I’m Really a Superstar

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Zhang Ye was originally a mundane college graduate with aspiring dreams to become a star, but unfortunately has below average looks and height. However one day, he woke up and suddenly found himself in a parallel world!

It’s like the same world, but wait a minute…many brands, celebrities and even famous works from his world changed and are gone in this new world!

Armed with the profound literary knowledge of his previous world and a heaven-defying Game Ring that gives him magical items, stats and skills, Zhang Ye embarks on a journey to pursue his life-long dream of becoming famous!

Follow Zhang Ye as he takes the new world by storm, one plagiarized piece at a time, to hilarious reactions!

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IRAS
IRS
I’m Really a Superstar
Ngã Chân Thị Đại Minh Tinh
Wo Zhen Shi Da Ming Xing
我真是大明星
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Stompeh
Stompeh
June 2, 2017
Status: --
Excruciatingly cringey at best, deeply offensive and hurtful at worst. Beyond the MCs obvious lack of morals and disgusting behaviour and attitude, it's just a boring story filled with sexism and nationalism with no depth of any kind. You can't even say it's entertaining, the highlight of these kinds of novels, the 'altercation' scenes, are lame and forced.
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BigJMK
BigJMK rated it
June 2, 2017
Status: c658
I love this novel so far. Sure, the MC Zhang Ye is an extreme nationalist (sometimes bordering on racist), but he is also rather relatable. He is rather average looking, not very rich, he isn't some kind of genius (at least at the beginning of the novel) and like Zhang Ye nearly everyone has wanted to be famous at some point of their lives and like him most people would also choose to plagiarize the works of famous authors, directors, musicians etc. That don't exist in the new world if... more>> they found themselves in the same situation as Zhang Ye.

Sure sometime you have to suspend your disbelief, since it's rather hard to believe that peopble are really going to be as exited for poems as they are in this novel, but a certain level of suspension of disbelief is required for nearly all webnovels (Chinese or otherwise).

I also greatly enjoy the fact that IRAS is introducing me to various popular Chinese novels, poems, songs, etc. That I would've likely never known about if not for IRAS.

At this point I also have to praise the translators, who do their best to keep up a high translation speed and quality, despite how hard it can be to translate chinese poems and songs without completely losing their message and flow.

Sure sometimes a few grammatical and spelling errors sneak in, though I think that can be forgiven, since it happens to nearly all translators, even professional ones.

Overall I have to give the novel a 5/5, as it's one of the few Chinese webnovels that always have me looking forward to the next chapter. <<less
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Keishi
Keishi rated it
June 1, 2017
Status: c1555
I caught up with the RAW, and I could only say I liked it.
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Okay, let's say it without sugarcoating anything, this wasn't the best WN I've ever read but this was definitely the one I enjoy the most.

There were flaws here and there, but I've never expected anything to be perfect, so that was cool with me.

The only thing I couldn't stomach was the patriotism of the MC which borderline with racism.

Some people said the MC was dumb as hell since he kept offending people in every field he entered, but for me it was just an inherent trait that separated him from other people. He had this mentality where he would treat you the same as you treated him. It could get exasperating sometimes. And yes, the conflicts in this novel escalated faster than you could spell fast, but they were also the charms that made me wanted to read more.

This was a story which glorified the MC, the MC who wouldn't bear with the slightest grievance, the humor would make you crave for more, and sometimes the absurdity would kill your braincells.

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Was it worth reading? For me, hell yeah it was. <<less
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Empress
Empress
May 22, 2017
Status: c641
Hum.. This is a good read for those with xianxia's face smaking fetish and able to tolerate racism, which is already at the extreme stage, especially at the latest chapters (Peking University Accident Arc).

In the end, this is really good, absolutely amazing novel if you skip the extreme bashing and racism. Personally I think Crosstalk Competition Arc is the best so far, I can't stop laughing. It would be a great if ZY stop using such crude bashing talk, and use sarcastic joke instead. I am sure he'll become more... more>> likeable. <<less
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Keima-kun
Keima-kun
May 11, 2017
Status: c400
The beginning is seriously promising and entertaining. Moving on the story, the plot becomes repetitive and boring.

