Instant Death

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Growth cheats? Infinite magic power? The ability to utilize all archetypes? What’s the point if instant death ends everything with a single attack?

High school senior Yogiri Takatou was on a school field trip when he woke up to a dragon assaulting his sightseeing bus, with the only ones still on the bus being him and his female classmate, the panicking Tomochika Dannoura. Apparently the rest of his classmates had been given special powers by Sion, a woman who introduced herself as Sage, and escaped from the dragon, leaving those that hadn’t received any special powers behind as dragon bait.

And so Yogiri was thrown into a parallel universe full of danger, with no idea of what just happened. Likewise, Sion had no way of knowing just what kind of being she had summoned to her world.

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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! (LN)
Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou Sugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga Marude Aite ni Naranai n Desu ga
The Other World Doesn't Stand a Chance Against The Power of Instant Death
即死チートが最強すぎて、異世界のやつらがまるで相手にならないんですが。
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stolemyowncar
stolemyowncar rated it
February 8, 2022
Status: v8
I wavered a bit as to whether to give this a 4 or a 3. For now, I'm putting down a 3.

Have you ever watched The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny? The main protagonist is basically just Mr. Rogers in his bloodstained sweater, minus the suicidal urges and mania. And the music video more or less describes the entirety of the novel's premise. It's basically SCP Foundation, realized in novel form, and put onto one planet to duke it out.

You have an utterly omnipotent (thus far) protagonist that was transported... more>> into what is essentially an "arena world" (for lack of a better term) for people with utterly broken powers to duke it out. The entire gimmick of this novel is that we're talking about people have been mentioned (or actually presented even) that can destroy universes on a whim, kill gods on a whim, etc. Rewriting causality, sending objects that travel into the past and kill you in the past, rewrite present by traveling back in time, etc. All manner of utterly crazy powers and individuals present themselves in basically every chapter.

The main protagonist can essentially kill anyone that harbors any sort of ill will against him, from basically anywhere, including pocket dimensions and basically anywhere else, and can also detect ill will against him or companions, and seeing possibility of death around him. His death is utterly absolute, no amount of conceptual defense or anything can stop it (this isn't even a spoiler, you find this out very early on). His other powers seem to include

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  • Passively observing whatever dimension or reality anyone is at, after they've seen him once.... he seems to present the form of multiple eyes watching the individual, implying that he is actually omnipresent despite his human vessel being unaware of such a thing
  • As he removes more "limiters" on his power (self imposed limiters--yes, "this isn't even my final form") he becomes able to kill things with fuzzy logic. "Kill my current momentum", or "kill the entire concept of gravity"
  • This is pure conjecture but theoretically he could use successive gates to also "undo" results. After all, if he can kill the reality where someone was dead, they wouldn't be dead anymore. Shrug.
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Now you might be noticing that all I've talked about is superpowers. So here's the weak point of the novel: there is nothing else to it...

The main protagonist is literally just a narrator that moves the story along. You're there to observe how these SCP Foundation people duke it out, and then he removes them from the scene. He's basically not even a character insomuch as he is a walking literary device. Likewise, his female companion is there to... be fanservice. That's basically her only role in this, along with giving him some vague overarching reason for actually doing anything. She
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ends up being technically more amoral than he is anyway, so no she doesn't really restrain him much as he never really listens to her anyway.

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While there are backstory arcs in every chapter to give some depth to the main character, ultimately they end up falling somewhat flat (... as flat as he is as a character). Now, some of the overpowered characters that are introduced are given some backstory but ultimately it's the same thing with all of them: "they're so overpowered and think they're on top of the world, etc etc etc."

Worldbuilding? Very little. Not that it matters, the most surprising thing is really that the world hasn't gotten destroyed multiple times over as is anyway.

Overall, this story is nothing but its gimmick. The characters introduced can sometimes be colorful, and the powers presented can be unique. I think it's a fun read but ultimately it's also very vapid... each book is very short and the author doesn't go into enough detail as to how "this guy's time reversal dimensional omnipotence" lost to that other guy's "<insert something similar here>", so really you just kind of read it like you're consuming intellectual equivalent of popcorn. I'd say it's about a 3.5, have some fun with it when you're bored. <<less
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Toadpower
Toadpower rated it
April 25, 2021
Status: c128
I really enjoyed this story until one point, but I'll be getting to that later. The story has almost every character act like a main character in a generic cheat/op isekai. ... more>>
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I mean come on, a chef being able to make clones to help with cooking, cut through anything to help cooking, and more. If that isn't generic cheat/op isekai protagonist, then I don't know what is. Btw this is not the main character, just one side character, but most of them get similar treatment.

