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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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Feb 15, 2025
A little bit back... a little further... yes further..... FURTHER!
‘Proud To Be The Villainess: I'm Doomed After Stealing My Half-Sister's Fiancé And Having Her Banished’ feels a bit like someone constantly shouting “keep going backwards” while someone else parks in reverse. Because: a grand plan is revealed here by showing dozens of flashbacks.
When Wellmy's mother marries a nobleman and she not only gets a father, but also a big sister, she can hardly believe her luck! But she soon witnesses her parents mistreating her beloved sister. She simply cannot bear it and decides to save her sibling. However, because she is powerless against her parents,
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she decides to disguise her plan as bullying and at the same time accepts that her beloved sister hates her.
An interesting idea, the classic ‘otome game (Japanese love game, better google the term, it would take 30 lines to explain it) antagonist’ in a different way, but how is that supposed to work?
The manga demands a huge leap of faith right at the beginning. It wants you to believe that Wellmy really had no choice but to disguise her rescue as bullying. This is never really explained and feels a little strange, but it's easy to ignore.
What follows, however, is a work that is written in a very interesting way. ‘Interesting’ because it has a unique way of telling the story. It begins with the ‘revelation’, i.e. the moment when Wellmy's plan is finalised and all the accusations are thrown at her, which normally leads to the antagonist's downfall. Not a page goes by without some kind of flashback. Flashbacks that summarise so many years in just a few drawings that they seem like expedition dumps that are often rather difficult to understand. Imagine ‘Poppy's Playtime’ notes and videotapes strung together as a film. It's damn uncomfortable to read and feels like one of those ‘modern novels’ you read at A-level or even university.
Yet the manga works - somehow. I have no idea why, but even though it feels like swallowing large, sometimes sharp-edged stones, it's fascinating. In fact, the manga manages to grab the reader to the extent that you just want to know how Wellmy's crazy plan turns out. Probably mainly because you do feel sorry for Wellmy, her fate began to interest me. The art style is also striking and I liked it.
In the end, I would only recommend ‘Proud To Be The Villainess: I'm Doomed After Stealing My Half-Sister's Fiancé And Having Her Banished’ to a handful of people, those who really like such ‘otome game’ stories or modern books.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 6, 2025
Forced to love someone in order to get home... No, this is not a horror or dystopian film, this is a romance manhwa!
Revived in the world of a book, the protagonist must defeat the tower. With knowledge of the story and the ability to be revived at the starting point, she finally beats the tower after her 58th attempt! After living through 57 times of her friends getting killed and people cheating on her, she is extremely jaded and only likes the three deities that have been with her as contractors for most of her lives. So when FINALLY the final reward is handed out
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and she's supposed to be sent back to her world, there's a bug and instead she ends up in a romance novel... will she ever get home?
In my brief summary, I have tried very hard to concentrate on the positive aspects of the manhwa. The three deities are witty commentators, and the harsh, direct manner of the protagonist doesn't seem to fit this world at all. After all, while she fulfilled quest after quest for over 500 years by defeating monsters, the current ones now revolve around romance! So she has to find ways and means of coping with her battle-influenced nature and character traits in this very unsuitable setting. For example, instead of throwing romantic glances, she prefers to knock out the male protagonists and is thus admired for her strength.
Unfortunately, the manhwa soon takes a route that I don't like at all. As I said, it was fun to see the protagonist completing the quests and ‘seducing’ others, even though she has absolutely NO desire for any human relationship and really just wants to go home to her dog. However, this fun ends very quickly when our S-class hunter also starts to fall in love with the characters. Instead of funny situations in which she has to somehow become popular with rolled eyes, we get the classic ‘damn I love you, don't love you. Damn I like you, I DON'T LIKE YOU!'. An endless back and forth about what her feelings are, who she likes or doesn't like and whether she might not want to go home after all develops, which might still be tolerable (even if I would have complained about it).
