First rule is always: If you don't enjoy it, don't read it. Others may or may not agree with you. Or they may like it for exactly the reasons that you dislike it.
very true, but i saw some spoilers that
mc will be able to utilize his true strength in the near future and will bury the guy that cut his fingers so i might stick for a while lol
as i said, he is strong enough not to die. like before he was kicked in the ass hard by the midget and the amazon. and it's good that he's already strong enough to have an intense sparring match against shiki but it's a shame that there's no exhibition chapter to showcase and benchmark how strong he actually is now
then to make it interesting the author will need to focus a lot on the side characters. (One Punch man is probably the epitome of this.) Here, I do think that the side characters have interesting and fun stories.
ofc, i like how lime has the capacity to be a protagonist of his own side story lmao but side characters like the other two heroes legit pissed me off especially when the war actually took more than 2 chapters(like their introduction, their life before getting summoned, their life after getting summoned, and the actual war fucking hell wasn't even entertaining even one single mf bit)
- Matoko is not on A Man With a Dream; if he were solo, his goals would probably be "Survive. And if doing well enough go track down my parents history." But because of his power, he ends up collecting several very powerful followers, who then add their own followers (or act to add more followers for Makoto), so he ends up as head of a kingdom by chance.
- And to be fair, he doesn't whine something like "I didn't want this!", nor does he go nutso with power. Instead, he rules in pretty minimal way, setting basic rules, and a few goals, and letting his followers act on their own within those fairly lose rules.
him having a slow life is fine with me, but if more than several chapter is about someone not even closely relevant to him like the shiny eye hero getting more screen time than he deserves is not that fucking great considering this is a monthly release and that's one of the things that grinds my gears
- He's also not an idiot or a loser. He trains (though we don't see it often.) And he keeps an eye on his lieutenants and overall realm. But he's naive and not a super-cunning strategist. So he leaves that to his expert lieutenants. (Well, Tomoe mostly.)
yeah he's a pretty average guy, i get that, and that's fine but his screen time is almost nonexistent to some chapters(like heroes introduction) and that pisses me off since i read this solely for him.
the shit part is that his training, which is btw the most important info, gets brushed off easily and we only saw the result which is when shiki and him does an intense sparring for learning purposes of his student. like we see him previously getting tutored by shiki about magic theory and then
BAM intense sparring lmao
- His own power is definitely his. (Vs. e.g. Rimuru, where 3/4 of his really awesome stuff is actually done by his sage ability.)
not really a big deal for me even if he needs to use a device or hard drugs as long as it's fun to read lmao
- There is a little bit of harem vibe, but it's not over the top.
that's great since i'm not a fan of harem at all and that's also the reason i cling to this series
Having said that, and thinking again about Carried by Underlings trope, I would have to say that it's not too bad
true but i guess the pivotal point of my irritation is that really him lacking of screen time in every chapter. like we know he's doing something but it'll just get summarized in a few words and that's what irks me. i just wanna see my man doing stuff and not some irrelevant world building that will only be acknowledge as a side comment in later chapters smh lmao
like how about the shiny eye hero get a summarized one and not a WHOLE FUCKING CHAPTER BY HIM JUST GETTING MANIPULATED
