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Huge spoiler:
-As long as you have us, you can become happy easily
-Shinchi...
-Minami-chan...
Then you flip the page, aaaand yeeeet... fokkin' savage XD

The manga is pretty meh, but that ending literally cracked me up laughing. Not because it is bad, quite the opposite, it's damn genius. It is so unexpected, yet you should have expected it, because the clues were all there. But you didn't, because you expected this manga to be just like the rest, but it isn't. Anyway, just for that ending it's worth reading. A dark sense of humor is recommended, though. So don't take it too seriously, it's just a mediocre borderline-H with ... some truly vile characters.

I'm gonna be short. This one is decently written, yet I still feel like it deserves a “Not Recommended” review. Why?
Because just being decently written doesn't automatically make it worth your time. We have a saying for works like this in my country, which roughly translates to: "Honest craftsmanship". It basically means it's a competent piece of work, no glaring issues, but nothing special either. You know, not great, not terrible. However, life is short, and there are countless other works of art out there that are far better than this. It’s simply not worth wasting your time on something so forgettable and unremarkable as ... this one. I mean, I read it yesterday evening, and I already struggle to remember what it was even about.

And not just that. It is also kind of empty. I mean, what's the takeaway here?
"Love is blind?"
Wow, what a revolutionary discovery…
"Don't stick in crazy", I guess?
Except, I disagree. One of the best foundations of a good relationship is compatible craziness.

Also, what even is "crazy"?
What you consider crazy, I might find completely normal, and vice versa. One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Another groundbreaking insight, right?

Now, this review of mine basically contains all the wisdom you can get out of the whole manga, and I even added a little extra.
"It’s not much", you say?
Exactly. But that's all this manga has to offer.

But to say a few good words about it, I'll give it this:
At least it's not your bog-standard romance story. Still, you can easily find far better romance manga out there, even ones with yandere-esque heroines.

Looking at the reviews, I felt a spark of hope. Usually, when opinions are this polarized, that’s where the real hidden gems lie. Well...
This manga is the exception, not the rule. As our Russian engineer comrade once said: “Not great, not terrible.” It’s not as good as the positive reviews suggest, and not as bad as the negative ones would make you believe.

At its core, this manga suffers from two fundamental flaws:

1) Inconsistent writing.
Half the time the story is perfectly fine. For chapters, it’s interesting and enjoyable to read. And then, out of nowhere, the author’s head pops above water and they pull some half-assed, ... sloppy twist (or idea) straight out of nowhere. Don't get me wrong, retcon itself isn’t a problem, it can even enhance a story, but when it’s executed this badly, I can’t help but wonder: what the hell was that?
The same goes for the characters. They’re all over the place. One moment they act completely normal with each other, then something trivial happens and suddenly everyone is bouncing around like psychotic mongooses. Then another random triviality occurs, and all of a sudden they’re back to behaving as if they hadn’t just tried to kill each other two seconds ago…

2) The theme.
Several reviews criticize that the story was sacrificed on the altar of fanservice, but I don’t think that’s the issue. In fact, given the subject matter, I think fanservice was kind of necessary. The real problem, in my opinion, is that the theme itself is treated in an incredibly inane, shallow way. Not to mention, the author themselves doesn’t seem to know what they actually think about the subject they’re writing about. So the whole thing becomes a muddled, uncertain mess that ultimately says nothing. The author marely states the obvious. We’re practically in a gender-based civil war in the world right now. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it, but what's the point? The author doesn’t offer any solutions, the characters just bailed from the sinking ship and "run" as far away as possible. Logical decision? Sure, but it is a damn anticlimactic copout.

Other than that, there isn’t much worth mentioning. It’s not the worst manga ever, but it doesn’t offer much value either.

This is something truely unique, beautifully different, a "normally weird" manga. A journey which makes you reevaluate how you view your own life. It subtly invokes a wide range of emotions: grief, regret, loneliness, abandonment, despair, burden of the past and a lot more. So much packed in such a short, but brilliant story. A story, which raises the question: after losing everything and having nothing left but bleak emptiness, is it even worth sticking to life?

This is not an easy read. It follows two immortals searching for a way to die, hoping to escape their loneliness and regrets. And yet, somehow, it is still ... manage to have an oddly uplifting tone, thanks to it's carefree atmoshpere and it's weird, dark, oddball humor.
It takes your hand and leads you down a thorny, but beautiful path.

All in all, it's a niche manga, but for those it speaks to, it’s nothing short of a masterpiece.
I'm definitely one of them.

This one is a simple, straightforward drama. A well-crafted one at that. There is no fluff, no wasted space; everything serves a purpose. The writing is polished, the characters are solid, and the story holds together decently.

