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Little by little though, and especially in season 2, it all just kind of flies apart. Runaway groups that are stronger than the mafia. International drug and human trafficking, whole armies of soldiers waging wars in the streets. Every now and then the story tries to remind you that this seemingly endless population of professional mercenaries are all 15 year old runaways, of which there are approximately five to every regular person in Korea somehow.
It's like the author got bored of the story and wanted to write something new, but the publisher didn't want to give up on the money they were getting from this one. So they just repurposed the existing story into something unrecognizable. Overall, it's still a good looking product, it's just... not what it originally was and the escalation of how it got from there to here is really jarring.
How did they get this picture of me?
Kokokoko
I'd been reading a lot of Murim manhwas and was looking for a change of pace, specifically a fantasy isekai. That's how Worthless Regression presents itself at the start. A man is isekai'd into a fantasy world with classes and status windows as a No Class, lives a miserable life, and then regresses back to the start. On paper, that checked every box I was looking for.
Early on, the story establishes that this world pulls people from many different realities, including Murim settings. One of the major early characters is a Heavenly Demon type straight out of a Murim story. At first, that's fine, because the broader setting still feels firmly fantasy: adventurer guilds, ranked parties, magic, trolls, liches, and so on.
Over time, though, it becomes clear that the author isn't interested in telling a fantasy story. The fantasy framing feels more like something their publisher demanded they write and the author couldn't abandon that premise fast enough. Little by little, those fantasy elements are sidelined, until what's left is almost entirely a Murim story. This isn't a slow-burn hybrid or a balanced blend, it's a total genre shift.
For roughly the last forty chapters I read, the protagonist has effectively abandoned the fantasy side of the world. The focus is on cultivation, internal energy, martial hierarchies, and sect politics. He's visiting the Shaolin Temple, training under monks, consuming Qi pills, studying secret manuals, and fighting between Orthodox and Unorthodox factions. At some point it clicked that I wasn't reading a fantasy isekai with Murim elements, I’d been bamboozled into another full Murim manhwa with a coat of fantasy paint.
That said, the quality is undeniably there. The art is strong, the plot is engaging, and the protagonist genuinely struggles, suffers, and grows rather than coasting on regression alone. Nothing about this feels lazy or poorly executed. It just isn't the story I thought I was committing to. If you're not experiencing Murim fatigue, this is a fantastic read and I'd recommend it to anyone.