Note: ZY=MC, ML is always the Villain Boss

Arc 1- Strange She (???)

ZY is the Senior that ML (There's backstory here, but yes, the girl from the start is ML) likes. ML is Feng Xin

Arc 2- The Wrath of Cthulhu

ZY is basically like Dr. Victor Frankenstain in this one. It's an interesting setting that's for sure. ML is both Dr. Frankenstein's monster with fragments of Cthulhu (well sometimes he is?) AND Cthulhu.

Arc 3- Fatal Infection

Its raining MLs in this one?? ML doesn't want to share though. So every one of them is also gunning down for each other.

Arc 4- Nightmare

Okay, this might be my favorite one. In this one, ZY lost all his memories. He believes that he's actually the character that he is playing however he also has moments where he thinks that the him in the past is different from the him of the present. This world is from a horror movie series so there are many twist and turns to ML's identity. But on the most basic level, he was a student who was burned at a cross by this cult and returns as a resentful ghost.

Arc 5- Hell Bus

ZY is a non-mainstream (?) youth who has dyed gray hair who looks punkish (?). ML is the King of Hell (?) who dresses like a clown and is the one who organized the Hell Bus. ZY's character's unique ignorance in this one is hilarious. Another one I really liked, though ZY feels less like himself in this one.

Arc 6- Top Secret 4050

Yo for a hot second I actually thought this was the original world. Thank goodness it ain't. Iirc the setting is a mental hospital. ZY is a general (?) who was betrayed by a comrade and framed and was set to go to prison? This I'm really not sure anymore, but goes to the mental hospital because of something. He basically has no impulse control in this one and is very unrestricted??. ML is a test subject.

Arc 7- Lord God's "Domain" (End)

Extra- Fanwai "In the Mist"

P.S. None of the worlds are conventionally normal or modern by the way. Yay to interesting settings.

I was actually surprised that they didn't get together immediately in the first arc after moving away and it took them years. I think it was that moment and their prior interaction that from very early on made this one of my favorite novels.

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The first world is confusing as scenes change with no warning and added to it are excerpts from the original story, which would be interesting if it wasn't so confusing (MTL is irritating). The second world makes more sense to me. It's different, I've not seen a world with an Outer Abomination as a theme, though so far it seems more like a sea god than a Cthulu. The bullying in the third story is hard to relate to; no one in my culture is bullied for not having parents, though I vaguely remember kids making fun of others because they were poor.... the rest is removed to prevent late story spoilers but there were 7 worlds in all plus a bunch of trials.

Other thoughts: I don't understand why he could remember his lover in the second world and look for him, but in the worlds after that he couldn't even remember who he was, let alone the lover. The sudden amnesia wasn't explained (that I could tell).....I really liked his crazy personality in the last world..... Confusing start but one of the more satisfying endings I've read in the quick-wear genre.

The plot of the "Hell Bus" is a gorey slaughterfest, which is a complete waste. In the original movie there's a buss where everyone dies in an accident and are taken to hell on the bus. At each buss stop they have to identify which one of them committed the sin at the stop and leave that person behind. This could be a great set up for psychological horror, exploring human nature, crime, betrayal, etc as people realize they have to pick someone to die. Instead everyone is just killed by ghosts. There's no horror, it's just gore and jump scares while the MC randomly stabs his family members because they are mean to him.

In the ML's defense, he is always the villain in these worlds, which usually means he's a bloodthirsty ghost or hideous sea monster or God desperate for revenge.

the lunatic jail story arc. Its amazing, I love it, but there was a scene that made me a little uncomfortable.

MC leaves the table to get some food for him and ML. Then another inmate comes up to start trouble with our delicate ML. This itself isn't weird or bad. But then the writer starts to specifically mention his race - black. When describing the others, if the writer ever mentions the skin then it's never mentioned ever again. But in this scene the man's only defining characteristic was a big black man. He placed his black hands on the table... Etc, etc. ML was pissed because he just washed the table and now the black man's dirty hands have dirtied it, etc etc... I wasn't sure if ML was just being overly obsessive for MC again, or if this was a slight against Dark skinned people in general and being 'dirty.' I dunno, left a bad taste in my mouth. :/ Maybe once fully translated, it'll turn out a little differently.

I'm pretty sure the reincarnated are just people who are sinful in nature. (or at least some of them) They treated the people living in each world with contempt and, based on what they would sometimes say amongst each other, some of them even r*ped some of these poor people. They don't hesitate to kill them, especially plot characters, and care nothing for these people's feelings. They consider themselves superior and act in the worst way possible to these people because 'they aren't real' or 'their just characters in a story. They don't matter.' I think their forced servitude, constantly dying and dying, is their punishment made by the Lord God.

I dunno though. I'm not sure if the Lord God is bad or not, either. I'm also not sure if the lord God is actually our MC. The ending was a little confusing, but just know that the ML and MC have known each other for a loooooooooong time. Old geezers in love ??

Lord God, as introduced by the Reincarnators, is not actually a god but an AI. That basically puts into perspective a large part of the strife of the Reincarnators, as well the few moments where Lord God is in perspective.

Dropped because of the MC still getting together with ML despite believing hes stuck at age 15.

I was honestly expecting the first Arc to have unrequited love, considering up until the timeskip our mentally 30 yr old MC still regarded the ML as a kid.

Later we find out that ML is actually technically an 18~ yr old (still too young for our MC mind you) but he lies to MC saying hes 15 to not seem like hes too old as a potential love interest.

It was never stated after the timeskip if they cleared this up or not, but regardless, having a now mentally 40 something year old MC fall in love with what he belives to a dead 15 year old is both yucky and unrealistic