(Reviewed at chapter 43) Summary of Review: The story starts out really well, capturing your attention and wanting to see how it will develop but then it starts slipping and then king of falls and goes downhill 🫤. Longer version: Story: Just as the synopsis says, we follow the MC waking up in a medieval world that has magic. His "common sense" in how he approaches matters is rather refreshing as it makes you think, "this guy has passed the first hurdle" - he isn't naturally stupid. As he explores his new vampire nature, the world doesn't wait for him and events keep occurring. Character: At the chapter I am in, other characters haven't been explored too deeply. Though it is in the early phases, the author has set a kind of baseline behaviour and nature of the MC. You can guess at his thoughts and motivations which makes him more real. Unfortunately, towards the chapter I am in, he makes odd decisions and worse, it's cause of a lady. He is borderline simping and it isn't even because he is in love or has a crush (which makes people do dumb stuff and would be understandable). Having inherited the memories of the original body that knows of politics, he goes along with the ideology of a naive girl who doesn't know the cruelty of the world. For a few central characters, the author has slightly explored their mannerisms but others are forgettable. World Background: The author has taken some time to develop the world and how things interact but not too deeply. Of course chapter 43 is still early but at least the world feels alive and somewhat expansive with interconnected areas. Progression: Honestly I find this rather lacking. At the beginning, the MC is exploring his new status/abilities as a Vampire and we get to learn of his abilities in an interesting way. But looking at the progression ranks, you just know one is more powerful than the other. For example, the MC moves to the next rank but apart from being able to ignite some energy for "something", there isn't a quantifiable explanation of how he's grown. No techniques, no practice, nada. So far we just know that if I'm rank 2 and you're 1, I'll beat you up. But what about skills? After all, as Knights (for example), they would use cold weapons like swords. If the rank 1 has better technique and the disparity isn't very big, wouldn't he hold against the rank 2? In short, the MC enters a new rank but you don't feel it being impactful due to lack of details. The translation is rather good and consistent and doesn't feel like a slightly polished Machine translation. In short - it is the inconsistency in the MCs character and behaviour plus the lack of details in the progression that have made me give up on this one. It isn't bad with a nice political intrigue and power struggles but that "hook" from the start just seems to have slipped off.
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