It's really good so long as you just stop reading when he gets to modern times like when he wakes up in the modern world let that be where the series ends for you. you will remember it as a 10 out of 10 it'll be emotionally impactful and you'll have a lot to contemplate. If you keep reading however the degree of fall off is so severe that you'll hate yourself for caring that much up to that point. Not only will it just have him redo entire emotional arcs, but worse! It'll continuously introduce and then linger on a bunch of just straight awful characters that are either 1.annoying 2.add nothing to the plot 3.have constant moral grandstanding that doesn't actually make any sense upon any reflection in the context of this series. 4. Just straight up suck and drag the story down by their mere existence as they continuously drag the plot and the development of the story towards their bullshit. It'll then proceed to minimize the impact of the main character and the journey he's taken by virtue of undoing some things he's done and negating some things he's done and then just doing random bullshit. Everything after the modern times ark starts makes me wish the series got canceled and the author had to just write something else instead of doing this to a series they made that was good. I haven't had a series disappoint me this severely in the second half since I read fire Punch for the first time.

You see that's why I had to divorce myself when they did a Time Skip and he had amnesia I couldn't keep going, I realized then and there that this was not going to end when it should have it was going to drag and that was the only time I had to make a clean break. I pity and respect all of you crusaders that continue to read this madness.

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Their just built like that.

That may prove to be true soon, but his actions up to this point are underhanded yes but not cowardly - they were taken in fact with the sole purpose of getting a fight out of the protagonist.

That didn't make him a coward, it simply made him weak he didn't ask them to save him, he specifically told them not to intrude and then he killed one of them because they did.

I believe they did explicitly reuse the idea for The Lion King.

We aren't really seeing the evil cults side though, brutalists perhaps but not evil, every step of the way they give morally justifiable reasons for his actions by making him the underdog and making his actions mostly matters of survival or deep rooted revenge. He doesn't invade the mainland just to spread his influence or defeat threats, he only goes out to avenge wronged subordinates or retaliate against the enemy. He sneaks into the palace - kills everyone he comes across and steals the palace treasure - but that's cool because it was left behind by the cult and is rightfully his! The martial alliance vice leader is against him but not just because he's a clear and present threat to the mainland that just strong armed the emperor into spreading his religion, no he's also secretly leading a secret society in league with the blade cult. The most villainous thing he's done is kill the divine doctors daughter and lie about but they still framed that as necessary (despite him being strong enough to easily subdue her), and he's suffered not only no consequences but only benefited from that. When you compare that to this series and how when this guy kills someone they make no attempt to make them villainous in anyway unless that was just their setting previously and irregardless they go out of their way to make the main character more villainous still. None of his actions are really morally justifiable...at least not the way he's doing them. No one is cool with his methods or awestruck except his one subordinate that is still kinda scared of him. Everyone finds his methods detestable... Even the evil spirits occasionally.

I really like that it has one of these characters that will just kill anybody on a whim for the slightest reasons, but they don't try to treat him like he's a good person like a lot of these series tend to do, like I like nanomachine I really do- but you can only commit so many one-sided massacres before I stop treating you like a morally just person or the underdog in my head and start seeing you as no different from previous villains you fought you're just in power now so it's supposed to be better I guess. I appreciate that it never expects me to agree with or understand a character like this' motivations , just to see where it goes instead.

That's got to be the chillest hiatus announcement I've ever encountered, I wish him well.

You ever see Ron Jeremy? Sometimes dick...ahh... Finds a way.

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Yeah but a lot of series are surviving as a genius, the borrowed time was kind of the hook for me, that being said the relatively unique world building for this type of series is still keeping me engaged even if he was too suddenly no longer be on borrowed time.

It's always weird in setups like this when the male friend that has known the main character for years is just a dick to the main character outta nowhere about things like this, like they just get a girlfriend and then it's "f*** this dude right!" And I also just realized that if the main character was the friend this would just be a standard romance series setup because in those series the main character's friend is always cool with him just starting to date the childhood friend they both share and they just get a girlfriend separate from the friend group.

I kind of want this series to end with him accomplishing everything he needs to do, dying from his illness, and then getting revived by that world tree fruit(or just staying dead) instead of getting it while he's alive, mainly because if he gets it while he's alive I feel like it's just going to be "Surviving as a Genius on Borrowed Time" for like a quarter of the story and then it'll just be him being overpowered for the rest of it. That and the contrast of someone being incredibly strong while actively dying is both meaningful and striking.

Well I just looked it up and we're both wrong, he just fell- that's it. Apparently the wolf thing was an originally planned death they had for him that they removed from the film because it was deemed too gruesome for children.

If I remember correctly Gaston was impaled on the spikes of the gate, Clayton from Tarzan was hung by a bunch of vines while struggling to get free.

"somehow... The Emperor Has returned..."

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