This manga is mediocre at the best of times, but my main gripes with this story is how nothing has any meaning to it. Backstory: The main character loses his "power" early on due to simping for his traitorous female party members. His power is then scattered across the world in the form of crystals, which he can reclaim if he finds them. However, he becomes suicidal from the betrayal of his party members, meets a fox monster who is equally suicidal, and they eventually decide to live on together.So far so good. The problems I have with the story start from then onwards. The main character sticks his nose into conflicts constantly (apparently completely having gotten over the betrayal that made him literally suicidal). His power is pretty much always overwhelming compared to his opponents, which makes pretty much all the "Oh no!", "This is bad!", "Not Good!" crap they use to hype up the opponents in almost every battle seem really pointless. And that's just the battles.On that note, every character they meet says that the ML used to be the strongest "hero", yet we never really get to find out what that means, nor how much "strenght" or "power" the ML possesses at any point in the story. He just always has enough power to edgelord over his opponents, since he always wins overwhelmingly by pulling out a new [insert random edgy DHARKHHNESSSS name here] ability or weapon in the end. Even if the manga likes to constantly pretend that there was any tension in the battle in the first place.Meanwhile in plotland, the main character is just a slave to the narrative. Never makes their own choices, just has to encounter something to "save" and they're off. Ofcourse, followed by meaningless battles. As for character development? Ain't nobody got time for that. Fox wanted to die since he's a special variant monster which lives longer than normal monsters of his species so he saw all their loved ones die, and was now lonely. He meets ML, and is now no longer lonely, thus wants to live again. That's his story, all of it. Only it doesn't make sense since it is later revealed that he's had contact with humans before and even saved a human town in the past. So it's not like he couldn't do something about his loneliness. The ML wanted to die because of the betrayal, then desides he doesn't want to die because of that for....reasons? This is especially strange since every moment after that, he's shown as someone who wants nothing more than to save other people. Then why did he wished to die in the first place??? If saving other people is more important than anything, even himself, then why was him getting betrayed so important to him that he wanted to die? It makes no sense...Once they both tell one another that they don't want to die anymore, they just get stringed along by whatever event is happening around them. That's the plot. The end. Honestly, it just felt like the author started with the first premise, didn't have a single clue on what to do with the rest of the story, wrote whatever came to mind, and then retconned as needed. There's honestly a lot of instances where the author retroarctively changes something that didn't happen so that the scene makes sense. The point that made me drop the manga was the fight with the Hypnosis Hero. I can handle quite a lot of cringe, but that was the cringiest thing I've read in a long while. I can recap it really quickly: ML: *Screams cringy name of DARKNESS ABILITY!*Opponent: *Screams cringy name of LIGHTNESS ABILITY!*Opponent: *Spouts cringy ideological BS!*ML: *Screams cringy name of DARKNESS ABILITY!*ML: *Spouts cringy ideolofical BS!*Now take the above, multiply that by a couple times, and then read the previous part of the review to discover the outcome of the battle, if that wasn't at all obvious to you yet at this point.
Don't waste your time or your braincels on this unless you like cringe/edgelord MCs that defeat all opponents by virtue of their all encompassing awesomeness.
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