Osamu Dazai, author of "no longer human", One of the fathers of modern Japanese literature, chronically depressed, women magnet, talked four different women into committing couples suicide with him, they all died but for him it only took on the fifth attempt where he tied himself to his lover and both jumped into the river in 1948. Take that guy and throw him into a trashy light novel isekai. It sounds like it shouldn't work as Dazai is a very gloomy, suicidal kind of guy. His famous novel /no longer human/ is not something you can read if you're not in a good head space... However theauthor made it work, all without the story losing it's edge.

It starts off as a typical Isekai with all the tropes but the addition of that one odd element, Dazai, shifts the focus away from said tropes to the lives of the people in it. Their stories, their struggles and the difficulties they had to face.

It's A manga about stories. About what lurks in the human heart. About prejudices and how we treat each other.

What elevates it for me is that the story doesn't revolve around MC-kun like your typical light novel. He is there as a story teller, his job is literally to drag the story out of the other characters and allow them to write their own endings to it. The direction these stories take differ each time but I really appreciate that the manga never went for the low hanging fruit.

It would have been easy, in fact the manga hints at using said low hanging fruit a few times but instead it commits to one principle. That each person has their own story, how they go about it is up to them NOT "the MC" .

I don't hand out 10/10 scores easily. Actually this is the first time I score a manga this high, it was well earned.