Mind Fist
It a fist from the soul! Not the mind! lol

I was hoping the situation/arc would get resolved before we went on a break. :<

oh... I was not ready for this
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terrifying
absolutely terrifying

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Hey hey! Don't forget! He can throw a rock real hard, yell "MAGIC MISSILE!" and kill anyone who insults his magic skills!

Why is she so afraid of the monkeys?

Yeah, go on, tell them all to wash their necks and line up.
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Give it a pass.

Mr. Main Character is an insufferable jerk. He's a sort-of immortal being that lives in constant pain soooooooooo he sets up traps for spirits -> and when they're full, he exorcises them and bam! He gets some temporary pain relief.

Great, so what else did he do with all his near-infinite time? Nothing. He is a misery guts through and through and so he just spends his entire time being a misery guts and nothing else.

The plot pops up and BAM! He's completely freakin' useless.

The plot happens, such as it is, thanks to plot armor and bad writing, some things kinda resolve but not really -> and it slaps a cliffhanger of sorts and just ends because this trash was certainly axed. Or was this the intended ending meaning this is even more garbage?

Who cares? Not me and frankly, you shouldn't care either. Again, give it a pass.

I like Ms. Main Character in this work. She's sassy, straight to the point and her stupidest nonsense comes from a valid place that you'd be like "but what if it doesn't?" Big gold star to her because she literally has that thought and then swats it down.

"Is it Fortune or is it Woe?"
aka
"For Better or for Worse?"

Ms. Main Character wakes up one day with memories of her previous life as if her life is a romance novel. She knows what's going to happen:
Male Lead is going to waltz in, marry her sister -> who will die in childbirth -> then the female lead will pop up -> drama -> happily ever after. Ms. Main character is like a villainess in this novel and she is determined to save her sister! Also herself if she can.

Honestly, she messes up by being so freakin' awesome that the male lead straight up falls for her aaaaaaaaaaaand her sister approves. Ms. Main Character WANTS to reject him and kick him out, saving her sister and keeping her normal life... but she can't.

Things spiral upward for the most part and there is a dunk when the "this is temporary because the real female lead of the novel will appear" -> and eventually it gets resolved and things spiral upward some more.

I don't wanna spoil it but there are some brilliant moments overall and I really enjoyed it.

It's good. Great even.

I don't like it.

I gave up when Mr. Main Character's mom was like "I love you, therefore I'm going to kill you" -> why? Stupid reasons. Really. Really. Really stupid reasons. It's not even "it's a good reason but killing him?" No. It's just stupid reasons. Straightforward. Plain. Really. Really. Really stupid reasons.

Before we get to that point, hey author, you can't have two opposing things come together at all times.
Mr. Main Character is so pathetic, weak and is always on the edge of dying
BUT
he's also the strongest dude around for real dude check it out no way

Also, you can't have a character who is literally "I love Mr. Main Character and will do everything to support him" and simultaneously "I'm going to kill everyone he loves" literally. Why? Stupid reasons.

Who knows? Maybe this all comes around in the end but I will say, I read for another 40 chapters after the mom was like "I love you but I'mma kill you" to figure out WHY and then I realized "wait, I just read 40 chapters. FORTY CHAPTERS for a single plot point to occur and an explanation is given."

I do not recommend this.

Oh hello. This is a really REALLY old manga. It's so old that if you look at the first few chapters, you might mistakenly think "oh, it's not even a manga. It's a gag strip, aka "Sugoroku."

Nope. It's a manga and it features two dudes
1) a studious good boy who can't tell that the person antagonizing him is actually antagonizing him even if he gets punched in the face -> because all he wants to do is study.
2) a delinquent who is the strongest, no really you guys

They get Freaky Frida- wait no, this came out before the movie "Freaky Friday" so Freaky Friday is a Change Guy refer- OH WAIT JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE PART 5 FEATURES BODY SWAPPING AND IT'S OLDER THAN CHANGE GUY!
Freaky Friday: 2003
Change Guy: 1998 to 2006
Jojo part 5: 1995 to 1999
You heard it here folks: Body Swapping is a Jojo reference! lol

Anyway, jokes aside, Jojo reference happens and the story ignores one of the two characters -> and focuses entirely on the studious-now-delinquent character as he struggles with the fact that everyone wants to square up with him despite him not knowing how to fight. His body is tough but he can't fight.

There is some comedy because of reasons I already explained -> but he eventually gets good at fighting and the scope expands in some dumb ways... like really dumb ways. So dumb that I decided to just skip to the ending where it kinda ends on a "to be continued" sort of train as things don't get totally wrapped up.


Sigh. I didn't enjoy this. I'll be honest: screw every character in this manga with like one or two exceptions. Mr. Main Character is not one of the exceptions.


If you want "teenage delinquents" manga, go read Kyou Kara Ore Wa which completely predates it and is just better in every way.
https://mangakatana.com/manga/kyou-kara-ore-wa.4521
Kyou Kara Ore Wa:1988 to1997

I read this ages ago. I barely remember much about it but I do recall this:
Mr. Main Character is super wimpy but then like... is nice.

