The Legendary Spearman Returns
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plot definitely seems extremely rushed... id say chapter 156 redeems itself of all of the pain you go through while though! im so glad i decided to binge this today and not before. also the combat is def above average atleast. 8/10
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Unimaginative and boring. The writing is subpar. In France, we have what we call "roman de gare". These are disposable books that are bought in railroad stations only to end up in a bin after the trip. This is what it feels like. The good ol "i'm reincarnated so i have prior knowledge of msot events and im unbeatable and I'm a noble and I'm superior and i use my might to trample on everyone and now I'm the alpha dog". I had hope Lugia might bring something new but no, nothing. Main character is the blandest I've seen. 4/10, isnt even average in my opinion. Read only if you've read the endless supply of isekai provided by koreans.
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Yoo it's prepubescent children fighting with rings
Short version:
The story is disjointed and feels rushed. The author keeps dropping plot points one after another with no hint of build-up; it's exhausting. Because the author likes to change stuff up and backtrack out of the blue, the investment you feel towards the characters and the story is wasted. If you want to waste time, and not in a fun way, then this sloppy mess is for you. But if you're meaning to read something with a coherent story, then look somewhere else. I've literally wasted 3 afternoons on this mess, and I don't want to impart the same suffering onto others. Read something else.
What started as a solid 7/10, is now a 4/10. Absolute slop. I hate myself for reading it.
The story is disjointed and feels rushed. The author keeps dropping plot points one after another with no hint of build-up; it's exhausting. Because the author likes to change stuff up and backtrack out of the blue, the investment you feel towards the characters and the story is wasted. If you want to waste time, and not in a fun way, then this sloppy mess is for you. But if you're meaning to read something with a coherent story, then look somewhere else. I've literally wasted 3 afternoons on this mess, and I don't want to impart the same suffering onto others. Read something else.
What started as a solid 7/10, is now a 4/10. Absolute slop. I hate myself for reading it.
Apologies if my review seems harsh. But I just invested three entire afternoons reading this slop, dredging through the crap the author keeps on flinging at me, hoping that the story will get better, if not somewhat endurable; but nope! It just keeps going downhill, and the twists and turns the author keeps adding just make the entire thing more unbearable.
The story started out fine, with your typical manhwa time travel revenge story, but later devolved into one big convoluted mess. The MC, betrayed by his 'friends', time-travels back into his childhood with all of his memories intact. You know the drill... It's a time-travel revenge story. Nothing groundbreaking. Nothing to write home about. One thing you will notice, however, as it is immediately apparent from the first chapter, is the author's habit of casually dropping important lore out of the blue. No build-up, no tension, and no intrigue. Just casually drop it right in front of your face, and you're supposed to remember it because it's important to the story... or not... it really depends on whether the author remembers their 'important' lore or not, because, again, they like to drop these things wishy-washy casually.
With twists after twists, abrupt unexplained character developments, and sudden story u-turns... Anyone can just feel that the author is just pulling whatever nonsense they could out of their ass and shitdropping it down the readers' throats. The author seems to be writing their story as they go, with no clear idea of what they want the story to become. If this manhwa is based on an existing novel/light novel, then this iteration must have omitted a lot because the story is all style and no substance.
An example of the author's casual wishy-washy 'twists' below:
All in all, this manhwa is okay. I started reading it, thinking it would be a fun way to spend an afternoon or two, and make no mistake... it was. Or at the very least, it was in the beginning. It was genuinely a fun read, and I had a good time reading the chapters. But because the author is so fickle in changing the story and so adamant in dropping twists after twists, to the point that they backtrack previous chapters and change them... Really invalidates the investment I had given to the story and characters. If the story and characters I've invested in are at the whims of a fickle author who could change their direction just because they felt like it, why even bother investing more? If the character and/or plot point I want to follow could suddenly change out of the blue, without proper reason and/or build-up, why even follow it further?
This manhwa started 'fine', then dropped to an 'okay', and finally to a 'why?'. It's bad, and I hate myself for investing time and effort in reading it. 4/10
The story started out fine, with your typical manhwa time travel revenge story, but later devolved into one big convoluted mess. The MC, betrayed by his 'friends', time-travels back into his childhood with all of his memories intact. You know the drill... It's a time-travel revenge story. Nothing groundbreaking. Nothing to write home about. One thing you will notice, however, as it is immediately apparent from the first chapter, is the author's habit of casually dropping important lore out of the blue. No build-up, no tension, and no intrigue. Just casually drop it right in front of your face, and you're supposed to remember it because it's important to the story... or not... it really depends on whether the author remembers their 'important' lore or not, because, again, they like to drop these things wishy-washy casually.
