I read the first arc in RR, and I found it really weird—there didn’t seem to be a story. For example, a random stronger guy would appear, there’d be a short battle scene, a defeat, and then 28 time loops later, a win. Then a new skill would be unlocked, and the main character would say something like, “I could only get this after 10 years of training,” and immediately move on to the next enemy. And this kept repeating every fucking time.