The Novel’s Extra

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Waking up, Kim Hajin finds himself in a familiar world but an unfamiliar body.

A world he created himself and a story he wrote, yet never finished.

He had become his novel’s extra, a filler character with no importance to the story.

The only clue to escaping is to stay close to the main storyline.

However, he soon finds out the world isn’t exactly identical to his creation.

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TNE
소설 속 엑스트라
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Silanthris
Silanthris rated it
September 5, 2018
Status: c95
This novel is extremely good. I read all available chapters in an afternoon. The MC is likable, as most of the other characters. It's funny, refreshing and the Mc's "power" is pretty dope, yet not really overpowered.

The translation is superb with barely any mistakes, the ones that exist can be attributed to a simple mistake, as in one letter missing or the wrong form of a verb, which is amazing compared to the time I had understanding the great mighty dao of mtl stuff.

Good characters, I really like the MC... more>> he is fun and a real character, though as in any novel sometimes it looks like his brain cells go on vacation leaving him alone.

Side characters are pretty good, they aren't plain and boring, quite a lot of fun was had reading their conversations and reactions to events.

The story is interesting, though by the chapter i'v read I still don't know the overlying plot, though what was happened by chapter 95 doesn't have any plot holes (at least that I've noticed) and was fun to read, and not repetitive like some cn web novels, there isn't any face slapping young masters which in NU is rarer than it probably should be.

All in all, I gave it a 4/5 yet it's not because I found any fault in it that took one star away, it's just that it's hard to give something 5/5, but if anything deserves it this novel might be it. <<less
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raysha18
raysha18 rated it
July 14, 2018
Status: c38
I had no expectations while reading this novel. Not because it's bad, that's not it at all. But because the ending of 'A Monster who levels up' was not to my liking. To put it more bluntly, disappointing.

But here I am once more, caught up in the story and enjoying myself as I wait for the next update.

Overall, I like the story. You get hook at the scenes and enjoy the characters the author created. I decided to write a review for my fellow readers who likes the authors other... more>> work but hesitating to read this one due to the ending.

Let's all suffer together while reading such a wonderful novel without knowing if we are going to have a good ending. <<less
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CmdrNatsuki
CmdrNatsuki rated it
August 24, 2022
Status: Completed
I'll summarize so you lot, WHO READ THIS!! Doesn't suffer like I did..

it was interesting until ch 120 ish, After that, a brain f*ckery that was..

so many useless fillers, so many things that could've been done right but it doesn't.

... more>> gets repetitive in the later half and f*ck the Ending,

Unless you're a masochist bastard who loves despair and being unfulfilled, I advise as someone who damn well thought that,

may it be MC will get better, the love interests, and there would be LESS DRAMA,

hell it doesn't.

Just stay away from this you lot, It ruined my month already as I've wasted so many days trying to finish this, foolishly hoping it'll get better.

but f*ck that

cause it definitely DID NOT get any better <<less
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Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro rated it
May 25, 2019
Status: c285
Great concept and start, at the begining the characters and plot were really interesting, bit since the start of the Tower of wish Arc, the novel is all about misunderstanding, the MC awesomeness and demon realm. The plot and the novel overall fall so hard that I cant EVEN read the last data chapters without feeling bored. My inital rate for this novel was 5 stars, but Dropped to 1 star. This author only know how to start a novel, After the First 150 chapters, everything turns a crap.
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renenzant rated it
February 25, 2019
Status: c254
This is one of my favorite novel.

Even though the MC has somewhat an impossible skill as plot armor, I really like all the characters in this novel. They are all have their own personalities and background stories, and not just typical side characters (even the supposed villain has an in depth story later on)

The side characters relationship and stories doesn’t only revolve around the MC, but also between each of them. This makes me want to see what will happen to everyone.

