This book is absolutely mad with the variety of themes and genres it fits under. However, it doesn’t try to be big, in fact it seems to try to be smaller than it could be. The book will present a concept that has a ton of implications in regards to the world, such as resurrection or breaking laws like conservation of energy, but it doesn’t explain itself because it doesn’t intend to bother with the implications. I can’t say if this is good or bad, it just is how the book works.
However, the story is extremely fast paced. While the characters feel fairly realistic in terms of their attitudes and actions, their are many time leaps that cut out character growth. Honestly, it is like a 12 episode anime. If you have seen “The Devil is a Part Timer,” the tone and pacing of this book is really similar.
I gave the book three stars instead of four because the book tried to be more serious towards the end. (SPOILERS) It felt contrived and I ended up being annoyed at the author for most of the character deaths, rather than annoyed at the characters that killed them. And, despite the main character having a nearly boundless power set, and an army of heroes under his control, somehow the opposing force was seeming omnipotent and omniscient. They always set up the nearly perfect ambush and their power level was almost always higher than the protagonist’s. Specifically the school scene at the end. It felt like it was thrown in for shock, not a natural event resulting from a clever enemy.
It was a nice change of pace from my normal genres, but it could have easily been 33% longer, and it could have used that time to build suspense (there was barely any break between the fights in the second half of the book, despite them occurring weeks or months apart) and to show more fun character interactions. The book relied heavily on shock value to impress the reader, rather than anything clever.