It became really critical for me when her quests were no longer ‘improve your social standing’ or ‘make the prince fall in love with you’, but ‘fall in love with character X’. Not only is the mission just stupid, love shouldn't and can't be forced like that, but any chance of there being any funny scenes like the one mentioned earlier disappeared. A ‘damn I love you, don't love you. I fucking like you, I DON'T LIKE YOU!’ after the other until I was completely fed up.
The story had potential, but for me it killed itself.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 6, 2025
‘Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story’ was recommended to me as a rather atypical ‘ reincarnated as a villain story’ - OMG A MANHWA TITLE THAT MIGHT MAKE SENSE?!
Manhwa (Korean manga), manga or anime have the stupid habit of giving themselves names that are far too long and often inappropriate despite or because of this. That's not the case here, which is the first HUGE plus point.
Apart from that, we accompany Edith Rigelhof here, whose soul has of course been resurrected from another world. Remaining tropes are also fulfilled - for example, she knows the book and so wants to make everything better or everyone hates
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her as the villain of the story. But the hope of being able to make everything better is quickly dashed: a mysterious force pushes the other characters and also Edith into the course of the story! But apparently this force is not omnipotent - so will Edith manage to defeat it?
So what exactly is unusual about this story? Roughly speaking, EVERYTHING. What starts out as just copying all the tropes of the genre soon gets more and more twists, big and small, which quickly makes the story feel unique. E.g.: The mysterious force that pushes the story into its course is nothing unusual in such works. But Edith soon realises that there is a person with an ego behind the force. But who? A ‘fight against fate’ quickly turns into a ‘fight against an unknown enemy’. Edith is also simply another special feature. Normally in such works we get planning protagonists who use their knowledge to mould the world to their will. Edith tries to do this at first, but it soon becomes clear that she is a very emotional character. As a result, the story develops not because she planned it that way, but because she was simply a nice, emotional person. Instead of ‘I know the story, I can fix it’ out of thin air, we get so many emotional moments here where it just makes sense for characters to help Edith.
The only criticism, which for me is very serious, is the system behind the power mentioned above, which is not dealt with in detail. For example, the protagonist has to fulfil three conditions in order to break the influence of the person mentioned, but she has no idea of the conditions except that they exist, which means she only has the choice of stumbling into them by accident. Obviously this ‘I'm the protagonist, I accidentally fulfil everything important’ comes across as annoying, although admittedly there's a bit more to it than that, which I won't spoil. This unawareness runs through the entire manhwa. Every time this power plays a role, the protagonist has no idea and the reader has far too little to fully understand the scenarios. This is always annoying, also because the power plays an increasingly important role in the later chapters and seems more and more unnecessary or even like breaks with the actual plot.
All in all, my praise may seem rather meaningless to people who are not so familiar with the genre or type of story. It's great that a ‘fight against fate’ quickly turns into something else, but how is that special? Well, because ‘Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story’ just starts out so typical and consistently very self-consciously and seemingly intentionally adapts and then slightly breaks with typical tropes of such stories, you get something familiar that still feels new and refreshing. Compare it to a pizza: you'll have eaten pepperoni pizza far too many times to find it extremely tasty, but then you enter this one restaurant that makes it slightly different and suddenly you have a new taste experience. Apart from that, the manhwa as a whole, especially the characters, is simply well written.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 30, 2025
As the twin of the Talented Mage (?) and the next head of the house, Riarte has to deal with the hatred of her family. One day she is to be beheaded as a kind of sacrifice for her brother, but a spirit king sends her back to the past...
To be honest, I'm quite divided when it comes to ‘I Was The Real Owner Of Elheim’. I can summarise the majority of my opinion in a few sentences: It's just one of those classic ‘protagonist was mistreated and is now reborn and wants a better life’ stories that are so generic that they can only
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become interesting again with a good twist.
