An Angel Lives in the Academy

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Lv.1 Reincarnated as an angel.

Angels gain strength by doing good things, inevitably, good deeds must be done.

But why does it seems like the people around are misunderstanding something?

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아카데미에 천사가 산다
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Not Porn Folder
Not Porn Folder rated it
August 13, 2022
Status: c211
I like this novel. Its not a high action novel by any means. This is more of a "character study"-ish type of story that focuses on the emotional and mental development of not just the MC but the other characters. Surprisingly this novel also satisfyingly illustrates the contrast of good and evil as well as dwelling on the nature of man relative to the concept of good and evil.

As for the premise: The story is essentially a regression story because the MC has knowledge of future events, but it feels... more>> more of an "Isekai" because the MC is reincarnated in a new body and not his original. The MC in essence "does not have faith" be it in humanity, the heavens or the heroes. Anyway after being reincarnated as an Angel he soon discovers that by doing good acts he gains power, in his mind he is a greedy individual that seeks to gain angelic power but for those around him they seem him as the literal embodiment of pure good will. Such contrast makes for a good misunderstanding story that got me hooked initially.

But what really made me stay and prompted me to purchase all 211 chapters were the MC's heroic moments. Said moments were a clear 5/5 for me and to name a few they are:

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Part 05. (Ch 24-30) - In this part it was revealed why the MC pushes through the hardship, and it is because when he needed help the most, no matter how much he prayed for a hero, no such miracle happened. As such his main driving force is that he does not want to wait for a hero anymore. It is also in this part where the MC endured heavy physical punishment which almost felt like a self-sacrifice were it not for the calculated profit thinking attituded he had when he saved one of the future villain now hero's clan by taking on the divine punishment to undo the curse casted by the demon lord to said clan.

Part 06. (Ch 31-40) - Where we are shown his complete backstory and despite all of it he is still very kind despite him saying otherwise. This was also the part that had me crying hard because of the "Mother's favorite pudding" recipe geez it was such a short sentence yet it evoked the big feels. This is when I knew that the purchase was worth it.

Part 09. (Ch62-69) - Where MC revealed his secret identity as an Angel to the headmaster of a different school the latter being a person who abhors Angels. This was done to save his friends. I was crying alongside the protagonist at this point because at this moment the MC didn't consider any ploys to gain "angelic power" and just genuinely wanted to save his friends.

Part 12. (Ch89-95) - Where the MC really made a self-sacrifice to kill one of the Four Demon Generals. This was done by stabbing himself with a sword that would theoretically destroy both the MC and the Demon General. When the MC said "Even when I perish, the heroes will be the ones to save the world" was something truly powerful.

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Again this novel is not some high action novel, and I'd be lying if I that I don't have any grievances with some of the progression especially the events on the third act where the solution seemed too "convenient" and too "easy". I also think that some conflicts where never truly resolve and some were half-resolved. Prime example would be
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the conflict with the Student Council President where it was truly never resolved.

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Nonetheless I still like the novel because I read it more of a "coming of age" story. I am also somehow satisfied on how it ended because it completed the MC's "hero's journey"
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It started from him having no wings which symbolizes his lack of faith to the world into a winged angel

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Kamoto
Kamoto rated it
May 31, 2024
Status: c40
As a grown man in his 20s I would never admit this in real life but I'm incredibly quick to tears when it comes to witnessing heroism. I'm only saying this so you can take my review with a grain of salt because this novel is exactly that, heroisms galore with a pinch of tsundere narrative.

Lefferey, our main character, would always disguise his good deeds as "for the sake of angelic powers", but it became increasingly apparent that he did it because he liked it. Plus, if he hadn't been... more>> a good person in the first place, how would he even get the ideas for the countless good deeds he'd done?

That aside, this novel also sells a lot of misunderstandings which, while might be my favourite tag, might be very boring for a lot of readers. And as of chapter 40, a lot of important characters still feel like they're only a little more than comic relief. Though within those same 40 chapters the novel has done relatively well exploring the heroines so I'm hopeful for the future.

Translation's excellently done with very quick updates (5 a week as of June 2024) so I was never left hanging for long.

Overall I can't really complain about anything regarding the experience thus far so it's a 5/5 from me. <<less
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Dearest_Reader
Dearest_Reader rated it
August 19, 2022
Status: c200
I gotta say, for shou bl looking cover. It sure went to jp harem kind of style.

Tbh, I really do like it how the plot went.

However, I did not like the fact that the misunderstandings with MC were forced to be reckon with, some of them. It kind of feels that the novel’s pacing went too fast. To the point I get confused on whether I skip some chaps.

