Extremely cliché and lewd enough to pass as a porn comic, the story is difficult to believe even if we ignore the propostous pretense that getting run over by a truck throws you into a fantasy world.
"The story is so great" some had said, "he grows in character throughout the story". Ha! He has a personality change so big, that there's no point in showing his previous life. Think about it. You have this NEET guy, thirty-something years doing nothing but playing eroges, and suddenly he not only awakes some kind of conscience and sacrifices himself for some rando, but once in the fantasy world he works his ass off both intellectually and physically from the minute he's born? Yeah, right!
He couldn't get a job or even lift his fat ass off the chair, but now he'll endure the pains and dangers of life as a mercenary. Note that the guy is born into a rich family and both his parents are skilled heroes, so leaving aside the fact than that's cheating, if a lazy guy has the opportunity not to work a single day of his life you think he'll just say "Nah, more work for me, please"? Precisely.
I'm going to tell you what this overrated piece of garbage is. A power fantasy from some pedo loser who put himself into a fantasy setting and made his character do all the heavy lifting so he could enjoy the fruits of hard labor without actually doing anything. Thus he constantly ogled little girls, cousins, and even his mother. Do you think that someone who has changed would objectify someone so much as to fabricate some BS rape story for the maid accusing his innocent father without even considering what the consequences could be? I'll leave you at that.
17/7/24 Revisiting "Jobless Reincarnation" (Isekai slice of life manga, three volumes)
If you're wondering why I'm fact-checking my prior review it's because I've realized that objectivity hasn't always been my greatest forte. So, facts check. I even went above and beyond and read until mid-volume 3 just in case I'm missing some key information or some drastic change occurs to shift the plot from an uninteresting, dull slice of life to something more thrilling. It saddens me to say, no it doesn't. In fact, it's an insult to slices of life to call this... thing, a "slice of life". I have no clue as to what this is. "Power fantasy" is also somewhat inaccurate, since the main character has little importance. It's like "Imagine if all those secondary, no, tertiary characters who none ever gave a damn about because of how bland they were had ALL the screen time".
I've read other reviews in case I was missing something else, but other that, apparently, the Light novel and the Anime are even better (worse?), none said anything useful outside trying to justify how sluggish the plot is by saying "Yeah, man. I swear it gets better, right after chapter ten, or uhh twenty. Maybe right before the end? It's coming of age, so it's supposed to be like that" and we, the educated, cultured readers look at them as Volturi look upon puny, sad little mortals.
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| Imagine reading "slice of life" |
PS: The art desing would be half decent if not for the accursed blinding effect they put in every page. 1/10
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