I do not recommend this series for people who have trouble glossing over illogical MCs. He is cool hero person for a year and wants to stay there but when he returns to japan he immediately becomes apathetic and resigned to the world. Um what? He still has magic and

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a troll shows up so he knows that magic crap is going on elsewhere

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but just straight up does not give a s***. If you can look past this then I guess you might enjoy this story. If the author ever decides to do a rewrite I think making the MCs actions more believable while reducing the apathy and general brooding is possible.

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Foodisgood

Status: chapter 7

Feb 21, 2022

the characters and dialogue feel unnatural. They feel like what an alien thinks humans are like.

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melchi

Status: chapter 107

Mar 28, 2023

I liked the start of this novel. I thought it was a neat take on isekai aftermath. The first arc seemed to go that way. The story starts out with a guy who gets sent back to his highschool self after defeating the demon lord. He is of course really bitter about getting tossed out in garbage in his sleep.

The first arc that deals with this is really good. Most of the story takes place doing things a jaded high schooler would.

However, eventually it pivots. It doesn't pivot well. As a slice of life, returner story the setup works well. However, the pivot turns it more and more into a power fantasy. Jin is a poor choice for a power fantasy protag.

#1 He's a generalist (So his fights are boring)

#2 He's not funny / likable so while rooting for him to make it in school works, cheering for him to be a hero doesn't. There are so many better power fantasies out there and pivoting into this realm ruins what makes this novel stand out.

Be warned, this has lots of grammar errors. It doesn't bother me but the sentences come across like they are machine translated. It is still readable but very noticable.

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YashAllen

Status: c45

Sep 24, 2021

It is one of the best on Scribblehub I Found hmm There is sometimes you can find unstaisfying basically Overall it is a good read. It's interesting and well written and make little curious what will happen next and Dialogues are perfectly well balanced between characters. Each chapter is not short it is definitely long over 3000 words average. I think I really enjoyed no disappointment up until so far I can say. Rating depends on user to user. I give this relating to authors that sumbit novel on Scribblehub. Thanks for author for Wonderful work. My view can change depend on how much I read.

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GreenRiver

Status: chapter 75

Jul 27, 2023

Update (chap 75) : FoodisGood said "the characters and dialogue feel unnatural. They feel like what an alien thinks humans are like." <- Very true, and why I stopped reading.

Origional Review (chap 20) : It's a decent story about a boy who's a little messed up. I'm only on chapter 20, but the chapters are surprisingly long. I was pleasantly surprised since I had expected the current 119 chapters to be read in an evening.

The MC gets returned to Earth, and then supernatural stuff starts to happen. The MC, despite the world as a whole either ignoring or abusing him, still wants to be a sane, law-abiding, member of society.

One review criticized him for being "apathetic and resigned to the world", despite still having his magic. Something that comes up over and over again is, yeah, he could do some terrible stuff, but doesn't. He could quit his sh*tty job and go rob a bank, but he doesn't. He could literally rip his sh*tty boss in half, but doesn't.

But just because he isn't a villain doesn't mean he's a hero. Been there, done that, screw it. If you want me to save you, pay me to do it.

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thor-aegir

Status: chapter 41

Mar 26, 2023

This novel is a classic Japanese light novel with an overpowered MC building a harem-like entourage and a tsundere love interest.

For a light novel, it is quite good, but suffer from many of the defaults of the genre, such as a very cliché plot, a lack of character depth and flat dialogs.

Nice read for those that like the genre, but otherwise, it is a pass.

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Shiddedpant

Status: c6

Dec 3, 2024

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I'm going to do this over the course of my reading experience to properly encapsulate the issues we encounter.

Chapter 4 - At first the protagonist was a jaded young man who's been used and exploited by authority in a foreign world, alone and uncared for he trudged his way through life until they just dumped him back in earth when he was done with what they needed doing. Obviously after essentially growing up like this he's become an apathetic, kinda lazy/tired man in a boys body who just wants to sleepwalk his way through a hopefully forgettable life with as little effort as he can manage.

Chapter 5 - Here things go wild, you know that trope of like a super powerful and "cold" character immediately buckling for whatever their weakness is? Like Cid from The Eminence in Shadow folding the moment money is involved, superman for kryptonite and such. Our protagonist is either bipolar or has split personalities and his other half has one of these weaknesses, what is it? The author I guess? It changes depending on the direction of the wind, at first he immediately folds for a police woman, the same police woman he'd just finished giving the cold shoulder because he was working and couldn't be assed getting off shift to go speak with her. Suddenly his alter ego kicks in and he's BOWING to her with a couple of sentences from her or something? Okay so sure now he's weak to police mommy's I guess, granted it isn't written as comedy or something kinky so it's just awkward and cringe but if that's what the author wants atleast now we know. Then he IMMEDIATELY switches up and suddenly doesn't want to be her servant and go around fighting monsters, don't worry about that though he's going to switch up so many more times it won't matter. Next he suddenly has Cid's weakness where for some reason if she offers him money he'll work for her even though he's never cared once about money up until this point, then he immediately changes again and suddenly he's having a meal with her and LAYING OUT HIS ENTIRE PAST to someone he just met minutes ago because... I don't even know anymore. I'm going to keep reading until I physically can't anymore just to see if this is supposed to be played for comedy or if the author just forgot to take his meds for this chapter and its the one outlier where we've got like 7 or 8 totally different protagonists that aren't ever explained, but goddamn this was so bad I almost just stopped reading and didn't bother to review.

Chapter 6 - This is where I quit, remember how I said I'd keep going until I physically couldn't anymore? He met a second authority figure, some old man he's never seen before except on TV a couple of times. Guess what he does? If you guessed he crawled on the floor and sucked the old man's toes begging for a chance to be a servant to whatever he pays him for then you'd be very very close, far too close for this novel to ever recover.

The good news is the author seems to have gotten the schizophrenic bipolar stuff under control, the bad news is we are left with ONLY the absolute worst and lowest personalities of the mix. The MC constantly complains about stuff he has total control over and we just keep going with the novel like it's completely natural to waste the readers time with such shallow conflict. He whines about how school is annoying, why is he at school you might ask. Well to that the author says-

He also complains about his dumbass manager at work and the fact he has no money, why doesn't he have any money? Why does he work there if it's so ass? Well obviously because-

The MC could do a single YouTube video where he flies a lap around the world lower than planes can and likely make more money off that then he'd earn working the sh*tty corner store job. Money is so unbelievably a non-issue that having it constantly mentioned feels like if Jeff Bezoz started a gofundme because his ankle is sore and he wants to visit a doctor but needs help for the medical bill for an appointment. You know the saying "I'm not mad I'm just dissapointed" that's supposed to represent a level of underwhelming performance that fails so dramatically to meet expectations that it wraps the whole way round from anger to apathy? THIS novel might be the first I've encountered to keep wrapping around back closer to anger, it had such a good setup and premise that I could not imagine how the author could possibly botch the execution.

My best guess as to why this went to horribly wrong is that the author simply doesnt know apathy, I'm not sure if stereotypes exist for emotions but if there was ever an example this would be it. He constantly says "I just don't care" and talks about how calmly he views things and then immediately does completely nonsensical things like I've talked about completely destroying the set up personalty.

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Looking at the tags after reading chapter 6 I feel like I've been completely lied to, the ONLY one about the protagonist that isn't a lie is "Hated" since I can't stand him.

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