Anyway, the funny thing is, I don’t like harem. This novel made me have to rethink twice on whether or not is... more>> harem before putting the tags first. I bet some people won’t know it’s harem unless they saw the falling in love part and where there are too many girls crushing on MC. It was like that to me.

All in all, this is something I would recommend for those who are trying harem. <<less
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ItFeelsLike
ItFeelsLike rated it
June 17, 2024
Status: c43
The setting for the main character is well-developed and justified, which is why it doesn't feel random.
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What I really like in the story is that he keeps doing good deeds, even though it's for another reason.

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The stories of the girls are well made. In conclusion, the premise is good—until the harem part comes in. Does it have to be a harem where all the girls fall in love with the main character? If this is a kind of hero story, I believe the best thing to continue such story would be with friendship over crushes. Well, at the end of the day, this is still just an opinion.
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Flamesystems
Flamesystems rated it
October 3, 2023
Status: c146
This is a good story, but it started losing me over time, so I'd probably knock it down to 3/5 stars now...

The premise is nice, and it's about a world where every fantasy race exists (as well as humans), but mostly look human, so it's hard to tell. Anyways he gets regressed into an angel by the same angel who failed to save the world, and now has to try to save the world. Basically, the angel failed because too many heroes became evil / sided with demons / gave... more>> up on saving humanity, and now MC has to try to change that. MC is a nice person, but it's also that his racial traits make him much nicer: there's a bit of charm floating around, he literally cannot swear, and he gets stronger by doing good deeds.

This is NOT an action heavy story despite the world setup; it's about MC, an angel, trying to be a background/supporting influence on the heroes and prevent them from turning into villains. MC also has rapidly rising and falling levels of strength depending on the good deeds he is doing, which is clever, but also may feel a little too deus-ex-stat-bonuses to some people. It's aiming for underdog but OP in situations type deal, but it leans a bit too heavy on the OP.

Over time, this gets worse (past about chapter 100). To me, the enjoyment of the story was watching a character in a support role try to save the world, but after several complicated reveals the MC starts getting really strong in all aspects, which I think was a bad choice. So it slowly devolves from interestingly helping others and quietly interfering mostly out of sight to just another shounen fight fest, and the fights aren't that interesting. The romance aspect also gets increasingly weird, mostly because literally only MC is remotely sane and it's just kinda annoying.

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Soobie
Soobie rated it
October 20, 2024
Status: --
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You regress and re-awaken as a young, orphaned angel with very little money. You were previously a non-awakened human in your 20s and it should be reasonable to think you had some life experience as you were one of the last to die at the hands of the demon kings forces.

Your world is a game-like world with stats and skills. You've been tasked with 'raising heroes to defeat the demon king'.

Even though you were previously a normal human with no practical understanding of how a hero academy operates beyond a past fascination with it and some obsessive internet surfing, you decide the best place to raise appropriate heroes is a nearby superhero academy that conveniently provides basic living necessities like accommodation and food... and is also conveniently the most famous in the world.

But your starting stats are woeful. You need to improve so that you can get into that local superhero academy via the upcoming entrance exam.

Shortly after reawakening you're thrown into a dangerous situation and obtain powerful healing abilities. For some reason you've also obtained the broken ability that when you do a large, meaningful angelic acts you can use excess angelic power rewarded from such acts to increase your stats. And luckily the broken ability is results-focussed and not entirely dependent on intent.

Due to your past life fascination and unvalidated public released info you recall, you decide you have to get in to the academy ASAP at the very beginning of the academic year (even though it's established from the get go that it'll be well over a decade before the world ends) and you can't delay to next year or find out if you can transfer in part way through the year... for some reason you can't imagine there's any other/better way to meet your goals or your basic living requirements and there's no reason for you to radically and quickly power up.

Do you:

- go somewhere where you can immediately do powerful angelic acts, get big rewards and rapidly increase your abilities to any level caps as well as leverage the goodwill you can obtain by doing so, so that you can continue to level up and to rank up (eg: any of the numerous hospitals or aged care facilities that are around or any of the better powerful guilds that's would welcome a powerful healer)... or any of the multitude of other things you could do that lean on your skills that would have the best payback for effort... and ensure you are a powerful force, so you can focus all your efforts on raising heroes once you enter that damned academy you think is the best route;

OR

- do you go to a BBQ restaurant run by a hidden elf examiner with martial arts skills that you think you can convince can get you in due to a past life documentary?

I'll give you one guess what our regressed, experienced MC chooses to do.

