Masato has assembled a party of his own (but it's just a coincidence that they're all girls!), so now it's time to figure out what this game world is all about. And maybe, just maybe, he'll get the chance to one-up his mom in combat!
Look, if you like the material here, you do. It doesn't work for me. I've now read 5 of them and that's it. Our library doesn't have any more and thank goodness they don't. I'm hoping they keep it that way. Not to mention all the oedipal stuff still going on, in this one Masato lifts a 12-year old girl on his shoulders so she can see out a window. Not in an of itself anything to rave about except that Inaka has him thinking about being sandwiched between her thighs. A 12-year old!
So the main idea is a Mom-skills tournament. Of course over 10,000 mothers show up. And only 16 can actually compete. Single elimination means that even of those 16 we barely see a handful of them actually do anything and yet every time a Mom is needed all 16 of them get mentioned again. Like Inaka was being paid by the word and needed to pad the paycheck.
Verdict: I'm done with this series. If you happen to like it, great. Keep at it. I'm just glad I got it from the library rather than trying to get rid of some books I'd never read again.
This was far and away my favorite volume. It’s still what it is, a dumb comedy light novel- but the jokes land much better this time around, the characters grow a little, the villains from the last volume reappear here and are both cartoon silly and it having just one plot the whole volume (a Mom Competition) works well to add cohesion.
It won’t change anyone’s mind but if you’ve gotten through the first four and enjoyed them well enough, stay with it.