Reviews
(2.83/5)Isekai about a man who asks to be reincarnated in a remote location to live a quiet life as a farmer. Bulk of the story is him slowly building up a village as he is visited by a variety of the kinds of fantasy creatures you usually get in these things (vampires, angels, elves, ogres, etc.) who all desire to live with him.
Didn't especially like this one and didn't finish it. Reminded me a little of that slime isekai in that rather than establishing a core group of characters and developing their relationships what we get instead is just a constant stream of more stuff. More villagers, more vegetables, more animals, more monsters, more buildings, more fields...
This problem is made all the worse by the writing style which is primarily the protagonist narrating the key events as he sees them, bit like a diary or something similar. This means there is very little dialogue or casual interactions between the characters to help flesh out the villagers and give them a bit more of a rounded personality. Even the waifu-bait characters who appear on the cover barely feature in the story outside of their introductory chapters. I found this all a bit too dry and lost interest about 60% through.
Only thing I'll mention here difficulty-wise is the vocabulary. There's a fair bit of farming and construction related terminology that are likely not the kinds of words the average learner will have come across too often before. Otherwise the current rating of L29 is probably fair.
The pacing is weird but it's entertaining.
This is narrated mainly from the point of view of the protagonist, and you don't get to see much of the other things that happen. Sometimes you will get a chapter that goes into a bit of detail of something that happened away from the eyes of the protagonist, but that's about it.
If I had a complain, would be that the time pacing seems way too fast. Not sure how this will be dealt with 10+ Volumes, but at 4+ years per volume in time, seems weird.
Also another complain is that sometimes, things that you would think are important just get one line or two. I do hope this gets addressed in later volumes.
On the positive side, the chapters are divided in sub-stories, which makes easy to stop in any point in the book without leaving something hanging, that you might need to re-read to not get lost.
Not understanding one chapter fully doesn't break the flow of the story, but since as I previously mentioned sometimes heavy things are just dropped in 1-2 lines, you could be missing something important at any time.
Vocabulary wise, once you get used to the agriculture stuff, just like other specific themed series, it becomes doable.
I scored this 4 star, but it's more like 3.5 to me. Hopefully it goes up on the next volumes, as I really like the setting.