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Minor spoilers for the prologue.

Protagonist guy gets summoned into another world with his friends: a girl (which name I forgot) and Reiji. But there's a twist. Suimei (protag-kun) actually already knows magic. In their original world (earth, supposedly our world) magic exists, and protag-kun is a "modern magician", and thus he starts to investigate the magic in this foreign world and found that the magic in this world, is less developed, and consequently, inferior (hence, the title of this novel). Oh, and the summoners told them that some evil dudes are trying to conquer their world or whatever and ask them to save their world. ... Reiji, the absolute gigachad that he is, accepts the quest, the other girl (who's having a crush on Reiji) also accepts because she wants to follow Reiji (or whatever I forgot). But our protag-kun, denies the request, his reason is that he has no obligation to save them, and the fact that they are outrageous and cruel enough to summon him without consent, and basically draft him to a war, doesn't help.

With the synopsis out of the way, here's my take on this:

The characters are nothing special, but to be fair some are decent. Although I called our protagonist a turbo-virgin, I don't actually hate him. He's fine, as long as an isekai protagonist goes.

The illustrations are actually good. The characters and environments look detailed. As far as I can see, there's no complain to be had.

The only thing that I don't like is how OP the MC is, considering his only advantage is his "modern magic", even though he said that he was just average in terms of talent in his original world. Yes, having more knowledge of magic would be a significant advantage, but not THIS significant. I feel like this fact has become a scapegoat for everything that the MC does. How did he beat one of the most elite magician the kingdom has to offer? Modern magic. How did he beat thousands of demons by essentially himself? Modern magic. How did he cure depression, end world hunger, invent erection, beat the CEO of racism, and enlarge penises? Modern magic. You get the idea. The novel sometimes acknowledges this fact, but just acknowledging doesn't fix the problem. Perhaps this is just me nitpicking, since I wouldn't consider this as a plothole, but it still bothers me either way.

Other thing that I don't like is how whimsical the MC is, sometimes even acting hypocritical. It's like the author is confused as to how to balance his edginess. Sometimes the MC explains why he did something that seemingly contradicts his character, but those explanations isn't the most convincing. But perhaps this is just my taste, and not an objectively bad aspect of this novel. So take this with a grain of salt.

Other than that, what does this novel offer?
- Dense and edgy MC (like, the kind that a middleschooler will think as cool).
- Harem featuring two lolis (don't worry, one of them is legal).
- Pretty good action scenes.
- Somewhat emotional scenes.

In summary, if you are looking the run-of-the-mill harem isekai with an edgy OP MC beating everybody's asses, then this will serve you well. Other than that, yeah you will probably find something you like, but nothing too considerable. 5/10.