Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu

Despite a strong start it's already getting into the genres tropes it was poking fun of at earlier.

Story 7/10
The world is pretty interesting, the progression of the plot makes sense, and the MCs goal is unique and fun. A lot of the humour actually lands, instead of just being 'misunderstanding, scream, punch'. The way characters are acting in the current arc is dragging and tropey, however. The beast slave shit is such a weird thing to add and hardly ever acknowledge.

Art 6/10
Everything looks good/great for the most part, but the artist really struggles in the action. It's pretty much impossible to follow, with very similar looking mechs and a problem conveying movement.

Characters 7/10
The MC is a cunt and he knows it, which is a nice change of pace. He has some decent character moments and works well to build the story around. The 'targets' are ridiculous, but I guess that's the point cause they were written that way in the game, but hopefully some of them grow. The MCs girls so far are pretty generic and nothing special, but they have time to develop. The queen is pretty great though.

Enjoyment 6/10
Good but not great, but has potential to be better. Hopefully the doomsaying about the WN is unsubstantiated.

Truly a refreshing take on the typically isekai where the MC has everything going for him, and see's the world around them as some sort of fragile glass object that they must not harm in anyway. Yet this story centers around a protagonist born in as you may have guessed, an otome games; which are in and of themselves a game for girls, and in a reaction that follows how most of us would act with such power, and difference in culture he takes his own realistic shot at life, as petty as it may sound at time while taking the comedic take on the characters to a almost flawless degree at times.

Overall It is highly worth a read if you would like a breath of fresh air from the "copy and paste", isekai's that are out there now day.

Disclaimer: This review is based on both the manga and the LN, with the LN up to volume 5, chapter 138.

On the surface, Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu, seems to bring yet another generic Otome Isekei genre into the hundreds that have existed. Yet, the prose and execution is near perfection. The story will force a wide range of emotions, from anger, indignation, disgust, pity to anticipation, joy and satisfaction. You will feel anger from the setting that the characters have been put into, the indignation, or more aptly, desire for justice to those who are "evil". You will feel the disgust of the unfortunate circumstances that has befell the MC. Yet, you will also pity some of those "evil", antagonists with reasonable cause, that has done harm on the MC. You will feel more than enough satisfaction how the author has delivered the hand of justice to those who have done harm to the MC. Finally you will feel the joy how the MC has made it out of his predicament in the end of each arc, albeit be it as a blessing or a curse, the game must continue and the MC must trudge through a seemingly endless journey.

The story and setting itself is rather simple, the MC "Leon Foe Bartford", was a former Japanese salary man who died from overplaying an otome game that his younger sister blackmailed him to play. However, he reincarnated into the same otome game he was playing as the second son of a countryside feudal lord in the Hohlfahrt Kingdom, the country that the otome game's setting is in. Yet, one major thing is that Leon was quick to realize is the country he lives in is an unfair matriarchal hierarchy, with women dominating the social order and men unable to defy this order. Through this setting, we see Leon navigate the treacherous waters of a society where women, at every angle, takes the chance to abuse the male nobility.

As a self declared "mob" character to live a peaceful life, Leon sets out to complete the objective of the unbalanced otome game, to get the female protagonist, Olivia or 'Livia', to declare their love for one or all of the five male capture targets. To fail this objective would mean a world-ending scenario as the monsters and evilness would destroy everything, and ruin the hopes of Leon's so called "peaceful life".

However, this work is not as simple as it seems, as the author's unexpected twists would not make everything as easy as it seems, especially for a reincarnated who already completed the game. From the inevitable setting of the game, Leon will face multiple moments of despair, a forlorn future that Leon has to make it through. But from the wits, experience, and reliance of his cheat item Luxion, Leon will make it through the smallest slither of success even when the reader believes all hope is lost. For those who have done evil, karma will be delivered more satisfactory than the reader can imagine. Because of these points, Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu, is an amazing piece of work that encapsulate all these feelings.

As a work that is centered around an "otome game", there isn't as much emphasis on romance as one might expect. From my understanding, the author focuses way more attention on world building, drama, and relationship building (not just romantically but more specifically on a range of the different types of relations from political disputes, diplomacy, to sibling and parental disputes). As a manga-reader who primary reads romance, if one were to look for romance here, the author gives just enough to satisfy ones desire for this development. One should also expect drama to occur as this is not a completely happy and fluffy life that Leon will experience.

