The second Neta Character Tensei toka Anmari da! volume (“The Labyrinth of Memory”) really hammers home how much I dislike Aisha; a main romantic interest who looks/acts like a child, claims to be an adult, and is ambiguously aged for plausible deniability. Just incredibly distasteful all-around and unlike the first book, there’s nothing really here to offset that. Worse, if the Afterword is to be believed, the next novel will focus on her even more. So I think this will be where I get off.
The follow-up to the cliffhanger at the end of Tensura’s 14th installment begins by turning back time to see how things fell apart from various other perspectives… which ends up being a fairly annoying thing to do since it doesn’t really add anything.
Once it starts moving forward though it does so quite smoothly, laying everything out in a remarkably efficient manner considering the shear mass of characters we’re dealing with here. My fears that this would be a repeat of his demon lord awakening sequence thankfully went unrealized and instead you get just peak overpowered steamrolling. Which makes sense since you never actually got to see him fight after having evolved so many of his subordinates.
The Afterword also answered my earlier question as to why there were so many more volumes to go despite the original web novel not appearing to have much remaining content: The LNs have apparently diverged enough by this point to become their own story.
So all-in-all a fairly satisfying installment, and I’m looking forward to seeing where exactly the author intends to take this version.