That said, I couldn't help but feel underwhelmed. I went in expecting more. Not in terms of plot twists or spectacle, but something that would resonate on a deeper level. Maybe I missed the point. Maybe I'm too jaded. I even browsed through other reviews to see if I'd overlooked something major, but I still don't see the profound value that so many others seem to find here. In ... the end, it just made me feel sad. Which, to be fair, means the story accomplished what it set out to do. Still, I don't enjoy being sad unless there's some insight or revelation to go with it. This didn't give me that.

My other minor complain is the art. Some of the character designs fell into my personal uncanny valley. Nothing technically wrong, just something about them felt off to me.

All in all, this manga is fine. If your life feels a bit too cheerful and you're craving a touch of melancholy for its own sake, then by all means, give it a try. Otherwise, I’m not sure it'll offer much beyond the well-executed sadness. That said, judging by the review scores, you might find something in it that I didn't.

What Happens Inside the Dungeon?
Nothing particularly interesting or funny.

This is a waste of time. The jokes are painfully childish. Like, ha-ha, the boner shaped monster shoots white goo. Hilarious. Sigh… Infantile, crude vulgarity isn't exactly peak humor.

Not to mention, half the time the jokes are just the characters calling each other 'pussy' or 'bitch.' What an amazing comedy, right? Even if you find it funny the first time, how many laughs can it really squeeze out of you? Is it still hilarious the hundredth time? Because that’s how often the 'jokes' are recycled. Ok-ok, sure, there are a few solid one sprinkled in here and ... there, but they are sparce and way too many fall flat. Most of them made me only roll my eyes and sigh...

And of course, the cherry on top: the classic cockblock (I mean in case of the main heroine). Brah, I’m reading a damn borderline-H manga specifically to avoid that cursed trope, and yet, here we are. For fuck’s sake, honestly....

Usually I don’t care much about the visuals as long as the story delivers, but here it was hard to ignore how rushed and sloppy some of the panels felt. So yeah, the art isn’t exactly anything to sing tales about either, but maybe that’s just me nitpicking at this point.

Anyway, this is not the worst thing I ever read, but pretty underwhelming. Interspecies Reviewers is lightyears better than this.

This manga started off... surprisingly decent. I mean, decent for an erotica manga. The core premise is admittedly silly, but not in a way that ruins the experience. Basically, the protagonist summons an "angelic servant" who can produce gacha tokens when she hits the high notes, so to speak. The higher the note, the better the token. And these tokens are crucial for the MC's progression, leveling and equipment, the usual R18+ RPG jazz. So yes, it’s your typical plot device to justify skipping the pleasantries and diving straight into the sheets.

The art style and worldbuilding are about as standard as it gets. There’s one ... dungeon, one city around it, and nothing else in sight. The world is sprinkled with all the typical fantasy trappings: inns, guilds, blacksmiths, you know the drill. The society and the economy revolves entirely around the dungeon (though not much of it is fleshed out), and anything beyond the city simply doesn’t exist. That might be due to creative laziness, but oddly enough, it adds a certain mystery to the setting. Which already more than you get from most fantasy titles.

As for the characters, the MC isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but at least he’s a grown man who behaves like one. He’s in his thirties, grounded, and relatively mature. The female lead - his summoned "angel" - is whacky and, let’s say, enthusiastic, but still she is okeyish. Interestingly, the harem aspect goes against the grain: the second "girl" isn’t a romantic rival at all, but rather a sweet granny who cooks and keeps their apartment tidy.

So yeah, nothing revolutionary here, but everything works decently well. I was ready to slap a "recommended" tag on this one… if not for chapter six.

****
And now, a brief TED talk for the less experienced among us. Just a bit of education to avoid future awkwardness.
This is also why I ultimately don’t recommend this manga. Chapter six doesn’t just drop the ball, it punts it into another galaxy.
Also-also, minor spoilers ahead, but nothing too earth-shattering.

In chapter six, the MC, FMC, and the granny move into a shared apartment (they are an adventurer party at this point). However, it turns out our hero is not exactly a bedroom demigod. In fact, he’s pretty low tier. Which is… actually quite realistic. Why would a shut-in suddenly be a master of the craft? Right? At first, everything’s fine. The FMC enjoys herself, but over time, she reaches the stars less and less often. (I'm not sure, why did she enjoy herself at first though, she produced the gatcha tokens like a factory, but let’s just assume she was starving when she first arrived.) The MC and the FMC do attempt to talk about it. Clumsily though, and the situation only ends up getting more tense. Still realistic. This kind of mismatch and miscommunication happens more often than people admit.