The MC is somewhat likeable in the beginning but later becomes so unbearable. I wonder if the author is on drugs or anything? The MC is nothing more than an embodiment of what the authors wants to be. In other word, self -fulfilment. In this novel, The MC is the best, the MC is the majesty. You can never slight the MC. Side characters are forgettable as they are only there to glorify the... more>> MC.

Not to mention, the repetitive plots. Oh boy. Almost to the extent it is predictable.

Plot armors. Don't get me start with this. The MC himself is omnipotent so do not expect him to face any loss. Even when he is despised, insulted he would get back on them thousandfolds. Well, this might also be one of its good point

Aside from that, the biggest concern, theme that made me drop this novel is the racism. To me, it is fine to be nationalistic but the author's depictions on the other countries show how racist he is. While it is okay when the novel is read by chinese themselves, but others, including me would feel uncomfortable reading it.

It is harem but is is the bad type of harem in which the MC is the pe*vert and non-decisive type of MC. So do not expect romance as the MC is a h**ny pre adult. On the bright side, it is definitely better than AST and ATG.

You may either love it or hate. But to me, this might be in the list of my most disliked novels. <<less
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FortColors
FortColors rated it
May 10, 2017
Status: c623
The story is about a guy who world-hopped and now wants to become the world's greatest superstar. After world-hopping, however, he can now create a near-endless supply of popular content by plagiarizing from his past world (which is our world).

The story has amazing humor and extremely satisfying face-slapping, and has a completely different feel from the combat-oriented genres usually perused by translations readers.
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Ruu95
Ruu95 rated it
February 27, 2017
Status: c534
It's a really special novel! There aren't novels like IRS. The protagonist has a particular personality and he can take advantage of every situation to obtain more fame. The novel includes different things: humour, chinese culture (specially the literature), rebellion: we see how a young man can progress in a world where everyone opposes him because he's different, he's better, he's "talent". It makes me laugh to think that everyone thinks that zhang ye is a genius when he's just an expert PIRATE at the same level of luffy ahahahah... more>> I really love him when he surprises everytime someone expect him to be unable to do something. I' m looking forward to see how he will conquer the hearts of people in order to become a " REALLY SUPERSTAR". <<less
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Phantom-Z
Phantom-Z rated it
December 4, 2016
Status: c713
Hello,
this Novel is a pretty decent one with good and bad things. Some of the bad things are really being amplified by some people for nothing.

1) the MC is racist, well for now he hasn't shown anything going overboard :
Spoiler Ch.230 :
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The Korean author says that the MC is a good for nothing and is just reading a script. Then there is a black person in the audience who come to criticize the MC, it's normal to counterattack. About the jokes about the Koreans (about kimchi for example) , a lot of people in every country do that about other countries (Americans who jokes about english people - english people about the french ones and their eating habits - french and the "belgians jokes" - the different countries who makes jokes about americans all being fat and in overweight because they eat burgers). You can see such jokes everywhere and it is not really a problem for anyone. So if the MC got critized by a korean, he took the occasion to make joke about them and take revenge at the same time

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Spoiler Ch.380 to 400 :
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About the second times with Lee Anson, this singer deserve what happened to him, he goes in a country in their festival and take the places of 2 peoples which are from the country (That's OK) , He doesn't speak a word of their language and does "Lip sync" on the stage (let's say it's still OK) , after that when he leaves he doesn't show any respect to his fans, one of his bodyguards hurt one of his fans who has been waiting in the cold for hours and he doesn't even apologise to her (This is not OK, and even less if you count the previous things) . So the MC kicked him, he was right to do so

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2) The MC is a plagiarist, yes he is, so what ?
He just do what he has to and he is right to do it. When you've got intel, it's normal to use it if you can. And since the original authors doesn't exists in his world, it doesn't hurt anyone.
Also he buy these memories with the "reputation points" so you can count it as buying the copyright with reputation points.
Fianlly, even if you had all the knowledge in the world, if you can't use it in the right circonstances at the good place and time, it's completely useless. That's the MC skill, he use the right words at the right time and place.

