To Deprive a Deprived Person

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Sato Yu is a 12-year-old boy. He is a deprived person. His life is depriving. His step father has a large amount of debt.

One day, he is transported into a different world with cheat like stealing ability. Will he stay deprived?

Associated Names
One entry per line
Bereave or Bereaved
The Deprivers and the Deprived
To Deprive a Depriver
Ubau Mono Ubawareru Mono
奪う者 奪われる者
Related Series
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The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time (2)
Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (LN) (1)
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Sevens (1)
Living in this World with Cut & Paste (1)
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Latest Release

Date Group Release
09/19/21 FoxTeller c327
09/18/21 FoxTeller c326
09/17/21 FoxTeller c325
09/11/21 FoxTeller c323
09/05/21 FoxTeller c322
09/04/21 FoxTeller c321
08/29/21 FoxTeller c320
08/28/21 FoxTeller c319
08/22/21 FoxTeller c318
08/21/21 FoxTeller c317
08/15/21 FoxTeller c316 part2
08/14/21 FoxTeller c315 part1
08/08/21 FoxTeller c314
08/07/21 FoxTeller c313 part2
08/01/21 FoxTeller c312 part1
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phreakinsane
phreakinsane rated it
December 8, 2019
Status: c38
I really like the story through the manga and the novel to 38 is decent. The translation is a bit difficult to get through in places. I really didnt like a few things that happened in the novel vs the manga. The new arc around chapter 38 (not sure exactly which chapter starts it) is garbage, and was the last straw for me having already gotten sick of a few really frustrating things that were getting on my nerves. In short issues with the MC acting like a beta.

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Basically my discontent revolves around many dumb choices the MC makes. In a few places by now some npc's grope the mc's girls without the MC doing anything about it. (One even winks at the MC while clearly perving out about the girl and MC just stands there - Seriously MAN UP or you dont deserve the girls in the first place. *Angry sigh*) I also didnt like the interactions the MC has with the adventurers guild I felt that he wasn't reacting as he should have to other peoples deception/manipulation.

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In short, he goes back and forth between being an OP alpha type to being a doormat beta, as previously stated. <<less
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Hajime_005
Hajime_005 rated it
July 31, 2018
Status: c163
Funny how the author just changes a characters personality willy nilly. Well there is no character development at all so lets just dump all that in the bin. Awful time skip that suddenly changes the genre to city building.
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Ex: The generic boastful naive mage suddenly becomes a silent type mage

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Kazecoatl
Kazecoatl rated it
November 14, 2017
Status: c24
Fine novel but still I'm going to drop it.

This is a generic reincarnated story based on a MC that was abused by his family to death, literally. The premise is interesting and the developement is also. I'm not going to say that it's great but it's entertaining. You have a likeable female lead, a sometimes frustrating but still cute male lead and an edgy plot of revenge. The game-like levels and skills system is overused in these kind of stories but still it fulfills its mission of stating the differences... more>> between characters and making it easy to grasp how powerful or how weak said character is. Something that can be questioned about the developement of the MC is that he is too mature for his age without something to back it up (e.g. he was an adult in his previous life and when he reincarnated he became a child). It is true that people in hostile environments mature faster but this is still a 12 years old... But then, this is just my personal opinion and it will not affect the flow of the novel.

Now, despite everything I have said about the novel, the reason I'm dropping this is because its translation is so inacurate it's unbearable. It's true that a professional translator doesn't translates everything in a "literal" way, otherwise we would miss on jokes and proverbs or manners of speaking of the characters and in the worst cases miss a key point in the plot. But there is interpretation and other completely different is taking liberties at translate something. And starting by the title. The title translates easily to "The Deprivers and the Deprived" as in one of the "Alternative titles" (I really think that this should become the main title), and it goes nowhere near to "To Deprive a Deprived Person" this is just shameless. Next we have the story... if you read a little in japanese the chapters you quickly realize that "Rebirth Online World" did a lousy job in translate, whether it be lack of knowledge, MT or simply because laziness.

