History YMMV / RebuildWorld

* VanillaProtagonist: Akira has been criticized as being fairly bland and lacking overarching goals aside from staying safe, making money, and becoming a better hunter to eventually live up to his end of the contract he has with Alpha. His meek quietness outside of his cold-blooded moments in combat means that his interactions with others are often seen as bland while making his nature as a PinballProtagonist and UnwittingPawn for Alpha even more blatant. The manga adaptation seems to acknowledge and address this by making Akira more assertive, snarky, and headstrong... Later web-novel chapters prove he's not actually so unwitting, as well.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** Akira's tendency to be a PinballProtagonist who follows all of Alpha's instructions to a T is not lost on the author. So the manga adaptation makes Akira significantly more headstrong and vocal about his thoughts. While he's still an UnwittingPawn to Alpha, he explains his thoughts more clearly, is more willing to butt heads with others, and acts of his own volition more often, often to Alpha's frustration as she tries to solidify her control over him.
** And then there's how eventually in the web novels, Akira explains how he's perfectly aware of her manipulations, and besides it being her self-interest he trusts in rather than in her, he has his own moral code compelling him to work with her.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Akira's tendency to be a PinballProtagonist who follows all of Alpha's instructions to a T is not lost on the author. So the manga adaptation makes Akira significantly more headstrong and vocal about his thoughts. While he's still an UnwittingPawn to Alpha, he explains his thoughts more clearly, is more willing to butt heads with others, and acts of his own volition more often, often to Alpha's frustration as she tries to solidify her control over him.
** And then there's how eventually in the web novels, Akira explains how he's perfectly aware of her manipulations, and besides it being her self interest he trusts in rather than in her, he has his own moral code compelling him to work with her.

** It's pointed out that Carol is a SexGod for being able to satisfy a cyborg with their SenseLossSadness, and of course there is her strange ability to get men addicted to her enough they'll pay anything to sleep with her. There is actually a perfectly logical explanation for this, although this connection is not explicitly confirmed. [[spoiler:As mentioned above, old world connectors share their feelings with those around them. So theoretically, Carol being one, is unconsciously broadcasting her own feelings, both of her self-image as a ProudBeauty, and her sexual pleasure, into her clients.]]

** It's pointed out that Carol is a SexGod for being able to satisfy a cyborg with their SenseLossSadness, and of course there is her strange ability to get men addicted to her enough they'll pay anything to sleep with her. There is actually a perfectly logical explanation for this, although this connection is not explicitly confirmed. As mentioned above, [[spoiler:old world connectors share their feelings with those around them. So theoretically, Carol being one, is unconsciously broadcasting her own feelings, both of her self-image as a ProudBeauty, and her sexual pleasure, into her clients.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Alpha invites a some of this, especially among manga-only fans who haven't gotten to her darker deeds, among whom some MentorShip her with Akira.

** Sheryl's worrying about Akira being so willing to abandon her. Akira himself, grew up being sold false promises before being taken advantage of until he was no longer useful, at which point he's discarded, this happening repeatedly. This sounds exactly like what Sheryl constantly fears Akira will do to her... [[spoiler:Akira's thoughts when seeing Sheryl with Katsuya, reflect that he thinks he is being discarded as was inevitable, with Katsuya being his replacement.]] If you add to the above the revelation [[spoiler:that old world connectors project their feelings into those around them unconsciously, you get the picture of how Sheryl's anxieties are so strong because they're Akira's own anxieties combining with her natural ones, just like Nergo said that a slum old world connector's feelings of suspicion would be shared and combine with those of the people around him.]]

** Sheryl's worrying about Akira being so willing to abandon her. Akira himself, grew up being sold false promises before being taken advantage of until he was no longer useful, at which point he's discarded, this happening repeatedly. This sounds exactly like what Sheryl constantly fears what Akira will do to her... [[spoiler:Akira's thoughts when seeing Sheryl with Katsuya, reflect that he thinks he is being discarded as was inevitable, with Katsuya being his replacement.]] If you add to the above the revelation [[spoiler:that old world connectors project their feelings into those around them unconsciously, you get the picture of how Sheryl's anxieties are so strong because they're Akira's own anxieties combining with her natural ones, just like Nergo said that a slum old world connector's feelings of suspicion would be shared and combine with those of the people around him.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Nelia's InsaneTrollLogic that Akira calls her out for, actually makes perfect sense once we learn more about her. [[spoiler: Basically, her mission for Kain to do the relic heist, demanded that she kill Akira to complete it, thanks to Yajima's BetrayalInsurance stranding them until they do. Due to Nelia being a ConsummateProfessional who [[IGaveMyWord values the promises she gives strictly]] (like Akira), she basically says to him, that she loves him, but won’t break her word for him (Akira didn't know the reason why he needed to die to complete her contract).]]

* VanillaProtagonist: Akira has been criticized as being fairly bland and lacking overarching goals aside from staying safe, making money, and becoming a better hunter to eventually live up to his end of the contract he has with Alpha. His meek quietness outside of his cold-blooded moments in combat means that his interactions with others are often seen as bland while making his nature as a PinballProtagonist and UnwittingPawn for Alpha even more blatant. The manga adaptation seems to acknowledge and address this by making Akira more assertive, snarky, and headstrong.

* TheScrappy: Katsuya is generally agreed to be the most reviled character in the story. His constant HotBlooded ChronicHeroSyndrome is out of place in the setting, he's a GreenEyedMonster to Akira and can't help but try to one-up him, and generally falls into the GoodIsDumb and HeroicWannabe trap. Lilina is arguably even worse, given her bratty NeverMyFault attitude and tendency to be Katsuya's YesMan and not getting much development beyond that. [[TropesAreTools This was probably the point]], given the context so far seemingly tries to make it come off as a bit of a {{Deconstruction}} of the usual StockShonenHero trope and thus an unlikeable, self-righteous jackass.

* TheScrappy: Katsuya is generally agreed to be the most reviled character in the story. His constant HotBlooded ChronicHeroSyndrome is out of place in the setting, he's a GreenEyedMonster to Akira and can't help but try to one-up him, and generally falls into the GoodIsDumb and HeroicWannabe trap. Lilina is arguably even worse, given her bratty NeverMyFault attitude and tendency to be Katsuya's YesMan and not getting much development beyond that.