So I'm currently on book 5, and as far as the plot goes, nothing is really happening. There's not really a concrete narrative to the story beyond "I dunno, I'm traveling for fun I guess". Even the setting isn't really fleshed out all that much (probably because the pace is so slow they're not actually GETTING anywhere). The main character is incredibly strong, and there's usually some crisis at the end of each book where he needs to use that strength, but it almost always feels like that's because the author feels like they have to do it. You just have to take it for what it truly is: main guy is a tourist in a fantasy world and if you're really expecting much more than that, you need to find something else.
It's also the type of book where every single meal is described in detail. Any time they kill a new kind of monster, there has to be a scene where they taste it and brainstorm what kind of dishes they can make with it.
The books also have a bit of a character problem, in that there are way too many in the MC's party and the only purpose for existing is for the main character to use his abilities to show off. There is a single other character with any real backstory or personality, but it's put on the backburner because there are 6 other characters that take up space in the narrative but don't really contribute anything to it. There are three pets posing as people, a MacGuffin character subject to an escort quest, a wallflower who barely exists, and a robot with a funny speech pattern. And those are just the (so far) constant ones. Each book usually has a few more tertiary companions that leave at the end of the book, so the main cast gets even less narrative.
The worst part is I can't even call it bad. It's just kind of mediocre. There's not really anything egregious that stands out as terrible. It's just that nothing happens. So much time is spent describing food, or inane conversations with the massive cast, or describing how to use fantasy magic to recreate Japanese appliances that there's not really any room left for a story.
I could get into the main character's personality, but despite everyone else praising it, he's just kind of normal. I see people praising him for his attitude towards girls, but it's really the same old story of avoiding relationships like every LN does. The only difference is instead of it being because he's indecisive or oblivious, it's because he's mentally 30 years old and everybody he travels with is a child, so instead he just visits brothels in the middle of the night. The end result is the same though. That said, he does travel with all girl children (one of which is like him, an adult woman in a child body which is the source of a lot of problematic scenes) and it's treated in a very Japanese LN manner, so if weird lolicon jokes aren't for you, I'd probably skip this one.
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