Bannou "Murazukuri" Cheat de Otegaru Slow Life: Mura desu ga Nani ka?
The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living with the Village Building Cheat Skill

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7.5/10


Despite the rather lackluster and cliche start to the story and premise, the manga becomes entertaining relatively quickly mainly due to its utilization of humor in extremist character archetypes.

The plot of this managing an isn’t great nor is it well-built, since some of the developments come unnaturally — refugees randomly join the mc, damsels in distress, etc. — but the plot isn’t needed to be well-built and unflawed solely because of its entertainment possibilities. A rather simplistic approach and development is utilized, and it has been done in an engaging way, albeit cliche.

As for the characters, this is where the story becomes exponentially better. ... Though there are tons and tons of weird — borderline creepy — archetypes, the characters grow on you as you read, causing them to be funnier and funnier despite the near same-ish jokes every chapter.

Although the characters aren’t the most well-written or overall impactful individually, they provide a nice comedic atmosphere to the whole plot, making the story tolerable. There are of course tons of frustrations in the mc and cliches in villains, but the light-hearted nature of the manga makes it easy to forget about it.

Though this manga didn’t start out great for the initial chapters, it becomes pretty enjoyable in the later-half once all of the characters and storyline has been accustomed to.


You guys know this is just my opinion, right?

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

Genuinely like an 8/10

Interesting premise, a bit too idealistic in plot but it's still really fun and leans more into comedy and building up the village as a whole with some really interesting ideas with how skills and things are used, especially in combat scenes.

It's a bit too "comedy series means no one can die" for my liking, removes a bit of the stakes for serious moments, but it's still really good and I'm excited to see how it all develops.

Though I will say I like the characters overall, the shotacon maid can be a really fast turnoff for many people, and that's entirely ... a valid opinion. The characters and plot don't get really rolling until about volume 3 where the place is more properly established.

Though I will say the time skips while not well telegraphed are incredibly useful for keeping the rules of the world kinda light. I like this because it means they can get away with more ideas and plot beats without focusing on pure mechanics like some stories do.

Also Granny Nema is absolutely hilarious in every scene, actual chapter stealing character

Generic.

A very generic plot, the overall characters are generic, the romance is generic, the world building is non existent and the comedy is dubious.

We start with the generic son of a noble that gains a generic "weak" ability and is generically banned to a generic forgotten and barren piece of land to develop it. This son of a noble is followed by it's pedophile maid (I'm being serious here, unfortunately) and right away is visited by it's ex fiancé creating the generic harem before chapter 4.

If you really like the setting of building a city from scratch and seeing all women(and men) fall in love ... with the MC, read Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei. It's not a superb read, but in comparison to this one being reviewed, it's much better.