The story, the lowest score I have given, has one downside: it may feel that the author is rushing the story without fleshing out some of the points. This is most apparent in the first otome game as the reader is thrown all the details of the world. The plot advances relatively quickly compared to other similar genres, and one might be very confused at first. However after finishing the two arcs, I believe this is necessary as, rather than to add in non-consequential "fillers" to the story, readers will forget the major plot points early on in the arc that will be necessary to understand the conclusion of each arc.

[For the manga] The art is very nicely drawn with a large amounts of details give to backgrounds, which is important in creating a sci-fi otome game. The characters are also drawn exceptionally also with great details to their facial expression to understand how they feel. Although the LN directly states the feelings of what some of these characters feel, it is important to have that indirectly expressed in manga, which this artist does.

In the end I give a 10/10 enjoyment, which I do not give unless it fits the requirement of a "masterpiece". Although I may give more generous scores than other reviewers, I guarantee that this work will not disappoint you if you are interested in an isekei/romance-ish/harem/sci-fi battles/comedy/drama genre.

Of course, one of the unique hidden messages that is largely left out of other similar genres is that: harems are bad mkay.

I often see it said that this is a manga for incels... it isnt, if you read the summary and think that I can sorta understand after all attractive men are critisized heavily and it says women have all the power in society. But after reading those 2 features arent that forced and is implemented organically and well alongside the plot and characters.

Overall, not for everyone but I for one love this manga and highly suggest it for a read.

My biggest critisism with this manga (at least with what I could think up) would be the fact that the antagonist's reverse-harem is made up entirely out of arrogant idiots and I wish that there was one of them who is a good, smart well rounded person. Seeing as they are characterized to be cartoonishly douchey.

When I see the 'otome game' concept, I thought it's another milked theme. But turn out, it's not bad.

Story:
No need to explain. The MC reincarnated to the game he played. So his knowledge of the world is what make him OP.But the author did not just threw a random trouble at him so he'll just overpower it and somehow succeed in 1 or 2 chapters. We can see his struggle to survive the nonsense world, and we're happy to see him win despite we knew he'd win after all.
The world build is fit for me. Not too straightforward, nor too complex, We learn more and more about the world through the story flow, instead of everything is simply thrown to us by a whole chapter of narration.

Character:
The author make quite good antagonist creation. The role of each charac already decided either prot/antag by the MC's knowledge. But then we see the underlying background of them that make it clear why they're doing that. Despite already knowing who they are, the characters not just do as the MC thought as the MC interfere with their story.
Although indeed there also some antag with completely trash personality whose only purpose is to be defeated.

Enjoyment:
This manga is basically comedy, nothing too serious here. It's good and funny to see how the MC succeed each trouble.

I have not read the Web Novel, and this review will be regarding the first 5 volumes of the Light Novel.

To start from the conclusion, I can’t really recommend this novel in its present state. While I will admit that the quality did improve marginally around the 4th volume, even considering that improvement, it’s not exactly anything great. I’ll try and go into the details below, while avoiding any major spoilers.


Story (4/10):

By no means can I praise the start of this particular story. A world with glaring inconsistencies, very poor writing choices, and a disregard for the title and proposed theme of the work were what stood out to me from the very first volume.
To go into a bit more detail on this, the inconsistencies were regarding the setup of the world, where women have a higher status than men… Even though men are the ones that retain the inheritance rights. As for the poor writing choices, it comes down to a rather meaningless time-skip right after the protagonist gets Isekai-ed – there’s absolutely no point of having the guy reincarnate into a kid if the author isn’t even going into detail about the growth from there. Instead, he just skips 10 years or so without even filling in anything meaningful into that time. And lastly, for the thematic issue, the protagonist remains a powerless mob for a grand total of two chapters, after which he’s your typical overpowered harem boss with a bad attitude. Hence, he is neither a mob, not is life difficult for him in any way. There were also some very poor attempts at foreshadowing scattered in the story, which are obvious even at a casual glance.
As the story moves forward, some of these issues are addressed, such as the issue with the ‘world’, but for the most part, the story and the writing simply lack flow, and most of the events simply feel contrived. As of volume 5, the author has completely left the original theme of the work, and seems to be moving towards something else. While I can’t say I dislike the new direction, I can’t say that I am a huge fan of it either, so I’ll be on the fence for a while.
However, I haven’t quite given up on the story in this case, given how the author has also written Sevens, which also had a similarly rough start. So far, MobuSeka seems vastly inferior to Sevens, but whether it will improve or not remains to be seen.


