Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

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It's your basic Isekai, but instead of being an overpowered adventurer or something similar, the main character becomes a king. Souma the main character (like all Isekai protagonists) has the superpower of convenience. He is able to remember pretty much every little detail needed to run a country. Sure he is a college student who studies this kind of stuff, but even then his memory is godlike.

Souma is transported to a kingdom that is going through a lot of troubles, so the king of that country hands Souma the crown, and ... he is forced to fix all the problems while preparing for a demon invasion.. typical fantasy stuff.

Overall the story is good, with generic Isekai characters that are at least likeable. The art is pretty good, and in my opinion better than the light novels, which feels more generic then the plot.. but I digress

I recommend this to fellow Isekai lovers like myself as its a somewhat different take on Isekai, as it doesn't have an overpowered main character to some extent. Its good for just turning your brain off and just enjoying.


This is my first review so I hope it somewhat helpful :)

It's so close to be excellent. It really suffers from the "anime" problem. Which is an over simplification for those things that happen in Anime, Manga, Manhwa etc that are unique to these cultures and feel like they're more acceptable locally.

In concept it's a story about a Machiavellian every-man who uses his knowledge of politcs and history to rescue a kingdom on the precipice of failure. In practice... yeah it's about that. A civil servant gets summoned to another world and if given way too much power for reasons that don't make much sense. But then like the character after he is summoned, the story ... takes itself seriously. It considers how the combination of magic and monsters would in some respects stunt the development of the world. Souma uses his insight on civil and political issues and his knowledge of technology to help the kingdom try to work it's way out of the pit of trouble it's in.

And it's a lot of fun. One of the first things Souma does is invent a radio broadcast with a video signal and use it to get people that are useful rather than corrupt. And right away when he start collecting his all-stars we can see some "lateral thinking". The pacing is excellent.

It has a great sense of scale and realism. There's some hidden conspiracies and they come out in a way that feel natural.

And yet.... Everything was going fine until about Volume 8. Then the story takes a turn that felt like a joke but suddenly taken seriously. Our realist hero develops a harem. Harems are generally a problem. But they don't fit this story of these characters. Honestly one of the few odd aspects is how the women fall into instalove when Souma shows up. One or two would have been fine but it just felt like everyone and then when the harem started to be formalized it just started a descent. It got bad. It still is. Hopefully it can pull out. But we're basically two strikes in and one more bad dip and I think I'll drop it which is ironic how many trash isekai manga I do read. I just can't take it here next to a story that isn't so self-aware.

It's generic. Isekai with heavy harem setting.

There's nothing interesting about any of the characters and the world building is very bad.

The MC is japanese guy that was going to enter university, them is teleported to another world as the hero, the, after showing his vast modern knowledge is given the throne. The guy them starts pulling all kind of modern reforms in a magical medieval world that is the feudal era, and ALL makes sense, there's practically no cultural/educational resistance to anything the guy is doing. It's like the writer has no idea how a world in that low state of education will behave when ... confronted to so drastic changes.

The harem is a complete turn off, the women simply fall for the MC, there's no romance, no character development. The moment 2 of these characters needed to go undercover as commoners in the city, and their clothes were modern japanese school uniforms, with short skirts and all, it was the moment I lost any hope of improvement in something that was already very bad written.

Is simply bad. Don't waste your time.