For future readers. Big titties in the cover? Hard pass.
PR: Some guys are riding a school bus, having their typical Netflix teenage drama like every other day, and then with a sudden bang of light, they're already in the other world (quoting) "a place that looked like a fantasy movie prop"
The evil Goddess (anime-like, according to the author) begs the Heroes on her knees (ungodly), whose summoning granted them magical powers, to kill some plain demon Lord. You can tell a mile away that the goddess is evil, hell, even her name is "Vicious". Her moral allegiance couldn't be more clear if her name was Dr. Murder or Cruel Devil.
All the hive-minded "Heroes" quickly accept being in another world after a few words like "wtf man it's like an isekai" and then we proceed to the usual randomly granted elemental magical powers with an arbitrary, plain alphabetical graduation measured by a crystal ball.
Then, the Evil Goddess makes an exemplary case of Mimori Touka that the weak are useless, and that they should be disposed, because they cling to the strong, without caring about whether they're good or bad people, nor giving a thought to the well-known fact that power corrupts people. Except (to a certain extent) Touka all 2-C class is quite tedious and exasperating, with their half-baked, cardboard-plain personalities.
Touka is sent by the Goddess to "The Ruins of Disposal" (right, because they're ruins to dispose of people), where supposedly a certain death awaits without much resistance from the "Heroes". That's what vexes me about isekai LN. Heroes are not so because of magical powers. A Hero is just so only after performic heroic deeds and that's for a reason. That's what differentiates Heroes from Villans. Well, never mind.
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| You can tell how much of a whiny baby the guy is just from this picture. See how lame he looks! |
Inside the ruins the difficulties are quickly solved, the alleged unusable status effect skill proves to be the deadliest weapon in creation, Mimori gains more than a thousand levels, and a magical punch pops into existence about the same time he was teleported into the world, conveniently solving light, water and food issues.
So that's it for any hardships the character could go through. He eventually makes it out of the ruins, but it doesn't feel very rewarding. Monsters are not particularly creative, since most are taken from mythology, but at least are not the usual bug monsters.
The author, male judging by the fact that all females are super sexy, with reveling outfits and big boobs, tries to add more colors to the story by changing the point of view, but fails spectacularly: PoVs other than Touka's are irkingly irrelevant and particularly poorly written. Environment descriptions are nonexistent and one has to sort of make the place out deducing the looks out of the name, e.g. "the dark forest" is a dark forest, and "the sea of trees" is a regular forest. (Edit 11/24 if tree density = darkness, wouldn't the sea of trees also be a dark forest?)
Just when the interesting things were about to happen, with the Forbidden Witch and all, the translations stopped. The author's intentions are unclear (like his elipsis) and depending on whether he chooses to address the interesting events like, oh I don't know, maybe the whole "demons invading the earth" or "killing the goddess" issue or focus on trivial Fifty Shades of Grey things like "Hehe, yeah the Elves got soft skin 'cause the spirits make periodical skincare on 'em" or "And the Elf big, bouncing chest grew hot at the sight of Mr. Main character that represents me and then... Mmm. Kisses him!" the story might become sort of interesting or horrendous. 3/10
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