The story is interesting and fun, it's riddled with clichés and common set ups and it follows your regular oblivious otome character.īut. A third of the novel was f*cking padded by characters with their inferiority complexes. A third of the novel is just the MC (and all the side-PoV characters actually) putting themselves down. But the more I read it, the more I was turned off by it. I literally single-handedly cured a plague but I'm sorry I didn't do anything, not a single thing at all!!! I'm sorry for existing but not doing anything. Brings a new cure and a whole village of doctors to cure a plague. I'm sorry for breathing the same air as everyone. Next time, I should knock before entering, no wait, that would still bother everyone. I entered the room, what a grave, grave sin. I should just f*cking go back inside so everyone can be at ease when the horrible horrible disfigured abomination that is me is out of their sight. And she's like, why is everyone staring at me? Must be because they're annoyed by me, I'm so disgusting.
And she is the most beautiful, adorable, cute, sweet, angelic, child in the world and her eyes sparkle like stars and her skin is white as snow and her lips as red as blood yada yada yada. more> the whole f*cking world (no, she's not, but they ignore every other good noble and praise her to the heavens. Everyone is like, she's a goddess! Too good to be a princess, the only decent noble in. What is up with the massive, massive, massive inferiority complex? So off-putting, and irrelevant to the story anyway. And every side glance at her, she thinks the worst of herself. but the protagonist apologizes for every single f*cking thing. Suffers too much from the "I'm an OP Mary Sue character, but since I'm Japanese, I'm all oblivious and humble and ppl fall for me shit." The plot was ok, typical for the genre. Her inner monologue has a lot of great tsukkomi moments, but unfortunately she never says any of them out loud. Once the time skips stop though, she ends up coming off as the usual "overworker with an inferiority complex even though everyone is constantly praising her" that seems to show up in so many of these otome isekais. She starts off as being "focused" and because of the occasional time skips, it feels like she's waiting for the opportune moment to act. The MC is also ends up as a bit of a generic mary sue. I get the feeling that the author started artificially increasing the number of chapters once it became popular. more> hasn't even reached the start of the actual otome game yet. From volume 2 onward, her flag clearing rate is at most a quarter of what it was before. The problem is that the plot slows down to a crawl after that. The first 25ish chapters (volume 1) are fun, watching the MC running around trying to prevent events that would raise flags in the future. It served as a decent way to kill time while I binge read up to the current release, but I don't think I'll be adding it to my reading list.