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The Returner
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.This story is centered around the man named Yi Ji-Hyuk, who has spent 1000 years in a Medieval Western fantasy-like world before returning back to the modern-day Earth. When he returns, he finds that his home is facing monster threats, and that humans with superpowers have appeared to protect the innocent people of Earth.
The thing is, Yi Ji-Hyuk himself lived like a true, bona-fide Demon King in that fantasy world, and the only reason(s) why he returned home is to find some peace and easy going life. So, what will a man like that do?
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There's a point at which a joke gets stale, and this novel has gone long past it.
Just for context, this is a situation where a portal has opened (in the middle of a city I would guess, though it's not stated) and werewolves are pouring out of the portal, and the MC is basically the only guy who can stop them without suffering any injuries, so him refusing to do this is essentially equivalent to telling the soldiers to get injured or killed. Okay, so this is rational if he's an as*hole and doesn't care about other people (let's just say he doesn't need a good reputation either), but, killing monsters restores his mana, and he has repeatedly said that he needs more mana so he can do more stuff. So why is he not killing monsters here? Is it just for the sake of setting up a joke about overtime?
Let's start from the beginning. The MC is immortal, so he can do and say whatever he wants, right? Well, not really. He basically just has really strong regenerative powers but isn't powerful, so when he was initially transported into Berafe, monsters in the forest just ate him again and again, some of them even followed him around to keep eating him. So why didn't a monster just drag him into a cave for an infinite food supply? Also, other people in Berafe noticed this too, as the dragon said:
So why didn't they just lock him up before he became that powerful? How did he survive for 1000 years and gain the powers that he did? None of this was explained but that story would be probably infinitely more interesting than this one.
Again, this guy gets transported back to Earth, gates are opening all over the place and the military is struggling to keep up yet all he wants to do is to sit at home playing video games and reading webnovels? After living for 1000 years in hardship this guy still doesn't have the maturity to recognize what's important? Is this the same guy that led an army of demons to bring about the apocalypse, opening up a portal to the realm of death? I totally get that his memories of Berafe were supposed to be like "grains of sand" but he was clearly capable of using the magic that he learned so it's not like he forgot everything. And if he remembers things like magic then I find it hard to believe that the hardships he suffered did not mature him in any way whatsoever.
He continually trusts in the ability of the Korean military and the KSF, even after they've repeatedly failed to contain the monsters spilling out of gates which then go on to attack civilians. The MC is stated to care about his family, so when a monster rushes towards his family he goes berserk and kills them. Fine. But then, he doesn't do anything to prevent more gates opening and more monsters coming out which will sooner or later threaten his family again. He doesn't even set up any measures to protect his family (maybe some defensive magic or even just barricades would be better than nothing). So, it's not that this guy doesn't care about anyone, he's just incredibly lazy and short-sighted. There is no big plan. He just lives from moment to moment acting in the most immature way possible. It's hard to imagine that this is the same Bringer of Apocalypse who commanded an army of demons and devils in Berafe.
I think the biggest problem with this novel is that the jokes take precedence over actual character consistency. The MC's family is set up to be some kind of typical dysfunctional family from some TV series so the MC has to play the role of the lazy son. The same goes, more incredibly, for the members of the KSF, where the guy is this hyper-competent ambitious guy who nevertheless just can't get over losing at a video game, and his boss apparently is only capable of throwing temper tantrums whenever something doesn't go her way. This leads to the characters coming across as 2-dimensional cardboard cutouts who constantly act strangely so as to fulfill their stereotype, rather than actual human beings.
I could also talk about the lack of worldbuilding and political intrigue but I guess it comes down to a mismatch of expectations. I expected this to be more than a nonsensical slapstick comedy, and my expectations turned out to be wrong. That's all.
Before you read my comment, I tell you beforehand that English is not my mother tongue, so, there will be mistakes in my writing.
Ok, let's start. 1.-I have seen MANY negative comments, mainly towards the attitude of the protagonist, his actions, thoughts, etc. First of all, YOU MUST REMEMBER that from the synopsis the author tells the plot of the story... 1000 years in a world without our social rules, is not that enough?
Also, you must consider, that our protagonist, obeys OUR RULES, but not those of THAT WORLD, a way of thinking something strange, but maybe due to the Korean discipline system... That explains why he killed without blinking in that world, and in ours world he lets himself be arrested by the police. You have to be s*upid to not be able to analyze and reason this.
3.- Guys, see the tags and genres, SEE the tags and genres! Comedy, Action, Parody, Lazy..... Are you blind (*cough-cough* I mean those who have already read this *cough-cough* novel) ? Therefore, you should not question the mentality, comedy and s*upidity of the plot, everything is in order to make us laugh. *Sigh*
I think this:
1.- The novel is very funny, seriously, very funny, I died laughing in some parts.....
As I said, this novel is to make us laugh, but of course, sometimes you will have to analyze the comments of the characters, mainly about the protagonist and his life in that other world, since it gives clues about his reasons for returning to our world.
2.- About romance... Well, the protagonist is not dense, and I say this because he is not the typical Japanese protagonist, but wait, you will think at this moment: What the hell is this imbecile saying? I DONT see a romance tag!!! There is not tag because the protagonist is... ******
Well, as a small spoiler, our protagonist is not s*upid in that aspect, that he avoids romance is for "something"... You will have to read it to know what I mean.
P.S 2 There are references to other novels, such as EER, A monster Who Levels Up, etc.... lol