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Why does this feel so cringey? Something on it gives me the jeebies inside when I read it... yeah this is rant and complains so don't read if you're going to complain about me complaining.
Maybe is MC having a japanese name and more westerny surname and everyone else have westerny names and the setting is also westerny fantasy... and his name and the "san" doesn't quite fit... or the way some mob is picking a fight after he just won 1st place in his year... or how his male best friend turned villain and his new best friend is a girl who's way too "caring"... or how he seems (mentally) more like a teenager than a grown adult that went back in time... or how author seems to understand little of the western fantasy genre... or how he had the brillant idea that being 1st place in that competition was somehow more viable than just... going through administration and making an appointment with the principal like any normal student would do... or how he didn't talk with him even after meeting him before winning... or how they exagerate the "genius that fell from grace" troupe... how nothing was mentioned about the cheating on the competition...
Plotwise it's also... bland. It's another regressor comic.. with the added elements of: misunderstood genius, lone wolf that can't trust just anyone, hated out of jealousy and basically the classic girls want me and guys hate me because they can't be me. Mc's behavior, personality and decisions make him seem more like a delusional teen than an adult in the body of a teen. And I also don't get why he can't use both close combat and long distance magic since he did use close combat magic by the end on his 1st life. It also makes no sense magic focused on day to day life to be underdeveloped like that. There's no way close combat magic would be overlooked like that... it could be taught of a swordsmanship academy instead since it involves a lot of physical training and magic swordsmanship would probably fall under it too. I won't even mention how bad the noble/commoner aspect is. It really just feels lacking.
And lastly the art... personally, i don't like it. Maybe it's cuz I dropped TBATE long ago but if people didn't mention it's same artist... I'd think it's a new artist. Hate me all you want but the art feels amateurish. There's a lack of detailing in the art, the backgrounds feel neglected or done haphazardly and the coloring and shadowing feels lacking considering it's a webcomic. And it's not a matter of style, it's really lack of quality. The best way I can describe it is... it looks more like a high quality colored storyboard for a anime than a webcomic. Remember that bebe about 7 deadly sins where they said they used all animation budget on an eye scene? That's how I feel, just there's no eye. The eye is the other thousand webcomics available on this site.
Yeah there are worse ones out there... but there's a whopping more better ones... and I won't read this instead of those...