The Veteran Healer Is Overpowered
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I'm absolutely cooked.
I'm at chapter 5 and so far it's just... boring?
I am so tired of seeing arrogant mooks throw their weight around only to be crushed by the MC...
At least give them a personality other than 'arrogant mook', dammit.
Having the MC bound to a sassy demon familiar isn't remotely new. The Korean LitRPG Apocalypse setting is the same as always. Having an OP MC is old hat. I can't think of a single new thing this story is doing.
5.5/10, I guess. It's painfully average, but has no glaring flaws.
I am so tired of seeing arrogant mooks throw their weight around only to be crushed by the MC...
At least give them a personality other than 'arrogant mook', dammit.
Having the MC bound to a sassy demon familiar isn't remotely new. The Korean LitRPG Apocalypse setting is the same as always. Having an OP MC is old hat. I can't think of a single new thing this story is doing.
5.5/10, I guess. It's painfully average, but has no glaring flaws.
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Bro, is why is the requirement for getting onto popular just being pure generic slop?
What decides 'Popular new title' anyway? Is it some automated stuff that just looks at ratings/internet traffic or is it the mangadex staff/moderators?
Because yeah, the fact that THIS is considered 'popular' is extremely questionable. My biggest bet is that some moderator or Mangadex staff is doing someone a favor.
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Painfully average Mc finds his way home from another dimension and is immediately handed everything on a silver platter. It's like the author is allergic to pacing his story.
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I'm pretty sure it's just one of the uploaders botting views and ratings on their mangadex uploads to try and get traffic to their website. I find it strange for this to be considered "popular" and have so few comments with such a high rating for this slop.
This is okay popcorn. A little light on the butter, but it's nicely salted.
More seriously, the art is nice, the protag knows exactly how strong he is and takes full advantage, the plot is a straight forward 'who killed my student?' mystery, the demon gimmick isn't original but is interesting in concept and the fights are fairly well paced and laid out. His actual power reveal is a nice twist as well.
I'm at chapter 13 now and I'll go to 23 where the updates are at to see if I'll keep going.
What keeps this from being actually good:
The demon demanding food in exchange for using the abilities it's eaten, is unique. But it's not used well. There are comments from the other characters about how much he eats now but it's treated as a throw away line/running joke. This should be a HUGE handicap for him. There should be examples of him (either a longer prologue with him in the demon realm or a flashback to that time) not getting to use abilities because he didn't feed the demon. This feels like a comedy so it's probably not up to showing the graphic 'eat the demons because there is nothing else' but implying it wouldn't hurt. Hell even just a comment on how now that he's on earth he'll never have to eat that stuff again would've helped. This boy has a limitation built in, but it's not being utilized at all.
They focus on the protag for too long, and we don't get to see other people's reactions enough. Half the fun of the flat, OP anti-hero character that no one has seen in 10 years but it's been 100 for him, is other peoples reactions. He is behaving like a mostly feral animal right now (which is the correct take, he's been alone for too long). There is one person on his leash (the brother). The problem with this is that we have no frame of reference. For all we know he's always been like this (the mad dog title and his true ability does imply it but still). We needed a whole chapter focused on the brother after he realized the protag is alive (but before they met up), that needed to be filled with what he was like before he disappeared. (Hell it'd be funny if he was always like this but the brother has rose tinted glasses about the whole thing.)
They also rushed the field operative thing too quickly. There should have been a chapter (at minimum) with him settling in on earth again and learning at the headquarters and it should have focused on everyone around him learning that he's a feral gremlin that doesn't listen, eats too much and hovers around his younger brother. One or two misunderstandings where he scares the crap out of everyone there wouldn't hurt either, as long as it's the brother that pulls on the leash. This would also clarify if when he talks to the demon others can hear him, (they clarified no one can hear the demon but no one seems to respond to him talking to the demon.) adding another layer to the 'holy shit he's crazy' angle.
