나 혼자 만렙 귀환자(The Max Level Returner)

Description / Comments

Everybody who played an MMO got isekai’d into that MMO, and then over time they all die until only the protag is left, and he solo clears it because he’s just so much cooler and epic than everybody else just like kirito. Except all of the people that died didn’t actually die IRL, so once the protag “clears” it he goes back to earth and can meet everybody again and prepare to beat the boss (this time for Realsies) along with everybody else after preparing a bit and beating down all who oppose him with his super broken OP powers. He even limit breaks to become even more OP!! The first few chapters are kind of nonsense tier going back and forth constantly between timelines/perspectives.

This is a battle shounen where the protagonist is already max level and essentially going around doing newgame+ while dumb politics occasionally get in the way. However despite this being a battle shounen where 90% of the content is terrible fights, we don’t even get to see the pentultimate final battle against the final boss; it just skips over it in the dumbest way possible. What the fuck?

The work changes quite a bit in the “postpostgame” where it stops focusing on battles and starts actually focusing on the lore and communication, which is kind of a shame since it’s functionally the epilogue to the work, and is thus really short comparatively. Also as soon as the postpostgame started the amount of twinbraids rapidly shot up.

The official translation is seriously bafflingly bad; there’s tons of completely insane choices that you can kind of intuit what it should’ve been originally but they change it up for the sake of it or didn’t know what it should’ve been in the first place. For example: instead of using “kobold” they instead called them “cobalt”.

The ending is abysmal dogshit that was probably from the series being axed, but it does technically complete a majority of the (minor amount of) loose ends it had so I’m marking it as “completed” regardless. The only part of this I did enjoy even remotely was the final arc since it had the single most amount of concentrated characterization even if it was short, rushed, and ultimately pointless. I originally dropped this work around ch33, but after multiple years of reading other stuff I came back to try and power through it now that I have more tolerance for bad works. Still can’t recommend this to anybody.