>>282908918
I agree. There's a lot of build up Nishi likes to do in her works, and it's a style that I enjoy, but can take lots of getting used to for others. Hell, Iruma just had a 5-year built up to a particular mystery finally shown big strides towards its development just last week. Meanwhile, Ichi feels a bit fast by just how much it revealed right away.
For example, by ch 20, we got an explanation by how and why magic works for women but not men, a few majiks acquired, intro to the witch world/academy ranks, intro to Mugi, Ichi's magic limits, discovery of the main villain and his goals plus the clown's vision, thus we now know why Ichi is collecting all those majiks and thus going on all those wacky adventures, and are already getting hints as to why Dess created that contract with Ichi.
You wanna know what Iruma did by ch 20? We resolved Clara's bully arc and got hints of what is a bloodline ability, Alice is a follower of him, introduction of Ameri, a race test in which he got a ring (with no reveal of its host), and most importantly, the last page of ch 20 included the first ever panel of the main villain, who was still a good person in Iruma's eyes until way later. So the explanation and dangers of how the devil world worked and the goal of endangering devilkind (and someone revealing Iruma's secret) didn't happen until way later, which is unlike Ichi's manga.
So if anything, Iruma felt way more aimless for a lot longer by introducing a bunch of characters, but continuing their developments way later, including the world-building. Which isn't a bad thing, because it has a lot of character and charm, but was definitely slower in reaching its many important goals in the beginning.