Reading the synopsis apparently she disappears, comes back different, pushes mc away but also wants him?? And reading the comments here apparently she's also irritable/tiring (making it painful to read) and may lose the spotlight to another girl in the end.

No way I'm reading this, she sounds like a mixed-signal-laden irrational TSUNdere (emphasis on tsun), I hope this fictional character gets replaced and I haven't even read any of this (imagine the shame of getting replaced in your own manhwa titled after you, lol).

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I thought Yujin may have saved their entire civilization and became some sort of legendary hero that will be told of for all generations.

I thought MC's behavior was pretty normal considering all that he's been through, I'm sure he thinks differently but that's more of a "traumatized prodigy" thing to me than signs of autism.

His extremely rough upbringing (mentored starting at age 4 by an empathy-lacking mage, he was a war orphan previously), and being betrayed by who he trusted most may mean he has some kind of mental block due to the seeming contradiction of his caretaker (meant to love, nurture, and protect) and savior attempting to murder him. That said he's never had a normal life (therefore lacking in common sense) and the furthering of his trauma may have permanently cemented his positive "better the world" way of thinking.

I like to think the first chapters were weak on purpose, but I could just be coping as I haven't read them in forever and they only seemed generic at worst to me. I agree however that MC starts out as a sad loser who waited until an opportunity fell into his lap, however you'll see that he grows beyond that and the traumatic experience he inflicted on himself will come up again later. I don't think you'll be disappointed reading further though and I'm glad that you will, later arcs are so good.

And maybe the earlier chapters were the result of the author being a little too new to make a proper introduction (ngl, still don't know), still I'm thinking it was somehow all intentional, I mean, how could I not think that when after reading 151 chapters I saw this as a peak 10/10 manhwa?

If the zombies aren't cute monster girl ones I'd dislike it too, maybe the imps might be cute if they're anything like Midna from Twilight Princess (especially fanarts). Yeah, I'd abandon an account if all my summons were visibly rotting or exceptionally ugly (since it'd be just a game to me).

I'm not against just accepting it if it's a fantasy race I like (just slightly annoying not getting any variety I guess), I can easily see the appeal in all-dwarves (cool beared short men and muscular women) or all elves (graceful elven women and a range of lithe to feminine elven men), skeletons/orcs/goblins seem kind of funny/memey to play too. Also, just considering it now it might not be that bad to have a gross 1 race only account since you could probably reach a point where you could simply raid old abandoned accounts for new units now and then.

And considering your hypothesis, maybe? People generally show favoritism towards their favorite units in tactical RPGs (I do, I'm basically only supporting my Disgaea 5 female Armor Knight), wouldn't be surprising if they play suboptimally purposefully. Though I still wouldn't be surprised if any of their accounts' worlds one fantasy race wiped out most of the others and they simply don't have the variety to be anything but thematic.

Does this get better after chapter 57? I find the oregon trail moments frustrating and unnecessary, it seems to be used to set the scene and cut out the inbetween (which feels lazy to me), it's more frustrating when I just saw them cut out the beginning of an arc that is being referenced to repeatedly by one of MC's summons, how am I supposed to stay engaged? How is MC supposed to properly respond when the inbetween is cut out for him? It also makes it seem like the author doesn't want MC to personally make the mistakes that leads to him reaching his destination.

That and I was just irritated by a plot hole, MC had a conversation that sounded like he had the agency to settle down but he just chooses not to for his goals (he doesn't have that agency as a transferred, this was established that he'd keep being pushed into adventures), it also doesn't make sense that his summon wouldn't be aware of that fact, it's like the author started with "fantasy isekai adventure deathgame with spectators" then haphazardly tried "fantasy isekai adventure, not a deathgame, spectators absent".

Speaking of the spectators, that's annoying too. For one: his spectators are supposedly gods but they all talk like memeing twitch viewers, don't have any real involvement other than giving MC a currency (he doesn't even see their messages), and don't really have anything necessary to say. It'd make no difference to the story if the messages were expunged entirely, they seem to disappear when anything real is happening anyways.

MC also used a weapon he got in a previous chapter only once, you don't even see him holding it like he technically should be doing to keep his item buffs up....

Again, does it get better? I'd keep reading if the story had a little more forethought in the author's mind than "he needs to 'overturn the board' at the end, let me add more cool stuff / concepts I like to make that happen"

I'm not sure what Karen's doing suggesting staying as villagers, you'd think she as his summon would be on the same page about him being a transferred who is forced to take timed adventure after timed adventure. Snowman's also talking as if he has agency, he doesn't have any choice, it's to survive and maybe "overturn the board" when he gets strong enough.

That feels like a plot hole, I'm unsure whether it was this interaction or the forced progression / oregon trail mechanics that was haphazardly crammed into the story, but it suggests a lack of forethought as the story attempts to be something it wouldn't make sense to be due to actions prior (this scene would actually fit in a traditional fantasy isekai, not this). It's hard for me to not think that when I was spoiled by other stories' thoughtfulness, manhwa or otherwise.

Somehow the "expedition system" doesn't account for the fact he's a shadow summoner with a flame producing summon (he shouldn't be getting cold), contrived debuffs seem so annoying.

Just musing here, but imagine being one of the modern people starting up this mobile game and you get the misfortune of having a town that only recruits one race (because lizard people or something previously snuffed out all other intelligent life in the world you're tasked with saving). I'd hope you can reset your account and get a different town in that case, it would be so frustrating if all you could dispatch was lizardmen or something.

I think I'm dropping this on chapter 59. I'm dropping this because MC raises some guy into being her loyal sword, (essentially) abandons him, displays no empathy (refusing to see what she did), and pushes him away when he just wants to follow her commands. Apparently this is a romance manhwa? Y'know she's a reincarnator right? It feels weird that she'd have that and not a parental role with the guy, she did raise him after all.

