The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman Chapter 39 Discussion

It's ok so far. You'll find many parts of the story is similar to the The Lazy Prince Becomes a Genius (or aka Reformation of the Deadbeat Noble on asurascans). It almost felt as if some Korean authors just copied from the same template and then add their own flairs on top and gradually branch out or something.

The cast is similar:

The MC is a kid going through academy, gradually proving himself in front of other kids.

There's a white haired girl who is cold to everybody else but nice to MC.

There's a rival character with high status who hates the MC at first or look down on him then gradually gets some "character development" and become closer with him

There's a brusque girl who is from the streets who also hates and rival MC but gradually grow closer to him.

MC has a loving family who cares for him, comes from noble background.

Both are also regression stories.

Like I said, there are differences like the authors adding their own "flair" to a template, but this is just too strikingly similar in this regard.

Still a decent read I suppose but it feels too slow at times.

The novel is also similar to other Korean fantasy novels in that it takes East Asian martial art concepts and try to "Westernize" it. There's qi deviation but author tries to word it differently, then there's also just basically cultivation but for mana and levels. There's also meridian channels but it's also "westernized".

Then there's also that (imo really annoying) system popup kind of thing where there's just a game-like message allow MC to view his own status and crap like that, but he could gain extra "stats" because of this system and he's the only one in the novel with that cheat. These kinda stuff really just takes the immersiveness out of the novel and I take it less seriously every time a half-serious half-gamey novel uses it.

I'd rate it 3.5 but there's no 3.5 so I'll give it 4 on a good day.