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.