
I'm reading Shoji Gator's Mobile Reincarnation...
...so you don't have to. Jokes aside, I was bored and I thought I'd give it a go. For the unaware, it's a web novel written by the author of Full Metal Panic! amongst other things.
While the first collected volume is on sale [edit: it's going to be on sale tomorrow 8/20] with added material and illustrations, you can still read the original web novel for free here:
https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093092974667738/episodes/16818093092974720381
From there it's a simple matter to translate the chapters with your browser of choice.
So 7 chapters in, here's my impressions
1.This is NEVER ever going to be adapted as an anime, the reason being it's literally Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 with the names filed off. At least the beginning is a beat for beat recreation of the original story, only from the POV of the machine (not a bad idea imho).
2.the protagonist is your bog standard middle aged isekaied salaryman with a perverted streak. Expect lots of voyeuristic humor and the usual fetishes (tights, stockings, "imagine the smell" etc etc). For now the story to fanservice ratio is acceptable, might change my mind going on.
Ecchi aside, the story goes for an old school vibe that I kinda dig. Apparently in this future the internet is banned because reasons, so the MC can't connect to wifi and look up stuff, and all communications are either cabled or via radio. Smartphones aren't a thing, so teenagers still act like in the Showa era.
All in all it's a decently fun way to pass time if you're starved for mecha content. Machine translation is expectedly very bad, but the base text is a web novel anyway, not Homer. Your mileage may vary.
Here's the official Twitter account if you'd like to keep track, the art is nice at least.