Why Did You Summon Me?

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Imagine being forced to live, after death, as incorporeal bodies trapped in a vast space of nothingness for thousands of years, with nothing to do but exchanging past memories with other cohabitants (read: weirdos). Everybody wanted out, but there was no way to leave the Void…

Until one day, a young man was finally summoned, as a powerful but reluctant mentor, by a bubbly and motivated but completely naive young girl. Baiyi, finally out of the Void, was the only one who could save all of the other 32 souls from their prison and his summoner might just be The Key to their freedom.

However, Baiyi had to use the techniques and abilities the other souls had taught him throughout the years, and together with his own extensive knowledge of anime and game tropes from his shady and dangerous past as an otaku, to face the biggest challenge of them all: training the clumsy young girl he was forced to partner up with… into a competent sorcerer!

This is a story of heroic adventures, cunning strategies and romantic tales. How will our MC thrive in a world completely strange to him? Where will his ambitions and abilities take him in the palace?

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WDYSM
你为何召唤我
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ReadsWebNovels
ReadsWebNovels rated it
May 11, 2018
Status: c141
Update ch. 141

F@ck this ecchi waifu Bull $h1t. There was about 15 chapters of good action when I updated last time, so I didn't really mention it, but the ecchi waifu crap is GROSSLY overused. When action scenes aren't happening, 1/2 of each chapter is focused on describing about the female characters in some SOFTEST-core provocative situation. It's like reading a tween's journal entry about the one time they saw a page from a lingerie catalogue. Adding onto the problem with jokes bogging down the story, and 2/3rds of every... more>> chapter is just wasted ink (excluding the rare action chapter where only 10% of a chapter is wasted.)

If the author skipped 90% of the repetitive ecchi BS and halved the number of jokes, this story would be less than half as long and twice as good. It's honestly bogging down the story to the point where I'm going to stop reading altogether. There's a good story buried under all the SOFTEST-core ecchi crap, maybe even a great story, but the overuse of ecchi scenes and jokes is LITERALLY RUINING THIS NOVEL.

Update ch. 124

Stuff's been happening since ch. 60, but nothing really outstanding. They've left the school around ch 110, but it's temporary, and the cheap harem element and sexualization of every female character continue to cling to this novel. If a female character's of note is introduced, you can be sure the first thing the author will describe is how big her ti*s are.

There's some amusing humor, but nothing exceptional, and it's mostly the type of humor that sidetracks the plot rather than contributing. Honestly, the humorous moments are thrown around so much that it's probably doubled the story's length. The story and character development are largely neglected in favor of jokes and humor, but the humor is used too often, and is largely mediocre, thus losing most of its impact. The overuse of humor has choked the life out of this story.

I'm going to keep reading simply because the translator posts a chapter every day. It's not great, but I don't mind reading it for 10 minutes a day. However, I doubt many people will enjoy binge reading it.

Review at ch. 47 below

This novel is just wasted potential. It had some unique elements, but is currently in the process of devolving into a typical "OP MC School Harem" novel.

However, the real problem is the MC's objective. The writer gave the MC a long term goal, but no short term goals except to make money in preparation for their long term goal. Without short term goals, there is no payoff, and the novel's narrative feels like a flat line as a result.

I'm at c47 and nothing of note has happened since c1... <<less
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RandomCookie
RandomCookie rated it
April 19, 2018
Status: c13
I was expecting a more serious novel, this is a lot like the japanese novels (op main character who hides his strength, loli's, bunch of old op pe*verts, the use of the word moe) Oh well it's not a bad novel, at least at chapter 12 it seems promising.

I'm not sure why but I like it.
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burning_ice19
burning_ice19
April 23, 2018
Status: c16
Spending power stone to this novel

But as I reach chapter 16 I feel like I am loosing interest.

Maybe the serious plot or the meat of the soup is not yet serve, the progress of the story feels bland. The conversation of the voidwalkers are now repetitive.

