Became a Gang Boss in a Comic Book Chapter 32 Discussion

Summary: Yoon Do-cheol somehow possessed the character of an underground crime boss destined to die within the first 10 panels of a B-rated comic book that has a cult following. He's never read the comic, but his best friend was a crazed fan and so he was able to glean a lot through proximity osmosis and random rabbit-hole research. He possesses his character two years before his foretold death and does everything in his power to make sure he survives meeting the OP protagonist and protect his livelihood.

Plot: 4/10

Characters: 4/10

Pacing: 8/10

Translation: 6/10

Total: 5.5/10

Review: From my standpoint, the MC is likeable. He's an intelligent morally gray character. The comic book he was s**ked into is wacky. It's earth, but not earth, Korea, but not Korea, in that there are people with superpowers and magic, but it's not known by the general population, so while he's trying to prepare for these walking disasters, his subordinates look at him like he's crazy or unreasonable.

I do like some of the side characters. Kim Seojung, his ward, is spunky and scrappy. Cheolsu, his head of security, is loyal and shares good camaraderie.

As for the story itself, the lore in the comic is an Holy War between the Unicorn Knight and its organization against the evil Bicorn, a devil horse god/demon. The whole story is wacky, from the MC being the CEO of Happy Burger, a Cookie wielding supervillain, the underground world being run by the "Food Cartel", etc. It's hard to tell what's supposed to be the reality of this story's world and what's a red herring from the MC's misconceptions, so it's been difficult for me to immerse myself in this world. As a reader, I ended up feeling like I'm watching this through the narrow lense of a microscope rather when I'd rather be peeking over the MC's shoulder with the ability to look around and enjoy the view too.

It's early in the story, so there hasn't been any character development of the protagonist "Unicorn Knight" aka Kim Seon-a, but I don't like her, as I don't really like overly rigid "righteous" characters who have no context of the hardships of reality by thinking the only solution is killing all the bad guys with no thought to the casualties and big picture, long-term effects to the general population.

Overall, this story isn't bad, but it just isn't my cup of tea, so I'm dropping it.

OH YEAH: the translation throws me off too. They keep changing the names/spelling of the villains, the pronouns are all over the place, and sometimes when I think someone is speaking, it's actually an internal thought and vice versa. If you can do the mental acrobatics to read this, then power to ya.