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Jul 19, 2024
*Minor Spoilers*
[Introduction]
Before I begin, I want to state that Eleceed is a manhwa with wholesome moments and hilarious comedy tidbits. Reading it can be enjoyable. Nevertheless, I feel like sharing some of its poor story-related elements since every other review here on MAL does not overview Eleceed's negative parts in great detail.
[Main Character]
To start, let us tackle its main character, Jiwoo. In fighting stories, you almost always have a protagonist who grows as they experience adversity. In Eleceed, however, Jiwoo's personality never changes, even after experiencing torture, abduction, fights, and more. No matter what happens to him, he remains a wholesome, angelic fluffball of positive
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energy. During slice-of-life moments, his personality is great. He feeds stray cats, hangs out with friends, and more. However, seriously speaking, you would imagine his personality to shift after everything he goes through.
[Plot Convenience Part 1 - Overarching Master]
Moving on, Eleceed features an overarching master who mentors Jiwoo. While I will not elaborate much on this individual, they essentially ruin all the tension in the story. When Jiwoo wants to become stronger, the master provides top-tier assistance. When Jiwoo finds himself in difficult situations, the master always arrives to save the day. When Jiwoo becomes terminally injured with an incurable condition, the master uses his connections to save him. Because of the presence of Jiwoo's master, no conflict ever feels serious since we, as readers, always know everything will turn out alright. Moreover, because of the master, the author often gets away with creating hopelessly impossible scenarios since he knows he can resolve any situation conveniently through the master.
[Plot Convenience Part 2 - Befriending Enemies]
Earlier, I mentioned the main character being a bundle of positive energy. The author uses said energy to befriend almost every enemy that appears after a fight. When Jiwoo fights a neighborhood kid, they become friends a few chapters later. When Jiwoo spars against a school bully, they become pals later. Etc, etc, you get the point. For whatever reason, most enemies become allies after they fight the protagonist to help him fight greater enemies.
[Plot Convenience Part 3 - Forced Plotlines With Idiotic Explanations]
Eleceed has a lot of events that severely buff Jiwoo's opposition with impossibly ridiculous advantages for seemingly outlandish reasons. A blatant example of this is when one of the world's top experts fails to prevent an assault, all because they forgot their battle animal at home (and became useless as a result). Later, they explained that the animal was too expensive to maintain, which is an absurd excuse considering their obligation to protect many students under them. Besides this, there are many other instances of forced plotlines with useless explanations, but I will not cover them since it is hard to describe them without spoiling much of the story.
[Formulation Part 1 - Action Arcs]
Building off my second plot convenience part, I want to explain Eleceed's formula for action arcs (not including arcs with conflict directly against the main antagonists). Personally, this story's weakest part is the fact that it often recycles the same story-line that goes:
1. Jiwoo and his buds have opposition.
2. Each side trash talks and banters to add fuel to the fire of their conflict.
3. Both sides spar.
4. After fighting, the main cast are the winners overall.
5. Both sides power up through training.
5. When new opposition appears, both sides join together to fight back.
6. The same cycle repeats on a larger scale.
[Formulation Part 2 - Main Character Battles]
Beyond action arc recycling, Eleceed also uses formulation for Jiwoo's battles. Of course, not every battle follows obvious formulas, but most essentially follow three paths:
{If the enemy is stronger yet not overpowered}
0. ^ Happens every action arc
1. Enemy underestimates Jiwoo.
2. Jiwoo goes on a mini-training arc.
3. Jiwoo fights the enemy and seems to be worse off.
4. Jiwoo charges his one-shot move against the enemy and wins.
{If the enemy is weaker}
1. Jiwoo beats them up and wins.
{If the enemy is overpowered and cocky}
1. Jiwoo is beaten hard.
2. Jiwoo charges his one-shot move, and the enemy accepts it with open arms.
3. The enemy is affected, compliments the one-shot move, and keeps fighting.
4. The master intervenes to save Jiwoo.
[Conclusion]
I have more points I could cover, but to be genuinely honest, this review has taken 3 hours to write, and I am out of motivation to keep writing. In short, consider these points before deciding to pick up this story:
- Eleceed often leverages plot convenience to contrive unrealistic scenarios.
- The main character has an unrealistically optimistic personality.
- Arcs often follow predictable formulas.
For those expecting a well-written, look elsewhere since better stories exist. This story has good comedy and wholesomeness, so if you are interested in its slice-of-life aspects, perhaps this is worth reading. You can check out the other Eleceed reviews if you want more elaboration on stuff like that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 25, 2023
Spoiler warning: first few chapters are covered in the review, read at your own digression.