... more>> I feel like I am reading an O.P japanese novel, rather than a refreshing western like Chinese novel.

Mia is a drag, hate this kind of meak character, hope they improve her or just turn her to a lich or puppet instead.

M.C, Is he a chinese or a japanese protagonist? They keep interjecting manga and anime in the story. He is too soft or naive and kind hearted, not like your usual CN protagonist.

I hope in the near future they explain how come the voidwalkers got stock in their.

Hope they improve the story and progress the plot now because it is becoming a tasteless meal right now. <<less
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ORorc
ORorc rated it
October 5, 2018
Status: c152
1 out of 5.

This story straight up lies to you: this isn't from the point of view of a mentor, this is similar to sao (sword arts online).

I expected discussions on training, very little of that in early chapters.

... more>> I expected most of the action scenes to be from the heroine stand point, none are.

Everything revolves around the author's ego with the characters: nothing seems to cause meaningful changes to the personalities of the main characters.

An excellent example os, during the tournament arc. Everything happens from the mentor's prospective; how am I suppose to be invested in the heroine's trials when the mentor gushes all over her. I don't really see her being nervous, dealing with a difficulty on her own without the mentor stepping in and doing it for her, or learn about what she sees with each opponent. Instead we get mentor acting like the insecure boyfriend who constantly attempts to kill the dudes who fight his girlfriend.

Same series of events with the barbarian arc; everything perfectly handled by the mentor, and everyone else screws up forcing the mentor to fix their problems. Did we get to see the heroic last stand from his two students? Nope, we get to see the mentor be a prevert with two other girls.

After this arc, everything wants the mentor's d, and that is why I stopped. Nothing new, no real conflict, and nothing changes: wifus grow in number and remain fixed to their particular fetish, and the hero does no wrongs and suffers little to no consequences for his actions. <<less
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DekuHero
DekuHero rated it
July 31, 2018
Status: --
He talks with the voices in his head too often. The majority of the chapters seem to be him talking about nonsense to them. I love the idea of this story, but iv'e lost interest and I'm starting to get really bored reading it.

It's an inferior version of Zero no tsukaima. Well too be fair, it's just similar in some aspects to it, it's obvious the author wasn't trying to copy others work. Still I couldn't help but compare the two.
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misaka shinobu
misaka shinobu rated it
July 12, 2018
Status: c97
I find it really interesting, it may not be the best out there but it's still good. There are a lot of characters however they all have different and simple name so it's easy to remember ^^

It doesn't deserve all those one star marks at all!
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Akciel
Akciel rated it
May 6, 2018
Status: c30
Looks great so far, unlike a lot of other Qidian novels that are rather booring - this novel has an interesting vibe to it. Hopefully it will continue the same way, and wont get failed midway like some other novels.

This is not your usual chinese cultivation novel, at least for now, an it really feels like a somewhat japanese, and this is exactly what I like. Japanese novels tend to be more interesting plotwise and more rich in a world building aspect, a lot of usual chinese cultivation novels feel... more>> very bland in this aspect, at least for me. And paired with a more decisive and less whimpy chinese MC (comparing to your usual japanese MC) we can expect some really good action to come here. <<less
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Mavsynchroid
Mavsynchroid rated it
July 2, 2020
Status: Completed
First off, absolutely ignore the cover in that picture above. Neither the "main" female lea, Mia, or anyone else for that matter, has two different colored eyes in the novel. Nor does the MC look like that young boy with red hair. Same goes for that tattoo on his forehead. There's absolutely nothing like that mentioned in the novel. Not sure what people were thinking when they chose/drew that cover art, as it has nothing to do with the novel itself.