3) The MC is a rapist, that's a bit too much, It would be more appropriate to say he is a little pe*verted.
He doesn't really force himself on any woman and is still a virg*n.
When he touched the landlord lady, she was the one who agreed for him to come in her bedroom and in her bed, she also allowed him to touch her and she only decided to punch him when he went a little overboard and she faked that she wasn't aware it was him touching her.
But she still invited him in her house->Bedroom->bed afterward and she allowed him to have a little bit more fun with her.
So even if the MC is a little pe*verted, she is not really better since she allowed him to be like this with her.

4) The MC is s*upid, it is completely the truth. But he can at the same time be a real genius.
That's one of the most frustrating things about he MC, he can be a genius some times and become an total idiot just after that.
If he could endure things a little more and not always going s*upid for a little thing he could easily have been even more succesful. Too bad he become almost ret*rded sometimes.
For example, he could eat a bread of luck before using the "dice of difficulty" but instead of that he refuse to use the latter because he had one bad experience with it (a really really bad experience since he almost died), he should also show more guts. <<less
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cheval
cheval rated it
September 4, 2016
Status: c271
This is pure comedy xianxia. It is very basic and follow generic plot of xianxia where the strong bully the weak but with modern setting so being strong here doesn't mean great physical strength or intelligence. The MC's attitude is so commonly found (very good attitude toward friends no mercy for the enemies) but the author really written it so well so far you'll forget about the common xianxia plot and you'll just laughing your a** off while reading this. If you're not laughing you're either a sociopath or psychopath or both.
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I didn't give a 4 because no matter how good this is, still follow basic xianxia plot. Oh and mild racism towards korean too hehehe not that I care about it

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TianKrea
TianKrea rated it
August 10, 2016
Status: c220
Edit: It becomes so repetitive I got bored and MC is seriously so creepy pe*vert that I am dropping this. It is really funny to see I commented before as I won't drop this of course. Really disappointed. One star.

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Awesome novel. Only minus is MC is like shameless virg*n when it comes to women. He touches them when they are asleep, peeps them when they are taking bath, uses their sweaty towel, acts like a child or s*upid in front of them etc. This novel is wonderful but whenever some... more>> scenes like this happens I just want to drop this novel. (I won't drop it of course) <<less
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oxidonitroso88
oxidonitroso88
July 22, 2016
Status: c149
It's fun, but is slow paced and its too oriented to literature and poems that i've never read, sometimes there are some poem composition contest that lost me in translation with chinese and differwnt pronuntiation kinda gets boring but I just read them and givenothoughts about that. Now that he is getting some other areas cheats like a charming voice, taekwondo skills maybe he can do some other things rather than poems or story tellings
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crimsonwolf8439
crimsonwolf8439
July 20, 2016
Status: c145
Seriously, this novel is absolutely hilarious. You would be seriously hard pressed to find a lot of reviews that sh*t on this novel. The main character is a riot of laughs, the plot is great and it even has relevant Chinese culture brought to it! I know someone up above said that the poems were irrelevant to the story but seriously how many novels do you find a MC which can save a life with a poem? Plus, this is a great way to be exposed to the Chinese genre... more>> of literature while dying of laughter. BTW how much literature must this writer have read to have a steadily available stream of poems to curse with? Rant over :p <<less
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Kanha Sahu
Kanha Sahu rated it
October 9, 2022
Status: --
Well worst novel...

I don't know what other above people are saying that the MC is attacking others but what I know that the MC is a pathetic loser..

Why u ask? Very simple he doesn't owns anything also people gives him trouble for a small and simple reason and our ms is very magnanimous forgetting those things people at the station boycotted him again and again and our magnanimous MC helped them again and again...

... more>> Well this novel practically screams that it is a novel... Don't understand ??

Very simple this novel doesn't gets to the touch of reality basically u can't get immersed with it u will feel what I m reading is a fake coz of its useless chapters sigh... Why I m so angered ?

Coz it really broke my mood today

Atleast if someone irritates u then payback sufficiently so that he never thinks of doing it again, it's not like he will think twice before doing wtf is with this crappy statement... <<less
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Inkspire241
Inkspire241 rated it
July 14, 2022
Status: --
This is the kind of novel that a reader would transmigrate into so they could overturn the main protagonist and save the plot/world from ceasing to exist.........

