To Be a Power in the Shadows! (WN)

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Just like how everyone adores heroes in their childhood, a certain boy adored those who hid in the shadows. One day, after living the mediocre life of a side character while undergoing frenzied training by night, he reincarnates in a different world and gains ultimate power. The young man who is only playing at being a secretive powerhouse, his misunderstanding subordinates, and a struggling, giant, shadowy organization…

This is the story of a boy who adored shadowy manipulations who might possibly reign over the dark side of another world.

Associated Names
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Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
TEIS
The Eminence in Shadow (LN)
想要成为影之实力者
陰の実力者になりたくて!
Related Series
To Be a Power in the Shadows! (LN) (Light Novel)
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Amadeus RavenClaw
Amadeus RavenClaw rated it
April 8, 2020
Status: c203
Started reading after the manga adaption and was hooked. I have to say that this novel had me in the first half. I had many moments of reading this novel and would start laughing from the mc's bizarre antics. MC is likeable and the entire novel is pretty much a parody of any cliche out there.

Although, after reaching the later chapters, things started to dull and I became less interested into the new characters and development. Not to say it was not well written, but it had failed to captivate... more>> me as a reader.

All in all, 5/7. <<less
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sleib
sleib
August 16, 2019
Status: c178
Amazing story, it is funny yet still has great action scenes and an interesting world. Usually, such stories are just for fun with barely any plot and rediculous powers but here you can have both. MC is lucky but the powers he achieved is solely through his training and crafting, not some sudden powerup or finding an object.
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sukruth33
sukruth33
March 19, 2019
Status: c10
The main character is a full-blown, off-the-walls chuuni. It was fun to read in the beginning how he tries to justify the existence of magic and ends up losing it, all in the quirky voice of his inner monologue.
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Fily-91
Fily-91 rated it
September 16, 2018
Status: c120
I am really satisfied with this novel, so far is one of the best I have read. Even if 120 chapt are too few for me, just waiting for more. Don't be mislead by the first few chapters, they are a little difficult to follow, but it is wort it!

If you dislike the usual useless sentences like "as expected from him. So strong. And any other cliche and useless words " than this novel is the good one for you.

Till now the world is still not built in full, this... more>> is the only negative aspect in my opinion. <<less
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AbsoluteNothingness
AbsoluteNothingness rated it
July 21, 2018
Status: c180
Really interesting novel. The beginning was great though the quality decreased afterwards.

But still I enjoyed reading this.

Cid, the MC does not care for anything else other than his dream "To be a power in the shadows" and everything he builds up is for that goal. Sometimes he himself does not how to "quantify" his dream and try to explore what he wants to do.

The Chuunibyou in here is sometimes very hard not to laugh at and cringe at, but thats what makes this novel fun to read as we explore... more>> the chuuni dreams of the MC <<less
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Silver Snake
Tycheri rated it
June 27, 2018
Status: c42
It's good when it's being zero to fifty percent serious, but when it's being one hundred percent serious the series loses me. The comedy is good. Though
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the girl gets captured then saved twice in a row and the bad guy does a evil transformation three times in a row is kind of boring.

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The actual "plot" is a bit bland, but the characters' contrasting viewpoints are absolutely wonderful
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Fuxy
Fuxy
March 29, 2018
Status: c5
Honesty I don't like the premis so far because it makes the MC look completely incompetent and OK with it.

It's probably funny but the only way I would be laughing is if the MC gets killed because of his delusions and we get to follow the other characters afterwards.

Now that would be light novel gold right there.
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kalich411
kalich411
March 23, 2018
Status: c5
Very funny and interesting. Very capable protagonist, and he himself does not

understand some aspects of his wits, that comes to him naturally. Interesting suppor characters. Worthy to reading plot. Overall - recomended to read
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Stormingtiger101
Stormingtiger101
March 22, 2018
Status: c5
The main flaw of this web novel, is it's lack of connection to the world and environment that is being presented. For example in the second chapter there is a scene that deals with bandits. Now the environment presented is an abandoned village. Nothing wrong with that. However, there is no description of the abandoned village. So you have no idea what the houses look like, or what the ground looks like. All your left with is the name abandoned village, you don't even have a barebones idea of what... more>> it looks. Same exact problem with the bandit. Hell, there is even a bandit called Boss A, and he blank discription. The author didn't even bother to give him some cliche scars on his eye.

The characters suffer the same things as mention above about the world and environment.

Grammatically, the translator and editor did fine. I didn't see any glaring grammar flaw. So they did their job well enough.

In conclusion, it's not very good. The author really needs to learn what show don't tell is. Though, do take into consideration that these are the first five chapters. So things may improve, but these are glaring flaws. I'll probably continue to read, for the hell of it. I wasn't bored when reading, and it seemed to be fun. <<less
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