I don't understand why He Who Fights With Monsters gets so much hate. It is one of my favorite series. I have read a lot of high fantasy and swords and sorcery fantasy. It's been my preferred genre since I was a kid. I only got into litrpgs about two years ago, but I've been doing those through audible. My favorite series so far are Solo Leveling, HWFWM, Primal Hunter, and the Infinite World series. I've listened to a bunch of others but between the Narrators and the stories themselves they didn't get my attention the same.

I feel like the characters in HWFWM are believable people, the jokes are laugh out loud funny, the emotional scenes are charged with it, and the battles are fun. Is it that much different reading than listening? I mean Heath Miller is a force, so I guess that could be it, but I don't get the hate.

Can anyone give me an actual answer other than calling it trash?

Edit: wasn't expecting to get this much attention. Thank you everyone for a rational and logical conversation about this.