My Manga List

Viz released a version which has both volumes in one. I am writing this before reading any reviews or opinions as I randomly picked this up at a library. Dark drama where kids get bullied and murdered but nothing too dark. Shows how kids get into trouble because of the irresponsibility of parents, although I sometimes wonder if works like these can push people towards anti-natalism. After all, if you don't have children then there is no risk that your selfish actions will make them suffer... But anyway that's not the actual message of the anime. I think I would have done the ending slightly differently and included Naoki as well to complete the trio but for it's two volume length it's certainly worth watching. The influences on the creator, Taizan5, obviously seem to be Inio Asano (oyasumi pun pun) and Doraemon, quite an unexpected mix, but it works pretty well. As usual the time travel and time loop stories interest me so I appreciated this. As for the score, it's just my subjective feeling for my own record. I refuse to justify it, because if I did I would just be one-sidedly pushing my taste down the author's throat..

3 years after he shuts himself away from society and surrounds himself with 2D friends... Otaku Jin-kyung finds himself summoned to another world by a petite summoner who needs help...! The interesting about this one at least in the first few chapters is how the protagonist gets to travel back and forth to the real world and use real life objects for his chuunibyou powers. The art, background art and colossal enemies in particular is gorgeous. The fan service is tasteful, and the otaku pandering is appreciated, though maybe neither went far enough to attract those who would appreciate it, but it went far enough that it annoyed those with bad taste. The problems appear in the story to the point where I don't think I will be rereading this manwha/webtoon. It felt like the powers of the protagonist could do anything, which was fine when it was played off as a joke at the start but it grew stale over time. The revelation about the reason why the demons are appearing also felt like kind of a let down. It's just evil nobles being evil. I also felt like I read a short story despite it being over a hundred chapters long. There are things which are just dropped like that dark skinned boy wanting to free bird girl from the religious fanatics... or the figurine which becomes lifesize and walks away when the protagonist takes him with her to the fantasy world. The character development which the protagonist does also felt a bit too easy. Basically what it took for the protagonist to stop being a NEET was just immediately being OP in another world where even if he died he would just be sent back to the real world without any cost to him. At the end he is literally saved by a goddess... and while it is moving that he wanted to help the summoner because she was an ordinary person like him, and if she could save the world, then that would mean so could he save himself... when you think about it, it doesn't make any sense... because simply by being able to summon an extremely powerful spirit like him she was not an ordinary person. One good thing about the story's resolution however is the thread about the false accusations of being a "kidd lover" at the start of the story. Basically the protagonist let's go of the hatred for those who slandered him, and this thread was mirrored quite nicely with the protagonist's scepticism of the bards' slander against the king. This felt like an artists first work and indeed I can't find any other works by the author online. I think if I was new to manga/webtoons then I would have enjoyed it as a good entry title to the medium but at this stage it just didn't feel like enough. I just hope that the artist doesn't give in and stop making artworks. For one, it's nice to see an author who seems to be on the otaku's side, but this story is from ten years ago. I wonder if such a story could be made now. I feel like even the term "otaku" is receding back into the past so some of the gags about same-looking characters in anime probably will recede into the past too.