I was exited to read bcs people were hyping it up but this is just another power fantasy trip like many others. It's just hype moments and one liners with immediate dopamine rewards with little to nothing in between.
Fist of all, characters just become stupid and annoying immediately after encountering MC, they either fawn over him and fall in love or just become the most heinous asshole just to be fodder for him to kill without consequences.
Everything just falls in place for him just because he knows the future, he becomes a billionare in two chapters and beats up anyone who can use his brother against him, so there is literally no conflict to be explored in regarding his own family. Talking about his brother, he is a sweetheart but you can tell he was only included to build up good report with the readers, the author doesn't know what to do with him, so he is kept inside the house safe and sound with no plot relevancy, he is only here bcs the author understands that making the mc have a family makes him more relatable to the reader, yet he has no idea what to do with it.
Again, nothing goes wrong for MC, because he is "always one step ahead", so you never have to wait much before the next hype moment, which just makes the whole thing lose it's cool factor, since it's just another in the pile of feats. The plot bend over backwards to accommodate his decisions. For example, when he pitches the idea to make a specialised online market for the players because he saw it in the future, they all say that this is a great investment for the future, since the players were bound to invest in it, and that's a great idea if they can maintain a stead number of users, however in the earlier chapters we were told that the numbers of players will only diminish from this point on, it doesn't make sense for a big CEO to say this is a "great investment for the future", maybe the immediate income would be great but the future it's only a downhill slope. It didn't make sense in the previous lives and it certainly doesn't in this one, but the author just has to give this to MC to make him look cool.
The author clearly doesn't want to address any conflicts that can't be solved through the MC killing it, one example of this is the rune that just happens to erase all traces of his murders, all problems that could arise from a possible police investigation or related to one his allies (bcs the author made it clear he doesn't have friends, only allies) or brother finding out are ruled over by this simple rune, very convenient for him... Also the other character that comits murders, the ceo black knight, never mentions this rune, I'm sure someone as cunning as him would have at least seem it in the shop, but I guess he is not as smart as our protagonist.
Another thing that pisses me off is that the woman are treated horribly, they have little personality other than just likin the MC and being meek most of the time, they are not allowed to have agency if it's not related to getting into MC's good graces, they have no ambitions or dreams, they are here to support the MC and nothing more. That is not to say the man are much better, because all of they, call woman bitches and it's not until MC puts them in their place that they actually act like normal human beings for a while, before reverting and the cycle begins again. The author NEEDS to remind you that the MC is just superior to them, so they all behave like completely animals to contrast how cool MC is.
This is a minor point since the art is great most of the time but sometimes it becomes a mess during fights, sometimes it all morphs into blurs that are impossible to understand.
This is a great read for people who just want immediate dopamine spikes, but if you are looking for a deeper more meaninful story, you won't find it here.
I was exited to read bcs people were hyping it up but this is just another power fantasy trip like many others. It's just hype moments and one liners with immediate dopamine rewards with little to nothing in between.
Fist of all, characters just become stupid and annoying immediately after encountering MC, they either fawn over him and fall in love or just become the most heinous asshole just to be fodder for him to kill without consequences.
Everything just falls in place for him just because he knows the future, he becomes a billionare in two chapters and beats up anyone who can use his brother against him, so there is literally no conflict to be explored in regarding his own family. Talking about his brother, he is a sweetheart but you can tell he was only included to build up good report with the readers, the author doesn't know what to do with him, so he is kept inside the house safe and sound with no plot relevancy, he is only here bcs the author understands that making the mc have a family makes him more relatable to the reader, yet he has no idea what to do with it.
Again, nothing goes wrong for MC, because he is "always one step ahead", so you never have to wait much before the next hype moment, which just makes the whole thing lose it's cool factor, since it's just another in the pile of feats. The plot bend over backwards to accommodate his decisions. For example, when he pitches the idea to make a specialised online market for the players because he saw it in the future, they all say that this is a great investment for the future, since the players were bound to invest in it, and that's a great idea if they can maintain a stead number of users, however in the earlier chapters we were told that the numbers of players will only diminish from this point on, it doesn't make sense for a big CEO to say this is a "great investment for the future", maybe the immediate income would be great but the future it's only a downhill slope. It didn't make sense in the previous lives and it certainly doesn't in this one, but the author just has to give this to MC to make him look cool.
The author clearly doesn't want to address any conflicts that can't be solved through the MC killing it, one example of this is the rune that just happens to erase all traces of his murders, all problems that could arise from a possible police investigation or related to one his allies (bcs the author made it clear he doesn't have friends, only allies) or brother finding out are ruled over by this simple rune, very convenient for him... Also the other character that comits murders, the ceo black knight, never mentions this rune, I'm sure someone as cunning as him would have at least seem it in the shop, but I guess he is not as smart as our protagonist.
Another thing that pisses me off is that the woman are treated horribly, they have little personality other than just likin the MC and being meek most of the time, they are not allowed to have agency if it's not related to getting into MC's good graces, they have no ambitions or dreams, they are here to support the MC and nothing more. That is not to say the man are much better, because all of they, call woman bitches and it's not until MC puts them in their place that they actually act like normal human beings for a while, before reverting and the cycle begins again. The author NEEDS to remind you that the MC is just superior to them, so they all behave like completely animals to contrast how cool MC is.
This is a minor point since the art is great most of the time but sometimes it becomes a mess during fights, sometimes it all morphs into blurs that are impossible to understand.
This is a great read for people who just want immediate dopamine spikes, but if you are looking for a deeper more meaninful story, you won't find it here.