Its a good returnee manga at least better than most in its genre but not without heavy faults. The characters are mostly good especially the main and side characters. The four main ones start as archetypes: Pram the mascot Romantica the tsundere and Azest the strong girl but they get enough development to break these initial characterizations at least for a bit. Romantica gets better but its really inconsistent. She fluctuates between insufferable and tolerable most of the time and its mostly the fault of the author who has a clear weakness that will be discussed later in the review. As for the antagonists only one of them is really good but her reveal is handled in the worst way possible. The main set of villains are the Skull Mask team but after 200+ chapters they are replaced out of nowhere by the Saintness team. This is a considerable step down outside of the Saintness herself. Shes a good antagonist and makes sense but the supporting antagonists are horrible. They make no sense. They are so powerful that they can tank attacks from latestage characters like nothing yet they were never mentioned before in the story. Where were they in the first loop? How did they help when they were so powerful? They have no personality or characterization apart from the Fire Demon Girl who is just a lore dump. They were created out of nowhere and it shows. The story starts really well but in the middle it gets too convoluted with the Shadows World and leaves you praying for a return to the real world. At least the ending is decent. The main weakness of this manga is by far the character interactions. They work in a really weird way often feeling like just a setup for a battle or resulting in one. There are constant cuts between scenes that break the flow and when they resume the interaction is already over and not shown. This manhwa would benefit from cutting at least 20 percent of its battles and spending more time on character interactions. The romance is nonexistent for most of it. It exists and I think the author tried to portray it but he isnt good at it. As mentioned he cant build solid character interactions and this aspect suffers because of it. In the novel Azest is the clear heroine but the manhwa author is a Romantica fan so he left the ending open without revealing who the protagonist will choose. The epilogue is very empty which is a feat in itself. It spends one chapter mourning Zod something that was already done for an entire chapter and one and a half chapters with characters no one cares about like the Crow Mask underlings. It would have been much better to show the rest of the side characters instead as most of them just disappear. As expected the author cant write a good final interaction between the main characters. It needs to be interrupted by some trope like the angry father. TLDR: A decent manhwa in its genre but the more you think about it the worse it gets. Its main flaw is the lack of character interactions and the low quality of the ones that exist.
80 /100
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