I had read lots of negative reviews about this novel, but who would say that almost all of them are on the dot! The Mc is extremely unfriendly, and it is almost impossible for me to agree with most of his actions; I do not care much about the magic theme or how these eel changes happen, but there are simply so many inconsistencies in the plot! He claims to be extraordinarily lazy in the early chapters, and a few chapters later he says he is not someone who leaves things for later and does everything as soon as possible. The whole story is full of obvious macho comments every few chapters. There is also the fact that every character that mc meets coincidentally becomes part of the story somehow. As a police beauty hates him the moment he meets him, and a few chapters later she is forced to ask him for help because the police force needs an extremely specific service that only the newly founded company of mc performs. Or in an episode at the restaurant; he offends a woman and two men by going to breakfast and acting in a hypocritical way, and in fact these two men were part of a gang that continues to chase after him once and the woman also has a relative who needs help of mc to be cured. There are also consistent irrational nationalist acts; At one point he is literally going to steal Japanese technology and the whole time he is depreciating them and talking about destroying some of his ships for convenience on the way. Not to mention the translators! How I hate them! The review and editing are particularly bad, and a chapter between 38 and 39 is missing! Literally a lot of people commented on this in Chapter 38, a lot of people commented on the 39; they kept commenting on it in Chapters 40, 41 and even 42, and so far no one has packed it! Do any of you even read the comments ?! I hate this novel with all my might. Well, not to say that I'm irrational, mc is smart and interesting only in the moments when he discovers or invents a new utility for the 'powers' of the eel, and the release rate is good enough, but I'm definitely not voting like five stars in that because the general that this novel deserves is 1.
