You know the manga is good when you're approaching the last translated chapter and start to slow down, cause you want it to last just a little bit longer before you put it on hold. Story: 8 Art: 7 Character: 8 Enjoyment: 9 Overall: 8 In short, this is definitely one of the few isekais that I can certainly recommend as a read to almost anyone. With so many of them out there, what it comes down to is the execution of the idea. Isekai is just a trope in the end. It is popular today, something else will be popular in another 10 years, but what matters is howyou develop your story and the ideas that you put into it.

The author of this one certainly managed to do an amazing job with that. What you got here is a standard isekai formula: some dude gets reincarnated into his MMO character, he's OP AF, and starts to gather companions for that or another goal. What is rare to see in this genre though is an amazing work with the world and its lore, combined with perfectly reasonable motivations for your characters and avoidance of the majority of cliched tropes for the confrontations and such. It's truly incredible how the author manages to cleverly subvert most of the tropes in the genre, while retaining all the fun parts of it.

I don't wanna spoil anything, but it's such a refreshing feeling to just read an isekai manga where everything just clicks into place. The MC has to struggle with quite an interesting and unconventional problem. The supporting cast is fun, varied and enjoyable. The story is intriguing, fairly brutal, and has quite a few surprises. And, most importantly, there's hardly a time when you think to yourself "Why are you doing that?", "Why didn't you ask about that?", "How could you miss that it's right beneath your nose" and such. This probably shows how averagely written most of the stories are today, when the author just writes a story without characters eating a dumb pill from time to time for the convenience of the plot and you are surprised by it. Yeah, there are a bunch of Deus Ex Machinas here and there, but it's easy to ignore them because everything else is so tight.

What else? Well, it's genuinely funny for the most part and the art is really good most of the time.

Who needs to read this? I'd say anyone who is on an isekai spree like me. Anyone who wants a refresher from all the other similar stories. Anyone who's interested in an interesting lawful evil setup for the world similar to the Overlord series (it's really closer to the true neutral side, but gives off a lot of similar vibes).

Really, it was a joy to read through this and the only problem I have is that I'd need to wait 3 or 4 more years to get another 40 chapters of this joy.

I'm struggling between an 8 and a 9 as a score here, but leaning towards the 9 just because I really liked this one.
On second thought, in comparison to everything else, it is a solid 8, so let's go with that.