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Adding some to the stalling part and this is about the stage set for Ch4. This is the chapter that started with one of the gods living inside him. This is the chapter after Maya Prime, our unshakable constant of the universe, died. This is the chapter where many, many things have fundamentally changed. Somehow, despite all that, we still could only steadily confirm that there IS progress mainly by measuring body counts. Because hey hey hey! Things might have gone dark quickly but we ain’t done with harem route! Look at all these unexplored females!
Call me naive and greedy, but my expectation for Ch4 wasn’t set to “finish fucking all the girls (minus wizards because please anything but wizards)”. Instead, with this chapter’s opening, I was fully expecting the development to be more about resets, Maya, and Sensei’s mental struggle in a much larger, more frequent, and more meaningful scale. As it turns out, it would seem like the stage is set instead to mainly bring rapid mental decay to girls that haven’t received the D and expedite the process, aka finishing the harem route as the main, prioritized objective and nothing else, as anything else would “move things forward too quickly and reveal too much too early” even if it feels like the right thing to do in Ch4 (personal bias though, of course).
This is the part where the feeling of stalling comes in for me. Story moves in all directions but rarely forwards. No one is allowed to advance too much in directions easily done by normal human standards like you implied; Maki, Imani, even Akira to a certain degree. Any forward progress would likely to be once in the blue moon only and have a high tendency to backpaddle (looking at things with Maya and Akira’s personal growth and especially Akira’s personal growth).
So what will happen when writers need to maintain the same amount of updates without venturing out too much? It can’t be just the same light hearted shoujo manga drama as before anymore but it also can’t be anything that spills too much tea you know? What should they do to make treading water look intriguing? They make things wordier and more complicated than they have to, much like the talking pattern of the renowned writer SA Nagahara, delivering sentences at a composition of 10% useful information and 90% gibberish. But hey there are more words than Bible now!
