Review Detail of Someone_Or_Other in I'm From an Ordinary Family, for Real!

Translation quality: superb. Nothing much to say here, really, other than that the prose flows like it was written in English originally. There are no obvious errors, and even the common ones caused by the webnovel backend are missing. Updating stability: trial read. These always release 20 initial chapters, then 20 more chapters in batches of five until they go on hiatus forever, so I can only give this a 3/5. I sincerely hope it gets picked up, though. Story development: unique in a good way. It presents a fresh take on the system novel genre, where two people have complementary systems. One person is assigned a task and both are rewarded by that person completing the task - except the person who benefits the most from the mission (the MC) is the one that didn’t receive it. In theory, it sounds like it should be overly complex and bloated, but in practice it works very well. Two things to be concerned about, though: there are already indicators of heavy nationalism and China STRONK! and spiritual power/cultivation tropes. I just hope that, in the future, this doesn’t end up becoming just another trash cultivation novel with strong nationalistic elements. But as of chapter 30, I’m only seeing hints of those (ancient martial arts proficiency and spiritual marrow-washing spring water, plus mentions of the technology blockade that’s being poorly enforced on China by “the west”). Character design: fresh. The MC is portrayed incredibly well, with his confusion at the seemingly random rewards from his system coming across as realistic and genuine. It’s in the early stages though, so as he develops that may change. The reactions of the small antagonists are exaggerated, and somewhat unrealistic because of those exaggerations. So I hope that trend doesn’t continue, but I won’t hold out high hopes for it. World background: urban standard. It’s a modern-day novel set in the real world, so there really isn’t much to say here. No amount of world building can ever top the world building done by Reality(tm).