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Sep 18, 2021

B3r1x

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (18/? chp)

*some plot (ha) spoilers follow*

Hey! It's not a fantasy isekai. I'm honestly amazed; I didn't think that was possible.

To sum up my thoughts, Reborn as a Space Mercenary is a pretty average isekai, but with the uniqueness of not being a: fantasy, b: revenge, c: 'reincarnated as', or D: all of the above. Nothing horribly offputting, unlike a lot of things I've read recently, so it deserves some praise for being actually kind've enjoyable to read.

Story? What story? Our MC wakes up in his magically-there ship, saves some girls from rape/poverty, and forms a harem all while his only goals are 'get lots of money ... from mercenary work', 'stay out of the government issues', and 'buy a house on a planet.' It's not a terrible story, but it doesn't have any driving forces, and the world isn't interesting enough to carry the story off of that.

Art is pretty good, actually. Nothing looks horrible to me, though the art is pretty basic. Design-wise, everything is very generically sci-fi, and the station designs are stolen straight from Elite Dangerous. Actually, basically everything is taken from Elite or Star Citizen. Not that that's a bad thing, given that those are the best two space sims out there...

Character is easily the worst part of the manga. Our MC has functionally none, other than liking cola and being completely unbothered by participating in the, and on his own, murdering of dozens or hundreds of fellow humans. His first harem member, cute-girl, has the character traits of, uh, liking food, not knowing how to do anything, and that's it. The other harem member, elf-girl, is a crappy tsundere. The background characters are nothing to write home about, and the rich-girl is your classic 'gets drunk' stoic type.

Still, I enjoyed reading it to enough of an extent that I binged all 18 chapters without asking 'why am I doing this?', so that's marks in its favor. Give it a try. Not going to be the next Slimesekai, but it's fine enough for the genre.

Story: 4
Art: 6
Character: 3
Enjoyment: 6
(19/40)
Overall: 5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 12, 2021

fubukishiroune

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (16/? chp)

So I had given this manga a rating of 9 earlier. What exactly happened to make its score drop to a 5, you might be wondering. Well, thats the point nothing happened, the story just became repetitive, bland and the MC just had a deus ex machina relic when it looked like he was in a pinch. Also a random mercenary like him was made the leader of a contingent of trained space troops. Hmm, yes he was successful in completing a couple of missions so he could've been hired as a tactical advisor but to straightaway make him the interim leader is a bit...

What ... I liked about this manga was its initial premise, it looked very promising as it was a pretty unique isekai out there with sci-fi elements in the horde of hundreds of isekai which have magical fantasy.

Story-4
Doesnt, really have a plot, had massive potential at the beginning but failed to build up upon it.

Character-5
The characters initially looked like they had depth to them but it just turned out to be another isekai where the girls just fall head over heels for the MC after making eye contact. Well, atleast the MC aint dense or a virgin, so thats the plus point.

Art-5
The art is pretty basic but the background designs could have used some work.

Enjoyment-6
I had liked its initial premise so I read more of its chapters only to later realize that it was skipping a ton of content from LN, to make it concise. I know the whole LN cant be adapted as it is in manga format but if we got a better insight about the different types of battleships, it would've been a lot better.

Overall-5
The manga started out good but soon turned mediocre, we can only wait for the future chapters to see if the story improves or remains the same bland mess it has become.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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