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Eilavel



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:18 pm Reply with quote
A pretty fair review, I'd give it a higher overall because once it kicks off on the world building and plot twists I think its very consistently entertaining, but the criticism on the character writing does ring true; I think its clear Dina will be interesting, but Lufas is fairly thin and the rest of the cast have interesting plot roles... but also fit into the pandering isekai standards so far.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:43 pm Reply with quote
I also would score it a bit higher for Overall but generally agree with both the stated strengths and weakness. It does take a little while for its stated ambition to show, but once the series starts implying that Lufas the character has a backstory (and perhaps even an entire identity) beyond what Lufas the player made, its overall picture starts becoming more fascinating. Some late plot twists involving the Demon Lord only add to that.

The strengths outweigh the flaws by enough that I'm definitely on for the full ride, wherever this series goes next.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 12:12 am Reply with quote
The next 3 LNs they cover in season 2, if not all 6 LNs remaining out of 9 total, will help explain why the characters seem to be mostly 1 note, while Dina comes off as something more. Also as much as I would love to bitch about the reviews take on the MC, I really can't due to nuke level spoiler. I would have given the show a B or B- overall, but I suspect my judgement is suspect since I have read the complete series about half a dozen times over the last few years. The author really knows how to right more and more outrageous fight scenes.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 8:49 am Reply with quote
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For example, the way the series weirdly avoids the low-hanging fruit of meaningfully exploring Lufas the player's (presumed to have been a cishet man in his initial life) thoughts on gender, sexuality, and romantic attraction, despite also acknowledging at times that all those things have been on his mind in at least some abstract capacity since reincarnating into Lufas the character's (cis woman) body.


This one being the weirdest one of the bunch,yes. Especially as the genre has gotten better work in that aspect lately, I cousin a few TS (Japan) villainess ones where the heroine does not suddenly become evil and the reincarnated villainess falls in love with the heroine.

Though I was two who threw a nice twist in the tropez one is an older man who reincarnates as a teenage woman, he is shown in various "exciting" situations with other women just to have him either blush and ignore or plainly run away from them... Until he is actually bathing, Along a woman who is his type and we get a very different reaction from her.

And the looped Isekai where the previously mc changes gender depending on the loop, in thenfemal embody does the same avoiding and blushing routine with all the women around her, even the ones hitting on her, until she actually goes for a full Yuri kiss when she finally meets the one who was *his wife in a previous loop.
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TarsTarkas



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:08 am Reply with quote
Yeah, I liked the light novels, so I will have to get back into the anime, but my anime backlog is pretty bad.
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