Hype?

iceaco said:
So people have been saying this story is cliche.
I agree.
But that's because the modern isekai fad was written after this story.
It was written before The New Gate (2013) which followed similar starting concept
This was written in 2010. (As reference, SAO webnovel was written in 2003-2005, LN v1 was out in 2009, and anime in 2012)

Think of it as the template modern isekai before authors started writing isekai stories after SAO anime came out.

You won't find many new concepts here, but you can see where it all started from.

As for the name, the official novel name is In The Land of Leadale (as can be seen from amazon.com). In the video title, it's Riaderu no daichi nite which is In The Land of Leadale too. World of Leadale is just the 'setting' tagline I guess

SaintGeekSG said:
Unlike other people, i haven't heard good things about this novel. I was interested in it some years ago because the art is insanely good in my opinion (especially the covers and color illustrations, here they are for the curious : https://imgur.com/a/9huEF4U) and so i got interested and searched a bit about it.
Here's a 3 out of 5 stars review i found from someone who read the entire novel :

One of the first web novels I had ever read.
Innovation: 4/5
As a pretty old novel as far as syosetsu goes, it predates a lot of the other "game-turned-reality" novels. As a consequence it doesn't seem to do anything particularly innovative with the genre, being one of the pioneers itself.
Characters: 3/5
The protagonist, Keina, sort of just chills out in a village until stuff happens and she adopts a daughter. Who she spoils and dotes on immensely. Given the short time-frame they've known each other it is difficult to believe that the relationship is much deeper than simply feeling sorry for a random orphan.
Additionally, Keina's interaction with her NPC "children" from back when it was a game is for the most part an unending recurring gag that isn't particularly funny.
Finally, the second most important character to the story only appears late in the game, and they are difficult to treat as a real person because of their oddities.
Story: 2/5
The story seems mellow and mediocre for the majority of its run, but close to the end strange revelations come out of nowhere that seem like complete ass-pulls. Worse yet, these revelations are tied deeply into the existence of the world and the whole mystery behind what set off the plot.
To be fair, a lot of what seem to be complete ass-pulls are in fact mechanics known to the world at large in the author's previous novel. But on the other hand, that novel was dropped midway so you can't expect anybody to have read it, and worse yet there was never any indication or mention by the characters of THIS novel that these mechanics were even around.