There are also quite a lot of funny... more>> situations of misunderstanding, and the females aren’t always falling head over heels to the MC, even though many of them admire and support him. They each have their own lives and not following around the MC like many other noves. <<less
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amir_ka30000
amir_ka30000 rated it
October 14, 2019
Status: Completed
The novel was 5 star before the last couple of chapters. The ending was so shitty that ruined the whole thing I could come up with 5 different better endings but the whole journey was great. The writer job was good until the ending so if you care about the journey not the end go for it if you are like me that care too much for the ending I guess drop it its better that way.
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Lil K.O
Lil K.O rated it
May 10, 2019
Status: c283
Best character development I've read in a while

No lie but character development is where this novel shines the most. If you want some good character development then look no further cuase here it is. If I had to give it a rating it would be 7/10. The character development start getting forced, slow after a certain ark that shall not be named cuase of a spoiler but after the 3 year time skip is where the Character development stops shinning and gets really cringy at times. Really sucks cause the... more>> part of the novel before the time skip the clear focus was the characters and the relationships they had but after the time skip that changes and starts to heavily focus on the plot and thats where this novels fails. If it was better I would give it 4 stars but with it sadly 3 stars. Good character development can't save a bad plot. The plot is honestly a 5/10 or 4/10 it has some point for originality, trying to add the twist of how the world the MC created is not the same he knew but thats barely utilized and only ended arguebly making the plot worse but the best part (peak moment) of this novel was cuase of that originality *cough* spoiler*cough*. The plot just like most others on this site fails on its execution, with a clear lack of planning and not using its elements to the fullest, just barely using them at all. Especially the the next arc after the odern arc. So forced and only servers to forcefully extend the novels short lifespan.

So if you want good character development then you got it but that only for a short period of time and doesn't apply all round the novel and it will be clear to you when the character development stops being the focus and starts failing. But if you want some good old plot with great action then you in the wrong place <<less
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Melynda W.
Melynda W. rated it
March 28, 2019
Status: c256
So. As every Korean novel, The Novel's Extra had a very good start. The characterization and the world creation was magnificent, the way to protagonist interact with the world, the consequences of his actions was good writeen.

I read the novel sisce chapter 60 and know, the reading fells like it has been rushed. Like the author don't know what to do anymore. The novel was always wrote in the beginning was a 1° person narrative in 2800 words. Now we have 4-5 pvo in the same 2800.

I don't have the... more>> same feeling of anxiety that I had no beginning. The writing don't have soul anymore, the fights are being rushed, the caractchar are being poorly develop and the situation with Chae Nayun is already boring. <<less
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Anixancy
Anixancy rated it
December 9, 2018
Status: c137
I love this novel, enough to read past the annoying love interests in the story. But I'm sorry, no more.

(Unpopular Opinion™ here) I've decided to drop this story only because of how horribly annoying the rich girl with the sick brother is (and all the other love interests are). Do people really find a girl like that appealing? Currently there's a girl like that in my lecture and most people try to avoid her like the black plague. I know it's a bit mean but such a sticky and... more>> obsessive personality is really off putting.

The only love interest that I truly like is Rachel, even though she's a bit of an archetype, at least she's not the crappy rich don't-talk-to-me-peasant girl like CN. Although there are quite a few plot points that don't make much sense in the novel, but my enjoyment never decreased because of them. But because of how poorly written the "romance" is I'm not going to deal with it (even though I picked up this novel for the action and story)

Again, that's not romance, that's not how you get a person to like you, hell if the author just killed off CN the reading experience would be a 5/5.

To those who aren't bothered by the multiple "love" interests in this novel, congratulations, this novel is a positive 5/5 and extremely enjoyable. <<less
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kuro106
kuro106 rated it
January 5, 2023
Status: c378
Pros:

Good Start, weak to OP not forced, interesting side characters.

Cons:

Second half quality declines, Ending sucks af, Serious nationality issues If anything is korean is good no matter you were arguing about ridiculous shit, you want me to pay you 15k for a beer? Are you crazy?. Hey it's korean. Oh well as the says goes if korean is good. Author forgets side characters ideas he show at first half, Ships created at first half abandoned at second.

First Half 4.5/5
Second Half 2/5
Overall: 3/5
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TheDoot16
TheDoot16 rated it
October 18, 2021
Status: Completed
I am in complete and utter disbelief of what happened in this novel. The premise was interesting and the start was acceptable overall but everything goes only downward from there.

