u/Tyedauthor

Why do authors almost always screw up their best stories at the end? Like, they suddenly change everything and forget why the story started in the first place, or... I don't know, what the MC even wanted.

Seriously, there are moments in manga/manhwa/novels, even when they're only halfway through the story, where they could've just ended it right there and everyone would've been satisfied.

But they keep going, and then completely ruin it. Maybe it's a reset (I don't really mind those, I'm only mentioning them because a lot of people hate them), a forced relationship pulled out of... God knows where, an OP villain dying in the most pathetic way possible (unless it's the “I used to be like you” type 🤣🤣), and plenty of other stuff I've heard about.

Over the past few years, Japan has been pumping out nothing but generic isekai, all following the same cheap formula. Truck-kun, die, get transported, get reincarnated, receive a system, become ridiculously OP.

“What happens?” Korea does the same thing, but with like three genres.

Regression: you go back to the past. A family that never wanted you suddenly loves you for absolutely no reason.

You die and wake up inside a novel, and somehow you remember EVERYTHING about the novel. 🤡 Bro, what the fuck are you? And then there’s the whole “popular game” thing where the MC gets betrayed, goes back in time, and decides he won’t trust anyone this time around (just to play the game again). And don’t even get me started on Murim.

Why do I say Korea is doing it in a bad way?

Because Japan doesn’t only have that. You’ve got One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, and plenty of other series. Sure, some of them have similarities, but they aren’t just copy-pasting the exact same formula over and over again.

And Korea has an absolutely insane advantage: their art is fucking amazing. If they started putting out more genuinely good stories, the competition with manga would actually be debatable.

Anyway, there was never any competition because Overflow is right there. ✋🗿🤚

I don’t know if this actually goes with the image and title, but I always get eye AIDS whenever I see this trope.

The MC was a complete piece of shit in his first life. No magic, no talent, nothing. His entire family treated him exactly like that: like a worthless piece of shit. Everyone humiliated and mistreated him, and nobody ever stood up for him, except maybe some nice maid who would take care of him afterward.

So what happens? He magically goes back in time or gets reincarnated, although reincarnation is less common.

Now suddenly he’s talented and has magic, and while he was dying, the MC promised that he would get his revenge if he ever got another chance.

Guess what? In his second life, he magically has a protective sister who actually cares about him, his father wasn’t as bad as we thought (or as the MC thought), and now this dumbass has completely forgotten everything that happened to him and just wants his father and everyone else to acknowledge him. Bro. 🤡🤡

And to top it all off, he massacres people who are basically innocent while letting the actual people responsible off the hook.

Like... what happened to the revenge plot?

Now they’re going to drag this sh*t out as much as possible, instead of just having the dumbass protagonist tell the Saint that he’s the Night Hound, or Vikir. They really have the audacity to give us 10+ chapters of nothing but confusion.

Vikir escaped the ninth floor and is now on the 10th floor, “Lost Paradise,” but it’s a trap. In order to escape, both participants have to genuinely want to leave the floor. But judging by how the manhwa is going, it looks like Vikir isn’t going to tell the Saint that he’s “Vikir” and that they need to escape.

I didn’t read the novel up to this point, so I have no idea what’s going to happen.

Let me make one thing clear right away: you guys are NOT gonna shit on this book.

Like, you picked it up looking for one thing and found something completely different. Maybe you were curious and didn't expect much. Maybe it was the title, or even the synopsis.

And guess fucking what? YOU FOUND A GOLD MINE! One you just kept mining until the very end.

And please, none of that “BRO THIS IS PEAK FICTION 🔥🔥🔥” shit from someone who'd defend the book with their life.

Tell me what the author actually did that made you react like that. Like, “Wait, the author actually did THAT? Fuck it, I'm reading it.”

Explain what made it so peak. Let people who haven't read it decide whether it actually lives up to the hype.

Seriously, why the hell can't I learn something in a few seconds after reading the manual or just taking a quick look at it? Why do I have to spend years learning it too? No, this makes absolutely no sense to me. I think this is just a government measure to keep us under control.

Why do I have to spend more than five years becoming a doctor? I mean, give the patient a little ice, put a gag in their mouth, and I'm ready to operate. Give me my license already!

The author keeps insisting that the MC will only end up with ONE heroine. Fine. I accept it. That's actually a damn good idea, bro.

But here's the fucking problem: that supposedly "main heroine" is stiffer than a stone statue for several volumes, or even hundreds of chapters. The girl barely talks. She doesn't say more than two sentences at a time. She has no personality. She's cold. Like, really fucking cold.

And the romance comes from ONE side: the MC.

Meanwhile, the other "disposable" girls, because that's apparently what they're supposed to be, get more development, more chemistry, and better interactions with this loveless, spineless idiot of an MC.

And he rejects them.

At that point, I'm still not that mad about it. A little, maybe.

But here's the real pain in the ass:

The author then expects us to love the main heroine.

Bro, SHE DID NOTHING.

Well... okay, she did something.

She turned the MC into a simp.

And apparently we're supposed to consider that peak romance. 🤬🤬🤬

Hello everyone! I'm currently writing a dark fantasy with hard progression.

Hematic Winter.

A dark fantasy progression story.

The MC wakes up in an unfamiliar world with the last few hours of his life completely missing. He has no idea how he got there or who brought him to that place. While searching for answers, he's chosen by a mysterious System to take part in a series of infernal trials, a ruthless world where survival is the only rule.

But things go wrong almost immediately.

His name doesn't exist in the System's records, so it's flagged as a virus and cursed with [Cursed Heart]. From that moment on, the protagonist must fight not only monstrous creatures, but also his own heartbeat.

If you enjoy hard progression fantasy, a protagonist who's up against the very creator of his world yet refuses to give up, then Hematic Winter might be for you.

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