This is good only for the fact that the male lead is characterized as a normal person. Every present-day romance manga is infected with the disease that makes every male main character a shrimpy shota loser afraid of women.

This is a manhwa that, with its art, tropes, and plot, feels like something out of 2017. The amount of online discourse about this story and its characters also makes it feel complete. Can't believe it's still coming out in 2025

It's fine but has some of the worst art you'll see in a supposedly action comic.

Are Cheonma from the start of The Return of Mount Hua Sect and MC here the same character, i.e. the Demon Cult leader? Is this a Korean/Chinese staple character? Anyway, this is really good

Art is a weakness, but MC has a funny goal that gives a slightly different take on the murim regression trope. If you like murim, it's very readable. If you're tired of the usual murim-isms, this isn't gonna change your mind.

This story does way more than the average action comic to take his OP-ness seriously. He is legitimately a genius within the world of the story (i.e. well-integrated into murim) rather than being a genius through reincarnator knowledge or something outside the world he lives in. OP MCs lessen the drama in basically every such story and this isn't any different (like you say). MC isn't annoying; he doesn't use his OP-ness to face-slap mobs, show off for his ego, etc. He is committed to taking the negative of his OP-ness seriously so he can survive. This is good by the standards of OP MC stories.

Boring. There are a handful of great murim reincarnation/regression stories and this is not one of the them.

Guy criticizing this for being childish is wrong. It's not teaching you abstruse philosophical principles, true, but it's definitely not more childish than the average action manhwa. Literally every single VR manhwa is far more childish than this. Honestly, far above average in terms of action manhwa maturity.

>>reincarnates to futuristic magic world that simultaneously has convenience stores and 18th century european nobility.
>>to get his revenge, he plays a VR game.

there's no way these things can coexist and not be garbage.

i literally cannot fathom the appeal of this to any audience, japanese or otherwise. oldschool manga romance had a normal looking guy with no traits as the insert, but for some reason now it has to be a 10 year old looking wimp who can't tie his own shoes or talk to a woman. how doesn't it feel condescending to the average japanese reader to have the insert be the most pathetic loser of all time as if the mangaka and industry is directly saying that's who the reader is

Absolutely terrible pacing and unlikable characters galore. This is manhwa for masochists.

Relationship progress at ch 65. Only vibes and ecchi before then.

I can summarize this fast so you don't have to read it: hot girl with big boobs is married to shrimpy loser (typical japanese pairing), she constantly wants sex with her 10-year-old looking husband but he's too herbivore to act on it, she gets hit on and harassed in public and flashes her wedding ring, they have to keep their relationship secret at work but she moves on him at every opportunity. repeat.

think about any other japanese romance you've read, then close your eyes and picture big boobs. with that, you've read this manga without opening a chapter.

maybe true of manhua, but there are some good manga once you wade past all the zero stakes, wimp insert stories.

More original than you'd think with the slime and villainess tropes. Very readable, with likable characters, drama without angst, and some light humor.

It's hilarious. Don't listen to the numbskulls below with no sense of humor.

i was thinking of gilgamesh. as for those chapters, i didn't find it to be any more visually inconsistent than the average action manhwa; if anything the faces are rounded to match the more fantasy styling of the story. the quality and style is far more pleasing to me than the sharp-chinned style typical in Solo Leveling ripoffs

comparing something to a manhua is always enough for me to pass on a story. out of 10,000 manhua, maybe 2 will be of even readable quality.

idk, i think this one is pretty good. MC is a unique character with a philosophy kind of reminiscent of Fate/Zero or something. i didn't have any issues with the art and i'm someone who often comments on crap art where the artist can't even maintain visual continuity within a scene. can you show an example of the art you find bad?

if the tiers are: masterpiece, must read, entertaining, mildly entertaining, mid, only if bored, bad, terrible -- then this is in entertaining. i'd say it's better than lukewarm. it's pretty funny how people react to his training and there are several likable characters. i'm back to this for a reread