Enough is enough. You can’t preserve the story anymore, it’s already completely different.
What if, instead of being a stupid, boring fatso, he actually did something proactive, like taking positions of power where he could genuinely influence the world, instead of just leveling up with his player group and accomplishing nothing?
The disaster is part of the story, and I’m pretty sure the events surrounding that disaster are what lead the characters to change their personalities, learn, and grow. Why isn’t that worth saving?
If he truly sees the NPCs as real humans, why does he want to preserve some preprogrammed path that was created for them back when they were just NPCs? That’s a contradiction. And if those NPCs are, by design, incapable of becoming as strong as the players, then the players are objectively more qualified to stop the disaster than they are.
The only motivation that would actually make sense is trying to stay under the radar so that other players, those outside the school whom they don’t know yet, don’t notice them first. It’s the rules of the jungle: you don’t want to be discovered by an unknown danger before you’ve identified it yourself. But that clearly isn’t his motivation.
I don’t get these authors. Why would you intentionally make the plot boring? Maybe our Japanese colleagues overseas share the same opinion, and hopefully it gets through to the author that making the plot boring is not the way to keep your readers engaged.
I have read some of the comments on eBookJapan and they seem to be saying the same stuff, they dont understand the motivation of the Protagonist of this manga, and the motivation of the author.
„Finished reading up to the latest volume. For the first time, Volume 7 actually delivers a proper sense of catharsis, but until then, it’s all dark and depressing. One of the characters even points this out in this volume: the main reason it doesn’t feel satisfying is that the protagonist is too mature to be thrilling. There are plenty of works that serve as an anti-“I’m-overpowered” (ore-tsue) story, but if that’s the goal, shouldn’t they at least provide some moments of entertaining, exhilarating buildup? It often feels unclear what the author actually wants the reader to enjoy.
I was lucky to be able to read Volumes 1–9 all at once this time, but if I’d picked it up when only about three volumes were out, I probably would have put it back on the shelf.“
“There are so many things about the characters’ actions that I just can’t accept, it feels like the author just wants the story to go the way they want. From fairly early on, the protagonist hates it when the story changes. Using that as a pretext, he doesn’t act, hides things, or refuses invitations, and that’s how the story moves forward, but no matter how you look at it, his choices are clearly making things worse. Yet somehow it’s portrayed as if he did something good and reluctantly ended up being useful, and I just can’t accept that.
He keeps saying “the story is important,” but the heroine’s growth has already completely deviated from the story. Even the original protagonist is now just a background character, he hasn’t gotten any stronger and is totally sidelined.
At this point, the protagonist feels like he’s stubbornly “protecting the story,” even though the story has already gone off the rails. To me, he just looks like a painfully nerdy otaku.
I tried Volumes 1–3 for free, thought it might be interesting, and ended up buying all the way to the latest volume, but I’m stopping here. I think from now on it’s just going to drag on with incomprehensible motivations.“