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Douluo Dalu
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48 Volumes / 336 Chapters (Completed)
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Weekly Rank: #3742Monthly Rank: #2168
All Time Rank: #338
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On 13380 Reading Lists
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Tang Sect, the most famous martial arts sect of all. By stealing its most secret teachings to fulfill his dreams, Tang San committed an unforgivable crime. With his ambition attained, he hands his legacy to the sect and throws himself from the fearsome “Hell’s Peak”.
But he could have never imagined that this would reincarnate him in another world, one without magic, martial arts, and grudges. A land where only the mystical souls of battle lay.
The continent of Douluo.
How will Tang San survive in this unknown environment? With a new road to follow, a new legend begins…
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One entry per lineCombat Continent
DD
Lands of Battle
Soul Land
Đấu La Đại Lục
斗罗大陆
DD
Lands of Battle
Soul Land
Đấu La Đại Lục
斗罗大陆
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Latest Release
Date | Group | Release |
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12/30/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c44 |
12/29/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c43 |
12/29/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c42 |
12/23/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c41 |
12/20/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c40 |
12/20/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c39 |
12/17/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c38 |
12/15/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c37 |
12/14/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c36 |
12/11/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c35 |
12/11/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c34 |
12/10/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c33 |
12/10/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c32 |
12/10/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c31 |
12/10/14 | Blue Silver Translations | c30 |
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-the chapters are long. *Claps* Have to gives hands to the translators.
-A lot of unique characters. --≫ makes the LN great
-the MC is not alone. Supported by his friends, teachers, and family.
-The NL gets better and better.
-the MC is not s*upid and makes his decisions well.
-the MC is not fast to anger, well-developed in character and mind.
-follows the listed genre well, as well as the tags
-I love the romance. The romance does not only include himself, but his friends as well. The romance is very loyal so I like it.
-gets my emotions. It does contain a bit of comedic factor as well as more. For more explanation of reason why I like this LN, read more below. There is a little of the MC's character info at the bottom: I originally read the manhua and was instantly hooked. Because of the updates of the manhua became steadily slow, I moved to the light novel and enjoyed it even more (also because there are more to the LN than the manhua itself). I LOVE the LN a whole lot better then the manhua, because you can see the whole idea and understand more in the LN rather than the manhua since it's few words and pictures.
Although it is aggravating but at least okay, the manhua is different. The beginning of the manhua is very similar, it goes towards a different direction but still follows the same concept.
The MC was reborn in a another world and still contained his memories, so he was smart and a well-designed character from the beginning. He wasn't good with social life and ended up being close to a girl who becomes a major factor to his strength, if not, his life and story.
The MC's father fell in love with a women who becomes targeted by a strong empire that wanted to obtain her to become stronger. The MC coincidentally follows the same path as his father.
The MC is a superior genius in the clan-type called the "Tang Sect". It's a sect that is specialized in hidden weapons as well as poison. The MC commits su*cide as he leaves his last creation and legacy to the sect, as he is to be punished for breaking the sect rules. After his "death", he is reborn into another world and still contains his memories and techniques from his "previous life". This becomes an enormous factor to his strength. The MC never was good with communication but is acknowledged as he gains friends, and teachers.
tl;dr version:
Good - Development of the main characters, the teamwork, the first half of the novel, the power system.
Bad - Tang San and his ridiculous level of perfection, Tang sans's 30+ (and growing) list of regularly used trump cards, the incredibly long winded descriptions of most things (but especially attacking moves), the way the female MCs tend to treat the male MCs.
