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I was going to give this three or four stars but I can't after reading the "Hell Bus" arc. It got bad, like really bad. It's bad enough that I'm dropping it. I'm wondering if two stars are appropriate.If you want to read this go ahead, it's fine. But stop reading at the end of the "Nightmare" arc. Do not read the "Hell Bus" arc. It will ruin the story.So this is an infinite flow novel where a super AI called "The Lord God" rules a higher dimension (called worlds) and captures smaller dimensions to use them as fuel. They capture them by reprogramming them into following the plot of horror movies, then forcing players (called reincarnators) to go into the well known plots and disrupt them. Like most horror movies the world's have a boss, for example Jason Voorhees, but for this story the bosses are the ML who's reborn without memories in each new world. Eventually if the plot is disrupted enough and not allowed to complete the small world's boss will fall and be converted to energy.The MC is transmigrated into one of these small worlds (from regular earth? Maybe) slightly before the point where the reincarnators enter. His becomes a sort of stabilizer/booster for the boss, allowing them to become powerful enough to kill the reincarnators and free the small world from The Lord God's system. He does this through the power of his bussy. I guess. It's not explained.The bosses (ML) fall in obsessive love at first sight with the MC and somehow unlock powers they wouldn't have at that point in the plot. The original movie plot ends with the ML destroying the world so the world can be reset but the MC always convinced him to save humanity which is why the world is able to break free.The story starts a little weak, the first arc isn't good and the author spoils their own gender bender twist. A lot of other reviewers mention this and how unsatisfying it is.The next couple of arcs are fine. There's some cute and funny moments, but they aren't anything special. The "Nightmare" arc is my favorite. The MC also lost his memories in this one and that caused him to have to do some detective work instead of sitting pretty and waiting on the ML to show up like the past.But then the very next arc, the "Hell Bus", completely jumps the shark. The original body is just a normal man, but the second the MC takes over without his memories he's a complete psychopathic mu*derer. Why? Who knows! I feel like the author wanted to make him seem more badass but is 12 so they think mu*der is cool.Spoiler
The plot of the "Hell Bus" is a gorey slaughterfest, which is a complete waste. In the original movie there's a buss where everyone dies in an accident and are taken to hell on the bus. At each buss stop they have to identify which one of them committed the sin at the stop and leave that person behind. This could be a great set up for psychological horror, exploring human nature, crime, betrayal, etc as people realize they have to pick someone to die. Instead everyone is just killed by ghosts. There's no horror, it's just gore and jump scares while the MC randomly stabs his family members because they are mean to him.
[collapse]It sucks. It's just insufferably bad.
