But I can't really say it takes me out of the experience because I find the maximalism very entertaining, and it's pulled off well enough to not feel too "ass-pully". “I am the Sorcerer King” tries to jungle so many balls and moves at such a pace that I suppose it is inevitable that some will be dropped by the wayside (the ability to close dungeons. It just feels like the power tripping musings of a bored 12 year old that wishes magic was real and that they could somehow monopolize that in an arms race. I'd say it's mildly interesting in a train wreck kind of way but it's too boring to even classify as that. The MC also basically just becomes the stereotypical tyrant dictator of Earth, that his previous incarnation was of his previous world. It's just so classy.Īt some point, the MC casually just casts off being human and is just kind of like, oh well. I always find it ironic when a minority makes fun of another minority for being a minority. At one point, around chapter 115 or so, he straight up enslaves a team of American hunters and, of course, the token black guy says something about how he's never going to be anyone's slave, right before giving into the slave spell cast on him. The MC himself is even like "my past self was a complete classist dick hole" and mentions how his current self wasn't like that but then basically says "well, they're both me, so it's fine." In a round about way, the MC just plain admits to being extremely classist and that he's fine with it, saying the (physically) strong should lead the weak. If you're curious about how the MC is a bigot, it's fairly obvious early on. It's the kind of excuse you'd expect from a lazy pre-teen. He just wanted an excuse to live where he was, so he blames his mom. The protagonist is literally just some scummy average guy with OP abilities and knowledge doing whatever he damned well pleases regardless of whether it's good or bad.Įarly on, MC is offered a better deal to go live in the States and he's just like "nah, I'd rather just live in Korea because that's where my mom lives." At no point does he pretend he's actually loyal to the corporation he signed on with, Korea or the Korean government. Even the MC's tendency to just randomly do seemingly heroic things is explained as the protagonist just wanting a cheap feel good moment. The only thing mildly redeeming about it is how honest the author is about the MC not being a hero or even anti-hero. The writing is typical of this genre, meaning it's pretty much just shit tier. Like seriously, you couldn't be arsed to fulfill the promise your entire manhua was based on!? Almost nothing that I wanted to see happen happened in the end the finale was anticlimactic and kinda boring we barely hear anything about his prior world despite all the foreshadowing that things were crossing over from it.īut honestly, the dragon thing is the most frustrating for me. The more I thought about it while writing this, the lower my score dropped. Every time, you think they are setting up something for later, but the author is just like "nah, I found a new shiny thing to focus on." Over and over. and then he fights the family and nothing happens to his mom. At one point, a person claims her family will do anything to harm the MC and it shows a picture of his mother. The hunter he rescues who promises him a favor? He doesn't meet her for over 100 chapters, and she never even reacts to seeing him again beyond "he looks familiar". His mom having an incurable disease? Solved within the first few chapters. Literally, the biggest bit of foreshadowing, a two-life promise to fight again. Throughout the entire story, all the way until he pretty much becomes all powerful, it never makes an appearance.
The dragon that he promises to see again in the second chapter. He doesn't seem to have any idea that you need to both set-up and pay off things. The author has literally 0 grasp of the concept of Chekhov's Gun nor foreshadowing of any type.
Well written characters, well written powers, well written fights, well written world building.īut the plot and pacing were utter trash.
This seemed pretty good early on, and it was almost well written throughout.īut the word almost is in that sentence for a reason.
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