This work has such a twist, even if it is difficult to describe. Because the focus is shifted a little. Because Riarte has been locked up all her life, she only knows fractions of the future that is supposed to happen. So she can't really trust her knowledge and has to feel her way carefully and uncertainly through world history. This actually makes the story feel different, even if I don't know if I like it. Because this lack of knowledge and uncertainty affects the entire manhwa, there is hardly a place, hardly a moment, where I fully understood what was going on: there is no reasonable explanation for most things. This makes it difficult for me as a reader to understand situations or the world in general. For example, there seem to be three noble families with magic, but it is never explained further. In one family, it is implied that their ancestor has inherited a special contract, but whether this applies to other families, whether there are forms of magic that can be learnt as an outsider or what exactly these different magics actually are is only hinted at at best. So it runs through every scene, every character, every moment of the story, every part of the world, every aspect of the book really. It's subtle, but it quickly got on my nerves. Mainly because I just feel stupid that I don't fully understand everything. But maybe I'm stupid, maybe it's explained somewhere and I've overlooked it? That's why I'm so conflicted here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 19, 2025
A double life is too easy - how about your triple or quadruple life?
The ( somewhat) nameless protagonist of ‘The Academy's Undercover Professor’ must have thought something like that. We don't learn much about him, only that he influenced the world under a few different names. Be it as the ace of an army, a feared master thief or an incredible monster hunter. However, this life now seems to catch up with him when his disguise is destroyed and he has to spontaneously assume the identity of an acquaintance who died in the same attack that destroyed his disguise. To avoid being discovered, he has
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to take on a job as a professor at the best academy in the country and soon realises that both the school and the professor he is now impersonating have some secrets.
Even though it's just one of many names, the protagonist is usually called Professor Lupen, so that's what I'm going to call him here.
To be honest, I don't know if I even need to do that, because I don't have much to write on the topic. The manhwa works for me because the professor, for all his idiosyncrasies, does have a heart for his students and research and so is often caught in a dilemma between his secret goal and his passion for the job. I particularly liked his passion, which often made him appear fatherly and thus won him many friends.
Unfortunately, I have to criticise the 1917191 double lifes that Lupen has here. Everything feels a bit flimsy because there are so many secrets and ambiguities that you're always unsure whether you're understanding everything correctly. So it never feels completely satisfying when one of the 8905449 questions is answered and it's hard to get into the story, precisely because there are so many uncertainties and it's unsure which direction the characters and story are going in.
In conclusion, I would like to emphasise that this feels like Swiss cheese. It's quite tasty, but if you have one too many bites, you'll come across holes that just pile up with the bites. 7 out of 10 potato points.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 16, 2025
If there's one thing I'm familiar with as a German, it's 2 front wars... but even I pale at the ‘only front war’ from ‘The Executed Sage Who Was Reincarnated As A Lich And Started An All-Out War’!
‘DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR?’, the author of this manga must have thought, and so here we have a demon king who goes to total war. At least he pretends to.
After defeating the previous demon king, the sage Dwight and his lover and heroine are executed. Out of love for the heroine, Dwight does not fight back, because she cannot harm the people she saved. So after
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their bodies are thrown into a ravine, Dwight realises that he is kind of REALLY angry and so he binds his soul to his skeleton. 10 years later, he climbs the ravine and declares war on the (human) world!
That's how I would summarise the purely good aspects of the manga. However, the new demon king Dwight has a secret: in reality, he is only inciting the human nations to stop fighting each other and unite against a great enemy - him. In this way, he is trying to carry out the will of his deceased lover, who wanted to lead the world into an era of peace.
A lot actually happens on this ‘character level’ and I would like to emphasise a lot of it positively. Dwight's character in particular is quite fascinating - he is split between his desire for revenge, his doubts as a former sage and hero and his feelings towards his lover. This doubt plays an important part in the story, as his new friends always have his back. For example, one of them manages to make the undead taste again, which makes him incredibly happy.