Anyway, this novel is yet again one of those novels... more>> that start off in clear direction and do a good job of it for a good while, but then eventually spin off into a random chaotic mess. At one point, the MC is suddenly in a world that has characters from the Fate/Stay series. It was so completely random that it shattered any immersion I had in the novel. It seemed like the author had just run out of ideas and suddenly decided to jam fan-fiction into the novel. THEN, the MC travels back in time... THEN, after a few decades, people are living in what seems to a modern world, with cell phones and what not. The pacing is just terrible.

I won't get into the story line itself, as so many other reviews have. I'll make it short and just say.. If you want to enjoy this novel to it's fullest, stop on the chapter that suddenly (and randomly without warning) advances the story ten years into the future. <<less
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Lolistalker
Lolistalker rated it
June 20, 2018
Status: c75
Not bad

This is surprisingly better than I thought, I randomly found this novel, did not read any review nor summary of it so I have no expectation going in

The first few chapters feel a bit lacking, I can already see the quality of the writing is mediocre at best, but not as bad as most random WN, still acceptable (some example would be how the author often like to state things again despite the obvious information that he gives out already clearly pointing out to a certain direction, making it... more>> less effective although not to the point of the average xianxia where a few chapters could be summarized in a few paragraphs because of how many sentence and information are repeated, but I still find that kinda annoying and show the lack of author's ability and trust in the reader cognitive ability to put the obvious information and come with their own conclusion without having someone pointing that out to them)

on the early chapter there will be quite a bit of info dump about the MC and the main heroine, his main objective as well as his motivation is stated clearly which is really nice, so although the slice of life and moe interaction is the main reason I enjoy this novel, the process in which the MC trying to achieve his goal is a decent way to keep the plot going and work as a clear direction for the story, unlike in most slice of life WN where the author is often just filling most of the chapter with filler and a common troupe without any clear goal in mind, another thing to note is that the MC act decent and although not completely still somewhat convincing and suit his background, because in a lot of WN that I regretly read, some of the MC is *said* or *supposed* to be a reincarnation of an old veteran or adult, yet they act very unlike their age, most of them is incopetent, impulsive, emotional, naive, and or ignorant, it is as if they are children pretending to be an adult instead of an adult being in a child body, in here, however, the MC does seems like an elder, although sometimes depicted in an unnatural fashion/forced

that said there will be many small details that might piss some people off, such as stereotype side characters that will appear here and there, unnecessary and excessive s*xual description, the overly dramatic beautiful character just like most xianxia, and some other minor details that you would often find in a shounen amateur web novel/xianxia (well, although there is a clear japanese influence but the subtle yet clear chinese influence is definitely noticable, my fav kind of novel usually lean on neither side)

still, I think 3.5 rating is too low especially since a lot of aspects in this novel is generally better than some higher rated novel

conclusion, this novel is fairly light and enjoyable to read as long as you understand what you are getting into and didn't expect more than what is offered, I would definitely recommend in picking this up if you like cute girl, cool-headed OP MC, school life, slice of life and could tolerate minor inconsistency and a mediocre quality in writing <<less
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promet
promet rated it
January 17, 2023
Status: c146
Actual score 2.5/5.

A promising story I wanted to like but have no patience for. Given some spoilers in other people's reviews, I lost the will to continue reading even further.

In general, the setting is okay. The premise is good, the way the protagonist changed from a normie to a supernatural being is also well thought through. The setting could use some polishing as the power system isn't overly clear, but it isn't really an issue so far in the story.

The plot is the main problem. There simply isn't enough action.... more>> While the comedy, which is reminiscent of the style of Cultivation Chat Group, is good, there's simply too much of it. In other words, the action and comedy are imbalanced. To make it even worse, as some other reviewers pointed out, the author has a tendency to sexualize female characters in the novel. Like, it's fine if it's just a bit, but he keeps on doing it, and it really feels as though he's using this method to feed the wordcount. Plus it feels like the author is forcing this down out throats. I'd understand this in an erot*c situation, but it was never in one, and always in everyday life...