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Their powers are crazy and you'll find yourself thinking, "that kind of sounds plausible, but why?" more times than you can count when it comes to justifying the powers their class gives them. It's not a bad thing though, it makes it more interesting.

The main character, for an odd reason, lets people try their attacks if he won't die from it. He has his own sense of values because he doesn't see himself as a normal human anymore. This means his reason for killing is often unsatisfying, especially because he can't undo it and it is his only form of defense, so even the smallest threat can mean death for the opponent. Now then, let's look at the part that made me rate it 3/5 instead of 5/5.
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He starts with a whole class, kills a few who threaten to kill him. That's fine because it is easy to digest. But then around chapter 100 they start a death match between them all, and everyone in the class was killed at once by a bomb one of them created. Even the person who made it was killed. Was there a need for that? Especially because MC was about to kill the one who threatened them into the death match, and if that person died there would be no reason to fight. It wasn't entertaining, nor interesting. Of course the MC could have easly stopped it, but he didn't because he felt it would be spiting on the person's resolve to create the bomb. This is where his odd values really start to spoil things for me.

I get it, all his classmates had to die eventually due to their situation, but throwing them all away at once is just... boring. I would have much rathered he killed them one or a few at a time after they actively got in his way on his quest to get home. It just feels like there was so much missed potential there.

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Anyways that's why I dropped the series, but I may come back to it. If you can put up with what I just said in the spoiler tag, then go read it, it's a grest story! <<less
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Vandille
Vandille rated it
April 21, 2021
Status: --
Instant death..

Fufufu, One thing for sure, those harem seeking guys did not feel so good fighting this guy, all harem troupes? Nullified.

I thought it was a silly Idea, I still do (an MC with instant death is just mad) that means there won't be any actual threathening combats, but eh, I don't even know what is happening with isekais anymore.. Seriously 😂
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Bakaleaf
Bakaleaf rated it
December 18, 2020
Status: c146
This was a good decent story at FIRST

but like other Japanese novel out there which has a bad habit of not FOCUSING on the MAIN CHARACTER this novel has the tendency to jump from one point of view to another and the annoying part is point of views of perishable characters are being highlighted which is a very waste of time to read.

Why can't they just focus to the MC..

The instant death was one of the Japanese novel I love at FIRST but after stopping read it for a very... more>> long time because of lack of translator and now as it was pick up I was so lost of who's who in the story..

And to make it worse I can barely Understand what I am reading especially the part when He became She and vice versa..

For crying out loud be clear of the gender of the character if your translating..

After to much agony of reading I decide to bury this since Like I said no point reading further from this point..

Sayonara Instant Death.. <<less
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Sed
Sed rated it
March 18, 2020
Status: c113
After sticking with it this long I'm probably biased, but I'll give my take on some points;

Characters are not permanent, new and interesting characters are introduced and exit stage left extremely quickly in some cases, while others might stick around. For some this will lead to disappointment, I however supremely enjoy this because it gives the world a lived-in feel, people and events exist outside the plot.

No harem, even as of c113

The world and the characters are reacting to what is essentially (and referred to as, multiple times in the... more>> dialog) a force of nature that they are constantly underestimating. <<less
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Redmi
Redmi rated it
February 17, 2020
Status: c107
Good thing about this novel: This novel has an extremely overpowered MC who delivered instant deaths to Gods and Demons while sneezing/hiccuping and also able to say 'FARK U' to Newton's first law of motion. Also a pe*vert that will ignore female lead's protestations as he simply touched her here and there every once in a while.

Bad thing about this novel: The author is hell-bent on relegating the MC into a side -character with all those non-female-lead third-party POV contents. Dude, this novel is for showing the MC sneezing his... more>> adversaries to death, not for showing how EACH OF THOSE ADVERSARY being sneezed to death by the MC.

⭐⭐⭐ from me as of c107. <<less
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LordGrim102 rated it
February 28, 2019
Status: --
Yup its okay and all but the only thing that always griping me is that the heroine's role is a straightman for the MC's jokes but every damn time, she is complaining for ages like a real *****. She isn't funny anymore. She is very annoying AF.

Edit: Her attitude is like pouring cold water to readers who started to like this story. If it was not for her b*tching then this novel would be great. Another 1 star deduction for being annoying.

I am not complaining about the TL. It is... more>> readable and only minor problems from the second translator. I am not those ungrateful people who only knows how to flap their mouths all the time. Why you all shouldn't be translating then? You are all taking for granted what's free and some people have the nerve to take a sh*t on the people they are given free. <<less
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EvilGenesis666
EvilGenesis666 rated it
August 24, 2018
Status: v3c4
This novel was surprisingly awesome. In short, it's basically like Onepunch Man, but instead of trolling shounen series this one trolls isekai novels. Basically most of the people MC kills would be protagonists in other isekai novels, I mean you have s*ave harem protagonists, self-righteous hero protagonists, ultra-cheat ability protagonists, etc... And as soon as they meet MC (or anyone else for that matter) they expect him to bow his head to them and praise them for their achievements or w/e and you can expect what happens when he doesn't... more>> do that and they try to kill him -

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they die, instantly.

