Various Thoughts

Had to drop the second Re:Monster novel about a third of the way in. The ‘romance’ aspects have not improved at all and the sudden full offensive against the humans is mind-boggling.

The second Kiwamete Gouman Taru Akuyaku Kizoku no Shogyou novel does not start off well; events feel scattershot, arbitrary, with little to link them together. After the assassination attempt though it manages to regain the balance of the first novel and end on an entertaining enough note. Not sure how much longer it can milk this setup considering we’re already at S-rank threats, but I’m willing to keep following it for the time being.

Re:Monster is a reincarnation isekai that starts off on a questionably sci-fi Earth before transitioning to what seems to be a standard fantasy world… and I’m not really sure why the beginning is so oddly complex. Maybe the author wrote an earlier unpublished series in that setting? Regardless, the majority of the story is entertaining enough with solid action scenes and plenty of deadpan comedy. The main flaw would be the inclusion of the human women and everything related to them, with the elf situation coming in a more distant second (both being egregious fanservice, albeit of differing severity).

A completely different type of reincarnation isekai, Kiwamete Gouman Taru Akuyaku Kizoku no Shogyou takes the unusual path of having the reincarnator get subsumed by the personality of the body they’ve possessed. The result being more of a fanfiction or ‘what if?’ version of a story than an actual isekai, one populated by a variety of overly excitable/perverted characters. It works surprisingly well.