensive, I presume.

 

[lextender]

I can't keep up with this manga anymore. the merman arc became a generic japanese humor manga that threw away all the cohesiveness of the previous world-building in exchange for quick laughs???
npcs transforming into super sentai?? i...
i dont even know what volume 13-14 is about anymore and i wont try to understand.
the art style started to fall off from volume 11 as well and its just so.... bad.
avoid this after volume 10 if you dont want brancells to die off.

 

[MikeSinner]

I wanted to do a reread of this, but I had forgotten about one of the biggest problems...
The 'official' translation sucks balls, while the other scanlation has terrible image quality and varying degrees of translation quality...
Why is it, that so many of these 'official' translations can't do a proper job of DOUBLE CHECKING the things they publish FOR MONEY?!?! Parts of sentences missing, sentences that just make no sense, etc. etc.
Why would anybody even pay them to get a physical copy, of something that did such a poor job of bringing you a quality product?
To be fair, I don't have that many physical manga to begin with, but if THIS is what is official (aside from the story not even being all that interesting anyway, what with the 'innovative' stealth archer type build and similar dumb stuff that should be about as plain as can be and the game being released after along time and STILL feeling like it's in pre-beta!), then forget about me buying any of these books!