마법학교 앞점멸 천재가 되었다(Blink Master of the Magic Academy)

Description / Comments

Protag regularly played an otome game that was originally targated towards women but ended up with a majority male playerbase due to its rpg-like system mechanics, and the protag was apparently the only person in the world who main’d the “worst” character. This character was the only character unable to use magic in the game, except for one skill, short-distance random teleport, but it was an enhanced version of the skill that allowed you to teleport without mana usage and while controling the distance. Any gamer would know near infinite teleportation without restriction is broken so the fact that the protag was the only one to play this char is a massive stretch, but wcyd. After the devs release the final boss that wipes out a majority of the world because it’s basically immune to magic, the protag almost immediately destroys it first try but gets sucked into the world of the game as a result. He now has to try and live as this broken (both meanings) character in order to find the True Ending where the world isn’t destroyed.

The game is an adaptation of a normal villainess novel, where the main heroine of the game is canonically an isekaijin who takes the place of the original protag. Then this work is an isekai going into the game world of this villainess isekai work, on top of having Constellation elements. Actually kind of based.

I really like that most of the characters in the work are more OP than the protag, including one dude who is like the most broken OP dude ever and the main rival of a lot of the others isn’t the protag. He’s just a dude that is seen as smart and unconventional, since well he has foresight/knowledge of the game world after playing in it for 10 years. I’m also pretty fond of the dual-protag setup featuring the original game’s isekai’d female protag constantly theorizing why things are going slightly different than the novel storyline that she thinks she was isekai’d into, and why this work’s protag (who get isekai’d into the game) wasn’t originally present and why minor things are different than the storyline that she’s used to. Along with all of the rationalizings and leaps of logics she goes through to try and reason about the male protag’s motives. The art is pretty good overall even if it’s almost a sketch-like style meant to produce content fast, and i prefer it over some of the more homogenized art that is typically in a lot of manwha.

My main issue with the work is that the longer it goes on the shorter the chapters become and the less it actually progresses the plot; it just has tons of empty chapters where nothing actually happens with things getting extended more than a dragon ball z episode. Don’t know if it’s a bad adaptation, or bad source material, possibly both. Even with bingeing the chapters it was noticeably bad so I can only imagine how bad it would be trying to read this weekly. It’s definitely a work you have to read all at once after it’s completed a season/etc.

Overall a good entry in the villainess subgenre