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For the most part, author took the advantage of the extreme contrast between how horrifying life is in the world MC was transported into (human life is worthless, country-level genocides everyday...) and how chill MC's everyday life is (since he solves all of his problems with 1 word) to maximize the humor in the story (and he done it very well might I say) but unfortunately it takes any sort of tension that might happen in the novel.

So, to conclude, I would recommend the novel for anyone that wants to see isekai genre trolled to it's maximum, a lot of humor and zero tension on the MC's side.

One thing that made me rate the novel lower than 5 stars (beside the zero tension because of insta death redundancy later in the story) was

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When the 2nd translation group took over, they kinda screwed it up. Half of the later chapters are missing, so I had to scavenge on pirate sites for the chapters and those seemed like they were machine translated so it lowered my reading experience by a lot...

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Zephlyn
Zephlyn
December 16, 2021
Status: --
This is pretty much like any other wuxia/xianxia novels full of "courting death" but japanese isekai version.

Everyone are evil and s*upid.

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The one who transported them to other world are pretty much the people worse than demons themselves which is pretty funny since they need to kill the demon king for them to go back to their world.

I'd rather side with the demons if I were on their shoes.

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yamibae
yamibae rated it
July 4, 2021
Status: v14
The MC of this story is incredibly overpowered so quite a large part of this story is focused on characters aside from the MC because of how powerful he is, descriptions on what they're doing etc to the lead up to meeting MC and their motivations or what sort of powers they had/have before their ... more>>
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inevitable death

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It has vibes sort of similar to Traffords Trading Club, another novel with an OP MC.

Edit: This novel is now complete so I decided to update my review and make it more in-depth

An interesting conundrum in this story is how to make it interesting and tension-filled despite knowing the inevitable outcome due to the MC's overwhelming ability. His cheat is likely the most overwhelming of any cheat in an isekai and the differences in how they handle situations shows clearly in the story. Part of why I enjoy this story so much is just how varied and creative some of the skills and abilities are and yet they will inevitably end up dying due to some accident or from Yogiri himself. One drawback of the whole story is Yogiri's own lack of any want to romance the main female char - Tomochika but that is fine, they are together for the vast majority if not the entire series, at least I can't recall an instance where they weren't together and she provides some funny commentary sometimes. <<less
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YuhGetIntoItSister
YuhGetIntoItSister rated it
July 1, 2021
Status: v6c22
Honestly, the story itself is my cup of tea and I'd rate it a 5 were it not for the confusing translations that come up from time to time and the lack of chapters from V4C19 to V5C9 (V4C9 can be found when searching in Google). I personally love the main characters and love the premise of this novel, but as mentioned, translations and lack of chapters are something you might need to watch out for if interested in reading this novel.
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CBkami
CBkami rated it
June 13, 2021
Status: v5
For me, this series literally represents 'anything can happen', there's gods, sages, aggressors, divine spirits, dark gods, future tech, demons, dragons, etc. The reason why I rated this 4 stars is because the story is out of place, there's to much happening, Every single volume, we have 3 perspectives of different instances. We have Yogiri perspective, the enemy perspective, and a side character's perspective. I really don't care about the story building, character development in this series, this is just series that the impossible is possible.
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Imortal ZoD
Imortal ZoD rated it
July 7, 2020
Status: v2c23
A solid meh from me.

Rating this lower to offset the 5 star ratings.

Basically One punch man, but with worse written characters and shittier comedy. Doesn't work as a fantasy rpg isekai because it's impossible to build suspense and doesn't work as a comedic subversion of the genre because the humor is sub-par. 4/10 from me. Find something better
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Loki el paresse
Loki el paresse rated it
June 11, 2020
Status: v4c21
I'll give this a solid 7.9 out of 10? (Entertaining) it's not that bad if you're looking for an op MC you'll like it, the story hmm it's like opm ? ?
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Renaxan
Renaxan rated it
June 8, 2018
Status: v3c1
This novel is okay.

    1. Its just another isekai okay... checklist

    1. with op mc checklist
    1. annoying heroine checklist
    1. cliche villain checklist
Nah dont get me wrong, this novel is one of novel that im find fit to my taste, despite the list above. Want to know why? Nah here :

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1. op MC.. with mysterious background and ability. and theory about his power is interesting to talk about

2. a lot unique character, but good point seems no harem yet!! All class get into isekai, and got various power.. character even ambitions that I find not in another isekai commonly. Sure, we got a lot plot goings on here.

