This was just so mid, I’m sorry. The art is beautiful but the story is very mediocre. The protag is more boring than usual for an isekai. And, without sounding like I’m ace-phobic or something, but for real, god save me from these sexless men. I’m not saying he needs to be a horndog, but at least give me some insight into the guy as to why he is so disinterested. Then ending with a call to adventure that will never happen because this is a one-off. If you’re going to do a one-off, give a more concrete ending. I did like that the isekai-man actuallyshows some signs that he misses earth and doesn’t want to live in the fantasy world. Usually they seem like they could care less about their old life which feels a little unrealistic. Sure, it's easy to say "dude's surrounded by babes, what's the problem?" but we don't know what life he had. Maybe he was happy on earth. And the fantasy world as we see it doesn't seem to have all that much of interest aside from cute girls. Still, this is all undersold by the fact that we have next to no window into this guy’s interiority. He’s such a blank slate reader insert. Even his character design is practically a rough draft compared with the beautifully detailed women of the fantasy world. And yet he fails to live up to any sort of self-insert fantasy a reader might have.

I should comment on the women. I like the female protagonists in this. They're fairly well rounded despite the one-note they're all given. The issue with the book isn't the women, they're fine. I know what kind of book this is, I know they're going to be written in such a way to play into romantic/sexual fantasies of the presumed male reader, and each one is indeed that. But they are charming, especially Nia and Rosette, both of whom feel like they could carry a story on their own if they were given one.

Still though, underwhelming ass book, kind of wish I hadn’t read it. Kind of adds further proof that underwhelming is almost worse than bad bc you get frustrated over what could make it better.