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| This review concerns the first volume |
Unlike tensura, Dragon hatchling lacks any base building aspects, and unlike kumo, all skills and battles are a blurry fog, not exciting at all. So combining the defects and tropes of both we get Reincarnated as Dragon Hatchling.
For no reason, with not even an excuse of a prologue the main character's soul gets thrown in an dragon egg, with a "divine voice" that pretty much guides him to rise into power so that he, I surmise, get some sort of final fight with a fated villain later on the series. As I said, the volume spends most of its time with confusing images that are supposed to be fights barely concerning any world building aspects or artistic aspects other than pure action and status screens. Unless we consider seeing the MC rolling around like a Dark Souls dodge maniac in a boss fight some form of art. Artistic self-embarrassment, perhaps. The character also complains a lot about not being able to talk to humans since they appear unrecepting towards beastly races that come from the murder-forest, so he wallows in self pity and even gets a skill called "loneliness resistance lvl 1"... Cringe.
In fact, the guy is so desperate that he quite literally throws himself unto a party of adventurers, knowing that his race description said "sought after by adventurers, killed for their tasty meat", but "luckily" the so-called "heroine" pleads on his behalf and somehow manages to convince her party-members to not injure the MC. On hindsight, had she not intervened the party would've feasted on the idiot poor-excuse for a dragon and avoided being slaughtered by the real menace that laid a little deeper on the woods. How's that for "heroine"?
I would like to make fun of more stuff, such as the lack of discernment of the MC by choosing a race evolution that's known for human genocide over one that's concidered friendly and disireble, all in the effort of being more likable to the humans; or perhaps the amount of time wasted on pointless dialogues from the human side of the story, clearly something that took inspiration in Kumo, which is pretty crazy considering that's the worst trait of the story, so arknowledged by every critic I've read; but all in all there's simply not enough content to make a solid plot to point holes at, it's all a hole of emptyness.

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