Zihvuda's manga / #Action(47)

A guy burdened into becoming humanity's champion to fight against monsters coming out of dungeons, finds himself the sole survivor of the human race and then is killed. He reincarnates into the body of some other boy, years before the apocalypse and sets about trying to save humanity again. The beginning is kind of choppy, I dunno if there are pages missing or what, but there were a couple instances where I was left wondering if there was a scene missing. Exposition is not dumped on the reader in huge amounts of text, there's less of it and the plot keeps you engaged. I wouldn't say this stands out among all the other series that feature reincarnation and game-like worlds. Although perhaps the cast of characters so far is mercifully small, something I sometimes find gets a bit out of hand with other stories like this. There are some plot threads that get set aside and take time to get resolved, which made me initially uneasy because I was afraid they would get abandoned. They didn't! So it's all good. So far, there's no romance annoying or otherwise, which also means no harem, for those who hate that genre as I do. MC's new mother is only there momentarily and is otherwise pretty much written out of the story. This usually annoys me, because why introduce family if they aren't going to do anything interesting with them? However I do like the way the mother was utilized in this, even if her presence in the story is short. The emotional connection and motivation she provides is well done, and her being left out of the plot soon after feels more natural than the author running out of ideas on how to make use of the character. It still bothers me a little, but only in the way that I would like more character moments where mc sits and talks to people and relaxes and lets the story breath for a minute. Sometimes stories like these fall into non-stop action, and this ends up exhausting the reader. But I don't feel it's gotten to this point here... yet. I got up to chapter 61 and am annoyed with the turn of events that ends up introducing us to a new character. But that's just me. If you like this sort of stuff with an OP MC, than this is definitely for you. The mc isn't an asshole and is actually pretty nice, though not to the point of being a cinnamon roll. There's no fan service or cheesecake, people aren't sexily losing their clothes in battle. The art is good, and the english is good barring minor grammar hiccups here and there. No word salad chapters here, thankfully! Though I think there may have been one chapter with some pages out of order, but while it was noticeable it didn't hinder reading the story. All in all? It's fine, I'm not inclined to drop it. there's the main goal the Mc is working towards, but there's some fun little side quests that are fun and not presented as check list fetch quests. I would like more emotion and connection in this story (there's so much hinted, but largely unexplored, angst!!), but it's alright for what it is. There's better out there in my opinion, but there's also plenty that's much worse.

I can see why this is popular. A boy with super speed and a love of cats, meets an injured stray cat one night. He takes him home to treat his wounds and discovers it's actually an extremely powerful ability user (man) who transformed into a cat to escape his pursuers. The two bond, and soon form a student/mentor relationship, which eventually takes our little cinnamon roll of a speedster on a path to fight a bunch of people and become the strongest. Barring his master. It's very shounen-y and while I do love it, I feel there's not enough character exploration and bonding. Except between master and disciple, plenty of cute moments there. The other supporting cast on the other hand... how do I explain this? They have their moments, but they are few and are quickly over, and frankly I want more. The action is fun and creative enough, although there are some small hiccups that are just... weird. He can use his power for 5 seconds? Really? Cause it sure as shit don't look that way at all, they last waaay longer than that, it's just not possible. At some point they say he can use it for 6 seconds, but there's no fucking way those fights only lasted that long. I seriously don't get it. Still it's a small thing that's easy to ignore, because you do end up quite drawn into the story and action. I did at least. The art's alright, though everyone looks feminine. Also all properly buff people are evil. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ It's a shame, but oh well. There's a bit of lack of diversity in character design that thankfully gets better later on in the story. At the beginning especially everyone just seemed to have the same hair cut or they looked like palette swaps of other characters. The palette swap thing is still the same, but it's an easy thing to forgive. Now, the translation is below average for pretty much all of the chapters. Bad grammar, missing words, extra letters that shouldn't be there and were obvious typos. That sort of thing. The names kept changing too, cause why would translation groups bother with consistency. Now, this isn't to say the translation is word salad, for it is legible and you can understand what's happening. It just may require a little more effort than stuff done by now-a-days Asura-scans for example, but definitely not the word salad shit I've seen killing interest in other series. So far, no outright romance, though there's a few potentials I suppose. I don't think any ages are ever specified (other than, "he's your age!") and I was under the impression one potential love interest was waaaay older than him, but apparently not? Still, at ch 249 it's yet to be addressed so who knows if it ever will, or if anything even comes of it. MC does eventually start developing a crush, though it's not really addressed, to the point where one isn't even sure if he's noticed this development himself. I do hate the "what am I feeling right now?" trope with a fiery passion, but so far it's not outright done that. All in all, I do recommend reading this, it's pretty addictive and I absolutely love our pure cinnamon roll main character. He is best boy. The other characters can be pretty fun too. Although there are a couple shit-heels that for some reason are termed "good guys" despite having absolutely no redemption arc to speak of. Make no mistake, mc ain't one of those morally ambiguous types. He's a good boy. I honestly don't know why he's so forgiving of the shit they did. So like I said, I recommend it, but it ain't perfect. Nothing really ever is, but it's not difficult to see the imperfections in this. ALSO! (almost forgot) WARNING: ANIMAL ABUSE in some chapters. Particularly cats, and no, I don't mean battle animals fight and protect their owners, I mean actual ANIMAL ABUSE. Also a lot of emotional and physical abuse. As in domestic abuse. Also torture. These rich kids are so fucked up, the poor things. Everyone needs sooo much therapy, and no-one gets any. TT^TT Then again, as is common in most shounen series, they're fine. Even though horrendously traumatic things have happened and happen to characters, they're fine. I hate that, but it is what it is. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

