Reborn as a Transcendent Chapter 304 Discussion

Personally, I really like this novel, but there are a few minor complaints that must be addressed.

Firstly, the pacing is so ridiculously slow it makes DBZ look like they get through things in a timely manner. I'm talking, I'm 300 chapters in and barely a week has passed in the story. While every single day of the story was so jam-packed with non-stop stuff happening to the MC to the point that realistically there aren't enough hours in the day to get through all of it, the actual content of the story gets stretched out with long-winded explanations, unnecessary details, and pointless back-and-forth. Even if you kept in all the actual events in you could have comfortably trimmed down those 300 chapters to around 200-250 with more succinct writing.

The author clearly also has a very weird idea of what foreign cultures and international politics are like. For the most part it's not even fun stereotypes like "Americans are loud and like guns lol". It's mostly weird things like, "America wants to undermine eastern powers so they exclusively cast ugly asian women with exaggerated features in movies and told the American public that those were the most beautiful eastern women, so consequentially americans developed a skewed notion of asian beauty that finds modern generally accepted beauty standards to be ugly and thinks women that look like they came out of a racist WW2 propaganda cartoon are hot." As an american myself, what bothers me more than that is Spoiler

when all the world's governments are desperately scrambling to figure out which player has a certain powerful item, american soldiers end up brazenly kidnapping and torturing a certain high-profile player from their ally country, Japan, but then when they determine that she doesn't have the item, they simply let her go free. Sloppy. Too sloppy, fictional America. I'm not saying the American government aren't the type of scumbags to kidnap, torture, and interrogate a civilian from an allied country on the mere suspicion that she might have something that will benefit the country as a whole even if it's clear that she hasn't done anything wrong even if she did have the thing. They totally would pull some scumbaggy move like that, but they'd be a hell of a lot more discreet about it and would do their best to cover their tracks. Especially if it wasn't on any hard evidence but on mere suspicions. In the end, it looks like that incompetence will be biting them in the ass as that player has gone into hiding and has now gotten super strong in the game and is currently wreaking havoc on every american player she comes across.

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Finally, while I enjoy the MC's usual aggressive, shameless personality, when it comes to his/her transformation into a girl, (s) he gets really whiny and annoying. Like, I get why unwillingly switching sexes would be distressing and embarrassing, but as the series progresses the MC begins to get used to her situation to the point that she keeps having girlish thoughts or unconsciously accepting that she's female now, but then whenever she catches herself with those thoughts she always immediately backpedals and denies them, forcefully claiming that she's a man. I guess that since only a week has passed it's reasonable that that wouldn't be enough time to come to terms with her s*x change, but it being a full 300 chapters makes it feel like much more time has passed than actually has.