Ore to Kawazu-san no Isekai Hourouki

There's a scene towards the end of volume 4 when the protagonist Tarou admits he did something purely because it was fun. And that is absolutely the vibe of this entire manga, and not always to it's benefit. It's absolutely devoted to being a light-hearted comedy series, and that shines through in every page. The downside of that is, both the genre being immediately apparent, and the ridiculous magical power the protagonist is established early on to have, means there's no stake or tension or even just drama in the entire story. You always know he's going to win or solve the problem in some way,even the introduction of other characters doesn't help since they're all overpowered in one way or another so there's no stakes there either. There's some decent story writing surrounding the dark elf girl, but that's basically dumped at us over the course of a couple chapters in the most unnatural sounding dialogue I think I've ever read. It's very clear that it's being said for the reader's benefit and not for Tarou's and while it definitely gets her story across it really does not feel natural. Honestly all the events just sort of happen around the main characters in a way that feels almost like a situational comedy. There's some hints to some greater and darker ideas but the story is almost relentlessly noblebright and doesn't explore any of them to any great degree. I feel that if it was given another couple of volumes it'd have enough space for all these ideas to breathe but at is it just doesn't work out well. It's just another in a long line of okayish comedy isekais that you will read, enjoy, and then never think of again once you put it down, and while there is space in the manga landscape for such series it's not well made enough to recommend reading it unless you need a breather in between more intense series or something.