Oh, good idea, yes, I'll respond to the commenter too.

"[just accept him, ez]" is an oversimplification of a resolution. What she should be doing is teaching the boy she effectively raised into a sword right from wrong, she's an adult now (over 18 in this world) with 38+ years of experience (considering her past life added to this one).

And to respond to TruePurpleMK: MC does have an obligation to some extent, while she can't be faulted for her original intentions (especially considering she had the undeveloped brain of a 8-12 year old at the time) she did raise Axel, left him in the state of "I will be your loyal sword (because I trust you)", then abandoned him. Her obligation now as an adult woman (biologically with 38+ years of experience living) is to at least try to understand what went wrong and to teach him right from wrong (as she is essentially the only parental figure in his life and he would be receptive if she simply stopped rudely pushing him away).

A musing from myself: MC remembers her past life and raised Axel, Axel looks towards her as an authority figure, if she DID romance Axel it may come off as icky icky grooming. Also, it may make sense for her to have an attraction to men older than her considering her mentality is supposedly more mature than that of other adult women (despite her bad writing not reflecting that). I'd even suggest Pi is a controversial pairing (nothing in fiction actually is, just thinking about this realistically) due to her essentially being his teacher as well (and being allowed to decide his gender of all things).

Is she simply the densest character here, or under some form of brainwashing or something?

Loved All My Alter Egos Are Tycoons (read up to c71) and loved this too (c16) (same author (I only realized that after I read these 16 chapters))

27 chapters in and I'm realizing it's not for me. I feel the story elements don't occur naturally, they just happen suddenly and are explained after the fact. Take the first chapter for example, a cursed statue -> blablablabla -> who am I? -> blablablabla -> dimensional door -> blablablabla -> giant skeleton -> (dormammu I've come to bargain) blablablablabla -> I'm in danger -> blablablabla.
Literally the only prevalent issue from what I can tell.

There's some cliches and the story generally goes "I'm in danger" -> "I won and I'm stronger now" on loop. Definitely a power fantasy with not much else, but that's some peoples' cup of tea so it's fine.

And to address complaints about a one-off gold digger female classmate: cliche with no build-up at worst, not misogyny. Every character is shallow so just look at say, the MC's kind mother, or the purple haired sword girl fighting for justice, there'd only be a case of misogyny if it was constant, rather the Chinese just hate gold diggers and often feel satisfaction seeing one get owned.

Naturally there would have to be some (non-permanent) injuries on the innocent ones too or it would come off as too suspicious. I would think of it as tough love so they'd hone themselves towards protecting the realm better, the best training is the kind you think is gonna kill but won't (at least in stories such as these). I do concur to a degree though, it's a little cruddy they have to be roughed up, but there is rarely a perfectly moral choice considering circumstances ever present in both reality and fiction.

Basically the system tried to help a talentless fool one way (throw him into danger constantly while slowly remove the training wheels) and a real expert another (letting him take on challenges on his own), mc just became an expert.

Imagine if this is when it gets axed, hopefully not, I love teleporting gal and I want everyone to love her

I read to chapter 67, I'm dropping this now though, the whole arc I just ended this on was rather contrived, Astair has no pressure to be acting the way they did, Kyla and Astair both act stupid and enter shouting matches seemingly not knowing the definition of "compromise" (there are several VERY easy ones), and Kyla is wishy washy. The plot was SET to a peaceful resolution but Kyla gets second thoughts from a nightmare of all things (which for a modern reincarnator is doubtful) and ruins everything. We were THIS close to (fake) yuri between a femboy and a woman!!!

Before that arc reached conclusion the manhwa was fine, I think Astair is very very cute and I would've stayed for him if him and Kyla weren't a part of this contrived plot. I found my enthusiasm further sapped when ability exposition (c 67) and a new character (c 68) IMMEDIATELY hit after that dreadful conclusion to the arc..

If anyone has femboy fantasy manga to recommend to me to fill this Astair shaped void I just acquired please do.

I can't imagine it, stabbing an eye out by mistake on someone you care about then just moving on.. Not to be a negative nancy but there's a lot that didn't make much sense up to this point:
1. They couldn't prevent Astair from sneaking out so why did it not occur to Kyla or Astair himself that he could disguise himself as a maid in order to stay alongside her?
2. Astair disabled Kyla's spirit weapon and easily had her bound in vines, why would he tackle her when she grabs a letter opener? Just use the vines, use more of them, use them from the start like we know you would when you decided that was your play
3. A modern reader like Kyla should've seen where struggling over a knife would end up and should've given in (2 suggests it shouldn't have even occurred)
4. Speaking of modern sensibilities, I doubt any nightmare would make someone go from "I'll stay for a bit and return from time to time later" to "I'll never interact with you again", that seems really forced (like Astair forgetting he can use magic)
5. Nothing prevented Astair from sneaking out as he wishes (he's done it before), there was no pressure to keep Kyla kidnapped after they established a rapport, he could visit her freely and she wouldn't exactly be against it
6. Why is Kyla so wishy washy? "I'll visit" -> has a nightmare -> "I'll never talk to you again" "You can finally stand proud if we expose you!" -> oh no I stabbed an eye out (by being a jackass) -> "I feel bad now, stay in your (self-inflicted) birdcage"

It drew me in with "protect bro from bl", it captivated me with "unhappy femboy discovers happiness and love through modern reincarnator", then it lost me with this plot and plot holes seemingly only made to prevent a happy ending and to elongate the story and to keep it dramatic. It may have been caused by the author making the femboy OP and not wanting MC (and by extension her brother) to instantly be safe from literally everything.