It's a comedy manga that features a nothing Mr. Main Character that has one quality going for him: he's nice.

It's a comedy manga that features the author granting Mr. Main Character plot armor to always win and every girl, especially enemies, falls in love with him.

It's a- etc etc -> the girls become better people thanks to him being nice.
Think Persona social links with every female enemy that turns them into good people. Also comedy is used at all times because if any of this is realistic, then

I see comments praising this manga and like uh... I dunno. It's been years so maybe I'm remembering it in a bad light. /shrug

Lastly, I also remember enjoying reading this despite everything I've said so far. Again, it's been years since I read this so pardon me for this subpar "review."

So, I did read this ages ago... like "I was waiting for updates." I haven't thought about it much because it is pretty straightforward and the final explanation at the end killed all mystery.

Dr. Stone starts off with a standard-ish high school slice of life for about half a page before an apocalypse happens and the entire world gets hit by... something that turns everyone into stone. After enough time passes, Mr. Main Character wakes up randomly due to luck and with his... *checks notes* high-school level, genius teenager memory and science skills -> he proceeds to climb up the tech tree.

Drama ensues but it's all a distraction because in short, this entire manga is just a bunch of science lessons.
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With all that said, there are characters, drama and a mystery about to keep you reading. It is pretty good.

And then the finale: ALIENS!
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Sooooooooooooooooo.... yeah. Good for you. I dunno. For me, I was like "woah" for a bit then I thought about it and went "bleh."

Is it worth a read? Yeah.
Just because the ending was whack in my opinion doesn't mean much.

It's been a few years since I read this. It is completed.
What do I remember?
COMEDY

Mr. Main Character dies from being overworked and reincarnates in another world. Standard isekai setup minus truck-san. Oh look, a system popped up! Time to get cheat powers an- wait what?
He must live a normal life first, then when he dies, he'll reincarnate again and get to use the system. And now it is time for the title to pop off. Of course he fails. How does he fail? COMEDY!

It's a silly work that shoves Mr. Main Character down a path that he doesn't really want nor care for -> until enough time passes and he's like "yeah uh... I guess I'll just see this through to the end" and properly decides to see this through to the end. He gets ladies and stuff I think so there's that.

Overall, I remember that I was mildly amused as I read this. Take that for what it's worth.

Right... someone gave me an upvote on my previous comment and it reminded me "oh yeah, I read this already."

What do I remember?
1) LOTS OF YAPPING! At one point early on, there were three dudes showing off their skills -> and what they performed was repeated almost verbatim at least three times. Are you kidding me?
2) You know the trope of "explaining the plan -> gets cut in half -> action sequence -> flashback to explain the plan -> continuing the action sequence" etc etc? I recall not seeing this happen except maybe like... one or two times towards the end.
3) The first half is superior to the second half. Lots of yapping everywhere but the plot is a lot more straightforward in the first half than the second half. I almost lost track of everything a few times. Bah. Make up your mind: are there supernatural elements or not?
also 4) a horrible monster of a person swivels on a dime at the last possible nanosecond as the author tries to convince us "he's a great guy! no really!" Screw you author and screw this guy.

What is this anyway? Well, Mr. Main Character is the leader of a unit that gets exploded out of existence. Spoiler alert: all the big baddies are literally just this guy:
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I'm not even trying to exaggerate.

Anyway, Mr. Main Character is actually one of the strongest martial artists to ever exist ever, no really you guys, but due to the explosions he mentally shuts himself away after being rescued and nursed back to health by random people who happened to find his half-dead body after the explosions. They call him to be, wait for it, the Escort Warrior, title drop, for the family leader's eldest daughter as another family decides "hey! we're big! you're small!" and begins terrorizing them to extinction.
And so he does NOT single-handedly pwn all the jerks like Onepunch Man vs an army and he just wins. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo! First, there's a lot of yapping, a bunch of idiots failing miserably, AND THEN he gets to pwn all the jerks like Onepunch Man vs an army.

I you're thinking "it seems like you didn't enjoy this" yeah I didn't. I figured out like 90% of the plot without trying and the 10% is the author having stupid things happen to pad out the already-too-long runtime.

Gimme a pair of scissors and I'll shorten this 255 chapter word soup into like 40 chapters. It's not garbage but I didn't enjoy it.

Lastly, while characters have hyperbolic abilities such as "can casually use a twig to nuke a mountain" -> there are actually no supernatural elements... except one dude who becomes a literal demon for one fight that lasts 10 chapters instead of 10 panels for stupid reasons... namely to allow the aforementioned "horrible monster of a person" in number 4 -> so the author can pretend "looooook! complex character writing! are you impressed!?" Still, no.

It isn't labeled "Completed" so it doesn't show up in my searches for completed works to add to my reading list. Is this complete? I checked the bottom of the last chapter and... no, it isn't. It was either dropped by the translation team or axed or something. I dunno. Either way, it was probably not very good. lol

One villainess manhwa that does NOT end with a harem/reverse harem despite seemingly going for that is "When the Villainess Loves"

He didn't know! D:
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