Honestly, I haven't finished reading yet, and I don't know if I will, but I'm almost caught up with the recent update, so I'll write this while my thoughts are fresh, though it's late so I can't promise being articulate.
Anyways, tbh, the story DOES have a lot of potential, so far the writing seem to have great specialty with fight scenes, especially in integrating magic systems, monster design, and even cultural differences between groups. I especially liked the detail with the mercenaries. It became promising to me because of these reasons, despite the obvious plot holes that give way for the MC to easily take advantage, I say this as there is a great lack of actual strategic or intellectual influence for each character. Most of the arcs in here are solved through brute strength, and the predicaments presented are cliche and rather obvious. All is dandy though, I'm able to appreciate those.
I'm just dissapointed with how the author writes women, as well as how the artist draws them. The maid uniform was such a red flag to me since the early chapters, and it bothers me that it didn't change at all. That small boob gap that doesn't contribute to anything, it's not even a good design, it looks so random. The exposed back? What type of maid uniform is that. And the fact that she's the only one who wears it. During the monster forest arc she even wore a cape that had her back exposed too, like what's the point. Then the panels where she fights focuses a lot on making her jump to show her ass, legs, and boob physics. She wasn't even in the early fight panels in that arc, not until the last, and when she was shown she was just being a mother hen huhu.
Other female characters too. They were given no depth in the early chapters, just roles as a sister and a daughter, and were only present to help the MC with other characters or arcs, they were just there for a role and not as another character like most of the male characters here. After that said role they weren't seen or mentioned again, like Gilbert's daughter like bro. She's supposed to be special to his character based off of his backstory, and current situation, and yet nothing.
Also the way the artist draws the female characters is so dissapointing, there's a lot of boob action. The male characters have such unique body types, even the bg characters, and the female characters are just the same like ??? Big boobs, wide hips, petite figure and youthful face. It honestly made me uncomfortable with how Belinda is sometimes presented as a potential fl, even teased by some bg characters, when she's been taking care or Cecil since he was a child.
Anyways, yadayada, there's potential here that wasn't properly explored or executed. It feels shallow atp I guess? And just a lot of gooning no development for some. It's just sad. There's REALLY potential here I swear, I really did like the world building but it lacks a lot,, I wish they strengthened it more before execution.
Honestly, I haven't finished reading yet, and I don't know if I will, but I'm almost caught up with the recent update, so I'll write this while my thoughts are fresh, though it's late so I can't promise being articulate.
Anyways, tbh, the story DOES have a lot of potential, so far the writing seem to have great specialty with fight scenes, especially in integrating magic systems, monster design, and even cultural differences between groups. I especially liked the detail with the mercenaries. It became promising to me because of these reasons, despite the obvious plot holes that give way for the MC to easily take advantage, I say this as there is a great lack of actual strategic or intellectual influence for each character. Most of the arcs in here are solved through brute strength, and the predicaments presented are cliche and rather obvious. All is dandy though, I'm able to appreciate those.
I'm just dissapointed with how the author writes women, as well as how the artist draws them. The maid uniform was such a red flag to me since the early chapters, and it bothers me that it didn't change at all. That small boob gap that doesn't contribute to anything, it's not even a good design, it looks so random. The exposed back? What type of maid uniform is that. And the fact that she's the only one who wears it. During the monster forest arc she even wore a cape that had her back exposed too, like what's the point. Then the panels where she fights focuses a lot on making her jump to show her ass, legs, and boob physics. She wasn't even in the early fight panels in that arc, not until the last, and when she was shown she was just being a mother hen huhu.
Other female characters too. They were given no depth in the early chapters, just roles as a sister and a daughter, and were only present to help the MC with other characters or arcs, they were just there for a role and not as another character like most of the male characters here. After that said role they weren't seen or mentioned again, like Gilbert's daughter like bro. She's supposed to be special to his character based off of his backstory, and current situation, and yet nothing.
Also the way the artist draws the female characters is so dissapointing, there's a lot of boob action. The male characters have such unique body types, even the bg characters, and the female characters are just the same like ??? Big boobs, wide hips, petite figure and youthful face. It honestly made me uncomfortable with how Belinda is sometimes presented as a potential fl, even teased by some bg characters, when she's been taking care or Cecil since he was a child.
Anyways, yadayada, there's potential here that wasn't properly explored or executed. It feels shallow atp I guess? And just a lot of gooning no development for some. It's just sad. There's REALLY potential here I swear, I really did like the world building but it lacks a lot,, I wish they strengthened it more before execution.