Jan 23, 2025
This is one of those manga where the protagonist seems underpowered but actually turns out to be completely overpowered. The protagonist, Sky, has a really small pool of mana, but he can cast really fast and very efficiently. There actually is an attempt at fleshing out how the magic system works with an explanation in detail of why Sky’s abilities work differently. At first it doesn’t quite feel that Sky is overpowered, rather it seems to be more in the vein of him having powers that are different from everyone else in both positive and negative ways. However, the negatives quickly seem to not matter
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and at that point he’s just the standard overpowered protagonist and the finer details of the magic system don’t really matter much.
An overpowered protagonist is not inherently a bad thing. I’m rather fond of them myself. However, I feel like this is a pretty bad in terms of execution. The overpowered moments generally aren’t handled all that well, with not enough build up and not enough savoring of the aftermath. There also just in general aren’t enough of them. The manga is pretty weak in terms of its cast as well. Sky is an amusing enough protagonist to make him likable, but there’s no character development. The only other character with enough presence to be worth mentioning is Lem, who was also decently likable, though in general she’s pretty flat in terms of personality and also gets no character development. Everyone else doesn’t get fleshed out in the slightest. There are a lot of characters that you’d expect to be reoccurring characters, but they just aren’t. Also, this is listed as a harem manga in some places, but it simply isn’t. The only character that shows any romantic interest at all in Sky is Lem, though it doesn’t go anywhere. And in terms of side characters, it’s about equal in terms of male and female characters.
There’s also not much in terms of an overarching plot. It takes place at a magic academy where there’s a conflict between nobles and commoners, but it’s all basically just superficial window dressing with nothing of substance. I suppose that has its positives though, in that despite this being an adaptation of part of a longer novel series, it doesn’t really feel like there are any plot threads left unresolved at the end of the manga. Though in general the manga isn’t strong enough to get invested enough for the ending to feel satisfying. I should also note that there’s a good amount of comedy, and while it definitely can be pretty funny at times, there isn’t enough for the humor to hold up the manga.
The art isn’t bad, but it’s pretty generic. The character designs especially are really plain to the point of being boring to look at and the art never does anything interesting with them. Still, the action does flow well and overall the manga is pretty easy to breeze through. The translation seems to be full of lot of minor mistakes.
tl;dr: An okayish overpowered protagonist manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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