TRPG Player‘s ninth installment is a bit strange in the way the protagonist frames the journey as though he and his party members are level 1 when… he’s obviously far, far beyond a first level character. It’s not a major issue, and the series certainly has a history of excessive modesty, but the disconnect is something to keep in mind for potential future developments.
I’m going to have to drop the Gendai Shakai series with the release of its fourth novel. The level of patronization is just insane, the slow pacing guarantees that it’s not going to decrease any time soon, and the protagonist’s personality has begun to frequently flip-flop between ‘adult in a child’s body’ and a literal child. That last issue is particularly galling because the Afterword makes clear that it’s an intentional choice to promote the author’s belief that age=authority/credibility, which is an opinion that I refuse to support.