While such moments are absolutely positive, Dwight's character is also the manga's biggest weakness. The constant doubting, especially the self-pity that often accompanies the doubts, is a constant thorn in the side, which occurs again and again during the blatant ‘HAHAHAH I'M AGAINST THE WORLD COME HERE YOU LITTLE MISCREATIONS! scenes. It mostly seems out of place, unfounded and as I said, it's just annoying. Especially because many of his enemies are just human scum - for example, here we have a priestess who actively turns the desperate population of a town into red and pink fireworks and takes perverse pleasure in doing so... Dwight NATURALLY falls into his doubts, even though he actually wanted to get such people out of the way in order to achieve his peace.
To summarise, I can say that ‘The Executed Sage Who Was Reincarnated As A Lich And Started An All-Out War’ delivers an interesting story that really has its moments. The characters, especially the protagonist Dwight, are a double-edged sword that provide both welcome variety and annoying distraction. The manga is also quite short with around 50 chapters and it feels like it takes ages to get new chapters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 6, 2025
OH MY GOD HE HATES ME MIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMI....
if you keep up the “MIMIMI” for at least 45 chapters, you'll have a near perfect impression of “Everything Was A Mistake”.
If you read a lot of manga/manhwa/manhua... or watch a lot of anime, you already know the premise here: girl has read a book and is reborn as the antagonist who dies. A simple concept, but it can work well.
In “Everything was a mistake”, our protagonist Roa Valrose, who is reborn as the antagonist of a book, makes a mistake, as the name suggests, and thus inadvertently befriends the purely evil Nocton Edgar. He even kills Valrose -
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at least in the book she once read. Now she's trying to distance herself from him, but something seems odd...
It's pretty obvious, so I'll say it here: the aforementioned true evil Edgar has of course developed differently than in the book because of their relationship and even loves the protagonist, but stupidly he never dared to approach Valrose because of a really horrible past - torture by his mother among other things. Now it's too late, because with her memories intact, she refuses to listen to her childhood friend.
Now a seemingly tragic romance develops in which Edgar tries to somehow get closer to Valrose. But no matter what he does, she no longer trusts him.
And that is EXTREMELY annoying. Especially because he admits his mistakes and starts doing things that she would have accepted as an excuse just a moment before. He poisons himself, risks being burned as a witch or finally calls her by her first name - a chapter earlier Valrose had mentioned this as a condition for forgiving him, but quite coincidentally she has now received more information, misinterpreted it and so this is no longer enough for her.
Perhaps one could still find a certain charm in this tragic story if it didn't seem so stupid that the protagonist always just happens to decide shortly beforehand that she no longer accepts certain actions as an excuse. It feels a bit like the two of them are running in a hamster wheel while the real culprits poison their food and they blame each other because they are too focused on their shitty hamster wheel and don't really speak out or try to run anywhere other than the hamster wheel.
However, that wasn't the only reason why I abandoned the manhwa. Unfortunately, I only had a really catastrophic version with poor quality available, which consisted of nothing but pixel mush and incorrect translations from Chapter 30 onwards. That quickly robbed me of the last of my patience with the manhwa.
Bottom line: If you're the type of person who truly enjoys love stories and can overlook all the stupid coincidences and missed decisions, if you can look at the tragic love story in Romeo and Juliet and somehow ignore the stupid, inane actions of all the characters, then you might enjoy this. I, however, think Romeo, Juliet and 90% of the other characters are dumber than monkeys, so reading this was a mistake... you get it? It was all a mistake... i am so funny.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Nov 27, 2024
YOU STUPID BASTARDS WHY ARE THE LITTLE PISSANTS STILL ALIVE RAAAAAAR!!!!!!
That's how the protagonist of 'Damn Reincarnation' reacted when he found out that his old comrades didn't keep their promise to really put EVERY demon king under the ground. Once part of the hero squad, he saved his best friend's life by throwing himself in front of him and perished himself. His last words were a promise between him and his comrades that they would definitely remove the last two demon kings from the face of the earth!
