Youngest Scion of the Mages

I reached chapter 64 after having hated every single chapter of the second season, so I won’t bookmark this title.

My feelings about this story:
– non existent world building. The story revolves very strongly around the MC and for the almost entirety of S1 we don’t hear or see anything about this world but 3 families, one for the sword, one for fight, one for magic. The story is narrated in such a way that it seems like they are all what this world amounts to.
At first it’s ok but later on it becomes boring.
– there are so many plot holes that a Swiss cheese would feel shy in comparison. And the writer uses the “plausibility correction” card in a weird, ineffective, and completely arbitrary way.
– there is literally zero character development. ALL characters stay the same from beginning to end.
– the MC spends several years at the sword clan while also being trained by the martial clan. We barely see any training at all apart for a stamina training once, nor any significant interaction with his best friend (the original protagonist of the novel). I have never ever experienced something like that in the thousand stories I’ve read and watched. EVER. It was the most underwhelming and disappointing training arc ever.
On top of that, the MC who at the age of 9 had acquired 2 circles in few months, now at 14 is still at the second circle for some bs excuse.
– the second season is complete crap. Suddenly the mother looks like his younger sister, he looks like he’s 20, everybody has a huge head on a weirdly proportioned body, the tiger clan has ugly human hair on top of their tiger head (one of the most laughable things I’ve have ever seen in a non comedic story), the firekin girl behaves more childishly than she did at 9 but she’s 14 now, all his encounters so far have been meaningless and clearly forced for plot convenience. The story feels rushed and empty.

The first 2 dozen chapters were very exciting, but after the third dozen the story very much declined in quality. From that moment I often felt like I wanted to drop. I should have. I do now.