A high schooler dies after bullies force him to play games for a weeks straight in order to mine for rare items (Thanks for the predatory gambling games industry!). He gets sent back to a week before his death, but with a game system window that slowly lets him unlock skills but also gives him quests he doesn't initially want to do. The system inflicts terrible punishment if he abandons or tries to refuse a quest, so he's pretty much forced into it, and life doesn't seem that much better at first, just different. It gets better though. I like the story, but at the same time it has a lot of flaws. It's a fun read so I recommend it for that alone, but if you like to think about the stuff you consume, even a little, you'll start to maybe enjoy this a little less. There's some weird stuff that isn't explained, the girls are kinda drawn weird, and it seems this is borderline harem as there's quite a few girls interested in MC. The villains are all one note, and while entertaining the fights scene progression reaches superhuman levels without anyone actually being superhuman. Except for MC that is. The bully council bothers me. We don't find out why it's a thing, and MC just... stays in it, even though he hates bullies? And so far he only fights bullies (plus a few adult criminals), but I still don't understand why he stays cause he's still ostensibly part of the system. There's some interesting mystery regarding the death of MC's father as well as the identity of the system administrator. The art is pretty good, though yeah, the girls are a bit weird... like they've been stretched to make their ass and thighs thicker, but still having a thigh gap somehow. It's very weird. Most of the guys don't look like the high schoolers they supposedly are either. The translation seems to be ok, the english is above average for this site. Which is to say it's good. All in all I do recommend giving this a go and seeing what you think for yourself- Even though the mc is a victim of bullying fighting bullies, there isn't any sort of revenge aspect to it at all. It's all just self defence for the most part. Well except for when there's attempted sexual assault on a female character close to MC that is.

This is the story of a girl who in order to take care of her sisters, dresses as a man (I don't really know how it's convincing, but sure) to peddle candy by day and steal from the rich to give to the poor by night. There's no mention of her father, but her mother was killed some time ago, and our MC is trying hard to find the culprit and get revenge. During her investigation she meets a number of people including the male lead and the second male lead. She ends up investigating drug trade. The romance is there, but thankfully doesn't get in the way of the mystery plot, although the quasi love triangle annoys me. The story is interesting and the characters are engaging. The translation seems good, and the art is fantastic, though it does not help with MC's disguise when trying to look like a man. I honestly just don't get how anyone (ESPECIALLY OTHER WOMEN) could ever mistake her for a man. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Her disguise is essentially men's clothes + hat. Like this is C-drama levels of bad.

