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12 dropped
So basically you had a poor student who worked hard to be the top
Before the story started, super hardworking kid got , i quote, « a mysterious disease «  and went three months into a slump, being exhausted all the time - In the first chapter, the evil meritocratic system want to throw him out of school (duh?)
So first of the school boy, now labeled «  a loser » is saved by … a cheat system for poor loser students ?
No solidarity, no health plan, no working to recover : a cheat , an absolute cheat which makes him know all about something
As if not stupid enough, he also has access to a lottery, and magically becomes … a top appraiser ?
As is too much was not enough, Now he’s also the hidden child of a mafia boss ?
His kind and hardworking parents must not have been enough ? bleh

I would normally dismiss it with a 2, but it’s also full of mean stereotypes : the fat teacher is mean, and the boy get points from humiliating him ( fat shaming, plus reward for aggression)
The sport students is painted as an idiot ( soon to be beaten), the school rival has no morality, and the girls are not only an inferior, but also all over him
I also totally despise the school system entirely based on competition and ranking, it’s not like there’s just one type or intelligence, and even people who are ok with this type of evaluation will have high and lows which can be very detrimental to evaluate one’s levels - I am so glad there are now a few country focused on making learning a happy thing, not giving any evaluation for years and letting kids grow at different pace
This toxic archaic model is both toxic and ineffective

5 boring - dropped
Th MC is a book, he also has low morality and made the kid, who first contracted him explode, and he didn’t care
Then both him and the girl are walking the path of vengeance, lying , stealing, betraying and not caring about others
happiness or self growth are in the way (or so it seems from the glimpse i haad at a few chapters in the 4x)

36 duplicate

22
Exhausting
Quasi evilMC with bad attitude, bad and selfish mindset, intelligent enough to fit in
The greed part is simply too much
It shows everyone as idiots more or less fooled by this clean villain
It could have been fun but it is so overboard that it is tiresome

22 (there’s a duplicate of this title)
humongous plot hole in the timeline, MC defined by too many negatives, his life is also behind him and it doesn’t feel great
I’d think it’s a bad start whith huge inconsistency, the biggest being the age and of demise of the MC
The demon king was killed 50 years ago, the MC died 20 years ago (rather young ?)
He met his current lord when the lord was a boy’ and he was young : but the current lord is in his 50s with children in their 20 : where are 50 years gone ? It’s barely possible
But when he remembers the kind hero lord and his son we are shown his young self (between 50 to maybe 30 years ago?). Yet, the lord is still young and his son who should be around 40/50 is a young man. It would make sense if the son was the same ago as his lord, who already seems rather young
In the same manner, people barely remember demons, have no clue about monsters who nearly destroyed them 50 years before ?
It makes little sense sense
Then there’s the personality of the MC, who is obviously old with lots of experience and the gap is not great

The story seems like another remake of last century’s return of the demon kind : maybe there are some twist (like the intelligent goblin) but it takes really too long to show and it doesn’t feel interesting

9,5 c
Boring
A high school football girl fall into another world, survive murderous crowd (weird) , become a business goddess (super weird)
Get murdered and go back to earth where she wakes up to become … an office lady ! ( not a startup boss)
The gets murdered again (??)
And back to the foreign world … but as someone else conveniently way younger, hence younger than the boys she saved
So you have a grown up duke waiting to be her servant forever, (gross)
you’ d get the emperor should soon be obsessed, yuck
and a mysterious third fish for this already weird / gross story
Dropped

25 another tiresome OP trip
Strong prey on weak and siblings get at each other’s throat to inherit titles
Very sick
I hope the sister won’t stay absolutely useless, a « kya kya girl «  needing saving at all times is just sooo bad

6 anothr sick story with a pathetic woman acting on belief that a. Past life novel is the book of prophecy
Despite having changed many things, she doesn’t trust anyone and starts a plan that will betray and hurt her surroundings, for the sake of a stupid tale
Then it seems the mental disease is general, as jer husband and servants will be quite the yandere team
So the peaceful situation she struggled to build is going down in flames entirely because she’s a cretin acting on blind supervision
Bleh

20 dropped super boring
A know it all OP MC, won’t discover anything and will never struggle to kill his way up and then upper , crushing many things on his way
How is it even a story ?
By c20 there’s just nothing
The guy is not from this world, he doesn’t seem to care for anything else than breaking his previous record with his broken skill, meh, to tiresome and gruesome to even sleep with it

24
This is painful to read
The girl is so obsessed with self deprecation she rushes ruptures like a maniac
She never listens to anyone and let them work hard to understand her and translate their good heart to her stubborn self in a way she will understand
It’s true they could be clear and stop talking riddle, but honestly she’s a pain
Another girl wanting to build a fortune and a business empire : on top of being a relationship disaster, in the same manner the lazy rich ambition is just plain boring
Also why didn’t she tell anyone she was not in her own body for a decade, or have no thought for saying it ?
She’s the real one with trust issues there