Interesting premise, terrible execution.

The translation is on this is just as bad as many of the half assed Japanese machine translations. The writing style is terrible and annoying. It's all over the place. There's no proper english flow at all. It's especially jarring as I came upon this novel after reading the incredible translation of Emperor's Dominion. The difference is like heaven and earth. The only way this is acceptable is if one had been reading crappy machine translations for so long their brain had been turned into a retarded mess.

Easily one of the worse Chinese novel translation I've seen (usually they are higher quality than Jap LN trans).

What a joke.

At times dramatic, at times insightful, but always hilarious, The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich is a remarkable piece of web fiction. It takes the standard reincarnation plot and does several interesting things with it - e.g. the main character reincarnated *multiple* times; there was a vengeance subplot, but it's mostly already happened in the past, and in the present, there are more important issues to deal with; in the first ~60 chapters, 5+ characters have secret identities, sometimes multiple ones; the main char's Absolute Gentleman Alliance is ... unspeakable; instead of a pointless desire for power, we have a save-the-world plot, without a clear antagonist in sight; the main character's "cheat" is an unreliable level-up system with an unsupportive narrator / system voice, which mostly exists to troll the protagonist; there's a huge recurring cast of somewhat one-dimensional but always fun characters (so this is not a one-man-show); and so on.

Also, the protagonist is a flawed human being, but not a douchebag with no redeeming qualities (as is far too common in reincarnation stories). One might describe him as a crazy saint - most of his efforts are squarely devoted towards doing good, except that his means are often incomprehensible to those around him.

Also, the story has a clear theme of equality going on - there's deep hatred between the races of Order (like humans or elves) and Chaos (like the undead), and the protagonist devotes much of his effort towards mending this divide. So much for fantasy stories that can't teach anything of worth. About the only disappointing thing here is the story making fun of LGBT characters, but given the otherwise often remarkably forward-looking attitude of the story, I find this forgivable.

Highly recommened, except... the story is humungous, and while 1/6 to 1/5 of it has been translated so far (as of 04/2017), it will take an eternity for it to be completed. Still, I felt like even the Underground Autarch arc (chapters 1-71) had a satisfying conclusion by itself, so that would be a fine stopping point until more has been translated.

... Last updated on April 11th, 2017, 10:43am

So this is a really good novel.
I wasnt sure where the story would go from the first few chapter but not only was i amazed i was impressed. Not only by the story but also by the storytelling.

First you see the MC as this eccentric Lich who does anything he wants in the town, who bends each and every law to his will. Who acts disrespectful and arrogant but lacks any real evil intent. Who annoys the people around him and just plays a rascal. Later you find out that this has its reasons.

Then the story progesses and it takes a serious turn out of nowhere. You get backrgound information about the MC, his helpers and friends. The world surrounding them, the dangers long passed and the dangers they will face.

It also explains how things work as well as the MC understands it. Since he is a Lich, a necromancer, he has a farily good understanding of the mechanics of the world.
The story also works well in itself. Everything happening has a cause and effect and most of the time it will be explained to the reader sooner or later.

Storyline: 9/10
Character development: 9/10
World: 7/10
Storytelling 10/10

The main character is handled juuuust insanely enough that you know the insanity is there, but you forget from time to time. I've only read a few chapters, but I'm very glad to see here that Gravity has picked it up.

Once I read some more of it, I hope I can raise my rating! ... ...... Which, I did!

... Last updated on October 15th, 2019, 2:54pm