Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?, Vol. 2

通常攻撃が全体攻撃で二回攻撃のお母さんは好きですか? #2

by 井中 だちま, Dachima Inaka

A new kind of momcom role-playing adventure!

It's a brand-new day in the MMMMMORPG, and Mamako is as overpowered as ever, much to Masato's dismay. In an attempt to bridge the gap between their abilities, the party-minus Mamako-accepts a quest to spend a week at the local academy, hoping to obtain items that promise a significant boost to their stats. There, Masato meets the beautiful Cleric Medhi, whom he believes is his one and only ideal heroine. So of course, it isn't long before Mamako appears out of nowhere to shake things up! Between crazy quizzes, perilous pool time, and a school festival to remember, Masato endures blow after mentally crippling blow in his eternal struggle for the spotlight. Meanwhile, it seems the new girl has her own share of issues bubbling beneath the surface...

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Comedy

196 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2019

Reviews

[Violet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun. Not great, but fun.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought the first volume was a little weak but I still picked up volume 2. Fortunately with introductions out of the way I liked this one better. I thought the jokes landed better (still a lot of mom in fan service situations but also more character-based stuff) and I kind of like the idea of a “healing” LN where all mother issues can be easily and safely handled over the course of a breezy 170 or so pages. There is a bit of foreshadowing towards an overarching plot too. Overall this was a light novel I enjoyed and I’ve preordered Volume 3.

[Hidekisohma · Rating 4 out of 5]

So this was a crazy fast read. I got it in the mail and literally read the entire thing in a day. like, in 2 1/2 hours. i read a lot of light novels and this is one of the fastest i've ever read one of these. yes, it barely skirts by under 200 pages, but even so, it READS extremely fast. there's no confusing explanations of the world such as in Accel World or anything like that, and it's just a very fast, fun read.

This time around the gang goes to a in-game school event for a week and they meet what will be the 4th member of their party, the healer Medhi. she has a helicopter mom who makes her work to be the best in everything she does and Medhi tries to go through that with a smile but is slowly going crazy over it.

The MC is doing his usual self trying not to be embarrassed when his mom shows up at the school and takes the spotlight once again.

It's obvious what this story is doing showing how this guy is slowing coming to love and appreciate his mom more and more, but of course, there's still copious amounts of silly fanservice and (rolls eyes) incest jokes.

That being said, Medhi is an interesting new addition to the crew and i'm interested to see where it will lead us.

This is the second book in a row where they revealed a different kind of toxic mother so i don't know if this is going to be a thing every volume or just the first few as the mothers dealt with were the party member's mother. We haven't met Porta's mother yet so we'll have to see where it goes with that.

All in all, if you couldn't tell, me having read the entire thing in less than 3 hours, i really actually quite enjoyed this volume and already purchased volumes 3 and 4 which are on their way. Good continuation and i'm excited for more. and yes, i'm still thankful for the majority of the fanservice being of an actual adult.

4 out of 5.

[Joe Kerr · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG Mom is adorable!

And the son, geez, he's a nasty boy! Keeps being mean to his own Mother! I want to like the son, but his constant ragging on his Mom makes him rather disagreeable. The 2 girls are interesting. That mage, yeah she's definitely uppity. The helper girl is the adorable little sister type. All in all I think they've got a good party. The mage seems intent on making sure the. son is nice to his Mom, & that the son doesn't say/do anything inappropriate to the helper girl. Mom us definitely overpowered, and it's us that she just wants to have fun & bond with her beloved son. All in all, I'm really liking this series. I mean, it's not groundbreaking or epic, but it's a fun little light read.

[Carlos Ramos · Rating 4 out of 5]

This second novel was the Medhi ark in the first season of the anime. All far and good, since this details the case of Medhimama.
So, some details were missed in the anime, but in all, a great adaptation. If you want to pick up after the first season, you will not lose anything by skipping this one either.
I like it enough to keep on reading, more for the mom/child dynamics than fan service.

[poet · Rating 2 out of 5]

It continues to frustrate me. This content should be laser focused on me but I just hate Masato and his point of view so so much. Ugh.

[Terrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

Volume 2 of "Do You Love Your Mom" continues with the tropey heroes from our first volume, but introduced a new setting (school) and new characters (the mother who wants her child to be #1 at everything, Medhimama, and her lovely on the surface but bubbling emotion inside child, Medhi). It continues to be a parody / pastiche of LN genre but at the same time appealing to fans of said genre. It's basically like Konosuba.

