Feb 18, 2025
Trolololololololololololo - hahahahaah.
Everyone probably knows the term ‘troll’. In video games, they are mainly there to make life difficult for other players or even to take away any enjoyment of the game and find their own perverse entertainment in it. In short: they never had a father.
Apart from that, the idea of turning this concept into a manhwa (Korean manga) amazed me. I had no idea how it would work, but it could definitely be exciting! Spoiler: Not really.
‘Game Choegang Troller’ or “World's Strongest Troll” is about a player who keeps appearing in some of the most popular games to become number 1 in the
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global ranking, only to delete the game afterwards. Is that enough to label him a ‘troll’? Not really in my opinion, but at least some of the characters think so. So one day, when the first real virtual reality game appears - a game in which you are 100% immersed by connecting your brain to it - of course he has to try it out. Due to some unusual actions - he reads 100 books, for example - he receives a quest and the secret class ‘Bard of Anarchy’, with which he cannot level up or otherwise become stronger, but he can earn points by creating chaos and use them to change the world like a creator god.
Let's start from the beginning, I've already hinted at it, but there's not really a ‘troll’ here. The protagonist is a bit of an arse, of course, but who isn't a bit of an arse towards other people? He doesn't go around setting fire to villages because he can ruin other players' fun, instead he has a strategic reason or a quest that doesn't give him much choice.
Thus, a rather typical ‘bastard protagonist’ story develops very quickly, in which the protagonist is a bit of an anti-villain. He grins evilly or takes revenge as brutally as possible, but that's nothing new, we've seen enough of that before. At least the protagonist is not the 910191 clone of Sung Jin-Woo - the protagonist from Solo Leveling, whose success triggered a flood of similar mangas/manhwas.
Overall, I would describe ‘World's Strongest Troll’ as ok. It's fun, but very generic and the title is misleading. If you read any of the other thousands of manhwas in this class (there's no name for them, so I don't know what to call them), you'll quickly see parallels. Apart from the uncreative content, I would have liked the title to be different or for it to be more about real trolling.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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