The Story of a Low-Rank Soldier Becoming a Monarch
Life Completely Ruined
I wont bother with giving my own summery, it would be difficult. This story made me feel a lot of conflicting emotions. And a lot of second hand embarrassment, to the point I'd frequently have to do something else. Also a lot of wtf-moments or what-the-fuck-ery. It's definitely interesting, and if you're already familiar with this author's other stuff, then you'll likely have a blast. Personally it was a bit too wild of a story for me to really get emotionally invested in, so when real sad and dramatic moments happened I was aware of them, but not really affected. It's kind of the same as when I tried reading Gintama, except that Gintama was far more frustrating than this. This was a fun read in a way, and it seems to have really worked for a lot of people. I managed to finish the story and I do like how it turned out and I don't regret giving it my time. It's a shame, cause I do absolutely love "How to Fight"/"Viral Hit" whatever the title is these days, but this author's other works just don't work for me at all. The story is ok, if you like manager kim or lookism, you should probably like this too. There's references here and there to the other in-universe stories by this author. Oh, um.. the translation ranges from ok to "I wish these were translated by someone else". For some reason this author's works attract translation teams who may be great with korean but barely able to string two sentences together in english. It's definitely not word-salad level of bad when it gets bad, but not what I'd term good either. The art as always is brilliant! Never got any complaints about the art.
Villain initialization
A villain ends up time traveling back to when he was a kid, and all his loved ones are still alive, and his reasons for becoming a villain don't really exist. You laugh, you cry and you get giddy over the friendships that are the core to this story. It's so much fun, the art is amazing, and I'm sad it ended. Absolutely recommend! The complicated relationship between these two arch enemies is complicated but SO well written! I wish the translation was better, it's passable for the most part, but I can't help knowing that I'm probably missing some of the deeper meaning because it's not great. BUT even so, I still recommend reading this. It's so fucking good.
Actually, I was the Real One