An extremely strong martial arts master is on his death bed and is about to pass on, when a subordinate manages arrives to feed him something that's supposed to save him. Despite this, the subordinate is apparently too late, and the master dies. He however awakens in the body of an apprentice from some other sect that uses a different cultivation method. It's once again, an adult in some teens body who trains to get stronger and regain his position at the top of the martial arts world. An evil man forced to live in the body of a disciple of a good sect. As he trains and fights and makes enemies and gets allies, mysteries crop up one after another on his road to achieve his goals. I like the story so far, it's got no superfluous romance, although I did get weird BL vibes from the character designs of one or two of the senior disciples which was funny. No actual BL though, and not really any het love either. Though waaay later in the story some girls do take an interest in MC. The art is good and the plot is pretty interesting. Our main character can be a little annoying at times, but it's mostly fun watching him go about living his new life. The cast of characters is growing a little more numerous as the story progresses, but thankfully the rest of the cast isn't being dragged along, which doesn't overwhelm the reader with trying to remember who everyone is. The characters are fleshed out enough to be distinct and memorable. The translation... Well the english isn't unreadable, but names and terminology change a lot between scanlators and it gets confusing trying to identify what sect, merchant, person they are talking about. Some left terms like "sasuk" with no explanation what that was, as well as some other terms and names that changed over some chapters as well. Calling merchants "tops" was... very weird, and also mc being called "master uncle" by his two students is extremely distracting with how unnatural and weird it sounds. Should have just left the original korean term or whatever, cause it just doesn't work in english. Even though it's Asura scans there's a lot of weird grammar, like unnecessary "of"s, "the"s and "a"s in sentences. Think I saw someone in the comments say it wasn't actually asura scans but some other translation group taking their credits page and pretending? I don't know if it's true, but it would make sense for the state of the english grammar. Perhaps? Weird af though, and utterly pointless if true. I think the mystery is engaging, and the story fun to follow along. Perhaps the other characters roll with mc's antics a little too easily, but I can't bring myself to mind as they are all slowly (and I do mean slowly!) but surely corrupting our evil MC's heart with decency. lol

Some dude falls asleep and wakes up as a grand prince in olden times korea. His new brother is the king and also the worst tyrant (apparently) in korean history. Dude tries to prevent rebellions and massacres so that he can stay prince, be with his hot wife and live a life free of responsibility. This was a wonderful action-packed story! There's the usual isekai staples of using modern day knowledge to better or invent things in the historical setting. Was loads of fun following the main character on his various antics. Cried at some of the more dramatic bits, and really love the brotherly love on display, even though there nearly wasn't enough of it to satisfy me. Would definitely recommend reading this and getting stuck into the story! It's also finished, so no having to wait for updates either! The art is good, the backgrounds and layout of the panels flows well, and the translation is overall good, though there are some extra words/letters here and there and some slight awkward phrases.

Eh... I want to like this, I do, but the beginning was kind of rushed... hell everything seems kind of rushed, so the character development and growth doesn't hit like it should. Emotional beats are also weak because of this. The art is good and pleasing, but also bad in that everyone looks the same age. There's children - teens - and middle aged men. All women look like they could be any age and are just there for fan service. You got the shy one with self esteem issues, and then you got the wild one who's confident, but also a massive tsundere. Girl's aren't super skinny, which is something I've not seen before in a shounen manga, but yeah, they have no character. To be fair the boys don't seem to have much character either. Anyway, getting back to the art, the teachers look like they're all teens. There's no difference between a dude in his 20s and high school kids. They are all as tall, all as developed, all with the same face. In conclusion: I didn't like it, and I don't particularly recommend it to anyone else. Unless you liked demon slayer! If you liked demon slayer, this should be right up your alley!

MC used to be real strong, but suddenly and mysteriously contracts some sort of disease that eats away at his health, to the point where he has to quite being an adventurer and gets his license revoked. He decides to leave town, unable to support himself and being derided cruelly by his previous companions. He comes across an injured monster that isn't actually a monster, and decides healing and breaking the curse on them is worth giving the last of his life for. He gets better, adopts the girl who had been cursed to be a monster and starts traveling with the girl. This should be fun, it is fun. It's kind of action and slice of life story set in a fantasy adventurer world, with this father-daughter relationship at it's center. I like it, and usually like good guy MC's, but this guy... he's kind of a doormat. He forgives people a little too easily and has a death wish with how easily he's willing to throw his life away, even when he's regained all his strength and power. Like they have 2 of his previous party members be absolute shit heels to him and then one of those guys is immediately forgiven and MC allows him to muscle into his quest like everything is fine. I don't like that. There's a difference between being kind and being a doormat to toxic people treating you like shit. I mean the guy does change his attitude cause MC is strong again, but it pisses me off that there isn't so much as an apology in their first meeting and MC just lets him barge into his life like it ain't no thing. There's a bunch of things I've been curious about since MC found his daughter, but haven't gotten answers even though you'd think MC would have pondered this shit at some point during his journey. It feels like the author is withholding info just to be mysterious, rather than any plot related flow. There are few things I hate more than contrived stories, whether they be mysteries, romances or action. Anyway, my dislike is largely due to personal preferences, so I would highly encourage anyone to give this story a go, if they feel so inclined. The art is great, the translation good, and there is no harem or forced and annoying romance. Just family feels and lots of cooing over the cute little girl. Sometimes she feels more like a pet than a child with wants and needs, but that's just me.