Then the MC decides to ask for an advice from the granny. And oh boy...
At first, she’s spot on: the root of the problem is treating intimacy as a gacha token farming mechanic. It’s too mechanical, too hollow. A little bit of a real emotional connection wouldn't hurt, she says. And she’s right. Although, it is not neccesarly a requirement for women either, but it'll definietly boosts the experience. She also suspects that the FMC might be faking her reactions, which felt surprisingly honest for a manga of this genre. For a moment, I thought, "Wow, are we actually going to have a thoughtful, mature arc here?"

But then she drops the solution: the MC and the FMC should sleep in a separate rooms... and the MC should go and visit some brothels to gain "experience." I wish I were kidding. Now, unless Japanese brothels come with hands-on seminars and crash courses about master jutsus, this is objectively bad advice. It does nothing to address the core issue. Worse, it risks damaging the FMC’s already crumbling self-confidence even further. She already feels like she might be the problem; sending her partner off to "train" with professionals is hardly going to ease that anxiety.

Not to mention the elephant in the room. If you had experience with more than one partner you already know, everyone is different. What works with one doesn’t automatically translate to another. You don’t level up your skills universally. This isn’t an RPG. It’s more like learning a new language every time. You need to talk or at the very least, you need to pay close attention to each other. Ask what’s good, what’s not, what feels right, what's not. If not in the middle of the heat at least afterwards. Then practice, practice, and practice some more. With each other, not with a stranger-for-hire.

Hitting up a brothel might give your ego and confidence a little boost - and hey, that does count for something - but when it comes to actual technique, it doesn’t help that much. But don’t stress about it. If you can talk things through honestly and actually follow up on what you’ve discussed, you will get better. Spend enough time with someone, pay attention, and before you know it, you’ll be a total bedsheet god - not for everyone, just for the one who really matters.

TED talk over. I hope it saves someone from taking the very stupid advice of this granny.

This one doesn’t deserve a review, but since it happens to be the 100th manga I’ve dropped, I figured I’d write one anyway. Honestly though, it was really hard to force myself to read enough chapters to be able to write a review. I mean, it took just a few panels to know this was garbage, not the entertaining kind of garbage, just plain old boring trash.

First of all, the MAL page lacks bare minimum an ecchi tag, there are explicit sex scenes. Not to mention, most of them are non-concensual, en masse action scenes, commited by pigfaced ork boyoz. Also, not just the ecchi ... tag what's missing, but a good old gore tag as well, it is bloody as heck. Personally, I don’t mind, but consider this a trigger warning.

What I do mind, however, is the writing. I’m not sure if it’s just the translation, but it’s downright awful.
Just read this dialogue snippet:
(For context: this exchange happens a few hours after the characters witness a mass rape commited by a bunch of orc boyz)
"Arisu? You okay?"
"Yes, since I cried a lot with Tamaki before."
Damn, son. Really? Is this author dude actually under the impression that once a woman has a quick cry, she’s totally fine and dandy again? Definietly seems like it, because the scene ends here, and we never explore the topic again. She is fine, accept it...

All the dialogues are like this. Lifeless, dry, emotionless nonsense. I’m not a big fan of subtext, but this is so on-the-nose I was praying for some. Here’s take this another gem:
"After all, as a man, I cannot really understand women’s emotions" says Protag-kun.
Well, in hindsight, I’m pretty damn sure the author doesn’t either. Although maybe this was just a warning not to expect anything meaningful in that regard, because he clearly has no idea how to write female characters. Maybe, just maybe, try talking to a few of them, before you trying to write them...

Don’t worry though, even when it tries to deliver a halfway decent message, it still manages to trip over its own feet and faceplant into utter failure. Like this line later on:
"It’s okay for boys to show their weakness sometimes," says one of the girls in this pseudo-harem.
You might say, "Well, that’s a good message, what’s the problem?"
Sure, the message is fine. But do you know what led up to that moment?
In the previous panels, one of their classmates was literally cut in half in front of them. Her intestines and blood splattered everywhere, dude’s even covered in it. And no one is in shock. Why would they be? It’s just a bit of bowel juice, right?
Then, the whole pseudo-harem proceeds to kiss the protagonist, one by one, as if none of them saw the same scene (which they definitely did). And just to top it off, they even start ranking themselves as "main wife" and so on. They seem to believe the most important thing is to establish that only the "main wife" has the right to kiss the protagonist on the mouth (not that there were any wedding to begin with). Are you kidding with me?
And the author seriously expects us to go, "Aww, how adorable, look how much these girls care about the protagonist." Give me a break. These chicks didn’t even blink when their classmate got butchered right in front of them. Their first instinct wasn’t shock, horror, or even basic human decency. No, it was to shamelessly hijack the moment and use it as a sleazy excuse to sneak a kiss from the protagonist. That’s not endearing, that’s psychotic...

