Im a HUGE fan of monstertaming stuff Pokemon fan of 17 years and overall find incredible amounts of enjoyment in monstercollecting games and other such things. My excitement led me to speedread this up until chapter 31ish where my interest dropped off almost entirely and I was simply skimming chapters to get a grasp on what was happening. What it chooses to focus on is its Achilles heel at least in my opinion. It starts off incredibly interestingly but thats really all I can give it. The monstertaming ability is charming and so is the orphanage and the grandparents. This is all I can say really for it narrativewise. Despite it being a monstertaming manga I find the monster design incredibly underwhelming. So far its been either a big animal or an animal with an abnormal feature. This is incredibly boring as hell for me visually since I am a huge character design fanatic and the only welldesigned monster is Pi but thats barely a compliment considering its literally an eagle. Youd expect something with a cool name such as mystical butterfly or whatever the hell it was to be interesting or even queen bee being imposing in some way or having royal features. Nope Just normal apparently giant bugs. thanks Very awesome. I get the impression that all of these animals he is taming are supposed to be lacking in design because they went ham on more important monster designs later but Im not waiting it out to see a coollooking animal for once in my life. A lot of manga has incredible monster designs despite it not being the focus which is why its bewildering to me that so little effort was put into these designs. Anyways mandatory Diceyseraphim design rant over. The focus is seemingly on the orphanage and the grandpas shed and training. Thats it. Thats all this thing has been for 31 chapters. I understand a childs world is obviously small but that doesnt seem to be the intent here? It just seems like very poor pacing. Weve been warming up slowly but surely yes but its taking far too long to actually get to a notable point. The last notable thing I remember was him finding out how to use APPRAISAL. THAT IS HOW SLOW THIS IS PACINGWISE. The formula seems to be tame monster train fight monster Sweet sappy fluffy moments. Its very droll for what I expected it to be and the main character has had the unfortunate narrative choice of listening to adults and being a good kid with the combination of a what seems to be mother figure. This limits the characters movements so much that I dont even think hes done anything too crazy ever since meeting the grandparents. The formula does not help keep you awake reading it. Yes I am complaining about a child protag being a child protag. This should have opened with the idea that its sweet fluffiness and thats all. I was hoping for some interesting happenings but the most interesting thing thats happened for a bit was the protag doing some basic chemistry with his magic. There is no worries or opposition anywhere and the grandpa figure is such a hindrance to the plot due to the fact every situation is literally under complete control with him there. He solved every and any problem in some way or another that has popped up and it makes me SNORE Let there be some actual conflict... some issues with monster taming sometimes... very flat characters getting developed in some way.... anything... please... Anyways long story short I am shocked how this interesting idea somehow got executed in the worst way possible and this might genuinely be the most boring thing I have ever read right next to Johnny Tremain. I SKIMMED. SKIMMMED SO MANY CHAPTERS. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I MISSED? Nothing. I looked at some of the pictures and read some words as fast as possible and could figure out roughly what was happening. And then id have to scroll to the end of the chapter because whatever I figured out is likely going to be the entire focus for that chapter. Im not a huge fan of watching characters train or learn things fightingwise especially if it seems incredibly surface level. I would rather die than watch these kids dig ANOTHER pitfall and it work. Do better read something worth your time and stimulate your brain a bit by reading literally anything else..