This is like solo leveling with some improvements, but the result is somehow much worse.
For one, the art is much worse. The characters are even worse than in solo leveling which is almost a feat. The world building is slightly better at first. For example, the logical conclusion that one of the hardest things about going to a different dimension is the completely alien environment.

The pace of the story is ridiculous though. It also suffers from making every other person in the world basically useless. All countries do the dumbest things and so on. It is annoying.

The MC is a pretty horrible person in many ways but also in that he doesn't care about human life pretty much at all. Why ? Because in his previous life, no one was nice to him and helped him become a demi-god, which he did in the end. Apparently he had no friends. I don't even know what to say to that. Honestly, if you live as long as he did and have no friends, maybe you are the problem ?

This manhwa suffers from the typical problems of its genre. When authors bring fantasy to Earth, as opposed to sending their protagonist to a fantasy world, they often insert their political views into the story as they tell a tale with real nations. This can be alright, if it's done tastefully and in moderation, but as of Chapter 52 I am left with the feeling of marinating in it. The "bad guy" nations are the usual suspects, and the Korea #1 nationalism that plagues such manhwa is, as always, cringe to people outside of Korea.

If you can get past that, then strap yourself down for mediocrity. The story starts off interesting, but rapidly becomes a snoozefest.

... Last updated on February 28th, 2023, 5:37pm

This seemed pretty good early on, and it was almost well written throughout.

But the word almost is in that sentence for a reason. Almost well written. Well written characters, well written powers, well written fights, well written world building.

But the plot and pacing were utter trash. The author has literally 0 grasp of the concept of Chekhov's Gun nor foreshadowing of any type. He doesn't seem to have any idea that you need to both set-up and pay off things. The following bit will be spoilers:

The dragon that he promises to see again in the second chapter... never shows up. At all. Throughout the entire story, all the way until he pretty much becomes all powerful, it never makes an appearance. Literally, the biggest bit of foreshadowing, a two-life promise to fight again... never even is relevant.

His mom having an incurable disease? Solved within the first few chapters. The hunter he rescues who promises him a favor? He doesn't meet her for over 100 chapters, and she never even reacts to seeing him again beyond "he looks familiar". At one point, a person claims her family will do anything to harm the MC and it shows a picture of his mother... and then he fights the family and nothing happens to his mom.

This is just how the story is. Every time, you think they are setting up something for later, but the author is just like "nah, I found a new shiny thing to focus on." Over and over. The more I thought about it while writing this, the lower my score dropped. Almost nothing that I wanted to see happen happened in the end; the finale was anticlimactic and kinda boring; we barely hear anything about his prior world despite all the foreshadowing that things were crossing over from it.

But honestly, the dragon thing is the most frustrating for me. Like seriously, you couldn't be arsed to fulfill the promise your entire manhua was based on!?

MC faces very few actual obstacles throughout, and the ending is quite abrupt.

There are interesting threads and characters that are introduced early, but vanish completely from the story, never to be seen again. So there was potential there, but it went unexplored.

Still, if all you want is a simple uncomplicated power fantasy, this is that.

Eh, I actually really liked this one. It’s pretty enjoyable, and the MC’s got his priorities straight and is likeable imo… really like his personality. Not psychopathic ruthless or chuunibuyo and also not a selfless hero. Though admittedly, yes it’s your typical op MC story, it ain’t half bad. Towards the end though it started feeling rushed and there were a bunch of loose ends…especially that last fight….like wtf?! It feels like we need a few more chapters to wrap things up, so I was surprised that that was the last chapter. Definitely a pity…

Luckily there isn’t a harem though, so there’s that at least.

... Last updated on October 4th, 2021, 10:54pm

Cliche story of a weak person who receives a mighty power in a world of powerful creatures, the mc change his personality in 3 caps, he's like a bread, 0 charisma.

Solo Leveling copy-pasted premise that was so rushed in the last 40 chapters or so, it was a bore to even finish.

Story has an interesting premise, but I think it's pacing goes way to fast at some point. Basically puts it foot on the throttle and never lets up.
Ch 143 might be the end? It certainly feels like it. I hope not, because I would like a LOT more explanation, but with how quickly it jumps to that point of the story...it is probably not worth it.

There's not really anything new here. The writing is typical of this genre, meaning it's pretty much just shit tier. The only thing mildly redeeming about it is how honest the author is about the MC not being a hero or even anti-hero. Even the MC's tendency to just randomly do seemingly heroic things is explained as the protagonist just wanting a cheap feel good moment. The protagonist is literally just some scummy average guy with OP abilities and knowledge doing whatever he damned well pleases regardless of whether it's good or bad.

Early on, MC is offered a better deal to go live in the States and he's just like "nah, I'd rather just live in Korea because that's where my mom lives." At no point does he pretend he's actually loyal to the corporation he signed on with, Korea or the Korean government. He just wanted an excuse to live where he was, so he blames his mom. It's the kind of excuse you'd expect from a lazy pre-teen.

If you're curious about how the MC is a bigot, it's fairly obvious early on. The MC himself is even like "my past self was a complete classist dick hole" and mentions how his current self wasn't like that but then basically says "well, they're both me, so it's fine." In a round about way, the MC just plain admits to being extremely classist and that he's fine with it, saying the (physically) strong should lead the weak. However, that's not the only example. At one point, around chapter 115 or so, he straight up enslaves a team of American hunters and, of course, the token black guy says something about how he's never going to be anyone's slave, right before giving into the slave spell cast on him. I always find it ironic when a minority makes fun of another minority for being a minority. It's just so classy.

At some point, the MC casually just casts off being human and is just kind of like, oh well.

The MC also basically just becomes the stereotypical tyrant dictator of Earth, that his previous incarnation was of his previous world.

I'd say it's mildly interesting in a train wreck kind of way but it's too boring to even classify as that. It just feels like the power tripping musings of a bored 12 year old that wishes magic was real and that they could somehow monopolize that in an arms race.

To be frank all these isekai/reincarnation stories are starting to blend together with how similar they all are. Asexual lead character? Check. OP? Check. No character development? Check. I could go on for a while, too. I liked this one at the start, but now I'm tired of all the "I'm too cool to think about girls" MCs everywhere as if sex and relationships aren't pretty much a part of life everyone goes through. Character development has been traded for just making the MC get more and more OP. The MC has become so absurdly OP at this point he can just revive entire cities of people after they've died. Character interactions are non-existent beyond "MC UR SO STRONG PLS TRAIN ME. MC UR STRONG PLEASE HELP US."

Might seem like an interesting read when you're first starting and for a while into it, but if you stop and think about how barren the plot and characters are, you'll likely lose interest like I did.

... Last updated on April 16th, 2021, 9:05pm