In other words, this is a nice story mu*dered by the translator.

Addendum: It might have gotten better in subsequent chapters but I really got turned off by the early translations. <<less
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Silver Snake
Ghostap rated it
March 9, 2017
Status: c100
Basically a worse version of Death March. Yes we know the MC is mega op. But what saves these sort novels are not the MC who we are supposedly supposed to take the viewpoint of. But are the amazing side characters of which this novel has none of. Perhaps I was just to disappointed by the first main-side-character who had the one track of mind of if their against the MC they are dead. With which I reply don't you have any goals for yourself? All the death march characters... more>> were just sooo good. <<less
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Lachiel
Lachiel rated it
October 24, 2015
Status: --
This novel.. is shallow at best is how I would describe it.. The MC in his first world was deprived.. whoo.. and in his second world he almost became deprived.. errr... He meets waifu's and starts to deprive others.. Errrr okay then..

The translation is from Machine's (Yes like google, bing, ect..) so its not really a translation per say.. :/
Recommended if someone has legit nothing else to read.
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Melakias
Melakias rated it
October 22, 2015
Status: --
Deprive ends small to describe what the MC lived, or more likely, suffered in his previous life, instead of dying he found himself in a different world. RPG elements, strange movements behind the presented story.

MC quickly grows stronger by stealing other people’s skills and abilities, trains himself a harem of powerful girls that quickly fall in love with him.

Some comedy, a lot of adventure, not bad story. Superficial warning, Translation is not the best, some unedited parts can be hard to read.
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isekaitruckdriver
isekaitruckdriver rated it
January 28, 2024
Status: c107
The beginning of the story was fairly decent, the fights and plot points were exciting and the number of incosistencies didn't exceed the average that is expected of a web novel.

So I guess the first ~100 chapters are quite okay if you're looking for a light read with an ability-stealer MC who's a bit edgy sometimes but at least not a whiny hypocrite who thinks friendship can cure serial killers and lets all his enemies go. For that alone the rating went up by 1 for me.

BUT what is even... more>> happening with these plotlines?! There are so many of them introduced that I'm starting to lose track of them.

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First, there's old lady Stella who took care of him. She shared some very important info with Nina we still don't know about. Also she was some kind of weird existence who erased herself from almost everyone's memories upon her death. Then there's some church leader twat who's also called Stella and she is referred to as a twin-sait or something.

Then there are the annoying nobles who are very interested in the MC for whatever reason.

Then there's some Immortal Army or whatever who somehow also know about the MC and want to capture him... Reasons, of course, unexplained.

Then there's another archbishop in the church of racism who sends spies after the MC. Why? Who knows? How do they even know about him?!

And then yet another group appears who we don't know anything about but they kill some church spies.

AND THEN even the finance minister (this country must have a sh*t ton of leeway if a finance minister has time for sh*t like this) starts sending his goons after the MC...

Where I am at the story the MC just took out a dude (I don't know who he was affiliated with, maybe the immortal army?) who could summon demons... Then took out a wolfman mf... And a group of spies. So... Now he has less enemies? Haha. You think.

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You'd think that after disposing of so many enemies, their numbers would decrease... But no! The enemies just keep multiplying and the MC is still completely clueless about ALL OF THEM. Why? How?!

Edit at c167: Ok, I surrender. This author is just introducing plot twist after plot twist, pretty much for the sake of having more plot twists. It only makes the story more annoying without resolving anything. <<less
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Vorthod
Vorthod rated it
September 29, 2022
Status: c108
The series isn't offensively bad or anything, but it has a bad habit of making assumptions about the world that have not been explained to the readers. Yes, this MC has a very good cheat ability, but that alone is not enough to explain some of the things he does. There's no reason he should be able to do some of the things he does.
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Why is he able to develop his "Heaven's Net" detection ability after only depriving a bunch of warriors of their skills? Later characters even remark that that ability is reminiscent of a legendary saint's detection ability. Why is he able to kill high ranking monsters with just rank 1 pebble shot magic without any sort of "magic power increase" skill? Why are all his allies equally OP after travelling with him for only a month or so (at least before Yu unlocks enchantment magic at which point there's at least a reason for them to be OP). The only thing he really taught them was chantless skill usage which, by the way, seems way too easy to learn for it to be considered as impressive as it is. Yu basically does it by accident and everyone in the series (except like one Rank A adventurer who can also do it) freaks out when they see it.

