This novel is about a protagonist who got transmigrated into the world of a mobile game he used to play but quit due to the needy ai and demanding monetization by the company. 10 years after he quits he wakes up to his ruined territory. He must build up his territory again and survive.
The yanderes who were very needy and demanding of him in the past caused him to abandon them, and they deeply regretted ever since and spend their days hopelessly till they discovered of his return.
A novel full of yandere elements. This seemed to me a mishmash of these 2 novels (if u liked this def suggest reading), with many Japanese novel writing elements which sadly bogged it down. It is pretty similar to "The Case In Which Streaming In Another World Led To The Creation Of A Massive Yandere Following". And it is also pretty similar to "Pick Me Up!" (Infinite Gacha) novel which has the same settings other than romance/yanderes and that novel being extremely cutthroat. Both of these also have manga/manhua available to read.
This story was a bit frustrating to read at times, while other times I constantly bring up a smile or laugh. Though this is a Korean novel, the MC has the personality of a weak-minded virg*n Japanese protagonist. It is very annoying to deal with at times. The other Yandere novel it is similar to also suffers the same problems, but I'd argue the other one was a bit better due to more plot and it pushed the yandere elements farther. And this is why I can't give it 5 stars (more of jpn styled fluff added rather than the comparison, even other novel didn't give 5 stars).
The yanderes in this novel also feel copy pasted with only different backgrounds and outer appearance/ race. This is also why I preferred the other yandere novel more as they possessed some unique characteristics for the most part.
This novel fully depends on the yandere elements, but never pushes it too far. The other writing elements are lacking and less developed. Side characters aren't even interacted with unless necessary. The main plot of the story is only there to serve for fuel. The interactions are all 1 sided, and due to the overpoweredness of the protagonist and his hidden yandere background helping, there is zero tension, zero climax, zero antagonistic developments.
Don't get me wrong, it is there, but it lacks any sort of suspense. It is never developed enough, and the solution is always a few sentences away, not to mention we all know they'd easily surpass this "obstacle" anyways.
The interactions of this novel can be summed up to:
MC = op
Response = Wow ❤️~
There are also a few glaring plotholes like Spoiler
how he never asks his past round table members to directly help him secretly, even with it being glaringly obvious how loyal and yandere they are, but the MC being a JP inspired protagonist just whitelists and ignores it... He never pushes topics any further too when it comes to progressing the true (yandere) plots.
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Despite these bits, I can't not recommend this, as although it's likely just a niche fetish I have, good written yandere / obsessive stories, make for a good and funny read. When I come across them, most of them I tried are written too horribly where it devolves into a jpn isekai harem novel, but at least so far, this novel has somehow not self destructed with the harem elements, which to me means the author cares about their story. Though it's more likely he cares about his yandere fantasy rather than the story itself... seeing the lack of overreaching plot developments and zero foreshadow
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Though to be fair there was one instance so far of there beinf a mysterious hidden plot in the background, though the way it was written about was a complete utter failure of story writing. BTW there has been zero explanation nor has the MC even pondered on why he came to the game world nor wishes to potentially go back. And again, as I am trying to point out, this novel is solely for the yandere aspects. The easily achieved territory building and "main plot" are really just fluff content to break apart the author's yandere events in my opiniong tbh.
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This novel honestly deserves 3 ☆☆☆ if it wasn't for the yandere aspects hard carrying it