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While the premise is quite good, and I quite like the fast start, unfortunately:

    • the situations are forced,
    • the MC is an idiot who relies too much on luck,
    • despite his life, and indeed the fate of the world, being on the line the MC puts almost zero time into ensuring he's taking the best route and doesn't do anything to get his assumptions and plans validated... and a lot of his plans are truly second rate,
    • the vast majority of the heroes that you or the system decide to raise are tolkien-esque beauties who invariably have to fall in love with the MC and can't just be friends, and
    • there can't be powerful, beautiful female students who have meaningful (romantic) relationships with other powerful male students unless they are villains and/or possibly need to be redeemed which can only happen after the villain male is defeated.
I'm not saying the MC needs to be a strategically minded munchkin. And I quite like dumb MCs, particularly in comedies. But FFS, the comedy is monotonous slapstick and being the opposite of well-planned should not be a recipe for success.

Fortunately for the MC there is luck and plot armor.

This story is a solid miss.
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Kawaii Panda
Kawaii Panda
March 21, 2024
Status: Completed
I finished the novel last year. I cant recall everything exactly since its been so long but the MC is from future and he regress back to the body of young fallen angel who's task is....
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if I remember it correctly, he seems to be the archangel for justice

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anyway, he need to do good deeds and avoid blackening the potential heroes to avoid the destruction. I remember it ended openly...
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Hosh
Hosh rated it
August 11, 2024
Status: c80
Honestly this novel feels more like a 3 star for me but since I think it might be a problem on my part + 4.0 is a pretty suitable score for this novel in my opinion, I’ll be nice.

So this novel is about a transmigrated guy in an angel’s body who, despite being a goody-2-shoes, pretends to be a bad person but but his acts cause misunderstandings which causes others to believe he’s a goody-2-shoes but for the wrong reasons and glaze him like crazy.

I think you can tell part... more>> of the problem from this synopsis.

That aside, I also have 2 major problems with this novel and it’s regarding the emotional moments and comedy.

I talk about the latter first. The comedy in this novel is fairly average, perhaps slightly below average but I don’t particularly mind. What I DO particularly mind are the f*cking angel jokes. 40% of the jokes are in this category and GOD are they unbearable. They include others glazing him and going ‘wow, he’s so nice and angelic’ or ‘wow, he’s so nice he must be an angel’. These feel like the author expressing a complex of never having been praised as a child disguised as (bad) comedy. The other half of angel jokes consist of ‘leffrey ran a 100-meter dash, he’s truly the athletic angel’. ‘Leffrey ate a few candies, he’s truly a diabetic angel’, ‘Leffrey saved a puppy, he’s truly an animal-loving angel’. I very rarely make fun of others’ humor, but if you genuinely think those jokes are funny, you need to get checked up. It doesn’t help that this is more of a comedy novel than anything too.

As for the emotional moments part, I don’t mind them. They’re pretty decent, average in my opinion. But the top reviewer seems to think they’re brilliant pieces of peak fiction. Now I’m not an emotional person, I rarely cry when reading books or watching movies but I usually at least feel something when I’m supposed to. Here, all I thought was ‘oh wow generic sob backstory’ or ‘wow generic self sacrifice’. I have no idea if this reviewer just cries at the slightest provocation or if I’ve become much more dead inside over the years but yeah, I feel like they’re nothing to cry over.

Sorry if this review seems overly negative for a 4 star btw. It’s been a while since I read this novel and the negatives are much easier to remember than the positives. <<less
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Lois.
Lois.
August 11, 2022
Status: c3
Thr story seems interesting and a lot of plot points will probably be built from misunderstandings, the MC is meant to help heroes and prolly would play more of a support role rather than the being at the front lines though he does have characteristics of a tsundere here and there.
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Novel Casanova
Novel Casanova rated it
September 28, 2024
Status: c69
As always, full review on the blog but here's the key points.

A question that it hints to but never delves into because of the inherent complexity. Why exactly is heaven or the angels on the side of humanity? And why is the demons invasion something that the heaven was supposed to stop in the first place? The demon king side isn’t all mindless monsters as is evident from the plot, then why is ‘heaven’ or ‘god’ is responsible to pick a side? The whole point of this good vs evil... more>> is just very black and white surface level stuff.

The MC is also hypocritical in other, much more direct ways. He seems to do whatever is the ‘moral high ground’ thing to do in that very moment, not bothering to be consistent with overall values or ideals. Somehow the victim is supposed to just forgive the oppressor for trying to control her life just because the MC said not to trouble the oppressors.

But just in a previous situation the MC encounters the demon army subordinates and members and certainly doesn’t show any mercy there. Where is the unconditional second chances? The part about showing kindness to the actually evil people?

The inherent oversimplification and the MC’s subtle hypocrisy really suck the enjoyment out of this for me. It’s a 7 out of 10. <<less
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