So yeah, the characters are terribly written. Most of them, at least.
There’s one exception: Shiki. She’s calculating, manipulative, and pragmatic. She at least feels intentional, hence genuine.
I mean, the others feel just as manipulative, but the author tries to sell them as “nice girls” without realizing what their actions actually imply. Don’t get me wrong, when it comes to survival, people will do anything. But it’s obvious the author’s intention was something completely different.

All in all, thanks to the infuriatingly juvenile writing, I couldn’t care less what happens to any of the characters.
The poor old orc boyz just wanted to have a good time, but these pricks ruined the party.
Oh, you say I shouldn’t feel that way?
Yeah, probably. But when the writing is this bad, the reader can’t help but root for the antagonist.

As for the worldbuilding?
Well, the magic system is your standard game-leveling system.
The world itself is, on paper, an isekai, but since the entire school building gets isekai’d, it feels more like bog-standard urban fantasy in a school setting. So the “isekai” element is really just an excuse to introduce magic and monsters into the story. Although, by “monsters,” I mean orcs that look like pigmen. That’s it, no variety so far.
The “white room” concept seemed interesting at first. It could have been used to create dramatic scenes and real tension...
But yeah, it’s just wasted potential. Even when the author tried to do something with it, it was ruined by awful writing.

Well, anyway. Unlike the another reviewer, I don’t think the issue is that the author didn’t know what he wanted to write.
I’m convinced the issue is he has no clue how to write.
This manga is bad. Really damn bad. Still, sadly, this is not even close to the worst I’ve ever read.

Just your typical harem collectaton isekai manga. Same tropes, same ‘story’—if we’re generous enough to call it that—as a thousand others.

And yet… there are a few quirks that make this one marginally better than the rest of the competition. First off, the protagonist is a degenerate as usual, but at least the story don’t try to justify it. He just is—no moralizing, no forced excuses. Plus, unlike most isekai power fantasies, this guy actually earned his abilities. Sure, we don’t see the process, but we know he already defeated the demon lord, which took him time and dedication. So, at least, his overpowered-ness has some ... level of justification.

I also appreciate that, for once, the girls’ affections have to be earned—granted, in a ridiculously simpleton way, but hey, it's still better than the usual “You bought me, slavemaster-daddy! I love you forevaaah!” nonsense.

And that’s about where the positives end. Everything else is the same cookie-cutter isekai formula: same generic worldbuilding, same cardboard-cutout shallow harem lineup, same meandering, low-stakes plot that ultimately goes nowhere.

If you somehow aren’t yet burned out on the endless assembly line of identical isekai harems, this might be worth a shot. Or, if you’re just dipping your toes into the wonderfully absurd world of borderline-H popcorn isekai, this could serve as a slightly better-than-average starting point.

Despite putting it in "Mixed Feelings" category, I was pleasantly surprised by this series. Sure, you can still spot some of the typical "evil protagonist subgenre" issues here as well, but it does get a few things right.

One of these is that, the events in this series have lasting consequences. Not everyone walks away unscathed, especially not the protagonist’s "victims." Another pleasant surprise is that, unlike many similar shows, the protagonist doesn’t conveniently forget the fact that he is supposed to be evil by the second episode and he doesn't turn into a good guy. Noel [the protag] remains cunning, determined, and ruthless throughout the ... story. Granted, he does go overboard occasionally—there are a few scenes where he takes the Yandere act unreasonably far. It's not unbearable, but still noticeable.

Now the not so good part. Writers often struggle with crafting genuinely smart characters, resorting instead to putting them in overly simplistic scenarios. The result? A so-called genius solving issues so trivial that even a kindergarten student could manage, while the supporting cast falls over themselves in awe. It’s hard not to roll your eyes at their exaggerated worship. This is especially glaring when the story tries to showcase the protagonist’s leadership or strategic brilliance. The supporting cast is often written as if they’re a group of bumbling idiots—so much so that I sometimes wonder if they'd forget to breathe without their "captain" telling them to.
You can find a few scenes like this here as well. That said, these moments are compensated by others where I genuinely thought, "Okay, that was a clever move."

Overall, the poorly executed scenes are painfully bad, while the well-done moments are really good. This extreme polarization is the main reason I labeled it with a mixed feelings. It’s like a grab bag—you never know if next scene will be something good or bad. The lack of consistent writing quality really holds it back.

As for the actual story, it’s as simple as it gets: the usual rank-climbing and party-building plot you’ve seen a thousand times before. There’s nothing new or innovative in this regard (so far). I can’t see a bigger picture in the narrative. A solid hook would’ve gone a long way in making me excited for a second season. That said, I’ll likely give the next season a shot—assuming it ever gets made.

In conclusion, it’s far from a "must-watch masterpiece," but it’s refreshing to watch something like this amidst the endless tsunami of mind-numbingly dull "wholesome" anime. With a little extra polish, this series could’ve stood out from the sea of mediocrity, but as it stands, I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it.