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Yeah, just go back to Solo Leveling if that's really your bag.

Nevermind the sideseat driving of screaming meta things like MC is an idiot, the women are useless, he fails as a gamer. It's actually all symptoms of one core problem: MC has no character. He's not GIVEN a characterization before the world goes to shit, so as a result, there's no barometer for his actions.

Now aside and mind, yes there are extremely-stupid decisions made as the plot progresses that does indeed reinforce the argument that OP is missing a brain. In truth, it's what I said to start with—MC starts with zero actual character, is thrust into a kill-to-survive scenario with a Re:Zero gimmick minus all the fun, but it all goes absolutely nowhere as a result.

Contrast with Escaflowne. That MC, HItomi, shows what's on her plate before the adventure begins. Spirited girl, athletic, a fan of tarot, wants to impress her senpai enough that he'll go out with er and kiss her. We get a TON of actual cues that establish who Hitomi is and what her standing in the world is before that world gets turned on its ear and she's dropped into Gaia and the middle of a massive war. But here?

He works. It can't be a black company because his coworkers have some semblance of spirit. The manager is a hottie and also soft on him for potentially-romantic reasons. Does he game? We don't know. Does he like cutlery? Don't know. Hiking as a hobby? Dunno. Can he drink? Apparently since he gets killed going home while shitfaced. And...that's it. That's all we know of this Milquetoast McSameFace before shit hits the fan. And it's just not enough. Thusly, I can barely call all the resulting sharp 180s of character, dips into depressive moping, bouts of stoic badassery, and so on, any kind of right or wrong. Because there's no bar to measure it against.

The main female had more characterization than he did. At least, she did until she got pegged full-force into the "I must support you but only when convenient" waifey role so hard and fast that it actually DID break her characterization on several occasions. And she had enough character that I could safely make that statement.

So that's issue one. Issue two is the format: The deaths carry no weight because the [Return From Tartarus] skill has ZERO plot drawbacks. In fact, it's too good. Given how he goes from depressed to stoic, there is actually zero believable reason for the milquetoast MC to have not just spent tens of thousands of lives grinding to the point where he's actually Superman, then trapeze all over the place, killing the other bosses. The bosses themselves serve no significance other than being there and making things slightly tense. Slight, but not really. Again, see the big meta problem with a Return-from-death skill that has no downsides.

tl;dr I appreciate that you read this far, but seriously just go reread Solo Leveling.

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15 years of hard liquor. He can have them but he ain't gonna like them.

Gain some tastes.

Kyuukei's jokes are wasted on this slop.

Cry more.

High key hate when people don't use their brains. Antagonistic forces in a B and C string plot are the meat & potatoes of a drawn out saga. You can't have a good saga without various smaller plots that show the growth & development of supporting and even minor characters.

She didn't develop. She just gets over her antagonism in the span of a few page panels after spending several chapters entirely off-screen and out of mind. Meanwhile, MC got a whole arc out of having determination and the will to confront his demons (pun not intended) beaten into him over a dozen or so chapters. Were she important to the story, she should have gotten WAY more progressive development over the last few.

And somehow you all are satisfied with these subpar results.

The author failed to take it seriously. Go through the previous five chapters and look for the parts where you see her development happen. She's gored and maimed, then spends four chapters effectively in the same huddled corner of the building while MC flipped personalities entirely.

Juxtapose that over her earlier presentations. Vibrant, firm, standing even when danger is afoot, upbeat despite the severity of the world, heartfelt and passionate even in the face of her loved one COMPLETELY giving up and seeking his own death instead of having it hoisted on him from monsters. You quickly realize that they are two separate characters instead of being the result of a character hitting an antagonizing wall in their journey.

Take careful note of how she didn't even come out of that journey in any meaningful manner. It was quick, without real prompt, and with no weight of tension given how blase MC is acting over planning to kill the boss while basically carrying her.

It's bad writing.

Hold on lemme find something just as great and entertaining for you

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Something else entered her before MC could.

Also, this is shitty and entirely unbelievable. The man can transverse METERS in measures of tenths to even hundredths of a second. Like hell he couldn't have saved her from being stomped & stabbed. This is why I don't like dealing with authors imitating Superman powers. They're never consistent.

... This is a manhwa isn't it

Superman power are not interesting.

Hell yeah useless NPC carry, you're as shitty as you are in games.

That's not how karma works, so you can relax and laugh at this dumb broad all you want.

Fuck yes torture that useless thot

Her use was finished. Kill her.

Yes, she is. So was this chapter.

Gay.

And there it is: The re:zero hero worship bullshit.

I'd rather be playing a rougelike than reading this. I wish that writers would get that not everything translates well into a story concept. Playing meta with stats and BS mechanics just means you at some point failed to design your own video game.