And a large portion of them are wasted on the MC, who is again, in his 80's or something, flirting with 10 year olds. This is made worse by the fact the chapters are small, with very little content in them. "And then I won" Theres no twist, nothing interesting in the explanation.
Like if someone explained an entire match of magic the gathering (CCG), explaining each card that showed up in the match, only to at the end go. I guess it's supposed to show how wise the MC is, but instead it comes off as a bore. The big issue, is they go into way too much depth of specific spells and pointless magical theorizing. Okay, besides the squandered potential of this story, its not bad. He gets angry and lashes out at the girl who presumably steals it in the future, then when both girls point out hes acting irrationally, he says sorry, and then invites her to the guild, and they never speak of it again. Then, they meet another girl, who strangely enough, is the person he remembers from the future having claimed the spell was her own.Īnd then we go exactly nowhere with that. But guess what, she has the spell, its from her father, but in the future he knows, she, nor her father, are the one who developed it. The one, potentially interesting thing, was he meets up with a girl, who happens to have that spell that lets on see their aptitude. He meets a bunch of kids, Girls, HAREM girls who are like, 1/10 his age, and forms a guild and hunts rpg monsters that is basically the setting of a cheep WOW knock off. So that sets up a situation where a person has future knowledge and a mature mind, gets to start over.Īnd then they do ABSOLUTELY nothing with that. more> to redo his life, focusing on the magic he has aptitude for.
He discovers he had really low aptitude for fire, but high in other categories, and then is disgraced (Not sure why exactly) when a younger mage overtakes him. Part of me wants to rate this lower, just because of how disappointed I was when it completely and utterly squandered its rather solid premise.īasically, powerful old mage guy spent his whole life trying to master flame magic, then someone develops a spell that lets others see what your aptitude for different types of magic is. The manga adaptation has good art, but this version has absolutely nothing going for it, don't waste your time.
There's some interesting stuff set up and forgotten about, like the MC meeting the developer of the magic potential analysis spell, but that goes nowhere. There's lots of flat, boring characters who also use meaningless spell names to farm bland monsters. Does the rest of the story salvage the novel? Does it at least do something new or interesting? Nope! There's lots of boring, bland monster faming with lots of meaningless spell names attached to it. So the premise is shot to hell and that's bad. The entire "sent my mind back in time to redo life" could have been entirely rewritten into "MC is a talented kid with a mind for efficiency" and nothing would change. He still acts like a child and his sum total of mature, advanced knowledge is limited to efficient experience grinding. Finally, it doesn't seem to matter that the MC has pseudo-reincarnated himself. The MC is supposed to be totally obsessed with magic, especially fire magic, but the second he loses his title and the respect of his peers he drops the magic his life has revolved around in favor of other magics he has little experience or skill with because it would be faster and easier to master and thus earn high ranking titles with. Not only would it have been more interesting for the MC to stick with fire magic and prove his hard work and skill could overcome his mediocre natural aptitude, it really seems like he only cares about the accolades and recognition. This is a terrible way to set up the story. From there, he, uh, completely forgets about fire magic and decides to focus on the magic types he's got more aptitude for. The MC is so distraught he spends the rest of his life developing a combination time travel/mind overwrite/soul transfer spell (using fire magic?) to redo his life. When it turns out his aptitude for fire magic is mediocre, his mage's association strips him of the title he earned in favor of some youngster with has. The MC was supposed to be so utterly obsessed with fire magic that he spent his every waking moment furthering his mastery of fire magic at the expense of every other aspect of his life. Yes, the premise was wasted, but it was a pretty bad premise to begin with. I disagree with the people saying the premise was good but ultimately wasted.