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I am the Monarch
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Rating(4.2 / 5.0, 1123 votes)
5 | 63% (713 votes) |
4 | 13% (147 votes) |
3 | 10% (116 votes) |
2 | 7% (75 votes) |
1 | 6% (71 votes) |
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One entry per line
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2016
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Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
348 Chapters (Completed)
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Yes
Completely Translated
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One entry per lineRelease Frequency
Every 1873 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #1407Monthly Rank: #3449
All Time Rank: #103
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On 16895 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #918
All Time Rank: #55
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Roan ran away 20 years ago from his rural village in the aim of becoming a Great General. However, all he got 20 years later was just a handful of money and the lowly position of squad commander of the First Legion’s.
In the end, he became a cold corpse in the battlefield… but somehow, he came back in the past.
“Alright. This time, I won’t become a Great General but a Monarch.”
His previous life’s aim was becoming a Great General, but, he only became a spearman squad commander.
This time, his life’s aim is becoming the Monarch.
“Then I guess I’d become at least a General, right?”
Roan, who remembers 20 years of his future, now starts his unstoppable march.
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One entry per line나는 군주다
Related Series
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So far the novel has been good, its about a soldier with giant lips (seriously MC bites his lower lips like 4 times per chapter) that dreamed to be a commander for 20 years and gets killed and wakes up when he was a fresh recruit, the setting seems to be like those medieval stories but so far they haven't mentioned adventurers or any other kind of deterrent against monsters (orcs, goblins, etc), these few episodes deserve a 5 star but idk about the future.. Lets see Review as of chapter 95:
The story is still solid but now it took a turn and seems more like kingdom building, nothing too extreme yet but he is trying to build something alike.
The characters stopped biting their lips btw now they have red light/flames in their eyes.. So now u have this bunch of cyclops from xmen wandering around.. This novel is still a 5 star
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- Heavily focused on the feelings/thoughts of the characters at each event, which is quite refreshing.
Pros:-
- Short and concise sentences also makes it very easy to read.
Cons:The translator uses the term "ghost of the battlefield", but that really didn't sound right. Personally, II would translate it as the "devil of the battlefield"
There've already been so many reviews, I'll just point out the obvious flaws. (1) A dumbed-down version of the kingdom-building genre
Newbie concepts of warfare/tactics/stratagems/logistics. I know Koreans don't traditionally do kingdom-building genres, even the best they had was styled after gameplay-mechanics (Legendary Moonlight Sculptor). But this is REALLY BAD.
It makes it worse if you've read all the other better kingdom-building novels, such as "Release that Witch", "The Amber Sword", "Overlord", etc. (2) All friendlies/enemies are dumb
Nobody in the entire world has any concept of how to conduct a war, even experienced veterans.
Nobody knows how to stand in formation, nobody knows how to scout, conduct intelligence activities, defend, perform guerrilla tactics, perform cartography, etc. The Kingdom doesn't even know what villages they have in their borders. And yet, somehow there's supposed to be a great Renaissance/Golden Age of development and warfare within the next 20 yrs, and so the MC cheats by using foreknowledge to gain an advantage. REALLY? Author clearly has no idea how civilizations and technological progress develops, and never read any books on military history. Even in our current age, just because people didn't have the internet 20 yrs ago doesn't mean they were idiots. These nonsensical scenarios seem to be built from very s*upid Hollywood-perspectives, like Mel Gibson's portrayal of the American Civil War ("The Patriot"), where soldiers could only stand in line formation and shoot at each other. And Mel Gibson was somehow the only genius to ambush officers and hide in the woods.
FYI that NEVER happened. Line formation was a last tactic used, people were always shooting from cover, and charges only happened from flanking positions and when they had numerical superiority. (3) Therefore... it's Shounen, and a weak one.
The low-level plot and overly simplistic content makes it feel like it was written by a teenager, for teenagers. MC reverted back to being 18 yrs old, which clearly states the author's intended audience.
I don't know why people called it seinen. It's not impressive even judged on the level of shounen. There's no character growth at all, it's just a story about a middle-aged man who got a chance to relive his life and seize opportunities he missed, a pathetic wish-fulfillment type story. It's not for anything significant like saving the human race, or any greater good.