Superstar From Age 0
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Sounds like Superstar Uncle with (somehow) even more suspension of disbelief lol
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Quite good, it's a fun read
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It's... OK? Barely. Honestly it's probably not even OK. But if you're completely out of other stuff to read: you have bad art, bad writing, bad plot, bad characters. This is essentially an actor story power fantasy with zero depth, and the author uses the whole "reincarnation powers" thing as a way to explain why the character is so good at acting without touching upon the subject matter at all (acting, entertainment industry).
It's to the point where the MCs successes doesn't even feel like something earned or deserved, rather he just uses magic to literally mind control everyone into thinking he's a good actor. It doesn't do the acting/entertainment part well, nor does it do the reincarnation thing well. It doesn't do comedy well either, and it doesn't do iyashikei well. Every part of this is below sub-par or outright bad, but it barely holds together because you, the reader, is desperately hoping that next chapter might have something interesting.
The characters and every "plot point" only serves as a piece to make everyone go "wow, MC is so good!" and it tends to fall very flat with how poorly everything else is written. The world feels incredibly cardboard cutout in every sense. There is no reason to care about any character or anything that happens; all that you have to do as the reader is to try your best to wring some miniscule amount of dopamine out from when MC does something (allegedly) good.
If you make it past the excruciatingly long baby-arc and stick with it after that, then.. Well, you know what you're in for. It doesn't get any better.
I'd recommend reading To Be an Actor if you want something with a similar premise that is actually good. This is dog water in comparison.
And in comparison to other actor-focused manga (reincarnation/time travel notwithstanding), this is less than trash.
It's to the point where the MCs successes doesn't even feel like something earned or deserved, rather he just uses magic to literally mind control everyone into thinking he's a good actor. It doesn't do the acting/entertainment part well, nor does it do the reincarnation thing well. It doesn't do comedy well either, and it doesn't do iyashikei well. Every part of this is below sub-par or outright bad, but it barely holds together because you, the reader, is desperately hoping that next chapter might have something interesting.
The characters and every "plot point" only serves as a piece to make everyone go "wow, MC is so good!" and it tends to fall very flat with how poorly everything else is written. The world feels incredibly cardboard cutout in every sense. There is no reason to care about any character or anything that happens; all that you have to do as the reader is to try your best to wring some miniscule amount of dopamine out from when MC does something (allegedly) good.
If you make it past the excruciatingly long baby-arc and stick with it after that, then.. Well, you know what you're in for. It doesn't get any better.
I'd recommend reading To Be an Actor if you want something with a similar premise that is actually good. This is dog water in comparison.
And in comparison to other actor-focused manga (reincarnation/time travel notwithstanding), this is less than trash.
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