Keeping it short and simple. Slight spoiler at the first point
1. Lets talk about our protagonist(s). To think that the description and the first 10 chapters keep on mentioning that he is a shut-in, and cant be social at all, does not do the novel justice. In no way shape or form, does the novel express how our MC is an Otaku, besides being a “Shut in”; yet they only became a shut-in due to mental illnesses.
Thought it was unique and all, Otaku + Apocalypse. A shame.
2. The plural s in the first point. Not a single chapter after the very first few had a dedicated “Otaku” MC alone, ever.
Could have simply made the description actually describe who our actual protagonists are, which is better than the false advertising there.
The first 2 were just what disappointed me about it, the upcoming 2 were what made me drop it after only 100 chapters.
3. Characters and their development. I cannot begin to stress how these stupidly useless baggages are. They are just there to either A) Anger you or B) Just to fill in the messing anger you would feel towards any character(you can never get attached to anyone at all, not even the MC).
Each character that continues to stay with the MC has an average of 2 chapters only for them and how they got to that certain moment. I bet skipping all of the characters’ “fillers” would just make the novel from 300 chapters long to 100 chapters.
4. The Mutagen apocalypse of cliches. You will undoubtedly be able to guess what will happen and when; every chapter where our MC fights will be met with an almost perfectly predictable situation. You will never get a bad plot twist, let alone a good one.
What more would you expect from the cliche apocalypse, the amount of cliches it has is absurd.
Consider dropping the novel after you reach 50 chapters, the rest is completely predictable even the ending is as well.
It's a well-written story, and the main characters are satisfactorily developed, however, the number of chapters seems to be unsatisfactory for the author to be able to extract the full potential of what has been presented so far (until chapter 40, which is where I left off) .
There are also some uncomfortable little points to read, but hard to imagine, like the fact that the protagonist has been a virgin for 100,000 years, or simply the age of the characters (the youngest so far is 400 years old), the protagonist is 100,000 and his wife 200.00... I can only imagine an elderly couple, even if they look young.
In the end the story is good, the negative points are small and don't interfere with the experience, I just wish it was a story with a bigger development (and with more chapters!), but anyway I'll keep reading until the end, until now I recommend it!
Starts off pretty well, then the pop culture references start seeping in but the MC is a transmigrator and clearly one of us because videogame, film, anime, etc, references are pretty much all he brought with him to his new world. But then... then the pop culture references start worming their way into the world background and lore. From details remarkably similar to other web novels to plot points pulled from HBO shows, and the names that get used. Well, to put it plainly this now seems less like a transmigrator story and more like the story of a culture junkie who got hit by a truck and we're now reading his coma dream. I guess its personal preference, but when MC makes a Witcher reference because he played the game, I'm cool with that. But when Ice Queen Elsa's kingdom is dealing with an invasion of White Walkers in the North, that's too much to treat seriously.
It is very different from Er Gen, or most xianxia novels. It is mostly centered on humor, and the MC has ridiculous levels of plot armror. But that is part of the fun. Personally, it's one of my favorite novels of all time. But don't expect a classic xianxia.
Never said it was bad that there were so many after story chapters but there's no reason to make it an after story if it's longer than the actual story.
That's like if I released a video game with 5 hours of playtime and then had DLC that had 500 hours of content. I just don't get it.
to start this off properly I have to preface this with I haven't read this book yet I just wanted to say something to the author.
you said roughly that the mc will start off weak and not to expect him to power level, i'm fine with that as long as his abilities are either interesting and or well explored.
a example of this is the dao of magic it takes a already interesting and IMO ability/power cultivation and explores it rather thoroughly.
the reason this is relavent is because "to me at least" this is one of the major draws to a op fan fiction almost instant access to cool abilities/powers to explore.
this acts as a really good hook to get people to stay and continue reading especially on fan fic sites,
because you most probably won't find people who care about the story or character development as long as the mc doesn't make them want to throw up in repulsion.
ps sorry if this comes out as a big block of text I wrote this on my phone I tried to make it not one but I can only hope it worked.
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1. Lets talk about our protagonist(s). To think that the description and the first 10 chapters keep on mentioning that he is a shut-in, and cant be social at all, does not do the novel justice. In no way shape or form, does the novel express how our MC is an Otaku, besides being a “Shut in”; yet they only became a shut-in due to mental illnesses.
Thought it was unique and all, Otaku + Apocalypse. A shame.
2. The plural s in the first point. Not a single chapter after the very first few had a dedicated “Otaku” MC alone, ever.
Could have simply made the description actually describe who our actual protagonists are, which is better than the false advertising there.
The first 2 were just what disappointed me about it, the upcoming 2 were what made me drop it after only 100 chapters.
3. Characters and their development. I cannot begin to stress how these stupidly useless baggages are. They are just there to either A) Anger you or B) Just to fill in the messing anger you would feel towards any character(you can never get attached to anyone at all, not even the MC).
Each character that continues to stay with the MC has an average of 2 chapters only for them and how they got to that certain moment. I bet skipping all of the characters’ “fillers” would just make the novel from 300 chapters long to 100 chapters.
4. The Mutagen apocalypse of cliches. You will undoubtedly be able to guess what will happen and when; every chapter where our MC fights will be met with an almost perfectly predictable situation. You will never get a bad plot twist, let alone a good one.
What more would you expect from the cliche apocalypse, the amount of cliches it has is absurd.
Consider dropping the novel after you reach 50 chapters, the rest is completely predictable even the ending is as well.
There are also some uncomfortable little points to read, but hard to imagine, like the fact that the protagonist has been a virgin for 100,000 years, or simply the age of the characters (the youngest so far is 400 years old), the protagonist is 100,000 and his wife 200.00... I can only imagine an elderly couple, even if they look young.
In the end the story is good, the negative points are small and don't interfere with the experience, I just wish it was a story with a bigger development (and with more chapters!), but anyway I'll keep reading until the end, until now I recommend it!
That's like if I released a video game with 5 hours of playtime and then had DLC that had 500 hours of content. I just don't get it.
you said roughly that the mc will start off weak and not to expect him to power level, i'm fine with that as long as his abilities are either interesting and or well explored.
a example of this is the dao of magic it takes a already interesting and IMO ability/power cultivation and explores it rather thoroughly.
the reason this is relavent is because "to me at least" this is one of the major draws to a op fan fiction almost instant access to cool abilities/powers to explore.
this acts as a really good hook to get people to stay and continue reading especially on fan fic sites,
because you most probably won't find people who care about the story or character development as long as the mc doesn't make them want to throw up in repulsion.
ps sorry if this comes out as a big block of text I wrote this on my phone I tried to make it not one but I can only hope it worked.