Ugly - Tang San's 'rival' from around c190. The good:
The main gang of characters all well fleshed out nicely, usually any character that isn't the main one fades into the background and simply exists to support the MC. Not here thankfully, the main gang are all well described and elaborated upon. Teamwork. Possibly the best novel there is for well thought out, detailed teamwork between the MC and any other characters, throughout the entire novel. The first 100 to 150 chapters, especially the tournaments. At one point, Douluo Dalu was the best novel I was reading by far, I would refresh the Google drive page for the series dozens of times per day, simply hoping for the next part to come up. I'd honestly re-read some chapters 3 to 5 times as I'd felt they where just that damned enjoyable. The pretty unique power system, getting a new ability every 10 levels from absorbing one from a slain monster is pretty interesting and I can't say I've really seen anything like it before or after, it also means everyone has X number of well defined abilities, with few exceptions. This means that instead of characters having just a few abilities that are still useful at their current level with the older abilities getting ignored now, old abilities grow stronger too along with the user and never get abandoned. The bad:
The main character Tang San. Now hang on for a moment before you roast me for this; the problem is he's gotten a bit too impossibly perfect and it's only going to get worse as you go on. The man is a walking Batman-Jesus of a Marty Stu, and the author loves to remind us every other chapter that he's pure as jade, untainted by a single speck of dust and literally perfect in every conceivable way to absurd levels. Don't get me wrong I like OP MCs, and I like characters that achieve perfection, but Tang San takes it to ridiculous extremes, even moreso than characters like Meng Hao and in ways that should sometimes literally be impossible. It's so bad that sometimes the story itself is purposely twisted in such a way that Tang San can be even more perfect in literally all respects, not just in cultivation - the one single flaw I can think of is he hasn't learned to swim yet and his cheat items take care of that. Tang San's dozens of trump cards, combined with every other situation needing most or all of them to successfully surmount, plus the author's love of his handy thesaurus, is starting to grate on my nerves a lot. In the early days, Tang San only had a couple of trump cards so it didn't take him long to use them and beat the opponent of the day. Now that we're into the 200s and he has so many special abilities and tricks up his sleeve? It can almost take entire chapters for Tang San to go through each and every ability and combo ability and hidden skill and domain and whatever else, as it will take typically 2 to 5 paragraphs per ability to describe as he slowly squeezes out every drop of power to barely pass today's challenge. Fights where Tang San simply wins without cramming an entire thesaurus down your throat are now depressingly uncommon, as whatever today's challenge is, is usually 20+ ranks above his level as the norm. The love interests. All right it was acceptable at first, but more recently they've been taking it to obnoxious levels. What am I talking about here? The male main characters go to almost extreme lengths to woo, please and protect their female counterpart girlfriends / fiancees, okay sure, we're told the girls care incredibly deeply about their lovers, about how they sit by their bedside if they're injured, and how would do anything for them. That being said, the moment one of the guys want to hug or touch their fiancee, or their prior s*xual history / knowledge gets brought up at all, what the guys get without fail is a frosty death glare most commonly associated with the words "You're sleeping on the couch tonight." Basically with the probable exception of Xiao Wu (can't tell currently because story reasons), all the girls in the novel are... what's the word I'm looking for here? Oh right yes, they're c*nts, that's what they are. I'd struggle to think of more than one of two female characters I don't strongly dislike for reasons like that or others. The ugly:
Around c190, we get a reveal for what is 99.9% for sure going to be Tang San's arch rival, pulled straight out of the depths of the author's ass. There were no hints leading up to this reveal, the justifications for what they're able to do pretty much violate several established rules, records and whatever else, all because the author realised he has f*cked up a bit making Tang San so ridiculously powerful and wanted an opponent for him who isn't 50+ years his senior. Their very existence rubs me the wrong way in almost every conceivable aspect, and if they ever appear in the story again it will be too damned soon. Conclusion:
I genuinely can't figure out any sort of rating I'd want to give Douluo Dalu, all things considered. If you're willing to overlook the bad, you should have a good time reading this. If the flawed parts start to grate on your nerves however then you're going to have a bit of a bad time.
Do I recommend it? Sure I guess, but I'd recommend other novels first; novels like Transcending the Nine Heavens, Coiling Dragon, Warlock of the Magus World, ISSTH, etc, before I would this one.
Anyone looking to pick this novel up should probably wait till 2019 for the final 30 chapters to be finished since the translators seem to be keen on milking this project for as long as humanly possible, (see below). Sorry if I'm a bit salty I've just been... more>>Strengths:
* The world building was great, at least initially. The concept of spirit rings and spirit masters and hunting monsters for spirit rings was new and cool.