Generic Korean isekai story. The mc reincarnates after dying from OP antagonist. In his second life he wants to become strong to seek revenge. He has an op cheat ring, system, powerful demon king as a pet, and "genius" level talent, the list goes on. He is treated terribly in his first life so he has the "mentality" to push through any challenge even when he has no stamina left. Every time he suffers, he gains buffs to his stats for enduring. As for his new life? It's also generic. His
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new family is a powerful noble clan. His mother is pitiful but loving, the patriarch is a typical father-tsundere, and the nobles look down on him and treat him as an outcast. He has an early rival (the direct bloodline) and an early fmc. All the other characters don't really matter. As a carbon-copy isekai, the execution is an 8/10. After dozens of factory made reincarnation stories, authors have become fluent and experienced at meshing together cliques. However, there are still better stories like D*mn Reincarnation. As a fleshed out experience? The actual story is a 1/10, nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, I filled my isekai bingo sheet within 10 chapters.
Conclusion: Read it if you like isekai? Idk.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Sep 6, 2023
Unless you really enjoy romance animes, or don't mind bad writing, this show isn't for you.
First and foremost, the plot sucks. No amount of beautiful animation and "wholesomeness" can deny this fact. The story is incredibly generic. The mc is a poor, abandoned, and helpless girl who lost her mother when she was young, getting bullied by her father, step-mother, and step-sister for not developing "supernatural talents". Then, when her family "abandons her" by sending her to get married to a brutal womanizer, he turns out to be a strong, beautiful, talented, caring, tsundere prince.
After she meets him to get "married", she acts as
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a selfless servant who apologizes after every word she speaks as if she were a starved, abandoned baby dog. However, as she realizes her husband is actually "good", unlike everyone else in her life, she starts to feel he'll eventually abandon her too.
Because of this, the story is incredibly frustrating and illogical to watch in my opinion. The entire premise forcefully feeds us the fact that the mc is incredibly pitiful, and her husband is a "perfect prince" to rescue her from her plight.
Also, the scenarios in the story are incredibly dumb, for example, the mc just "happens" to forget her protective amulet the moment she's about to be kidnapped. Like, could it be any more obvious that the story wants her to be kidnapped for the sake of it's plot? Besides this, the characters are incredibly one-dimensional, the mc is pitiful, her friends and husband are gentle and caring, and everyone else is a vile snake. Lastly, the world building in the show is terrible. Half way through the show and we still haven't seen what a spirit looks like, how supernatural abilities work, etc.
In conclusion, the story is a generic knight saving princess story that poorly uses a magical setting to very obviously forcefully drive the plot in the most obvious and stupid directions. If you realize this and still like the show, then perhaps the story fits your tastes, however, I believe from a perspective of whether a show is good or not, this story fails to show any good qualities.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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May 25, 2023
The story is about the Mc's journey from zero to hero as he receives a broken, one of a kind class that allows him, an idiotic, dislikable, yet 'tenacious' loser to become the strongest individual in a game. Unlike most manhwas, the Mc makes good allies, builds his own empire, and overall matures as an individual to become respected amongst his peers.
Despite this, the story fails to branch out from your generic leveling manhwa, as the power scaling is completely broken leaving readers with little investment in it's fights. Every other chapter there are fodder enemies created to simply die to the mc and
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his crew. Also, some characters get completely overpowered simply because of the fact that they are close to the mc for 'plot convenience'. An example of this is the Mc's sister who obtains one of the greatest classes in the game after playing for no more than 1 hour. She gains this class because of her 'KINDNESS TO OTHERS', completely ruining the game's progression system of working hard to become better. His sister is only one of many examples of broken powerups simply to increase the Mc's glory as the greatest player. As a result, the story goes downhill the longer you read it, becoming more repetitive and boring after your investment in the world fades away.
Conclusion: A bad story riddled with unnecessary plot holes that ruin your reading experience, since the main characters could undergo a 10x powerup in one chapter, or gain no power in 10, the story quickly becomes just another 'power fantasy manhwa' after the novelty of the first few chapters fades away. However, if you like the level of story presented in normal power fantasies, this story is probably a must read.
Side note: The art is pretty good since it is drawn by members of the same team that drew solo leveling. Despite this, the art isn't as great as solo leveling's and is no greater that what you see in your average manhwa nowadays.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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