Seijo City, 2021

Society has been suffering under a phenomenon for 5 years now. If anyone says a figure of speech, they will turn into monsters called Mojidori.

But if a Mojidori can turn back into a human, they retain their powers they had as Mojidoris. These superpowered humans are known as Gendaishi and they are bio weapons used to neutralize Mojidori and limit casualties.

This is the story of Aichi Shirogane, a 16-year old high school student who became a Gendaishi two years ago and has the ability to become more powerful, the more he's insulted. And his question on the ethics of slaughtering these creatures, while he goes through the horrors of being a teenager, including getting a girlfriend.

The Metaform Effect

ACTION

ADVENTURE

ROMANCE

MYSTERY

SUPERPOWERS

SHOUNEN

So far, this one was a lot of potential. It’s a fun read, don’t get me wrong, but there are some problems.
The beginning seems to try and sell us on the characters but instead introduces them with tropey personalities. Although, their personalities get more defined later on, all of them, including the protagonist, were introduced too onesidedly. At the start, Aichi seemed like your standard silent, edgy MC. Seiko just felt like a generic tsundere love interest, etc. Later on though(Chapter 3 onward specifically), they get more depth and development and that sort of saves this book from being too generic, but I still kinda feel that placing the MC’s character arc 3 chapters into the story was kinda weird.
Being a sort of late game story, The Metaform Effect has this writing style that helps and hurts it at the same time. It starts off generic but soon,as we know more about them, they become less tropey and the story grows into this plethora of fun characters and a pretty neat storyline to compliment. Sadly, this style has some problems other than lacking in the early game. As the characters grow depth, they seem to contradict previous establishments and just spread into newer territory, this can be ignored sometimes but it can be confusing to binge-readers. For example, Kokoshi was introduced as a cheerful computer scientist, but literally in the next chapter, she becomes much colder. Yes, it was because she broke up with Arashi and slowly that cheerfulness comes back as she hangs out with Best Boy Raigi, but it just felt too forced.
All I can say is that, this book is good but be prepared to wait for it’s mid to late game to experience the best parts of it, early game it seems too generic. As of this review, the book just concluded it’s first volume and I’m waiting to see how good this can get. To the author, you should try to plan your chapters much more, you have a some potential, just make sure to fine tune it even more and also try to not keep delaying chapters.