Chaotic Sword God

bobsubarashi

1 months ago

Tldr at the bottom.
4 stars might be too high(I wish I could rate it 3.5) but there are things to like if you know how to skim and you like the things I like. I'm 250 chapters in and there's tons of action and arrogance from the mc. Almost every other second the mc is making someone angry, often it isn't his fault and the author has so far had a conveyer belt of morons who line up to get beat down by him and plenty of people to ooh and aah about his amazing skills. I realized through this story I'm used to mc's in this genre being the strongest and punching far above their weight class which does still happen but our mc's strength is his crazy speed and agility along with his battle experience from his past life. He can still fight far above his class but he can't go blow to blow if the other person is way higher in cultivation than he is.
The action is fun for the most part but honestly the rest of the stuff around it is pretty bland a lot of the time. The author will introduce characters or certain process's about how the world works and then we never see them again and I've learned to skim through these parts. For a quick example the mc is selling some crazy expensive items at the auction house and the author spends 6 to 7 chapters explaining how the town reacts and how many people are coming from all around to buy it. He goes into names of blah blah clans and even makes us sit through how much people are spending for 3 chapters which I really couldn't care less about. At the very least it could be done in 2 chapters instead of 7 since out of everyone mentioned maybe one clan will show up again. Some people might like all this detail since it will flesh out the world for you but for me its just a waste of space most of the time and I've just learned to skim.
I do also have a complaint with how the mc does things from time to time. I'm used to mc's in this genre being arrogant and bringing endless trouble upon themselves bc they refuse to be stepped on and its no different here. My complaint comes from the mc saying how he wants to get strong as fast as possible and then seemingly running off to play around with a group of expendable people that slow down his progress like crazy. He makes some odd, conflicting decisions at times and it seems like the author is just putting things in so we get to a certain plot point. In closing there's plenty of action and fights along with a really op, arrogant mc(although he does get beat up a decent bit) who isn't a complete psycopath that kills everything that moves. He is generally fair although it wouldn't be this genre w/o some ruthless behavior at times. Learn to skim around the crazy amount of fluff and pointless conversations since this novel is chock full of them and you'll probably enjoy yourself.

TLDR: Lots of action with op, arrogant mc along with tons of fluff and pointless conversation that should be skimmed through so you don't waste your time.(unless you just love learning about this world but I found most of it really bland and the author spends a lot of time on random uninteresting stuff) I'd give it a go for around the first 100 chapters and if you aren't enjoying yourself by then it probably isn't for you.
Disclaimer: I've only read 250 chapters so far so maybe this changes bigtime in the future but I kind of doubt it will be thaaaat different from what we've seen.

HalfX

2 months ago

Pretty good novel, MC works hard and doesn't obtain power through a ton of bullshit luck (at least now, hopefully stays like this in the future).
Also If I wouldn't know what is the plot there is no way that I could realize that the manga and the novel are the same.. there is simply to much difference.