So I was curious what people meant when I read the first few shown Reviews on this one, saying that it's BL-Logic and that he's basically a moron because he concluded that he's just too cute, that's why bad things are happening to people.
But I just read a bit of the very first chapter and that's not actually his conclusion?
I mean, sure, that's what he says, but judging from his counter measures, it's clear he simply meant to say that he shouldn't be cute. Because he's basically cursed - every person who finds him cute and calls him as such is apparently doomed. So he has to be less cute - the only reason people are getting hurt is because they think he's cute. So he's too cute, as everyone called him as such, even though it's not even common for guys to be called cute as they grow up.
I don't think he's stupid here. More like traumatized into changing his whole being, because he couldn't conclude anything but the fact that every person who called him cute got ship wrecked one way or another.
I'm just a few chapters in and there's not much to rag on, but even though I don't hate the fact that he trains some sort of self defense means (though Rice Cake seems to be able to guard him just fine in my opinion), learning Swordsmenship and Beastmen Martial Arts both seem to kind of harshly wear down his hands. From holding the wooden sword and swinging it, to somehow crawling around on all fours through all-terrain. The hands of a chef are as holy as that of a violinist or pianist. If his hands numb through this sort of coarse exercise, that would be no good at all. Not a good combination.
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying it's kind of late in the game. If he had some fundament, it would be easier for his body to get used to it - like, had he started cooking and training his body at the same time, for instance. But now this is just going to make his hands, which where solely trained for work in the kitchen, do something so straneous, which is going to be detrimental when cooking later.
it is fantasy. He has special magical fruits that real.
I think it's pretty doable since he only go to the otherworld once a week (if I'm not mistaken). So he probably trained like crazy for one time per week only
*that heal
He said he's training every morning, though.
He doesn't have an endless supply and what I mean is the way his hands have to get used to knew movements and callouses from crawling and crash course training with the sword aren't endlessly healable, realistically. Even in a fantasy, there has to be internal logic. And those professions simply don't mesh well, if you don't start them together, to form a coherent base with both.
The red wolf lady already mentioned that MC seems to have some kind of healing ability now? Or if Rice Cake as a guardian wolf have gave him such blessing.
She mentioned that MC is still fine even after getting bitten by Mona several times.
Usually in such fantasy setting, a white wolf would be known as fenrir.
Fenrir usually was known to have several kind of power, they may also be able to bless other with such power or maybe he share that power (I think it was when Rice Cake licking can heal?).
So... probably that is the case here?
(Just my speculation)
I know. In fact, I gathered as much from the beginning, not just because the MC apparently understands everyone. It might be due to him being from another world alltogether, but a sort of boon to having Rice Cake around seemed more likely to me. Could be wrong though, maybe it's just him being from another world.
What I meant with "not endlessly healable" is the fact that these types of wounds would still scar at some point and even if the healing was omnipotent, you would need these callouses. Those changes in your body aren't meant to cause you pain or grief, the body changed according to wear and tear, in order to take less damage from the same mechanisms in the future. For example: MC will already have callouses on his hands, in specific areas, especially at the base of his index finger, where it touches the blade to secure grip and control. You will WANT these callouses, otherwise, it will hurt every time or you may be suffering from blisters.
I just read somewhere that this has been dropped, but it was on a German Site, which makes sense, because a Publishing House had acquired the license for this Webtoon for it to (originally) be published earlier this year, but fumbled the ball somehow and had to renounce the publishing. I don't know why it happened, though. Now I'm wondering if it was dropped for real and that happened around the time Season 2 ended.
Now, where do I start? The premise was interesting, thought it might be a good read.
But the protagonist is too weak and reliant, therefore it feels like it's going to drag along quite a bit, while none of the characters are likeable. The protagonist is okay-ish, but a far cry from being truly interesting. Example: Someone with less personal vibe, who gets the plot to run smoothly, like the MC of Solo Leveling, might not be super interesting, like the MC from Trash Count, but both of them give their own flavor to the story, because Solo Leveling is fast paced (not too fast or anything, but it never gets "stuck" anywhere), so you don't need extra flavor and while Trash Count doesn't necessarily get stuck either, it's a more long running story in its own right, which needs to be carried by more in-depth and interesting characters, especially with the MC being the core of the story, that one needs to be able to lift everything. In this one, the story is dragging on, but the protagonist is too bland to do any heavy lifting here.
Aditionally, most characters, in fact, all the characters in the Protagonists age bracket, except for his brothers (which do not show up often, as they aren't meant to be that important and aren't on friendly terms anyway) are female. One of which is an annoying bitch, another is bland as fuck, and the last one is a walking participation award and a pain in the ass on top of it. You can probably guess which one is which, but even if you can't, I'll leave it up to your imagination. I don't want to waste any braincells on trying to go into the make ups of their characters in order to tell you how creatively brankrupt these solely-for-fanservice characters are.
I guess, after chapter 20 or even along the lines of chapter 20, which I haven't yet read, unless you count the first three panels or so, he will finally attend this stupid academy. But realistically, even if he does find some people I don't hate there, I already know three out of four people he will meet and remember in this academy arc will be females for his harem.
To top it off, call me superficial, but this is a story about a guy with cheat knowledge, who's OP anyway. I'm all for the MC having something holding him back or people who are stronger than him, but this isn't about that. Everything he does just seems so... badly executed. He always gets in trouble, making not even greatly strong beasts seem way overpowered. And everytime he encountered a bigger opponent, he needed one of his waifus to save him. And yet, they still didn't give off the vibe of being useful, it simply seemed like the MC, who was supposed to have insight, was so unrepared, he had to rely on someone saving his ass in order to not fail. The narrative is trying to make the waifus seem dependable or useful, while still keeping their "Damsel in Distress" vibe active. Neither of these attempts work for me. Instead, all they do is put shade on the MC's capability.
Thanks for your comment i was going to read it, but now I saved time
No read it, it gets better trust me. I thought the same thing when I was first reading it then dropped it for over a year, now I came back and I just decided to ignore the plot hole in chapter 26 ish and later it got fixed and was so much better
I must say, I admire your tenacity.
No, dear, he's not. Also, he doesn't look like a psychopath "right now", he IS a psychopath, so he always looks like one, because his face is that of a psychopath, no matter what he looks like in the moment.
I love Ilay, but we gotta keep it real.
I never hated him. He's actually so cute, in his bi-polar kind of way. He's not even Tsundere, like "We don't care about your opinion at all... So just TELL ME YOUR OPINION"-002, but he's so easy to toggle from 0 to 100 negative and positive, while being blatantly dishonest about his feelings. So blatantly, you can read his real feelings off his face.
I really don't want him to get hurt. In fact, why can't Ijin get them to join SW? They could go on missions abroad and such, not necessarily the Bodyguard Section, if that's not what they want. Some, like 032 and 018, aren't cut out for such work either way. But it's not like they aren't still super important skill-wise.
With that, Ijin could have them close and with the Camp gone, who would even recognize them?