The world building was interesting but the MC seems to simply not care about anything much at all. He’s content with his OP ability and doesn’t seemingly actually care about anything despite ‘accepting this is the real world’ for half the novel.

The misunderstandings and comedy were funny but it wasn’t really ground breaking.

And the ending is easily the worst I have... more>> ever read in my entire life. No joke I can flip my grade 5 English textbooks and read any story, it will have a better ending that this. I have no doubt that the author was slowly losing his brain cells while writing the novel. Instead of getting better while writing he only got worse.

The WORST ending of all time. You can read if you want a decent plot but the ending is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life. <<less
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sgrey
sgrey rated it
March 16, 2019
Status: c256
I am a bit torn about this novel. It starts off pretty well and is somewhat unique in the way MC is handled. However, after about 100 chapters it all goes to shit. The killing of a certain girl's brother just ruined the novel for me. Despite knowing how things are going MC chooses the worst possible way to handle things. And goddamn, how much torment he put on that poor girl. She actually got a mental illness because of him and had to take pills. The thing that MC... more>> only considers is how his actions will influence the overall plot of his original story, and he does not take into account how the people he interacts with will be influenced by him. This is also the biggest plot hole in the novel, which will lead to a tragedy if it happens how MC wants. In his view, this world is not real and none of the people are real, so he does not give a damn about them as people and only as characters. Also, it somewhat changes later.

Now, suppose he returns to his world in the end, and the original owner of the body is put back. What the hell is going to happen to all relationships that he built? He is clearly a different person and won't remember what happened. In addition, all the enemies MC made still will be there. He basically will ruin everyone's lives after he is back.

Of course, this only is true if the world is an actual world and not some sort of hallucination of his. But we have no reason to think that this is not a real world. Regardless if this world is real or not, if MC wanted to minimize his influence, he should've done things way differently than what he does. He should've been working stealthily behind the scenes and helping people from the shadows. But he becomes world famous and basically leading people in war. He pretty much became the actual MC of his story and the original MC went into the background. Not to mention that he stole almost the whole harem from the original MC.

And one of the biggest issues I have with this novel is that for more than 100 chapters it's pretty much a circus. Every single thing MC does is misunderstood as something else. Helping the girl? He must be in love. Had an argument with a girl? They must be a couple. The whole story is built upon a series of misunderstandings about him.

Overall the story was pretty good until the killing brother part. After that the quality deteriorates, the author starts using more cheap tricks to keep the interest. For example frequent switches of the scenes. You read an interesting scene, it buildup, and then in the most interesting part, the author switches to a different scene. This kind of thing keeps happening more often. Also, the same scene repeated 3-4 times from multiple points of view. This is also getting repeated more often.

Do I recommend this novel? I don't know. The most important part now is how it's going to end. If the author ties things up in a decent way, the novel will be fine. However, if the ending is going to be as s*upid as the current arcs, the novel is going to be shit. <<less
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DeadOpossum
DeadOpossum rated it
February 23, 2019
Status: c260
Almost every chapter ends with a cliffhanger. Such an intense plot.

We're submersed info several arcs simultaneously, some of which are progressing for 250 chapters and more.

Protagonist is not generic. He is not a cute guy every girl wants, he doesn't want to be friends with everyone. While he is smart he cannot predict everything.

... more>> While there are some cliche you can find in any other asian novel, they are not becoming absurd or annoying.

Main characters are awesome and mostly unique. You will not find tsundere-yandere-sister bullsh*t here. Characters have emotional and very diverse personalities.

Overall, I evaluate this novel to have 1000 points on a 100 points scale. Why can't I give it more than 5 stars? <<less
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Alucard98
Alucard98 rated it
November 18, 2018
Status: c160
Well this is personal, no hard feelings k?

This novel undoubtly has potential. The premise is good so do the MC, he is no ret*rd. But along the progress of the story, it gets.. Well how should I put it, I lost my interest. Compare to first 100 chaps, 100+ get boring.

Especially on time skip, too many plot holes. MC seems sunk on his own life in his novel, busy with unimportant issue etc.. Etc.. Kinda like he is enjoying his life and forgetting about getting stronger and his main purpose.... more>> Idk, maybe bcs translation not finished yet and this part is just climax's complementer? Who knows may be something is unreveal yet?