The school setting comes about because of the promise of powerful items that carry benefits the party needs. Despite the obvious trap that was likely set up by the admins to get them there, the items are too tempting to pass up, as is the SP boost they are promised for learning. And so, our 3 students... And their mom, head off to the school town to participate in the week long event. There's some quirky stuff about the school, but it basically plays on the tropes of school stories; there's gym class (poolside monster extermination), school festival (set up in one afternoon no less), a class trip, and ultimately the final examination they are seemingly preparing for. Even the NPCs are programmed to be your typical students in LN... including annoying pervy dude and stern class pres. x)

Medhi is the major new addition. She's a beautiful cleric that Masato is instantly smitten with. Unfortunately for him, her mother Medhimama seems determined to micromanage her stay at school to make her be the best, to the point of showing up in class and interfering with their day to day routine.

Mamako is basically a horror movie monster for the first half, Masato thinking she'll storm into class pretending to be a student (in a sailor suit no less) just so she doesn't have to be lonely. Some of those scenes were hilarious. Mamako is not only used as a counter to Medhimama (loving + accepting vs egotistical) but also a source of connection between Masato's pain in the butt mother's qualities and Medhimama's interference.

I don't know if Masato's treatment of his mom improved too much, but he at least takes things a bit more calmly (on the surface, not underneath where his mind is raging and his hands in his pockets are literally bleeding from how he's clenching his first).

Wise was a big punching bag this volume. I felt bad for her. I hope a future volume lets her get some revenge on Masato. The best line was when she did the same routine as Medhi in a beauty contest, and the class didn't respond well to it, and she's like "I did the same stupid crap she did". You tell them Wise! Wise still gets her magic sealed occasionally too, but it doesn't feel as obnoxious as V1 (there's a few times where she doesn't directly comment on it, like when she chooses to eat food to seemingly drown in / hide her ineptitude).

Speaking of repeating jokes, Mamako only uses a few skills in this volume, so there's not as many repeats of them as I feared. I figured, in a volume where her son is gawking at a girl his age, she'd be interrupting a ton of relationship scenes, but Mamako was pretty reserved here. Kind of goes with the more hands off "let your kid enjoy their life with" theme.

Porta is Porta. Impish girl. Gathers up gems like a squirrel. Enjoys being with everybody. Loves her mommy. Mascot like character that keeps everybody together and happy. A good sight to see when things are dire. =]

I relate to the whole "parental induced stress" angle of this volume. Sometimes, older folks in general just get too obsessed with you being what they want you to be, whether those be high expectations for you or what they see as a safe route (lowered 'realistic' expectations). I hope Medhi is able to be who she wants to be later in life. For this volume at least, we gotta deal with her mom. And hopefully Mamako learns a bit too from helping all these mothers with issues that she is slightly guilty (here it's obsessiveness over your son's being and a need to always be close). I do wonder where we're going from here, specifically whether the cast we have is set or if they are going to keep adding to it. And it'd be nice to see romance develop later too.

[Howard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fan service fueled lesson in parenting. Volume 2 had a better overall storyline with a little (I mean little) less fan service. A fun light read.

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

3½ stars rounded down. Still, that's quite a jump from the first volume. Don't get me wrong, there are still too many awkward Oedipal situations (frankly one would be too many) but fewer than volume one. On the whole I enjoyed the change. Masato, Mamako and friends go to school! A special school for a week where they can earn SP to raise stats or try to get items. And it is a school for the kids. Everything should be great, Masato finally has a chance. Until, of course, his Mother shows up in uniform, and in a school swimsuit... yadda yadda yadda. At school he meets Medhi and Medhimama. And of course Masato has a crush on Medhi almost immediately.

I feel this book really was more about the Medhi and her mother but seen from the eyes of Masato and party. Their adventures (hijinks?) hint at more going on in the game than expected and I feel allow for grain of growth by Masato and maybe even his mother.

Verdtict: What I can say most definitely -- after a very sketchy start, Do You Love Your Mom is a lot better with this volume. Had vol 2 been like vol 1 I'd never have picked up another. Now I might (am probably) willing to.

[kurogane shiroikaze · Rating 2 out of 5]

Starting be pretty formulaic, with very thinly-veiled commentary about parenting styles somehow turned in to the "monster of the volume" type of story. This volume's focus is about helicopter parents, but it falls pretty flat.

The lack of character development is pretty telling, as there is barely anything new added on to the recurring cast, while the new characters introduced this volume have paper-thin personalities. It's definitely very reliant on tropes as a crutch to actually skip telling the story and building up the character so the writing is really lazy feeling too.

There's also a tendency in the writing to randomly refer to game-specific terms without actually making it clear what those are, not sure it's the translation's fault or not, but definitely makes some dialogue rather confusing as heck.

Overall, this vol tends to showcase the worst habits of 'webnovel' writing, so I'm really confused as to how this series gets enough hype to have an animation project airing soon.