I think it's this lack of others reacting to the crazy person in a normal way that people are reacting to when they call this slop. It feels very forced when he only encounters people who are used to being powerful and treat him like they do everyone else. If we saw people who are used to being weak (ie. normal people) treating like he's weak as well that would go a long way. It's been said that the agency he's with never attracts strong people, which explains the prejudice, but it feels like it wasn't expressed well. We do need a 'show don't tell' scene of him bailing out the weak guys like an asshole because he considers the enemy weak.
So TL: DR,
The art is pretty, the plot is easy to follow, and it feels like we are missing entire chapters of slower scenes of him interacting with normal people. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
More seriously, the art is nice, the protag knows exactly how strong he is and takes full advantage, the plot is a straight forward 'who killed my student?' mystery, the demon gimmick isn't original but is interesting in concept and the fights are fairly well paced and laid out. His actual power reveal is a nice twist as well.
drain Healer. Which always has implications.
What keeps this from being actually good:
The demon demanding food in exchange for using the abilities it's eaten, is unique. But it's not used well. There are comments from the other characters about how much he eats now but it's treated as a throw away line/running joke. This should be a HUGE handicap for him. There should be examples of him (either a longer prologue with him in the demon realm or a flashback to that time) not getting to use abilities because he didn't feed the demon. This feels like a comedy so it's probably not up to showing the graphic 'eat the demons because there is nothing else' but implying it wouldn't hurt. Hell even just a comment on how now that he's on earth he'll never have to eat that stuff again would've helped. This boy has a limitation built in, but it's not being utilized at all.
They focus on the protag for too long, and we don't get to see other people's reactions enough. Half the fun of the flat, OP anti-hero character that no one has seen in 10 years but it's been 100 for him, is other peoples reactions. He is behaving like a mostly feral animal right now (which is the correct take, he's been alone for too long). There is one person on his leash (the brother). The problem with this is that we have no frame of reference. For all we know he's always been like this (the mad dog title and his true ability does imply it but still). We needed a whole chapter focused on the brother after he realized the protag is alive (but before they met up), that needed to be filled with what he was like before he disappeared. (Hell it'd be funny if he was always like this but the brother has rose tinted glasses about the whole thing.)
They also rushed the field operative thing too quickly. There should have been a chapter (at minimum) with him settling in on earth again and learning at the headquarters and it should have focused on everyone around him learning that he's a feral gremlin that doesn't listen, eats too much and hovers around his younger brother. One or two misunderstandings where he scares the crap out of everyone there wouldn't hurt either, as long as it's the brother that pulls on the leash. This would also clarify if when he talks to the demon others can hear him, (they clarified no one can hear the demon but no one seems to respond to him talking to the demon.) adding another layer to the 'holy shit he's crazy' angle.
I think it's this lack of others reacting to the crazy person in a normal way that people are reacting to when they call this slop. It feels very forced when he only encounters people who are used to being powerful and treat him like they do everyone else. If we saw people who are used to being weak (ie. normal people) treating like he's weak as well that would go a long way. It's been said that the agency he's with never attracts strong people, which explains the prejudice, but it feels like it wasn't expressed well. We do need a 'show don't tell' scene of him bailing out the weak guys like an asshole because he considers the enemy weak.
So TL: DR,
The art is pretty, the plot is easy to follow, and it feels like we are missing entire chapters of slower scenes of him interacting with normal people. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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mediocre, poor writing (no build up, no proper pacing, just whatever the plot demands) cliche characters and everyone acts like puppets following the script, not once did i go like "of course, that's how a person would react to, anything".
Just another half baked power trip with half baked revenge sub plot, boring waste of time.
Just another half baked power trip with half baked revenge sub plot, boring waste of time.
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this was really helpful, thanks. I was wondering whether I should drop this in the first chapter or read two more and then drop it, but you convinced me that my time is worth more than this, so thanks again!
Always happy to help!
I’ve been tempted to look for the original novel to see if the slower scenes were cut out but a cursory look shows everything either paywalled or DMCA’ed.
The hook wasn’t good enough for me to look harder lol.
