except i couldn't find a concise summary so i had no choice but to start the novel....
and holy shit. the novel is GOOD.
i don't really like reading webnovels; i prefer published, long-form ones. but this one really conveyed the thrills of streaming & competitive gaming. the chats were hilarious & other side characters had interesting back stories.
one thing i am worried about is how the webtoon will depict the female characters. right now @35 there's not much, but [SPOILERS] they're gonna start introducing a fair amount once he peaks at battle large.
in the novel it's fairly negligible because they're interesting and complicated in their own right, with their own narratives not solely dependent on almond's actions. they actually feel like friends and rivals instead of just narrative foil to make almond look desirable.
HOWEVER. some of them do have more than platonic ties to almond and that can easily be depicted as cloyingly harem-like despite no romance actually happening. a little too much fan service when drawing their characters can completely ruin the balance the novel has established.
anw it's still too early to get worried lol. I just needed somewhere to vent how surprisingly good the novel is because i've been staying up late for 3 days bingeing it
edit: just got to chapter 195 and... goosebumps. oh my god.
Was wondering how many chapters it got because I really like the story and it has a little! over! 1000!!! And it's still ongoing!!
So I'm asking: is the novel worth it? Would you recommend it?
yup, i recommend it overall. there was hardly a lull in the story because both in-game and irl plots had pretty good conflicts and climax.
look, i saw the staggering amount of chapters too and thought, 'damn ok i'm just gonna casually skim through the battle large arc for spoilers and call it a day. i probably won't be able to finish an entire chapter with my short attention span.'
homie chapter 195 is already way past battle large arc since making this comment i've finished the 264ch first season+ 16ch side story and am now 56 chapters deep into the 2nd season. i failed at the casual part.
Quick question, how many games does the mc play? Like up until your current chapter?
I have read to the latest translated chapter and he plays 4 games in total but participated in several challenges and tournaments. It's really fun!
Ooh thank you
is it possible he gets surgery for his arm or maybe he gets over the tremor? i’m wondering if he ever reveals to his viewers he used to do it
I KNOW, RIGHT!!!!
I think it's the best novel I've read this year. For me, only one girl that I worry about. Because most of other girl, either platonic, or just a game character.
But, yes. That one girl is like the 'imaginary gamer girl'. I'm afraid they're gonna sexualized her so much.
He's getting treatment, but the problem came from his brain, I don't know the results are because I've just read until the first part over, I haven't started the second part yet
Yes, he's going to reveal that later.
link, please?
1 Kingdom Age (solo story mode)
2 Battle large (solo)
3 Life is Legend (team/story mode+streamer tournament)
4 Zombie School (openworld survival - beta access)
5 Civil Kingdom
[spoilers] he does reveal his condition. thankfully he was able to do it on his own terms. us readers are also given the full truth of what happened and the public+media's reaction is so satisfying and also heartbreaking
regarding the surgery or treatment, from the current chapters i'm in, there's a little tiny bit of hope but it's still not conclusive and needs to be researched further by the doctor handling his case
[spoilers] right??? i literally can't put this down and i've been staying up late for days now it's that good i need help escaping from the nutverse lmao
i've got 2 worries for this with regards to the streamers... (1) i hope miho won't be over sexualized and (2) i actually hope they remove the old fashioned macho character transphobic jokes when it comes to StawberryShooter. it's so unnecessary to keep criticizing his want to be feminine when they're all in virtual reality and everyone is basically cosplaying whatever they want.
other than that, the fan interactions, the memes... they're all hilarious and A+++ and when it gets deep and heartfelt, man it really goes in for the kill. even the NPC stories has me in tears
[spoiler]
YES! I was surprised when the story got deep, and his trauma is shown realistically.
The flashbacks get me weeping like a child.
The youth, the tragedy, the healing process. Even when (redacted) appears on his dream (only to be woken up by Junghyuk, lol).
When I started the novel, I'm really afraid the author going to be chickened up by the reader to write actual romance, but he did. So beautifully, crashing my skeptical mind about how action novel author can't write a good romance.
I'm gonna take my time before starting the second season.
the triangle of skin... the choker combo... i can form a religion on that
oh mr jeong, why do you never learn
my bet is on him making up this huge complicated dramatization of their budding relationship in his head. then cut to seonwoo with nothing but fluff, cock, and balls in mind.
and in the end mr jeong is the one who's gonna end up getting butthurt when seonwoo doesn't give af & he's the only one way too invested in the minute details of their relationship
I bet... I mean mr. Jeong practically accepted the affiliate given to him by his father because of Seonwoo.
He also proposed seonwoo to be with him on that company
too bad he seems to be the least of FL's priorities.
"hmm... i see he is being ostracized both by society and his very own household. he has no friends or family to rely on, in addition to his crippling anxiety, abandonment issues, and extremely distorted sense of self worth... oh what? he declined a waitress' suggestion and can smile sometimes??? gotta distance myself now :)))) surely this action will have no impact on someone who was basically a social leper in society until just recently"
also oof they copy pasted the class president trope from high school
i hope she turns out to be more than the same "regular straight laced girl classmate who 'doesn't care' he's popular uwu but secretly has a Thing for him"
he's probably gonna get a temporary ban because some mod will do a half-assed job checking the issue just because a lot of people sent a report.
i fuckin hope whatshisface who wrote the forum post slandering almond gets his whole friggin team perma banned on the forum and the games and the asshats on chat who dogpiled on him get a penalty too
AGREE WITH YOU!
turns around and pulls out the rug from under ML and rejects him and mercilessly dumps all this relationship built on his memory loss because that's pretty much the only version of amnesia trope that works here to balance the scales.
And this one is amnesia trope + mental regression + loss of powers/abilities, so thrice the bs
That’s the only way these two can work out.
So true, amnesia + mental regression Ives Falcon bitch a pass on the trauma he inflicted and a chance to create a new narrative. Mental regression + loss of powers makes sure that it will be really difficult for bunny to leave or live independent
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Yea ╥﹏╥
also while i would absolutely hate the human eileen romance route... i am SO ready for a hilarious misunderstanding route between theo and him getting linked to arguably two of the most powerful authorities in the tower sans the dragons: iona and the fox
the brainwashing with the white haired guy is still in effect. makes me friggin facepalm everytime, it's such a minor annoyance because it no longer makes sense at this point for it to go unnoticed.
you'd think the ML would've drawn a hard line by now or at least outlined the shady crap mu yurong has done that they have BOTH personally witnessed irl and online and genuinely asked him, "hey isn't it kind of suspicious and strange that you still think she's a good person?"
its like that annoying scar you had, sometimes you forget about it but its still there and see it sometimes