The main protagonist is really something...* (not in a good way.) 0 to minimal character growth..
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mkdrive2
mkdrive2 rated it
June 4, 2022
Status: c1359
It is one of my favorite novels. The MC is kind of hostile against most other countries, but I like him anyway. To me it is most important that the story is fun. The only downside is that the novel will forever stay unfinished. I did not read all the chapters that were released, because I was afraid that I might not be able to handle it if the story suddenly stopped.
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PurpleGrimm
PurpleGrimm rated it
March 3, 2021
Status: --
Spoiler

IRAS at the first glance was just your typical MC being transported and started to use the earth knowledge for his life, but it was not executed really well, firstly, let's talk about the Protagonist personality and behavior, he was an absolute a**hole, he was good on his friends or his country, no denying that, but that constant racism and nationalism was deeply implement on his soul. It sometimes make me wonder how this guy given this opportunity to be transported, his personality had no change, even when he got a family, there was slight change and overall he is still the same.

Let's talk about the plot, simple, "faceslapping" and plagiarism, I don't even think why those upper people had this kind of personality, and I don't even get it why they become jealous, and the execution of Plagiarized work is kinda worse for me, I like novels that had this concept of using other works, but some are good because it was well executed, but what about this MC, he just used them, and I'm totally offended by it, not just he played the part of plagiarism of Anime content to faceslap Japan, he was an hypocrite, he just end it on there, he even use the novel winning peace to win the 'western' Nobel prize, which in his character is a nationalist and racist, there are lots of part in the novel that had this situation.

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yujichandesu
yujichandesu rated it
January 23, 2020
Status: c999
This novel is pure comedy gold. My all-time favourite chinese novel! Love how much face-slapping is included in the chapters.
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sagacity
sagacity rated it
December 23, 2019
Status: c404
It would've been good if not for so much pettiness of the MC. The story foundation itself is refreshing but the MC when he becomes petty is very annoying. He's a RACISlT and with all caps at that... so hard to get pass this to the point I wanted to skip these moments

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I was specially struggling to accept about his "hate" towards koreans (like how south korea dislike japan) in a historical and political context but, he is too unreasonable and much too biased. I'm not sure if I can say this as a character flaw or the author's flaw. I also skipped may fillers because they were long winded and had no point. I like that it was technical, somehow giving more credibility to the world building but a lot of stuff seems to get swept under the rug and too many convenient situations are happening. Like which are similar with old and new world or he always has a magical item when he needed it. His use of the red string baffles me the most. It makes it seems like the author is desperate to get a harem tag..

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I still want to see what plot this story has in store but this non-stop face slapping makes me tired. I'll forge on and update my review when I get further <<less
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sss143
sss143 rated it
July 18, 2019
Status: c1300
I am giving 4 rating instead of 5 because,

    1. this novel is too long.
    1. MC could have used other method to fight his opponent but he will always scold his opponent on internet or he depends on FL for safe passage. For example he could have used hacking/martial arts to destroy his opponent but he will not do that.
Now the reason why I have give 4 rating instead of 1/2/3 for this novel.
    1. Author has written skit/cross talk beautifully in this novel.
    1. The plots are simple. You won't get bored if you are reading 20-30 chapters daily.
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silvananoir
silvananoir rated it
September 21, 2017
Status: c815
It's honestly a well written novel. The characters are funny and the MC is pretty interesting. The main goal isn't to become famous in one area like other novels of this type, the only thing that Zhang Ye wants is to become famous in general. The money while helpful doesn't matter, he only wants the accolades. As such he pretty mercenary (though he wants to be loyal) and bounces are different fields.

What really helps him is the fact that a lot of ... more>>
Spoiler

modern media in our world doesn't exist in his new world. Therefore a combination of his knowledge of the Old World and the system that is guiding helps on the path of achieving fame.

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I will saw one thing that prevents me from giving this novel 5 stars is that I think it's too long. It gets very formulaic. Still enjoyable but you're able to tell what going to happen. Also the novel gets pretty jingoistic at times. Even though
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he's blatantly stealing the work of others

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, including foreigners he tends to be quick to insult other countries. But I'm sure it plays well in China. So yea, Zhang Ye is a massive hypocrite who does work hard but seems to forget that these aren't his works or ideas.

But fortunately the ultra nationalist moments are few and far in between. Mostly it's a light and pretty enjoyable read and if you're looking for something fun the translation is so far that it'd be good time to get in. <<less
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