With twists after twists, abrupt unexplained character developments, and sudden story u-turns... Anyone can just feel that the author is just pulling whatever nonsense they could out of their ass and shitdropping it down the readers' throats. The author seems to be writing their story as they go, with no clear idea of what they want the story to become. If this manhwa is based on an existing novel/light novel, then this iteration must have omitted a lot because the story is all style and no substance.
An example of the author's casual wishy-washy 'twists' below:
For the first 110 chapters, the MC's mom is basically a side character—a literal background character—and was also put in absent for most of said chapters. Out of the 110 chapters, she was shown for at least 5 chapters, all of which she was just a supporting character with 4-5 lines. She was introduced as a housemaid that his noble father had a fling with, resulting in the birth of our MC—making him an illegitimate bastard. This also means that the mother... and I want y'all to keep this in your mind... was ignored by the MC's father and was left to be mistreated by the lord's main wife and her posse, and nearly all of the knights of the father's household. Hell, she was so infamous that the low-ranking knights of the MC's father beat her up and nearly murdered her in the first chapters. But I digress... Initially, she was a character who, while important to the MC, was overall insignificant to the main plot. In fact, the MC himself sidelines his own mother at his father's mansion, pushing her out of the story, never to be seen or heard again for the next hundred chapters. You literally don't get a peep of her in the story after she was sidelined.
Then all of a sudden, after 100 fucking episodes, whoopty-fucking-doo, here comes our bipolar author and drops that the MC's mother was actually an imperial princess who was kidnapped/saved by the MC's father because her siblings—the emperor and her other brothers—want her dead! And all of a sudden, the manhwa spends the next 10 chapters explaining why all of us should care about the MC's mother, and why we should forget that they (the author) sidelined her for over 100 episodes!
Like, I understand that a twist is intriguing, especially if it catches the readers by surprise, but come on... The author literally dropped that the MC's mother is a kidnapped/saved imperial princess in passing, casually dropped with no build-up whatsoever at the end of one chapter! Not even a whole chapter! Just dropped it at the tail end of one and then explained why you should care in the next 10 chapters. WTF?! At least tease it in! Ease the damn twist by dropping some hints! I literally took a double check to see if I missed a chapter because it was so out of the blue!
Then all of a sudden, after 100 fucking episodes, whoopty-fucking-doo, here comes our bipolar author and drops that the MC's mother was actually an imperial princess who was kidnapped/saved by the MC's father because her siblings—the emperor and her other brothers—want her dead! And all of a sudden, the manhwa spends the next 10 chapters explaining why all of us should care about the MC's mother, and why we should forget that they (the author) sidelined her for over 100 episodes!
Like, I understand that a twist is intriguing, especially if it catches the readers by surprise, but come on... The author literally dropped that the MC's mother is a kidnapped/saved imperial princess in passing, casually dropped with no build-up whatsoever at the end of one chapter! Not even a whole chapter! Just dropped it at the tail end of one and then explained why you should care in the next 10 chapters. WTF?! At least tease it in! Ease the damn twist by dropping some hints! I literally took a double check to see if I missed a chapter because it was so out of the blue!
All in all, this manhwa is okay. I started reading it, thinking it would be a fun way to spend an afternoon or two, and make no mistake... it was. Or at the very least, it was in the beginning. It was genuinely a fun read, and I had a good time reading the chapters. But because the author is so fickle in changing the story and so adamant in dropping twists after twists, to the point that they backtrack previous chapters and change them... Really invalidates the investment I had given to the story and characters. If the story and characters I've invested in are at the whims of a fickle author who could change their direction just because they felt like it, why even bother investing more? If the character and/or plot point I want to follow could suddenly change out of the blue, without proper reason and/or build-up, why even follow it further?
This manhwa started 'fine', then dropped to an 'okay', and finally to a 'why?'. It's bad, and I hate myself for investing time and effort in reading it. 4/10
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