3. Since we know MC damn op, we always know MC unbeatable, rather make this story boring.. its make it more interesting. since when mostly MC uses his power, we get the new clue what is his real power about.

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-1* due the story feels drag on to me in v2 especially toward end.. however its still interesting to read.
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Gonzhilaz
Gonzhilaz rated it
March 15, 2018
Status: v5
Who dares to compare this with overlord? It's totally different! At first, I felt like this story similar to Mob Psycho 100 or Onepunch man. The MC was too OP with his "death magic"

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This world has been invaded by japanese heroes with cheats. The sages was descendant of the old heroes or summoned japanese. None of the sages has good intention. Even the one who summoned the heroes were giving a first test for the LV 1 heroes... defeat a high level evil dragon. And there already 2 dead students (heroes) at the begining. Those students were students that doesnt have any cheat at all. The other students happily sacrifise non-cheat skills students just to stay alive from the evil dragon. And then the dragon just died after the MC tries to save big b**bs classmate by looking at the dragon and said "die".

The MC got mysterious power that can kill anything. In fact he could sense bloodlust, killing intents, and He can kill his foe's that hides deep in faraway dungeon. Even the MC's "family" were celebrating freedom from the world crisis just because the MC was transfered to another. They screamed "the world is now saved from that Monster!"

The Heroine was s*aved by the MC not because the MC's cheat. The heroine got different cheat from her ancestor and some alien robot.

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But... later on, you'll get bored with this story. Even super enemies couldn't last 5 paragraph. His insta-kill "death magic" is not your average magic with low probability... it's 100% insta-kill.

Read it if you like this kind of story. <<less
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S.D.
S.D. rated it
February 9, 2018
Status: v2c18
I have a very mixed feeling about this novel. At start I thought that it's clearly a parody on all other transferred/reincarnated in another world novels. It has all the typical tropes, but not all of them are tied to main characters. E.g. S*ave harem trope is present, but it's the minor antagonist that runs it. Returnees are present, but they aren't main characters. Many things like that.

Why I said "at start"? Because once author starts trying too hard the gag factor gets blurred and it becomes just a somewhat... more>> ridiculous novel. The superpower MC has makes it very repeating. Enemy? Drop dead. Next. So seems like author noticed that and decided to do something about it - he added many new characters with their substories and POV, some have multiple chapters dedicated to them. And they are VERY talkative. Sorry author, but making readers go through three or four chapters of dialogues of half a dozen of newly introduced characters, only to get them instakilled by MC shortly after is incredibly dull. Pretty much because of that I was just scrolling the second volume rather than reading it properly.

The most annoying part? Author seems to be pretty good. If he was serious it might had turned out into a very interesting novel. But by the end of the day it's just a gag novel that outlived it's gag factor. <<less
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tempetahu0
tempetahu0 rated it
January 10, 2018
Status: v2c10
PRETTY GOOD READ

we get OP MC but this is not about fighting or leveling up like any other stories, he start his journey just to get back to japan so don't expect any detail about fighting scene (he's already super OP).
the world build around MC and his journey, so you get a lot of mysteries and unanswered question but this is what makes it more interesting, you as a reader not have that much of difference in view about this world as MC (yeah more setting, pov, and details... more>> but still not that breaking any mysteries).

i can say the pace is pretty nice it's not too slow or too fast, it's just right for me.

but I do hope translator-san get an editor to edit all his/her chapters, sometimes it's rather frustrating to read, we get a new plot but it's hard to read because the grammar or weirdly composed sentence. <<less
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Zyro Verde
Zyro Verde rated it
November 20, 2021
Status: --
I'd say it's a pretty good read (for me at least). I really like how the MC is literally immune to the Plot.

This got me thinking that it's like world filled with speshul OP Self Inserts with BS cheats but the MC just one shots them. Considering most SI's tend to be jerks and not experiencing any consequences, this story is quite cathartic.
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Cypher4496
Cypher4496 rated it
November 6, 2021
Status: v6c1
So if you dont really like harem and s*upid typical isekai MC, and are looking for something different from usual isekai stories then you will like this, the MC is very similar to Saitama (opm), he is beyond just overpowered, usually bored, doesn't really feels anything even after literal massacre and killing everything which tries to harm him, since he is so overpowered just like opm though on lower level side character are interesting, each one of them having weird, super op powers and background, funny thing is when you... more>> think oh this character has great potential, he is dead just like that, even though each one of these characters had more potential to become one of the most important character in any other usual isekai, its fun in its own way though, one thing that felt odd to me is that every single on of the japanese they met so far is psychopathic tr*sh, not a single decent guy, like author has some grudge against his own countrymen, overall great novel rating 5star. <<less
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