Unexpectedly, the protagonist now wakes up 300 years later as the distant heir of his former friend and
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hero. Now known as 'Eugene', he not only retained his knowledge and extremely stoic character, but also inherited the powerful genes of his friend and hero. Nevertheless, it makes him EXTREMELY angry to learn that his comrades did not keep their promise. So he sets himself the goal of finding out what the heck happened that they not only didn't keep their promise, but also simply disappeared about 200 years ago.
After this somewhat lengthy description, I'd like to take the wind out of your sails right away: The mahwa is pretty darn good, but it hasn't gotten any updates since December last year, and there hasn't been any news on what's going on since then. Obviously, I can't recommend a story like this and obviously this also lowers my rating extremely.
That's why I want to keep my praise short, because otherwise this will end in whining about why such an interesting project was (apparently) abandoned. Since I'm extremely interested in history I found it extremely fascinating that the protagonist does a bit of archaeology. Don't get me wrong, he's not digging up old ruins, but he's looking for clues about the past and following the path of his old comrades. In doing so, he rediscovers old graves or secrets, for example.
At the same time, we have a rather classic 'OP protagonist comes out of nowhere and convinces everyone of himself' story here, which becomes funny mainly due to the rather rough, stoic and honest character of the protagonist.
Conclusion: This could easily have gotten 8 out of 10 points, but I'm reducing it to 4 out of 10 due to the extremely long break without any news. My only reason for this is really the break, which probably shows how unfortunate I actually find the whole thing.
Small note: There seems to be a 'light novel' (aka a book with pictures every 50 pages) which is completed. So if you're interested in reading this, maybe you can give it a chance if it's available somewhere - I'll think about it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Nov 27, 2024
OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO HOMO EROTIC ... or something.
That's exactly what I thought when I read the title of “The Villainess, Cecilia Silvie, Doesn't Want To Die, So She Decided To Cross-Dress!”. Obviously, I was expecting some boys to be into the other boy, who is actually a girl - but thankfully that doesn't happen.
I can tell you that because unfortunately I had about 8 hours of 'free time' and couldn't do anything else in that time except look at my cell phone. So I read this out of utter boredom, even if it's about kissing men, I could just stop again!
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Instead, this is the story of a rather clumsy young woman who is destined to die. She's revived as the antagonist of an otome game (i.e. one of those 'innocent protagonist arrives at school and is romanced by all the men if she makes the right choices' games), who dies in litrally every route (depending on which boy the protagonist goes for, we're talking different 'routes') - so she decides to avoid all the trouble by disguising herself as a boy, as this way she can avoid becoming the target of her various potential killers in the first place. However, as the viewer, but not Cecilia, the protagonist of the story, soon realizes, the plan backfires on all levels.
Unfortunately, you have to admit that this type of story is no longer rare, I've only reviewed one here. And to be honest, that's also the biggest criticism of the manga. The setting seems extremely generic at first - apart from my fear that it would develop into KISSING MEN. Unfortunately, it also starts out rather generic.
But soon a story develops that seems more like a parody of the various genres that play into it. Instead of a calculating, all-knowing and planning protagonist, Cecilia is scatterbrained and accidentally lets everything get out of hand, underlining this with wonderfully exaggerated facial expressions that always make you smile. Instead of the 'prince charming' that all the women fall in love with, we get a woman in disguise playing her 'prince charming', which makes all the women fall in love with her, while some guys keep telling her that she's just acting weird - the irony behind it was kind of delicious. It goes on and on and the story keeps the reader on their toes with (for the genre) unexpectedplot twists, which I don't really want to spoil here.
Finally, I would like to praise how long the chapters are. Despite a meagre 24 chapters, I sat with it for about 3 hours, which is a lot for a manga/manhwa/manhua.
Summary: If you're not averse to such stories, I can recommend “The Villainess, Cecilia Silvie, Doesn't Want To Die, So She Decided To Cross-Dress!” as an unusual adaptation of the idea of 'reincarnated as an antagonist in an otome game', but this is by no means a manga I would recommend outside of that description. Accordingly, I give it an average of 6 out of 10 points, even though I can't really criticize much, my praise is also rather meager.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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