Mob dakedo Saikyou wo Mezashimasu! Game Sekai ni Tensei shita Ore wa Jiyuu ni Tsuyosa wo Oimotomeru · review
Let’s quickly talk about “Mob dakedo Saikyou wo Mezashimasu! Game Sekai ni Tensei shita Ore wa Jiyuu ni Tsuyosa wo Oimotomeru.” A guy loved a video game. And by loved, I mean he didn’t just spend thousands of hours in it—he’s the kind of guy who wrote all the strategies in the wiki, discovered all the speedrun tricks, unlocked every achievement, and knew the game better than his own mother. But one day, he realizes he’s truly done everything. So, as he goes to bed feeling down, he wishes he could keep playing the game… and wakes up inside it. I’m a big fan of the gameHoI4. I mention that because this manga reminded me a bit of it. HoI4 is a game where the community jokes that it’s basically autistic—completely obsessed: you either have 5 hours or 2000 in it. People optimize it to an unbelievable degree. They find the best strategies, the best combinations, experiment with new ones, and keep reaching higher and higher levels of mastery. The protagonist of this manga is exactly that kind of guy: he HAS to experiment to discover new strategies, he HAS to become better, stronger, more extreme. This obsession almost borders on perversity.
And that’s exactly what makes it entertaining: while the rest is generic isekai slop—which I won’t even bother describing, since not much happens in the 15 available chapters—the protagonist stands out with his pursuit of the best strategy, the strongest combinations, the most powerful swordsmanship. Important: it only borders on perversity. He’s not as extreme as someone like Cid from Eminence in the Shadow or Lloyd from I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability, but he has a similar charm.
Conclusion: I can definitely recommend this if you want to read about an overpowered protagonist who’s a bit unhinged in a different way. The rest is hard to judge since not much has happened yet. Overall, though, the manga gives off a pretty generic isekai vibe. One more thing worth mentioning: as a manga, it’s not really designed for digital reading, which unfortunately becomes noticeable again and again.