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Never have I seen such disparity between a series quality and its score on MAL (8.34 as of my writing)

Let me open with this. If you want to call the 1st episode as a masterpiece, I would agree without a doubt. The problem lies with the later episodes.

With the recent years of Isekai trend, I've watched and read my fill of stories with OP MCs who bend everything around him to his will. This is the first time I saw an OP MC that mainly bend to the will of side characters. and sadly that's is the CRUX of the plot. With the narrative scheme ... of "MC get stronger with every death of people close to them", I could only care less and less with subsequent main NPCs.

In the violent world of the story, you could argue that MC immortality isn't OP. The MC knows he's weak, he knows he failed so many times protecting people he care, yet what does he do? In this point, one of the side character have even more initiative. That NPC know he's weak normal human, so he trained himself for 4 whole year. He become strong enough to fight and protect the MC since that's one of his main purpose training himself (while MC only bettered his speech, cooking, and sewing). It's really frustrating to see.

Sadly, such cycle continues on even until the last episode.

MC meet NPC -> he got close -> he lose them -> frustrated of his weakness -> do nothing about it -> MC meet NPC and so on

(repeat 3 times for the whole 20 episode).
This had a really great potential, yet the execution feels like a student level project.