Otherworldly Sword King's Survival Records
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A teen is pulled into a fantasy realm along with many others, but a mistake forces him to remain in the isolated “beginner’s zone”, endlessly leveling up to 5 before he is dropped back to level 1 again. Only, he keeps his stats. Finally, he gets out and starts exploring.....
I liked this one a lot. It wasn’t the typical storyline, the events felt a lot more believable, and the story even gets a bit dark at times, so it feels more fully-realized than most. Excited to see where this goes!
I Was Trash
....and the story was a bit, too. (Sorry, I tried. I really did, but I didn’t like this one at all.)
Incredible qui cultivator from another world is reincarnated as the timid young master in a good house. Then - with a completely different personality than before - he begins meeting people and making waves.
I have a few serious issues with this story. The character drawing is fine, but edited photos are often used in place of actual drawn-backgrounds. The storyline starts off okay-ish, but then quickly devolves into a mess of characters who always seem to interact in predictable ways. It isn’t clear who is who after ~chapter 90 (other than the main characters), or who knows what about the MC. The list goes on. (Just want to add here that any confusion in the plot has nothing to do with the translation efforts - thank you guys for putting time into this anyway!)
It’s a shame, because I’ve read a number of these types of stories by now and even if they’re not brilliant, I normally like them and find them pleasant in an action-adventure slice-of-life sort of way, and this is the first to have really gotten on my nerves enough to be unpleasant to read.
Above All Gods