Mujintou de Elf to Kyoudou Seikatsu @comic

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First of all, the title is a lie. The island stops being just the two of them by like chapter 8 or so. Excellent job editing team.

Anyway, going by the manga cover pic and title, I was under the assumption this would be a thirst trap manga. And there is definitely some fan service going on, with the elf being an unrealistic ditz. She doesn’t seem to realize undressing in front of someone may be weird. And at first you kinda want to give the author the benefit of the doubt, and you think “well, she’s an elf maybe she’s from an all elf ... world and she just doesn't even considering this dude a dude and so she doesn't care”. But no, she’s from a civilized world with multiple races, and does eventually start being embarrassed when she shows skin after she grows to like the dude. It’s just weird and hamfisted.

And I’ll also mention that the first chapter is really bad at how it handles the whole “oh hi elf, guess what? you’re in a completely different world!” thing. So, so bad. Like the author just did not give a damn and didn’t actually want this to get published. I'm not going to go into details here, but literally every other isekai/ reverse isekai that ive seen does their introduction to the transported character better.

All that out of the way, after 14 chapters it has surprisingly started turning somewhat dark and serious, with various Japanese government agencies having multiple hidden agenda’s, and other stuff going on with the adventurers who show up to the island. Despite a real mediocre opening few chapters, I think if this sticks to the serious tone, cuts the fan service a bit, and doesn’t turn into a harem fic, it might actually make something of itself. I’m going to assume it’ll be canceled before 30 chapters though.

Very much a 5/10 so far, which I’m giving it cuz the art is nice and the characters seem half decent after the elf starts being a person around chapter 8 or 10

To start, I read the webnovel before the manga started releasing and it was... okay. This manga is a disappointment through and through. About 80% of content is the same, some worldbuilding and minor events were changed/cut completely (as of ch43). Sadly, some of the worst writing was not cut (volume 4, more on that below). Because of some of these changes and overly simplifying everything, the manga ends up rather incoherent and with terrible pacing issues.

The art certainly doesn't help. Most panels are empty, including only shots of characters involved. It occasionally becomes messy to a point where it is impossible to know where ... they are, if they moved somewhere, how much time passed and to properly follow who is saying/doing what and what they are feeling all the while.
Also, some of the facial expressions are really out of place and random at times. They sometimes end up REALLY different from what I envisioned when reading the novel and the manga/what the dialogue felt like in tandem to how a character was established (worst offender most of volume 4).

Now, as for the mentioned volume 4 and why it simply is plain dogshit bad- it is full of holes when it comes to plot and characters and it contains all aforementioned problems x10. The overall writing is abysmal throughout chapters 16-21. Everything is forced for some godforsaken reason but it has zero lasting impact on him or her or the world around them, I genuinely am interested in what the author released this whole volume for.
It contains zero character development, the plot isn't pushed forward and you only end up loathing the Elf for something that read like a cheap fanfic.
There is a full disconnect and the "major" character of this volume is disposed of and never again appears while the main pairs relationship continues to organically progress which it would have done even without whatever this was. Epic fail.

I will not spoil what happens but it is some creepy subliminal (actual-)NTR that climaxes in some uncomfortably overexaggerated sexual panels involving another male and her blushing multiple times (her facial expressions and her almost nude appearance being sexualized even more than usual make it infinitely worse) while flirting up said male for the most stupid forced reason when she absolutely hated and loathed his whole existence just moments before he did one thing for her.
It is a rather quick ordeal but how she treats kissing and nudity when with MC and how she behaved towards the random loser here make it read like netorase.
It completely 100% goes against her until this time established character and actively jeopardizes her relationship with the MC... until it doesn't- it just is never truly acknowledged, she won't tell him and doesn't consider it physical + emotional cheating.
None of it had to happen, btw. What she did to the stranger was unnecessary, he was alive and able to speak. The author made her do it for whatever reason but it just ended up with her doing this stuff multiple times as some reward while her actual love interest was around, hence the netorase.

From here on it turns into the usual generic piece of literature. There is nothing interesting going on anymore and it turns from "us two on the island" into "the whole world lusts after her but we are chilling with new people interrupting us every 2 chapters".

Comments on various platforms share most of my feelings. The romance falls flat, everything is inconsistent, the volume 4 NTR"bait" and everything out of character happening in it is absolute dogshit, the art is barebone, overall poor and gets worse at times.