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This season is a massive downgrade from the first season. I tolerated the degeneracy of last season by just skipping through all of the slop and softcore porn. But I guess the writers realized the people who buy the most merch are the people with the most brain rot, and decided to replace well thought out and at least entertaining fights with porn. Don't get me wrong season 1 wasn't some deep masterpiece, it was entertaining, it had cool fights and cringey but fun lines. This season though lacks any of the self awareness of the last and is entirely just pandering. Really dissapointing.

I would argue that this is genuinely the worst manhwa ever written, because unlike other trash manhwa, this actually starts out good and sets your expectations high. I am extremely curious as too what kind of mental breakdown or psychosis the author had while writing this, because it transitions from a gritty story about a person overcoming challenges, to nonsensical insanity, with character's personalities changing spontaneously, and with major plot points and random shifts in tone and relationships being shoved into 1-2 chapter long sequences. I really can't put into words how much I hate this manhwa, not dislike, but truely despise, because it promises ... so much yet seemingly randomly just becomes incomprehensibly bad. At first, it appears as if there is no sense of "karma" within the story. I think this aids the story originally; its certainly unique to see a story where bad people are not punished at all and where good deeds are essentially irrelevant. Yes its annoying at times, but I liked the originality at first. At a certain point, though, what you start to realize is that it's not that there isn't karma, but that there's actually negative karma in this manhwa. The story ignores plot holes and induces sudden shifts in character's personalities, circumstances, and the world's logic as a whole in order to as brutally punish people for acting good, and reward as excessively as possible people for acting bad. This is the primary reason I think the author had a mental breakdown writing this, because it feels like the world is a manifestation of the author feeling sorry for themselves irl, and wanting to write a story about someone being unrealistically abused so that they can say THIS IS LITERALLY ME, when the reality is that the things that happen to the MC genuinely do not make sense and would never happen, not because "life isn't cruel", but because people don't randomly 180 their personalities and values. I can't go into specifics since I don't want to spoil this garbage for people who like torturing themselves, so I'll just finish by saying that this manhwa is a manifestation of pure self-pity, and was written so that an author who clearly has misunderstood their own irl circumstances could console themselves by pretending things like this happen.

Having read the webcomic, I came into the season with mixed feelings. The ending few arcs of the webcomic are known to be wildly inconsistent in quality, and as there isn't much content left to adapt, I was curious how the anime would approach it. Unfortunately, the production team seems to have prioritized elongating the filler aspects of the show, instead of trying to elongate the higher-quality portions or adding anything original. I understand why to an extent, as forcefully trying to drag out the high points of the show might ruin the entire season all together, but frankly I personally would have perferred a ... 6 episode OVA to what is essentially 80% filler. The telepathy arc is probably the worst arc in the webcomic, and this was reflected in the show. I remember reading through that arc in the webcomic as quickly as a I could because it involves characters we have almost 0 attachment too, yet pretends that we've cared about them all this time. The divine tree arc climaxed well, but it just feels hollow compared to previous seasons and how it felt in the webcomic. The tension of the show just doesn't feel built up properly, with mob's internal dialogue not having very much complexity, and action taking a backseat for, as of now, all but 2 or so episodes. I trust that the final arc will deliver, but frankly the current season just feels... lukewarm, as if most of it could have been omitted and nothing would be lost. I don't hate this season, but it genuinely just evokes no emotion from me.

This manga is weird for me because even though I know, logically, it's not good, I just find the story to be so entertaining. I can't really explain why without spoiling, so spoilers ahead. Basically, the manga is about an eldritch god who just was living as a human, and just so happened to be pulled into another world. It's a really stupid but amusing concept, and what ends up happening is that you have this weird sort of interaction between a bunch of goofy isekai protagonists with anime character abilities facing off against like azathoth. It's just sort of entertaining to see. The manga ... makes a point of mocking basically everything that it can about isekai, and constantly raising the stakes with more and more idiotically op abilites (like reading fate, or being able to devour universes) just for all of these characters to be obliterated. Suprisingly, the cosmology of the world is actually pretty interesting, at least from what I've seen of the manga and bits of the light novel. There's really not much else to say, read 10 chapters and if you don't like it by then you won't like it. I read it, thought it was alright, but for some reason couldn't stop thinking of it... Idk, something about it just clicks with me.

This is the first manhwa I've read that genuinely has a good story, and isn't just "I'm bored so I'll read some wish fufillment garbage with an op guy" (looking at you solo leveling). The characters and their dynamics are genuinely interesting, and though some of the arcs were a bit slow, the world building of it is really quite well done. The art is pretty cool, matches any other top manhwa so nothing incredible but good enough to feel enthralling when it needs to. Protagonist has some interesting struggles and interactions with side characters beyond the cliche garbage I've come to expect from webtoons, ... and it feels like several of the side characters could easily be protagonists for their own stories, which is proof of a good story imo. Definently recommend this, the first few chapters in my opinion were pretty dull, but things pick up pretty fast and stay consistently good, with only one real rough patch occuring around 50 chapters in that lasts about 5-10 chapters.

I'll just say upfront that the target demographic for this show is 11-14 year olds, and it does not stray outside of that at all. I personally do not belong to this demographic, and as such I found especially the comedic portions of the show to be unwatchable. To give you an idea of the kind of jokes the show uses, one of the best jokes in the series is when a bird which is meant to help the hero escape danger actually grabs his balls instead of say his hand when he tries to fly away. If that made you chuckle give the show ... a go. If not avoid it. I've heard that in the original chinese its quite good, and that a lot is lost in translation. I honestly doubt it, but if so than the ability of the translaters to make me not care about the characters at all, to destory any sort of worldbuilding, nuance, consistent (or good for that matter) fight scenes, etc, should be commended. The voice acting sucks, the music is fine, the animation is pretty cool, but thats it.

I refuse to believe the people giving this good ratings are real, they have to be bots. I genuinely don't see how anyone could give this above a 4 and that is insanely generous. This show is literally just a way, way worse version of The Misfit of Demon King Academy, which is already bad. This dude literally just does the most op stuff imaginable, with garbage music playing and incredibly shoddy animation, and everyone around him just acts like their blind and ignores it??? It really makes no sense, the show has no merits. Even if you try and watch this show while skipping ... through until the fight scenes its bad. He's also got this girl whos obsessed with him for no reason besides wish fufillment... don't even get me started this show doesn't deserve a comprehensive breakdown. Even as a trash show you watch to kill time, I would not recommend it.