Btw Translator was top notch, no kidding. I hardly find any difficulty when reading this novel

For now, 4 stars <<less
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Rangle
Rangle rated it
October 26, 2018
Status: c144
A story about an author being thrown into a fanfiction of his own work. The premise was quite promising and the abundant misunderstanding between characters could've been hilarious. Unfortunately, like in so many fanfictions it failed in proper story development.

The story progression was utterly predictable and things happened just because the plot had to move forward. There's no consideration for story logic or character's personality. If some dramatic events needed to happen then characters will behave out of character or hold the idiot ball. Everything was at the convenience for... more>> the author at the expense of readers who were invested in the story.

I would've given the story a 2.5 just because characters interactions were quite decent at times. But since the rating system could only give a 2 or a 3, I had to rate it down. <<less
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lastletter0516
lastletter0516 rated it
September 17, 2018
Status: c107
I wake up with excite every morning (GMT+08) because of this novel.

Good character interactions, good dialogue (not forced and sounds natural), not cringy.

Also, Evandel is the best.
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SasugaTranslation
SasugaTranslation rated it
August 8, 2018
Status: c66
Great pacing and characters aren't carbon copies of each other. The protagonist is a little bit generic, but in a good way, since he is really just an average guy transported into another world. He does display the forgiveness and sympathy that would make one think he's a beta MC, but this is justified since he's the writer of the story and cares for his characters. All-in-all, best KR WN I've ever read.
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LAFORGUS
LAFORGUS rated it
May 24, 2021
Status: Completed
TLDR:

Resume (Spoiler Free) :

· Good read if you want to take a break from Cultivation Novels
· Still this fall into the stale and repetitiveness of Modern Age Novels
· So much Character Banters without even intellectual conversation ("But, MC is supposed to be an Adult!)
· Tropes from those Shounen Roncom Animes (s*upid anime's cliché misunderstandings,
"Hey, MC is supposed to be an Adult!")
·... more>> Rewarding on early chapters, punishing on late chapters
· MC most of the times stop thinking like the creator of the Novel, and instead acts as a character of it.
· Turned into a Soap Opera
· Ending? No Comment...

In Deep Review:

Spoiler

As usual, the beginnings are always great, the preamble sold me out with the idea of an Author falling into his work, it hooked me up since the start, and on top of it finding out that someone modified his history was an even biggest Plot Twist on the very first Chapter. He has to earn Story Points (SP) to raise his skill and abilities in a Game Like Powers, the more fame he gets, the more SP he earns, and the stronger he becomes. Also, he can create skill and abilities tailored at his will.

Sadly as many rare novelties around, this one as well blew up on the development of it, and with time, all fell into a shadow of what it was in the early chapters. Moreover, unless you decide to let yourself to fall into the "Sunk Cost Fallacy", or if you are of those who like to end whatever they start reading, you will find yourself being unable to continue the reading until the end.

There were things I did not like with the Novel, so while I was reading I was taking notes of those, which will make this review larger and with many spoilers.

The first thing that I dislike even from the start is that the MC (the Author Character) still wanted to preserve the status and standing of every other character in the Novel. He doesn't see himself as the MC of it, which is s*upid since everyone else but HIM are NPCs, and he needs the fame to earn SP, if you consider that the Original Novel was a failure he should have taken the Role of MC, forget everyone else, and let those NPCs burn. Earning lot of SP would have skyrocketed to the top faster and finish his predicament ASAP.

MC wastes too much time talking and babbling with the MCs, instead of focusing on his things. He claims to be an extra, but he IS NOT, since he meddles with the same MC of the Novel, giving items and information from the standpoint of an Ally, not an EXTRA.

Giving a Virtual Game Plot to a Novel within a Novel? Seriously Author? (Real Life one). At this point, the "Real Life Author" ran out of ideas, and is making his "Author MC" play virtual reality games, throwing out the ship what this everything is about since the beginning. On top of it, he doesn't use his name, knowing that fame will earn him SP.