Art (7/10):

Given how this is a light novel, the art is pretty minimal. It was relatively good, although it was often difficult to tell which character was being depicted, since the character art wasn’t exactly distinctive. Other than that, I don’t really have any complains or praise in this category.


Character (3/10):

I’m sad to say that the characters are the biggest weakness of this novel so far, and they have some major issues.
First and foremost, we have Leon, the protagonist. Leon is an inconsistent and often irrational character, whose decisions may make sense on the surface, but if you look beyond that, it’s amply clear that he’s just a plot device. His actions and reasoning are often removed from logic, and he just seems to move in whatever way suits the story best. Rather than being an organic character that responds to the environment, he feels more like a puppet to the flow of the story.
Now, for the girls (identities would be spoiler territory, but it’s not necessary to give the names, since they’re all roughly the same). This is a harem story, and hence, there are multiple girls vying for Leon. In such cases, it’s usually a good idea to have each one stand out in different ways, so that they are easy to distinguish between and appeal to various types of readers. The girls in MobuSeka though, all seem like a copy-paste job with minor differences here and there – They are all pretty dull, lacking in character, and archetypal, even though the author somehow manages to make even those different archetypes seem and behave like a single one.
There are even a couple of girls that are introduced and hinted at, but they never really have any impact at all besides a couple of appearances. More often than not, I’d read some girl’s name and wonder who that even is, given how faint their presence was in the grand scheme of things.
As a special mention, the only character I actually liked in MobuSeka was the sassy robot. While occasionally inconsistent, he was pretty fun, and livened up most of the scenes he was in.


Enjoyment (6/10):

One thing I have to admit is that MobuSeka can be enjoyable at times. More often than not, it’s more of something that you’d enjoy if you ‘turn off your brain and read’, but that’s still enjoyment nonetheless. Many of the scenes where the author tries to build up hype do fall flat, but there are quite a few sequences where he succeeds as well. I did occasionally read an entire volume at a stretch, so that’s a success there.


Overall (5/10):

While a simple average gives a 5, a weighted average would’ve put the score closer to a 4. Either way, as I had stated at the start of this review, I can’t exactly bring myself to recommend this novel. It might be worth a read if you don’t have anything else to do, but if you want better novels with a similar setting, I would recommend ‘Falling in Love with the Villainess’ and ‘My Death Flags show no sign of ending’ over this one.
There is always the possibility that MobuSeka may improve along the way like Sevens did, but as it is now, it would be better to stay away from this novel. With this, I conclude.

MobuSeka, not an average romance isekai story. Minor spoilers included.

Story 9/10
The series starts with a male protagonist, Leon, who gets reincarnated into an otome game. (a video game for females where they can have relationships with the opposite gender) He soon discovers that the world is messed up and that society functions with a caste system. To secure his safety, he ventures out on a small adventure to obtain an AI companion. (Luxion, a pay to win cheat item)

Conflicts throughout the story are initiated by uncivil nobility who are obsessed with power and wealth. As a matter of fact, many choose to involve themselves in the unfair treatment of others; of course, Leon joins forces with the AI for the sake of promoting justice and world peace.

Art 9/10
The illustrations in the first volume might have been a little crude. Otherwise, the visual appeal for this series is fantastic. Leon's intended mob type character works well with his given appearance; likewise, it complements his personality.

Character 8/10
Leon is a very interesting character. He does not care about how outsiders perceive him which gives him the audacity to reprimand those who usually can't be criticized. When it comes to the people he is close with, he is typically compassionate and perhaps sensitive to their opinions of him. He does not actively participate in creating a harem for himself. (respect) He has realistic expectations and tries not to get ahead of himself.
"An overpowered protagonist done right."

The individuals of his harem have their fair share of trouble. They have sweet personalities and most have good development.

Regarding the idiot side characters... maybe a change in perception maybe not
They contribute to the humor and side characters are not to be disregarded.

Enjoyment 10/10
This series is a thrill to read. The otome game setting has its arcs that are well introduced and not too fast-paced. The romantic development is nice, but so are the sweeping crises that arise volume after volume. When situations can not possibly get worse, they do. The attention to detail and events exceeded my expectations.

Overall 9/10
MobuSeka is a must-read for isekai enthusiasts. Don't worry about cliche, there are few. Happy reading!