* The writing and fights were good initially.
* It is not a (I your father/No, I your grandfather) type of crap-shoot which novels like Emperor's Domination are.
* MC is not a mass mu*dering psychotic nut case.
Weakness
* Plotting is very weak.
* The whole novel devolves into MC worship, it almost feels like the author's is taking every chance to put his MC on a pedestal and worshiping it.
* The writing becomes bland and boring later on.
* The MC is so OP, he has already defeated the main Villain TWICE, and there are still 40 more chapters to go! There is zero interest left in reading the novel now, so why will I read the rest of 40 chapters?
If you like repetitive novels like BTTH, WQDK, ED etc., then this is a much better novel, you might want to read it. It is better written, the MC is not a psychotic mass mu*derer, and his enemies are not idiots either. If you want to read a well written, fun, interesting novel, then this is not it. You should give Death Sutra, ISSTH, Ze Tian Ji, and A Will Eternal a try instead.
1) All the characters, even the villains, have incredible depth to their personality and manner of thinking. Each one is unique (even the unimportant ones), and the MC along with his companion and teachers even more so.
2) The character in the story tend to stick out till the end of the story which is rare for even the more famous authors.
3) The story is not solely about the MC, the other primary character posses a background and story behind them. Think one piece. This stories are also very interesting.
4) The MC is op, but not without reason, each factor of his strength is thoroughly explained and earned through his hardworking. Furthermore, there are other characters which are as, or more op than him.
5) The cultivation and power system as well as the society which surrounds its, is utterly amazing. It is both creative and fascinating and it is througly explained to the smallest detail. It is probably the best power system of all CN. It truly is enjoyable.
6) The writing and char dialogue are really good. The are at another level Compared to the majority of authors. (Still lower than Er Gen's level, and lacks IET talent for cliffhangers). In addition to a good quality translation.
7) No Harem (not really a plus for me, or minus, but it is to ALOT of people)
8) The last and and probably the most important aspect: the combat. Oh God the combat. It is otherworldly and interesting. I often skip combat when reading fantasy and Xianxia novels since they are boring most of the time. But in this series it is a big no-no. The combat is probably the best I seen. It is comprehensive, detailed, and interesting.
DO NOT SKIP IT!, TRUST ME. CON:
This is a huge con. The plot sucks. It's not bad, but it definitely sucks. The antagonist is too hateful and annoying. There is way TOO much tragedy in the story. Specially in the middle. And the novel will leave you with a pretty shifty feeling Conclusion.
Read it, it will change your world when it comes to novel reading. But other than that, hate the plot with all you got.
The MC, Tang San, reincarnated with memories of his past life as a hidden weapons maker/master and uses it in his current world where people rely primarily on their own inate battle spirits. Born with one of the poorer spirits – river grass – he uses his knowledge and experience first to keep up with and upgrade his talented peers, before running into several treasures and cheats.
Once he becomes strong enough, he begins to participate in various power struggles between kingdoms, the Spirit Hall and various clans, while forming his own sect based on hidden weapons from his previous life, eventually becoming a great influence on the continent, before eventually attaining god/divine status and ascending.
1. TS was never truly weak/defenceless, so he becomes OP fairly quickly, leading him to mostly engage in battles with people way overleveled and much older so it feels like adults picking on children.
2. Too much detail on the female character when young that the author feels the need to point out (several times) how fast people in this world mature (if it makes you feel uncomfortable, just don’t go there).
3. Fairly recent development (around ch200) we all know TS loves XW but to get engaged to her while her mind isn’t there is just a little weird... I also suspect the whole loss of soul thing is not only to showcase their love but to give TS the opportunity to play act as a traditional hero while his usually fiesty girlfriend becomes docile and dependant, otherwise he’s usually quite whipped.
4. The actual writing and plot are a little lacking. Partially because of the first reason so there’s little to anticipate and some of it is hard to believe, but also because the story itself is a little dry and obnoxious.