The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 300 Discussion

(By the way, I wrote this review as I read the novel, starting from when I felt this was 5 star material to the end, where it dropped to 1 star. I get more and more frustrated as the novel goes on, and was only reading after ch 220 because I want to see if he finally gets his true strength back or not.)

I'm enjoying this so far. Basically, it's the premise of an alien from another planet that is light years ahead of Earth in terms of mana usage reincarnates into a human because he wants to avoid work on his home planet.

Because he's an alien, he doesn't know as much about Earth or human customs as humans do, which is interesting to read. Although I do wish the story elaborated more on that, because sometimes it does feel like they could do more with this premise.

Also this is my favorite kind of misunderstanding story. Where they do misunderstand that he's more powerful than he really is (currently he's F rank), but he actually is pretty powerful (in different ways, like knowledge of mana techniques and things like that, and the fact that he was a powerful wizard in his home planet so he's just weak for now).

It's not that fast paced imo and it's pretty much the same misunderstanding for a while. And the plot's not complex, it's relatively simple. So a good read if you're just looking to get into an interesting story, but not one where you should delve extremely deeply like for some other stories.

Spoiler for Rakshasa temple:

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Although I do wish that the Rakshasa Temple thing wasn't just tied to a politician who wanted to get reelected bruh. It just made the whole fanatic cult temple thing much less interesting. Dang.

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And another pet peeve, but it's mostly personal preference:

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I'm not that big of a fan of the writing style where they sometimes go into the villain's mind and basically tell us their master plan, motive, and backstory directly, especially before the plan actually happens. It sort of ruins the suspense for me, so there's no real tension in the story, because there's no wondering why something is happening or why someone who do something like this and that... because we already know.

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And the MC is a little too frugal and "selfless" ngl. Especially

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In chapter 81 when he "saved" Esther 5 billion won and she asked him if he wanted anything, he should've asked for the f*cking dragon lungs are you kidding me? Since it's 2.6 billion won. Instead, he asked for the pyromancer necklace which is 50 million won. Dude! Your magic problem could literally be solved, why the f*ck are you asking to buy the f*cking necklace? It's frustrating because now I know his magic problem won't get solved for basically the next 100 chapters because I know they're going to drag it out wtf.

EDIT; I wrote this back when I was around ch81... and guess what? I f*cking called it. Obviously they were going to drag this sh*t out

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As for the dragon's lungs and whether he gets his abilities again,

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In ch 137 there's a dungeon that is revealed which has a dragon in it, and all the korean comments were just yelling "lungs lungs!", which is the funniest thing ever. I guess they wanted Kiryeo to become strong already, and ngl, I was wholeheartedly yelling the same thing because I was getting a little tired of him having to pretend. I just wanted to see him stomp S classes or monsters already. Also he still doesn't get the lungs here because I f*cking knew they were gonna drag this out.

In ch 166 he gets one characteristic of an S class, which is the defense, but still hasn't got his dragon lungs or his magic back.

Ok, in chapter 201 he finally got his dragon lungs. And obviously, because the author wants to drag this out further, he can only do basic spells, because he needs a new body or some shit. Woo hoo, another 100 chapters to go until we get another basic powerup!

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And for Kim Kiryeo's backstory (the previous owner of the body, not the current MC) :

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Around chapter 148, the story goes into Kim Kiyreo's backstory, and let me tell you, his backstory is sad as f*ck. Especially how he was treated by his family. And it was so satisfying when the MC told Kiryeo's mom that Kim Kiryeo died, even though she was confused. I love it when novels actually acknowledge the previous owner of the body, because it makes me feel a little sad sometimes to think about how their body was being used by a reincarnator, except no one around that person realizes anything's up. Like you died and someone took over your body and no one knows about it. It's a little scary. So I'm glad they sort of acknowledged it here.

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For Kang Changho,

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I'm ngl, I can't stand him. I'm waiting for the day he dies. I don't care that he has helped the MC sometimes, because he didn't do that for some altruistic reason... just for a f*cking contract. He's such a little bit*h and I can't bring myself to like him no matter what.

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I would have given this 4 stars if they didn't drag out his f*cking misunderstanding and lung sh*t for so long. It was actually so frustrating because the author would just dangle the lungs then just pull it away for like four times, and by that point I was actually just annoyed by the misunderstanding at that point. It's 200 chapters of the same f*cking sh*t over and over and he barely improves at all. I get it, he's an F class in every way, but can you not drag this sh*t out???

If it weren't for other aspects of the novel, like discovering the previous owner's backstory, then I would've dropped it way earlier.

So if you're into reading 200 chapters of the same bullsh*t over and over, like me, then this is perfect for you. He does actually start getting good at ch 200 but holy damn, getting past 200 chapters was tedious.