When the plot does take place instead of being relegated to the background by the crap I just mentioned, it's good. However, it took the author almost 150 chapters to progress through plot that another novel that has a normal to somewhat fast pace could process in some 50 chapters or so. If you don't mind slow-paced novels, then it shouldn't be an issue, but it's way too slow for me.

As for characters, they're okay at first glance. The Voidwalkers are quite funny, but as I said, the author has really overdone it with comedy. If I were the author, I'd cut the initial number of the Voidwalkers who are awake to some five, six at most, and then slowly increase it. As it is now, you can keep up with the characters, but the plot suffers, just as I said, because most of what those characters contribute to is comedy, not plot progression.

The protagonist was okay at first, being unusually mature for a Chinese webnovel main character, but then he becomes annoying. Well, when I took a look at some specific Voidwalkers with "personality issues" and remembered that they turned out this way because they shared the protagonist's memory, it suddenly all became clear. Insert ah yes, everything's coming together meme here. Therefore, I like the initial protagonist, but he becomes quite annoying soon (I dislike the whole daughter, daddy thing that's present in some novels anyway - with the Japanese ones being the precursors and main culprits - it's often cringe... All the more so since this novel has harem and polygamy tags, which had made me interested earlier, but I'm not interested in some in*estish crap, which it now seems to be slowly developing into). Oh, don't expect that he'll regain his body anytime soon, either.

The girls, including the summoner, are, well, just cute moe-moe kyun stuff. They're somewhat adorable, and they go through some character growth, but to be frank, I think it's more of just their relationship with the protagonist growing than their character growth (perhaps the summoner is the sole exception, with both types of growth included). They, especially the summoner, are playing a much smaller role in the story than some readers expected. For example, POV chapters are nonexistent. Which is fine, I think you guys just misunderstood and that's why you expected such content (if you read the summary, you'll see that the focus is on Baiyi, not on the summoner), but you're right that the novel could use something of the sort. The girls are just cute plot devices in terms of the story. Just useful mascots.

There are some other characters that don't fall into any of those categories, but they're few and far between. They're not completely ignored, they're not ret*rded or s*upid or unlikable, but they don't have much "screen time."

One thing I very much liked was some of the references the author has made. Most of them are regarding anime, half of which I don't know and can't care less about, but I loved the references to Heroes of Might and Magic III, Warcraft III, and Civilization, i.e. (mostly) old games, which gave me a small trip down a nostalgia lane. Then again, the author seems to be overdoing it a bit with the sheer numbers of references.

Kudos to the translator for handling all those references. Unfortunately, it seems like the editor isn't a fixed, single person, and some of them editors appear to have issues with some things because the quality is rough around the edges sometimes. The best editor was the first one, and then you can notice mistakes that didn't appear earlier start popping up.

It's a decent and promising story (I will pretend I haven't read some ill-boding spoilers in the reviews here), but overly slow-paced due to imbalance between plot and comedy. The characters start good but don't really stand the test of time. Overall, it's a novel of a certain kind that you just like or dislike, I suppose, so it's up to your preferences. <<less
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doubleotide
doubleotide rated it
May 28, 2018
Status: c136
Like most novels, the MC's aquire an old master that teaches them mysterious techniques and skills.

However in this novel, the MC is the old master and he has a gang of other masters that whisper into his ear, bidding to get reincarnated (in a sense). The MC is summoned by a young girl and thus the shenanigans begin.

About half the story is the gang making comments on the MC's actions and whats happening with the girl.

I found the character interactions unique in this sense and interesting. I felt the need... more>> to write this review since the other reviews here didn't quite explain this point. <<less
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Kanna Kamui
Kanna Kamui rated it
August 18, 2019
Status: c421
I like the beginning of this novel then it gets weird because of the gentlemen/pe*verts friends of the MC but no worries guys since it gets so much better starting from chapter 300. I'm currently at chapter 421 right now so I recommend this novel for you 5/5 so please give it a try guys :D.
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