![]() At some points, I was deeply invested in the arc. Considering I did read through this all the way, you can be sure the events were thrilling. Then there's the fact that the manga pivots - with barely any warning - to a near 60 chapter arc of endless war. Why bother explaining limits to only exceed them so easily? It all seems rather pointless anyway because the MC builds himself a cheat suit that seems to escape all the rules the manga took so many pains to build and establishes him as the OP person in this world. I mean I understand that it was momentous in the case of this world, but time skips exist for a reason. The 'training arc' where the students build a new robot was also sort of pointless. Any other technological leap is just alien to us readers, and they might as well have just saved the time. They even have demon beasts to emulate for sheer strength. It's honestly hardly to fathom that the engineers of this world could not come to a similar idea over a millennia of robotics. New tech seems to exist right around the corner and the MCs invaluable contribution to the engineering in this world appears to be the introduction of coaxial cables and biomimetics. This would be a great idea, were it not for the fact that we have no reason to be invested in this. Part of the problem with the pacing is that so much time is relegated to explain the technology. Some lazy attempt was made to show them coming from troubled noble homes as illegitimate children. The MCs closest friends are nice, but we never really get to see their insights into the MC or why they support him so avidly. Nobody really seems to matter much emotionally, except Di. The other characters are kind of bland or cliche. We need a windows into his mind because the manga fails to provide one. This is why I sad a novel might have been preferable. In fact, to me he felt like he was at a distance from everyone else, like he alone was playing a video game while the rest were leading their lives seriously. But we as readers need to see maturity, growth or some kind of change inspired by the plot in the MC. It helps us understand his motivation to some extent. His backstory as a programmer on Earth with an intense hobby of assembling robots is nice. And this manga did not take the effort to build up that relationship with the readers. Some series like One Piece or Naruto can pull this off, but you have to really care about the main characters and the world they live in. But as a manga that is published weekly? It falls a bit flat since the long wait for the plot to inch along to a resolution is enough to have people drop the series, even if they I genuinely feel that this could have been great as a 2 volume novel. But the pacing of this manga, and the quality of its characters leaves a lot to be desired. On the one hand, it does an excellent job building dramatic tension and stakes, while fleshing out a world where magic and robots coexist.
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