It's That Reincarnated-as-a-Virus Story

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Are we sure MC is a virus and not a parasite? Like virus mutation is more like a reaction instead of an active action right? Not to mention the entire control the host thing which is more of a parasite trait than a virus trait
 
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Isekai has just peaked.
Funnily enough: most viruses DON'T want to kill their host since they would also die together with their host
 
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Why couldn't this have been picked up by comickey or something? Why did it need to be officially picked up by some shitty localization company that's OVER 9 MONTHS BEHIND on releases?
 
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Magical parasite is not bad.
It moves through several "host" arcs, each one is it's own little story being built on an overall legend. 👍
 
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i think it would have been better if his virus infections worked more like a hivemind, giving him the ability to manipulate, directly control, activate various infections as he can now, or just observe through those he infects, and i think it would more interesting if his infections spread was not as fast as it is.
 
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Say what you will but the best virus for me will always be Megabyte. :p
 
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I hope this'll come back, the MC's ability is a nice spin on skill stealing.

And I like the narrowed eye merchant reminds me of a more active Hermes from Danmachi
 
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Its not very good. Despite being a "virus" his attention is almost always exclusively focused on one host, and the story is built around him aiming for increasingly human-like hosts... Completely destroying the point of making him a virus. At this point two-thirds of the series has been him using the same host and just acting as an individual.

It's really just another skill-stealing Isekai, but with far less originality or charm than big names like Slime and Kumo.
 
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So anyone who's still waiting years for the ending, here's what I can tell you from what I've gathered.

  • The story is complete, just not in manga form. If you want the ending, read the Light Novel, it's all translated.

  • Volume 3 of the manga has been done for a long time and has just a small part left of the story was left out of volume 3. So not even enough for half a volume 4.

  • The Manga artist has done work after this series, so it's not that the series isn't physically capable of being finished (i.e. artist died/got sick or the writer died/got sick before finishing.) so something must've happened behind the scenes to prevent the last couple of chapters to get finished.

If you like the artist and want more isekai fantasy, they got more for you. Want more of this writer, Fell off the face of the earth after this series so ya got nothin'. Want more virus isekai, either this series or a new one, well uhh... idk find a fanfic writer. (and do tell me about it I wanna see more like this)
 
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The story is complete, just not in manga form. If you want the ending, read the Light Novel, it's all translated.
I read it on Syosetu ages ago. The story was completed June 2018.

It's pretty short, so I'm surprised they didn't turn it into an anime. It'd easily fit the whole story into a single season.
 
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Are we sure MC is a virus and not a parasite? Like virus mutation is more like a reaction instead of an active action right? Not to mention the entire control the host thing which is more of a parasite trait than a virus trait
perhaps the author considers them the same thing. given the MC's nickname
 

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