chinese homophobia ruins a great yuri.

This story has tension and good action, but the character decision-making is so bad and MC is way weaker than he should be given all the advantages he has. MC gets a new life but all his doubt and judgment from being a king just disappears because he has character growth and now loves everybody. How many experienced adult kings are naive and trust everyone they meet except for idiots who bully and fight him immediately? And it's not just him. This story nerfs every character's intelligence for the sake of drama and conflict. The amount of numbskullery and intentions>intelligence moments really hinders the quality of this story.

MC has like every power in the world and a crazy head start: he awakens as a toddler, is skilled in basically all magics and sword-fighting, has a shit-ton of past experience in leadership roles, and yet somehow he's a "sacrifice yourself and get grievously injured saving people every 20 chapters" type character. Having a flawed and weak-to-strong character is usually better for overall plot structure than OP from the start, but it's totally inconsistent with what he should be and his past. How does he have so many OP advantages, but he can still get injured or beaten by people his own age? Why does an OP character have to be so reliant on plot armor no jutsu? He struggles more than a typical MC in this genre, mostly because his intelligence is low. To make up for him always getting his ass kicked, the story gives us way too many yapper bullies who just self-destruct with their privileged stupidity, all to show how good MC is at beating guys weaker than him. The professors in the middle part of the story are irresponsible, negligent, shameless dumb bullies, and/or terrible at keeping their kids safe even in normal situations. The best part of the story is MC's character growth from a revenge-trope character to a good guy, but like I said, this comes with him being totally oblivious to anyone with even mild scheming tendencies.

This also has too much "hiding his full powers for 10 minutes before revealing what he can do" plotting. And him revealing his abilities always puts him in more danger. Because he's stupid, he then can't handle the heightened level of danger and gets his ass kicked or endangers those around him. Why is an experienced character like him totally incapable of handling anything unexpected? Any time something he doesn't anticipate happens, he ends up nearly dead. Every single time. If this guy didn't reincarnate with all his knowledge and whatever and was just a 12 year old kid genius, this story would be way better because it would fit well with the judgment and foresight we actually see from him. Him having a mental age of 50+ with his experience and abilities should make him a much stronger and more tactful character than he is.

Story: 6.5/10
Character: 5/10
Art (until art change): 7/10
Enjoyability: 7/10
Overall: 6.5/10

the romance in this is awful and when it takes the focus a few dozens chapters in, the pacing goes to absolute sh*t. dropped.

an op mc character with no stakes or even the pretense of drama. mc is so strong he could do anything immediately. a pointless read, as there is no real plot to speak of

This is a great casual read. A lot of similarities to Dungeon Reset which I also think is good. MC slowly levels up his farming skills with great support characters. Not a read with action or anything but entertaining anyway. Also, no harem (thank god)

naruto and one piece are not serious things. they both are filled with horny nosebleeds, filler nonsense, and goofing around

on rereading this story, read my own comment and said "what an idiot" before realizing i was the one who wrote it. you're definitely right; no idea what i was talking about

Man do korean authors love a contract premise even when it makes no sense at all

tired of the "genius" child regressor story trope. it's just creepy and everyone around such an MC would find it too creepy to ignore without suspecting possession or something

not a fan of these child genius stories where they bring so much attention to their adult intelligence. they always land on the extremely creepy side of "genius" to the point where it's not just suspicious but would cause major problems

who the heck would make business decisions based off what a 10 year old says? this guy seems like a terrible ceo

this manhwa makes such good use of mustaches

Nicholas has a really cool character design.

red haired guy's basically a main character who ended up in the wrong story

i think it's kind of silly that MC is, out of nowhere, a totally different person, a master swordsman, and a master blacksmith--all with no training. And nobody bats an eye because they like his new attitude. Everything is also way too easy. He has no struggles at all getting OP on top of that

at least she's not the "buzz around the MC complimenting him and acting as eyecandy" types. i bet she becomes a political or intelligence master in the capital and helps roman out later

romance is clearly not gonna be a part of this for a long time. she's got a long time to become someone actually noteworthy

finally a MC who doesn't let the roaches plot behind his back and kidnap his loved ones when he's doing something far away

i don't trust this artist to not make a stupid looking sword for him

the art became like an academy story, not a bloody warpath story which is what this manhwa is