The second Moto Saikyou no Kenshi wa Isekai Mahou ni Akogareru book is a little odd in that it starts out as one thing only to loop back around to the beginning and become something else. That ‘something else’ being the prelude to an Academy storyline. Why? Would would a series that went in a relatively novel direction suddenly about-face into such a generic scenario?
I guess we’ll see how it handles it, but my expectations at this point are pretty low.
An earlier series by the author of Shikkaku kara Hajimeru Nariagari Madoushidou!, Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru! is a rather different beast. It’s much wordier (ponderous even at times) with only some of the character relationships and the technicality of the magic system feeling similar.
While I don’t actively dislike it, it takes a bit of effort to work through and doesn’t look like any continuation will appear any time soon. So I’ll be putting the remaining novels in the series on the backburner until a potential tenth is released.