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Characters are also pretty inconsistent. No matter what kind of varied backstory the female cast are introduced with (trauma, desire for revenge, goals of grandeur), they all end up as generic worshipers of the MC who also totally love him within the first five minutes of joining up.
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The first party member is someone with a bad trauma regarding men to the point where she basically can't join parties with men anymore, and her first interaction with the MC is getting humiliated in a somewhat similar manner to her trauma. And yet within moments of joining together in a party, she becomes ridiculously clingy with the MC for no discernable reason.

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The story is kind of fun to read if you turn off your brain and stop asking questions about why characters do or don't do certain things. Honestly, I am not sure whether to give this 2 or 3 stars. As of where I am right now, I did enjoy the series well enough so I feel like 2 would be too low, but also the series is kind of just coasting on momentum and even massive conspiracies are barely registering on my interest meter anymore. I will go ahead and leave 3 stars to represent my current level of enjoyment, but I fully anticipate the series to go downhill from here. I think I will drop it here
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Fixation
Fixation
June 8, 2022
Status: c295
A mildly entertaining series. A big problem, aside from the translation quality dropping steeply around halfway through, is that the series is basically Slice of Life while desperately pretending it isn't. Trying to mix together the slice of life chapters with the ones trying to follow the main storyline make an extremely disjointed, and messy, narrative. This is compounded by the fact that there is teleportation magic, so it makes things even more chaotic. Like Yu and friends will hop between dungeons and cities in between chapters with no warning,... more>> so it makes what they are doing even more confusing because there is no lead up on why they ended up where they are. Also, there are too many characters with too little development. The series is completely overambitious with the number of characters it introduces, making differentiating the characters difficult at times. The translation also doesn't help in this regard, because it doesn't stay consistent. Like I understand different translator groups not keeping consistent with the terms and names that previous translators have used, but FoxTeller has translated since chapter 1 so it's much less forgiveable. One of my biggest issues, though, is:
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Nina's entire character arc (?). It's just weird. Like it's an extremely edgy, hamfisted attempt at building up a 'betrayal' that just doesn't work. First of all, this goes on for WAY too long. Like there are plenty of half-assed hints here and there that Nina is sketchy as f*ck, but the first overt mention is around chapter 170 or so when she meets up with some shady religious person referring to her by a number. Where I am now, at chapter 295, this STILL hasn't been resolved and her motivations haven't even been remotely fleshed out, aside from I think a mention of a character having the ability to restore her memories (?) being what drives her and another throwaway line that shows that Nina has conflicting motivations with her stating that she [like the person who 'controls' her, Archbishop Oliver or something (?) ] "also wants to use Yu to start a war" although despite Nina and the other person seem to be working together on the surface, it is phrased as if Nina's objective runs counter to is. Also she directly kills people who should be her 'allies' just for insulting Yu. What she wants or thinks makes no sense, only thing that I can really come up with is she's a Yandere who is obsessed with Yu who due to a personal grudge with the holy church or empire or whatever and wants to destroy it so she plays along with their schemes in order to eventually mu*der them with Yu's help, while also preventing Yu from finding out 'the truth'. Basically, this whole plot point has just dragged on for WAYYYY too long and it's just plain annoying. Especially b/c if my conjecture is accurate, without hesitation Yu would willingly destroy the holy empire for Nina's sake if she desired some sort of revenge, thus she would have no reason to manipulate him.

