I feel like I grew out of Mushoku Tensei.

I think a Trash Taste episode convinced me it was going to be the GOAT of anime epic fantasy, and I bought into it. Watched every season of the anime, and then read the light novels.

I quit about ten volumes in, when I realized the women were not real characters.

Japanese light novelists just cannot write a woman into a scene without shining a spotlight on her boobs and her complicated feelings about a male character.