Hitoribocchi no Isekai Kouryaku
Loner Life in Another World

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Okay. I have just finished reading Volume 4 and I have to say I have never flip flopped my feelings so much on a series as this one.
I have a few issues with this series , and since I've just finished Volume 4, I can give my honest review of this series. It's another Isekai, so there's that. Not saying it's bad because it's an Isekai. I'm just saying it up front.
Okay. My first issue with this series is that there is currently no end goal. Now this is a small gripe. No demon lord, No saving humanity, no nothing. Just a class that got ... sent to another world for some reason. Nothing wrong with that. glad that it isn't yet another kill demon lord and save humanity Isekai plot. But this goes into my second issue.
My second issue is that every book so far has had its own story. However, a huge portion of the book has NOTHING to deal with the story in the book. The first book is a great example of this. The first 400 or so pages, nothing is indicating about some bad guy, then out of no where, there's a bad guy introduced in the last 149 pages that our MC must defeat because.... Not really much of a reason is even given. Bad guy literally shows up out of left field, and is bad. Speaking of MC, this has to be my biggest gripe with this series.
My third issue is the MC. His name is Haruka. He is the sole reason I have switched my opinions so many times. At some points he is competent, and other times he is a complete annoyance. He acts like a stuttering moron speaking in a incoherent language for the majority of the story. He somehow always make people hate him, yet they still like him. I don't get how the other characters can be like that. He sometimes goes into incoherent rantings and ramblings that either incorporate some of what was just said to him, or incoherent rantings and ramblings and just flat out ignore other people. Haruka also adamantly refuses to remember names and just make names up and he gives those names to other people. It doesn't matter who they are, royalty, classmates, anyone. Speaking of which.
My fourth issue. Due to Haruka giving made up names to everyone, the majority of the story doesn't even have their real names. When we look away from Haruka in little Interludes sprinkled throughout the story, they use their real names. But since we've been following Haruka for most of the time, I literally have no idea who they are talking about in these Interludes. I get confused because we have two separate groups calling the same people two different names.
I've had to try the first volume three times to get into the series. Even then it was just barely. I would've just stopped at first, but something kept telling me to buy it. I honestly don't know what it is, but it's what's caused me to buy the first volume three times. In my honest opinion, I would just skip this.

Update- I'm revising my review to mixed. I'll leave my original review below, and put my update here. While I did thoroughly enjoy the first five chapters, the last three have been so confusing that I have struggled to keep up with what was going on. It's not that the plot is complex, it's just that it is very difficult to tell who is actually speaking in a scene and what characters are even present. I'm not sure if this is down to the translator or if the quality of the source writing has degraded.

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A boy and his classmates have been summoned to another ... world- no wait, come back! This Isekai’s actually funny.

The story begins when Haruka is late arriving for the summoning after trying to run away and so God lumbers him with all the useless skills and jobs his classmates didn’t want, like Loner, NEET and Shut-In.

The first book takes a little bit of time to get going, as there’s quite a lot of establishing of all of Haruka’s “useless” powers, but once he meets up with his classmates the comedy really begins. Thanks to Haruka’s Loner powers he can’t be bothered to remember anybody’s name but his own, so everyone ends up with random nicknames like Mean Girl, Meat Head or Class Rep. He can’t even remember the name of the village he’s in and has come up with a hilariously silly name for the Inn he’s staying at.

They even hate him at the guild because he’s always hanging around and complaining about the jobs on the board even though his NEET stat means he’s not allowed to take any jobs! Half the time someone will tell him something, he’ll totally misconstrue it and then end up berating them for coming up with something so silly when it was him that got it wrong.

Haruka’s scatterbrained character and the constant confusion he causes with how he muddles things up makes these books a joy to read. He’s regularly scalded by the girls in his class for all the misunderstandings he causes and he’s always completely oblivious of whatever it is that he’s done.

As of this review there are four books out and they get funnier and funnier as Haruka’s confusing antics end up improving the lives of everyone around him. Maybe one day he’ll even find his sex appeal, which he’s convinced has been hidden in a dungeon somewhere.

Okay, so this is a very love it or hate it type of story. Especially considering the way the story is written because people will fucking hate it. I can't believe the author decided to write the story like this, because it's incredibly ballsy.

Just know that, personally, I fucking love this story.

You know how most stories where there's a dungeon of 100 levels, they don't really write about every fight, and every level, they do timeskips and stuff? This story, DOES NOT DO THAT, if the protag goes through 100 floors, they go through 100 floors, and I'm like, "Holy Shit, this fucker's actually going ... through with this."

Let's split the narrative into sagas for now. As of current, I've only read up to 8 volumes because that's only what's translated in english. There are 21 volumes I think, but now that there's an anime out, more volumes may be translated faster.

But let's say that:

SAGA 1: "Volumes 1-3" Omui Saga
SAGA 2: "Volumes 4-7" Kingdom Saga
SAGA 3: Volume 8-???"

SAGA 2 is fucking peak.

SAGA 1 is alright, it charmed me with it's ridiculous writing style, but the Volume 2 is such a fucking mental battle. That's where I bring up the 100 levels thing, because it fucking did that.

The story documents things day by day, and documents morning, afternoon, and night, and sometimes some parts of the day are elongated due to different perspectives.

This is a bizzare writing style, of which I think is a thing some people would hate but some people would get really charmed by.

I almost dropped it at Volume 2, but then Volume 3 dropped and I started loving it. The perspective of influential people to this autistic ass crazy boy is very fun to watch.

The title says "Loner Life In Another World", which is peculiar, because I don't think that's his most defining trait. It's his sheer autism that makes him most entertaining.

In the story, he has a moniker of which is called "The Enemy of Common Sense", of which I think is a very fitting moniker.

The story goes as follows, his class gets reincarnated to another world, he tries to escape it but as a result he gets reincarnated late and all the good skills have been picked out by his classmates. He verbally abuses and glares at God, scowls at him saying what the fuck, and so God feels threated and gives him the remaining skills, of which are all terrible sounding.

But, combined, it makes him somewhat competent.

All his female classmates are fond of him, but know that it's not a harem. NONE of them like him romantically, but that probably will change, it's yet to happen though. They all just really trust him, you kinda hate the girls but also love them.

I'll talk about SAGA 2 now, and especially Day 77 which takes place in Volume 7, because holy shit, that is so peak. It's one of my most reread moments in fiction of all time.

You see, most stories have "Pop Off" moments where it's with the strength of the protag, but for this one moment, it's more than just that. This is like one of those "Conqueror Haki" moments in fiction, where the protag steps into the limelight and he shuts up all negative things surrounding him. Holy shit, I'm BUSTING the fattest nut just thinking of it.

More than anything, if you're strong enough to listen to someone say "Read it up to Volume 7", then go do that. Volume 2 is kind of a tough read, so listen to it through an audiobook form if needed.

Another review complained how there's no end goal.... there kind of is a looming threat but we are not sure of it yet as a whole. I mean, there is the minor antagonism in SAGA 2, but the major looming threat is still unknown, but it does show itself as early as in Volume 2.