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Ahh, quite the wordy pointless rant. TL;DR The story is, to put it nicely, a mess. The narrative is needlessly annoying to follow and the plot heavily drags because of unclear characterization and the story can't decide if it wants to be Slice of Life or to follow a consistently linear narrative <<less
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Elphus
Elphus rated it
August 26, 2021
Status: c220
Not to kick an author after they already cried on Narou, but if you're going to write about a character being tortured, the absolute minimum you have to do is look at actual documents regarding the torture of PoWs and so on.

This child has survived straight up mu*der attempts and all he uses it for is some big "woe is me I can look out for myself", basically? The torture he talks about would have literally killed him at six years old, but somehow it's EdgePoints to talk about how... more>> you survived it to some old dude who's looking out for you or whatever.

The harem in this is also succeeding in being so barren of real human thought and feelings that I'm surprised it even got ten volumes in publication. I've never met any woman, teen or otherwise, who acts as terminally insane as this cast does.

The sheer fact people keep translating it is the entirety of my rating. You're a monument to inspire people on the ideal of Perseverance. <<less
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ZeroA2
ZeroA2 rated it
August 14, 2021
Status: c26
Really poorly written. The clichés are all it has going for it. The characters are incomprehensibly joined together. The protagonist is a typical edgelord. Feels like it was written by a 12-yr-old.
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Wikkr
Wikkr rated it
February 17, 2021
Status: c180
I really enjoyed this one... for the first 100 or so chapters. An interesting story with engaging characters and systems I enjoyed. It ticked multiple boxes and I chain read the first 120 chapters in a couple of days. Then the author just seems to have given up on maintaining a coherent plot. The leveling system and skill deprivation system (on which the novel is based) is essentially dropped. MC vanishes for a while and comes back super leveled but all discussion of skills is abandoned. The plot then moves... more>> onto some sort of kingdom building arc but it is completely disjointed. Important things happen off screen and are briefly mentioned now and then. Floods of new characters are introduced for no other purpose than padding out a chapter. Events stumble from one to the other with no coherent flow, the main characters can be mid way through a conversation then a flood of side characters barge in and spout nonsense and thats it.

Ive taken to skimming chapters looking for actual plot and do find the odd chapter that actually has a point to it but thus far it appears all the world building, skill systems and the very essence of the novel has been abandoned by this point (c180).

Right now its only morbid curiosity and the vague hope that the author pulls it together thats keeping me skimming. <<less
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Catherder
Catherder rated it
June 5, 2020
Status: c219
DADP starts with an intriguing premise of an abused child who becomes OP in a new world. The problem with this story is that, in my view, the author doesn't understand how to depict this sort of character. Instead, the story ends up becoming a worship-harem, if you will. But the MC lacks the emotional capability to accept his followers in a meaningful way. Eventually, the story loses steam because it seems to be a ship sailing nowhere.
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JuN-Gtx
JuN-Gtx rated it
February 15, 2020
Status: c180
For the start, it didn't start so badly. It's going pretty good with your average Japanese novel about revenge, harem and etc. And I'm really enjoying reading this novel. But as we going along until in like c150, the story becomes declined, so generic and boring and I can't find myself reading until the end.

Too many characters beside MC that got into the story and the author did not give a proper introduction to them and I have to trace them back again. The heroines.. Well they are lacking some... more>> building which myself thinking, they are pretty useless. They don't have standing point and can't support make the MC to make some amazing journey. The point is, the heroines just dragging back the MC to the point where the usual MC that gives some cool images just to like some husband that got submit to their wives.

It's pretty sad, for this novel that had a pretty good start to jumping along so bad like this in the end. There are some opportunity at first, but I guess it's just an imagination for good and proper endings <<less
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rdawv
rdawv rated it
February 18, 2016
Status: --
Review as of Ch.30.