The best part of the Novel are the moment where the MC fights, at first he is supposed to look OP, but then he don't act like it, since he wants the other Characters to shine, when he KNOWS he gets more points for being in the limelight. He got a Bullet Time Ability and an Ability to destroy Magic Shield, so he virtually should be invincible, and able to kill anyone, but he does not do it. You see MC performing Bullet Time, then he start thinking on things, filling half chapter of ideas and actions he could do, and then the time runs out and he does nothing. It seems that the "Real Life Author" noticed how broken this was, and decided to nerf it, making it useless VS other strong people, but nice to kill large number of monsters.

He wastes times on useless abilities like singing, for a school contest and many other skills that doesn't nothing but convolute the chapters with a lot of text and useless skill that gives meager points to slow down the character power grown (RL Author doesn't want MC to be OP)

Once the MC leaves the Academy everything turns worse, MC does not like to show himself knowing that fame gives him lots of Story Points (SP), the skill points her gets is too few, something like 0.001-0.004 making his abilities progress slowly. Author was trying to milk the history for hundreds of chapters, where it would have ended in less than 100 if you remember the original premise.

Tower Arc was horrible, it was a power up place that the MC did not need, and forked for nothing as chapter milking. It only works because you see the MC picking useless skill and leveling up weird skills, instead of farming SP and create powerful skills like the Sharpshooter one.

After that so much Skip and Skim and in the end nothing worth mentioning...

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In Resume, this Novel is a TRAP, tailored to make people waste their time reading random things, with an initial interesting premise that disappears within the first 50 chapters.

I do not recommend it; there are many other Novels with similar settings and better development. However, if you have nothing else to read, try it, but be warned that you will be disappointed after the first third of the Novel.

Create for preteen audience, if you are an Adult (specially over 35y/o) run like the Plague, unless you turn your brain off. <<less
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Ihartkimchi
Ihartkimchi rated it
January 27, 2020
Status: c120
I gave up on finishing this since I got spoiled by a friend about the ending. Ending sucks so much, it makes the entire 300+ chapters seem worthless.

Anyways I enjoyed my time while reading this, I would've given 5 stars but the ending really disheartened me.
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Lynkaster
Lynkaster rated it
November 1, 2019
Status: Completed
I have 2 things to say first and foremost.

    • the story before and after 250 or so chapters can be separated in 2 reviews.
    • *exhale* where the hell is my harem graaaah not that I'm for harem all the time, but when the author planted flags with that many female characters that could move the progression barre of a VN's capture target by a whole 50%, a harem should be at the end ! dang it...
now, for the review (binge read it for a whole week) :

story : before chap250 : 5/5 after : 3.5/5

characters : 4/5

world building : 4/5

writing style : before chap250 : 5/5 after : 3.5/5

Let's start with the "before the devilization arc" at around chap250. It was amazing.

The characters were good, the story was interesting, and most of all, the writing was excellent. The events and developments are particularly well planned, with a good pacing, a good time management and all of this with multiple PoV. All the transitions were so seamless, so flawless that you just keep reading while immersed in the story. I didn't want to read anything else because I wanted to be fully focused on this novel.

Really, if you want to see an exemple of a really good writing, you should read this novel till the benchmark (chap250-ish)

The chapters are pretty long, it took me a lot of time to read this, but I didn't regret it one bit for this part.

now, about the after benchmark... you know, it's a little bit like the story was entirely planned and reviewed many times before this devilization arc. But then, the author didn't do the review part anymore and start writing with just the elements he wanted to put in on the spot. Many transitions and plot progressions are forced by author without foreshadowing, clich

s started to appear more often and many characters turned 2D or disappeared completely
Spoiler

I'm sure the author totally forgot lancaster... I'm sure of it.

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. I loved reading till chap 250, then between chap 300 and chap 350, I really forced myself, thinking I'm not so far from then ending, maybe the author will go back up for the final. The war on many front was the worst, I skipped a lot of text.

the ending was.. not butchered but still pretty disappointing... the author finished it almost like he just wanted to put an end and be done with it, leaving many plot behind. There's even inconsistencies at some places...

tldr : amazing novel till 3/5 of the novel, really, an excellent read with a clever writing, but really disappointing last 100 chapters. I still want to recommend it because of those first 250 chapters. Be ready for a long ride
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