As for the US hunter and nationalism:

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I'm actually so disappointed the author killed off Brooklyn, since I actually liked her. I'm going to be extremely upset if the author killed her off but keeps Kang Changho alive, because that motherf*cker needs to die. If the author keeps that dude alive I know for a fact this is some nationalistic shit, considering if Kang Changho was American in this novel he'd get f*cked instantly, but since he's Korean, the author will probably never kill him off to "show off" the 4 S-classes that Korea has. It's very easy for the author to kill off the top American hunter who's actually interesting and has a cool backstory but god forbid you kill off one of the scummiest f*ckers who happens to be Korean, who also is planning on killing MC and stealing his power.... have we forgotten that???

Also, I feel like sometimes this novel is too nationalistic, honestly, like a lot of Korean novels are. I guess Koreans get aroused at the thought of the US or China losing power, but it felt a little disappointing seeing the portrayal of foreign hunters in the novel compared to the Korean ones. By the way, it starts veering into nationalistic territory around ch 220s, so good luck.

I could go on and on about this but this is why I dropped my previous rating from 3 stars to 2 stars. This same bullsh*t again fron Korean novels is so f*cking annoying. I guess the only ok thing is that Japanese hunters are not as badly shown as in other novels.

And I also think the alien MC is too reluctant to leave Korea. Now, I understand why the author would want him to stay as a Korean, considering you need to be able to brag about him as Korea's S-class, but I was thinking halfway through, why the f*ck would the alien care if he was in Korea or the US or China or Russia? He really doesn't HAVE to stay as a Korean, especially since I thought he wanted to see the world or experience human culture lol

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Ok I read on to 300 and the nationalism issue just gets worse. And unfortunately

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Kang Changho hasn't died yet. I'm f*cking done with this sh*t of a novel. I had high hopes at first but then it just turned into a Korean nationalistic jerk off to other countries. It's f*cking pathetic, and I only ever enjoyed the parts of the novel where the settings stayed in Korea.

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Whoever thought this novel was good has got to be joking, or perhaps turned their brain off entirely while reading this shit. The author drags everything on for so long, especially the misunderstanding, and the characters are basically sh*t besides the Koreans. It feels like the author just wanted to jerk off to Korean nationalism or some bullshit, and I've actually never hated a character more than Kang Changho, who the author seems to keep alive solely because he's a KOREAN S class (because let's be honest, if he was a foreigner in any way treating MC like that, the author would've killed him off by now, easily... but nooo, Koreans are precious and foreigners are expendable characters).

The setting and writing style is so f*cking bland, I don't even know what the environment or people look like half of the time. And half of a lot of chapters is just the other characters jerking off to the MC, which if you cut that out, doesn't even affect the story at all. I found myself skipping past those because I found it so unbelievably cringy it hurt to read, and I skipped past a lot of the interactions with other countries because they were so disgustingly portrayed. I had such high hopes in the beginning only for the author to be a complete f*cking pu*sy about the plot and the characters, especially the MC. And the characters, even the Koreans, are so unbelievably flat and one sided, whose sole purpose is to jerk off to a pu*sy MC or be an antagonist, no in between.

One of the worst things is this novel had so much f*cking potential, but the author squandered it all. The story barely ever goes back into his Alphauri life, and if it does, IT IS VAGUE. Where is the world building? What about his past disciples (mentioned like once) ? Tell me more about Alphauri, and how it compared to Earth besides "ohh Earth has so much culture *eating korean food only*" -alien. If I were the alien, there's zero chance I would not be constantly comparing things to the littlest detail, but even though the alien here does compare a lot, it's VERY VAGUE and offhandedly. If you're going to make it not that important and not give context, don't even mention it, jesus. And don't just give me some alien bullsh*t like "ooo Earth has pretty stuff", CAN YOU TELL ME WHY? How? In what way? I'm curious. And I'm not joking, that is a legitimate example from the story.

In fact, half of the sh*t he does in the story can be thrown out since it's irrelevant, like the Rakshasa temple shit. 300 chapters could've been condensed to ~200 and it'd be much better, actually give the characters some personality and free thought rather than just jerking it to the MC all the f*cking time, give the foreign hunters some good traits instead of f*cking killing off the cool hunters who are "enemies" (who I like far better than the npc Korean side characters, especially Brooklyn), world build Alphauri and give us some more cultural/magic context or alien backstory, and have the MC grow some backbone and kill off Kang Changho instead of being a doormat. The MC is legitimately so pathetic since he barely does sh*t to regain his powers and later on is suddenly surprised when he gets f*cked up because he's WEAK and did nothing at all. What the f*ck did you expect??? And I remember Kang Changho attacking the MC once around ch 180s and the MC being surprised, and I legitimately face palmed because jesus christ, did you think he was a GOOD person??? Even after he tried to kill Jung Ha-seong in the first EX dungeon they went to??? Does everyone forget he's a shithole of a person or what?

It blows my mind this novel is rated 4.1 but a lot of decent stories on this site is 3.8. This story should at most be a 3, and I'm being generous.