Too much focus on the tropes and meta stuff of rofan, not enough actual story/plot.

Basically, it's boring with bad pacing.

This is great. Up there with the other good murim stories.

technically it's not harem, but substantially it is. this has every single harem step except him sleeping with the other girls in the end. tbh, he has more intimacy with all the girls in this than a japanese romance mc has with his love interest over the course of dozens of chapters.

social development where the girls' uniforms (which he tells them to wear) are very necessarily skimpy, where every female character very realistically is in love with him, where every character around him definitely isn't female. even if he isn't sleeping with all of them, it's a harem. "interpersonal relationships" - that's a good one.

it's the manhwa that defined that as a drama trope in comics. everything you read with that trope comes from this

i can't imagine the mindset it takes to say a comic with 695 chapters, a lot of which are filler harem crap, was rushed.

if someone hasn't read a ton of that stuff, i think it's right in the middle. my enjoyment of this was a 3/10, but i think it'd be a 5/10 for a new reader of this genre

Honestly, I could handle the mid art, but I'm so sick of necromancers. After Solo Leveling, it's impossible for it to not feel ripped off and, even worse, destructive to all power scaling within the manwha. There are not enough cons to summoning an army and even more than most OP powers, it trivializes every conflict and interaction.

The most average story and art I've ever read. MC is OP in an unfun way, little girl's whole personality is "i want chicken," side characters are one-dimensional, gate trope is as cliche as you can get (if you've read any "closing the gate" story, you've already read this), the pacing is too fast, action scenes are unsatisfying. A pure 5/10.

i think manga with its slow release times, pedophiliic tendencies, and wimpy loser mc epidemic has major issues too. i do think manhwa has the best mixture of quality and release time if you can build your trope tolerance. i'd rather have a lot of 6/10 comics that release a chapter weekly (manhwa) than a few 8/10s (manga) that release a chapter every two months. i think a lot of manga don't even have enough sample size (# of chapters) for one to make a judgment about quality in the first place.

and they say lloyd is evil, even with that purehearted smile at the end

Barbarian Quest is extreme and homoerotic, but The Marquess's Youngest Son has the most unreadable BL-like art I've seen, mixed with a MC who leans into it as a shota.

the heart tongue thing seems pretty out of place, but i don't think it's actually gay at any point. i do see the yaoi art style later, especially, but i don't think it's that distracting.

It's pretty good, but there are several multi-chapter sequences of the side characters doing some low-stakes nonsense, particularly in season 2 and early season 3. The minor characters are well-developed, so that's not the problem--it's that the pace drags completely when there are five consecutive chapters of very minor characters engaging in a mock battle. MC in this is good in the same way every regressor/reincarnator trying to build up a school is -- he beats up his students but really cares about them. There are times where there isn't enough of MC training and getting stronger. It's mostly a finding a legendary medicine ball or absorption technique kind of getting stronger plot rather than one where he actually trains or does things that should improve his power. It's good at points where MC is at the center or with his students and boring at others when the plot is bound up in purely low-stakes minor character stuff. 7.5-8/10 -- not "peak" but pretty good overall.

I dropped this after like 50 chapters because I was annoyed by how he has literally every single secret identity, from Sherlock Holmes to Van Helsing to Mahatma Gandhi. Can someone who's read all chapters tell me if it cools it with the countless secret identities stuff?

It starts from cliches but becomes really unique with plot directions that are actually creative and don't exist in any other manhwa. Even I didn't like every bit of it, the novelty of its plot and characters is worth reading. More character-driven than action/power level driven.

Absolutely braindead power scaling

yeah no planning at all in this story. it's clear writer had no end goal and kept making it up as he went.

I just wish MC had a different character design. It looks like artist just draws a short-haired shota and then adds longer hair in the back to give him long hair. Not a fan of mullets in murim.