Michael

The MC is an extreme Mary Sue who, despite being a mere tax worker from Japan, knows how to make chocolate, start a banking industry, make cosmetics, revolutionize agriculture, blah blah. She and her companions are all good and virtuous and the best of the best (as usual, there's nothing “villainous” here), and everyone who opposes them is stupid and evil. Zero conflict.

A surprisingly fun read. The MC is ruthless towards his enemies, and the interactions between Charlotte and the MC are cute and entertaining.

Another fun volume. I expected to get tired of this by now, as misunderstanding comedies tend to wear their welcome out pretty fast, but I'm still enjoying it. Charlotte and the gang ramp up their antics to support Haru in the background, hijinks ensue. A school arc that I don't hate, which is surprising. Then again there's barely any actual “school” in this volume.

A fairly bland wish fulfillment isekai starring the author's self-insert. The first chunk of the book is him leveling up and explaining in excruciating detail how awesome all his gear is, and how he went from level 1 ditch digging to level 100 ditch digging or whatever. The middle is him back in the real world, where anyone he talks to can only say “wow you're so awesome I love you”, and the very end of the book peeks a bit at the fantasy world he stepped into. The MC is dumb as a bag of rocks like your usual dense protagonist, and completely merciful to even those who are actively trying to kill him. The other isekai world seems like it might be more interesting, as the Japan-focused part is just the author jerking off to his own wish fulfillment fantasy. There's also zero conflict.

If you have absolutely nothing else to read, I guess this might scratch that itch.

A fairly bland volume. 95% of it is your usual isekai adventurer filler, and he doesn't even start his titular journey until the last chapter. It feels like this entire volume was the prologue for volume 2, when the story would actually start.

This is where I ended up dropping this series. It was decent overall, but it's becoming more and more of a slog to read through as it stagnates. The author took too much influence from JP light novels, so there are pages and pages of fluff that do nothing but advance the pagecount. I do not want a 2-page detailed review of how Boxxy going from level 24 ditch digging to level 25 ditch digging is incredible. For every tangent the author goes on, he then goes on another sub-tangent, as the need to explain every little detail about everything seemingly compels him to do. Whenever skills, leveling up, or other insignificant details come up, my eyes just glaze over and I skip forward until the author finally decides to talk about the plot again. This problem has been here since book 1, but I was hoping it would get better instead of getting worse.

A fairly decent misunderstanding comedy. The romance is your typical dense protagonist, but the main source of comedy comes from the MC having to deal with his cursed weapon. Volume 2 just came out in Japan, but I'm hoping this doesn't go on for too long since it seems like this might get old quick. The author seems to be trying to move on to a VTuber career, so who knows if [s?]he'll even finish this series. The author hasn't written a web novel chapter since February, so I guess he's busy with writing this.

Bland and predictable. If you've read literally any other OP misunderstanding comedy, you've read this one.

I was worried because volumes 3 and 4 were sorta disappointing, but this one pulled the series up just before I was on the verge of dropping it. Great volume.

A fairly disappointing volume, it's basically filler and setup for the next volume. Guess we have to wait another year for Slow Press to release volume 16 before anything of consequence happens.

Bland garbage. This series also suffers from the eight deadly words – “I don't care what happens to these people.” None of the side characters are interesting, and they act in absurd and irrational ways. Find something better to read.

It's an okay read. The crux of the comedy is that our MC is super dense (well beyond the point of incredulity, bordering on flat-out stupidity), and the novel is a stream of “he's so awesome and humble” -> “there's no way he can survive that” -> “wow he survived that, he's super awesome and humble and heroic.” If either of those bother you, you won't like it. The plot itself seems interesting enough-conspiracies, a Holy Empire that's probably exactly what you imagine-but the characters are pretty flat so far. It's sorta whatever, if you've got nothing better to read.

This series is a decent, funny idea held back by poor execution due to the writer's amateur ability. The concept and humorous moments itself hit pretty well, but the problem with this novel is that the author insists on long, drawn-out, repetitive explanations of the titular game's buggy mechanics. The Golden Zlime chapter is a good example of this, because he explains how the Extermination Fest works multiple times in a row, repeating the exact same sentence but worded differently, for almost an entire page. This is fine the first few times, but eventually it becomes overbearing to the point where 70% of each chapter is explaining a bug, and how he's going to exploit it. I don't know if this is the author trying to pad out the novel, or just his lack of experience, but the novel really suffers for it. I had to drop it. Whoever the editor was that got hired for this LN needs to be fired, because they're supposed to trim the this kind of fat off the WNs during their LN publication.

There's a manga that's being scanlated (albeit with a mediocre translation, possibly machine translated, don't remember) that I recommend reading instead if the idea here interests you. It has a much better pacing, and the comedy hits better due to it.

I ended up dropping the series on this volume. It was a fairly mediocre read overall, but this volume finally pushed me to give up on it.

Really, FUNA? Doing a soft reset of basically the entire story just so you can shoehorn a new cast in? Did you get bored of the current story, or did you not know how to progress it?

A bland, formulaic read. This volume is about an orphanage, and it plays out exactly as you expect.

This was an okay volume, but it's basically filler to read until the next arc.