Reminiscent of Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, Re:Monster and Death March, in that there are a lot of stat windows. Lots of them, in every chapter. The prose is a mess and I feel for the translator trying to polish it and make it more understandable for the reader. The PoV often jumps here and there and the translator is helpful enough to provide notifications who is speaking what and even provides summaries when a particular chunk of action or paragraphs might appear confusing which is a boon due... more>> to it being a machine translation.

The dialogue is very Spartan and functional. You read it and it’s easy to get what the author is trying to convey, it is simplistic and it feels like a tv episode script instead of a novel. Descriptions are sparse and assumes you already have a general idea how such RPG-like stories go. It is obviously an unpolished web-novel as there are things like skill names being changed from one chapter to another, causing confusion to the translator and editor.

It’s an average time filler, slightly better than Re:Monster but not as good as the other two examples mentioned. The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor is an epic grinding yarn, Death March is a fluffy jaunt. This title feels like someone’s first attempt in the same genre. Grimgal of Ashes and Illusion is a more professional effort if you’re looking for something more polished.

Is this worth reading? If you like reading an almost day-to-day description of a small party traveling and leveling up together, then sure. The MC isn’t as ridiculous as Re:Monster (edit: haha scratch that), the story isn’t as colorful as Death March, the text and writing style isn’t as thick as The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor. But it seems to improve chapter by chapter, and you might get some enjoyment out of investing your time in reading it.

Edit: Update of Ch. 95. The plot is still pretty generic thus far, but the atmosphere has darkened considerably. People who enjoy the dark style of Overlord can find similarities in the descriptions of violence here. You can expect minor characters who are given names to die horribly quite soon. The prose has improved tremendously, and the translation quality (still machine translated) has followed suit, though the original source remains unpolished (the translator's comments show how the author sometimes get mixed up or forgets what happened earlier). Will continue to read. <<less
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Alverost
Alverost rated it
January 13, 2016
Status: --
Honestly speaking, if you love re:monster, you are gonna love this novel. It reminds me of re:monster so much and I love it so much because the MC is just completely broken later in the novel.
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imacute
imacute rated it
November 30, 2015
Status: --
same old premise of game element world but I like it

seito yuu character is a child abused victim. Who his parent beat the crap out of him (like most bad parent in anime series)
his quality trait. He is quite smart. I would not say genius but there is moments he understand the game system.
he is consistent and productive. He is always spared his time to increased his survival with team like making potion, alchemy, inovitive magic techinique, read books and doing house works. He absolutely cold... more>> to his enemies. Do cared about people depend how you treated him and how long.

he sway to the ladies with his big thick creamy sweet
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CAKES!. You thought I was about to say dick?. You pe*vert he is still a kid.

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. The guy quite understand people intentions. He is not dense like f*cking ichika.
he does not talk romanticlly much to the ladies. The romance delevopment between him and the harem quite easy. I kinda wish more delevopment. He is a badass. There is moment of struggle. Yet it is to little.

the side characters are bit overshadow by the MC. After 100 chpt. I hope there more story other characters beside the MC.

ok, the translation is not perfect but readable. There a bit flaw in the sentences. End to close guess. The translator promised he be more relied to japanesse education than machine translators in the future. <<less
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BQDJ
BQDJ rated it
November 16, 2015
Status: --
Well, it’s not the best novel about someone transported but the quality (of the novel + the translation) is peaking up. But I wouldn’t be as radical as down below.

To deprive a deprived person is in fact pretty simple, it’s a long title for a very basic pitch. Because of all the depriving he suffered, he gains the skill called “depriver” which allows him to take skills from people. It’s what most transported MCs are capable of.

While the story is a bit random, the meetings are really coincidental and end... more>> up a bit ridiculous but still, the MC overshadows largely the side characters so no big deal ^^. It’s a pretty enjoyable story, not on the level of Tensei Shittara and Skill’s Taker, but Death March level at least (well much better but between the two levels). I really enjoy game elements novel and it's one of the prime examples of that so thumbs up ! <<less
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