Another school arc. This series has been treading water over what is almost the exact same plot ever since volume 2, and it looks like it continues to volume 5 at least. He goes to yet another school (thankfully it's quickly glossed over this time), he fights yet another upstart noble that he inevitably crushes, everything falls in his lap, blah blah, same as the previous couple volumes. When I was about to finish the volume, I said to myself “is the school arc finally over?”, only for him to say that college is next. I'm on the verge of dropping this series, which is a shame because I really enjoyed the first couple of volumes. But it feels like the author has no idea where to take the story, or what he's even doing.

I noticed that he's also the author of Otome Mob, which I also dropped, so I guess it's not surprising that I might end up dropping this series, too...

Starts off okay-ish (when was the last time you saw a light novel about pirates?), but quickly devolves into your usual isekai slop. I knew it was going to happen but read it out of boredom anyway, would not recommend.

I had originally marked volume 9 as where I dropped this series, but I couldn't remember why. After finishing this dreadful volume, I remembered. Nearly this entire volume is nothing but filler, with a tiny thread of a plot near the end. You can read the first chapter, then skip straight to the epilogue and still have a decent understanding of what you skipped, because one of the characters introduced in this volume explains the entire plot as if you didn't just read the volume. Surprise, the mysterious gold-ranked mercenaries are agents from another nation, and they're up to evil schemes because something-something war, but none of that matters until the epilogue kinda sorta maybe. Also, for some reason Arc is basically a pacifist against human enemies despite his very first incident in the series involving him cutting a bunch of bandits in half and then remarking how he doesn't feel anything about it. His insistence on capturing instead of killing comes back to bite him in the ass almost immediately, obviously, but I doubt he'll change his methods from hereon

This series really went downhill after Thanatos got merc'd, which is natural since that's where the original web novel ended. Everything after is the author writing by the seat of his pants. Oh well, time to find something else to read.

This volume finally made me drop the series, which is a shame because I enjoyed v1-v3 for the most part. v3 ended on a dramatic note, and set the stage for a larger plot with our lead “Loner” MC (who isn't actually a loner, and hasn't been one since midway through v1 when he acquired a harem consisting of damn near the entire female class body) basically becoming the benefactor of a large fortified duchy. So what does v4 follow with?

Dungeon grinding. And boy, is there a lot of it. As I turned the page, only to find another god damn chapter where our MC takes the gaggle of useless female classmates down to the dungeon, I found myself asking "how long has this filler been going on for?" When I checked the e-reader's progress %, I was already halfway through the book. Half the book gone, and not a single thing of consequence has happened. Oh, our MC got a new mascot party member in the form of a cute slime, but the rest of what I read is the same situations playing out over and over again. The harem that follows him around berates and demands things of him (in a humorous tone of course), MC is a complete doormat who can't say no to anyone, the classmates are apparently lvl 90 and are still useless in combat, the same jokes as usual being beaten to death, and the MC works late into the night basically inventing civilization for the small remote duchy he occupies. Is it finally over?Nope, gotta go to the dungeon again to do some more filler combat. You can skip over half of this book and not miss a single thing (probably even more than that), and that tells me that the author has pacing issues. Most likely, he hit this roadblock and didn't know how to continue the story, so he just wrote whatever until he was able to cobble together whatever half-assed plot comes after 200+ pages of filler grinding. I no longer care to find out. This kind of fluff should've been left in the WN where it belongs, not taking up over 50% of a book.

I'm pretty sure I wrote a review for this, but it seems to have been deleted... So I'll repost.

This review is completely about the official translation by Breakthrough Books (distributed on Lulu.com, which is incorrectly listed here as the publisher). It's nigh-unreadable. It was translated by the owner of the tiny publisher, a native Japanese with a tenuous grasp on English, and as such is a pain in the ass to slog through. Should've saved up some money and hired a competent native English translator instead of trying to translate it yourself. Also, the covers are ugly and have nothing to do with the books themselves. Here's hoping that a real, competent publisher picks it up instead someday. Embarrassing release.

A decent little comedy. The skill wankery is kept to a minimum thankfully, so you won't have to read multiple pages about how he leveled up in ditch digging. In fact, I don't remember seeing anything like that at all, although Skills do exist. The setting is amusing and the lead heroine is fun. Hoping the plot doesn't take itself too seriously later though.

A bland read. It's basically a heavy-handed, preachy “killing is wrong. If you kill him, you'll be just like him!” story. The character are one-dimensional, and the titular Undead King doesn't really have a character arc besides “I just, like, want everyone to live in peace, maaaan.” The conclusion is not satisfying, and the bad guy basically gets away with everything but is now a bit more inconvenienced.

Despite the Goodreads title saying “Vol 1”, this is a one-volume read (it came out in 2020, so it's either that or the next volume hasn't come out for whatever reason, but I doubt the story will continue with how it ended).

The volume that made me drop the series. I finally realized that it's just been nonstop teleports behind you fight scenes for the past few volumes, and virtually none of the fights have stakes to them, and I found myself just skipping forward to the end of the fight. Everyone goes Super Saiyan Ultra Blue Instinct God Supreme God Max, blah blah. The series just isn't for me anymore. If you like reading hundreds of pages of fight scenes, you'll have a great time, but I just stopped caring.

It's okay, nothing special. If you've read Kuma Kuma Bear, it's basically that.