There are a lot of Korean novels to be found on this site. Some great, some good, and most mediocre. Oh, you know the type - some vague fantasy setting (dungeons/demons/academy) with color-coded one-trope, one-joke characters where the main character is a guy/gal who transmigrates into the setting with a somewhat interesting conceit who exists to solely solve generic scenarios (demons attack/festival/competition/dungeon-raid) and act dense around women.

For me, they fall in the 3 stars category. Don't particularly hate them or like them, but read them occasionally to pass the time.... more>> This one, however, annoys me, so 2 stars. I read around 50 chapters, and everything just annoyed me.

First, the premise annoyed me. I don't want to speak about the general "dishwasher theory", so let's look at the happening in the novel:
Our protagonist reads the novel <Academy's Strongest> which features Bern, a strong side character. Bern, however, is maligned by the novel's author, and as the novel progresses starts to lose out to the novel's actual protag, Kang Jun-Hyuk. Bern gets weaker, and his gf Sherin falls in love with Kang Jun-Hyuk, but in the end, Bern marries Sherin, and gets the dishwasher end. Our protag writes a protesting comment, and then wakes up and finds himself as Bern in the world of <Academy's Strongest> before the story of the novel begins.

Now, before we go any further, let's ask ourselves the question: who is in control of the world? Is there an actual Author plotting the downfall of Bern? Or is the Author some kind of narrator who only describes what's happening? Is the world real, and the people in control of their own fate? Or is it the author, who is an omnipotent, all-controlling god? Bern's betrayal - was it orchestrated by the Author, or Sherin, the gf?

Now, we could have had an interesting story about the lines between fiction and reality, but this novel isn't interested in that. Our protag just blames both - Author is evil cause he cucked Bern, but so is Sherin, cause now that is she real, she is somehow to be blamed as well. Okay, sure. I get what you're trying to do, but it so s*upid.

Then what? Title drop! He leaves the Academy, cause it's not a story, and he's not bound by it, see? Except it totally is, cause if he sticks around, Kang Hyuk will whoop and cuck his ass, 100% guaranteed. And he has like 2 years to have like a happy ending for himself - cause then we enter the middle part of the novel, and he's not OP anymore... I'm sorry, it's just so s*upid.

So our hero makes a strategic retreat, and heads back to his hometown, but gets hit with back-to-back painfully generic scenarios that just put me to sleep... there's a dragon, there's an ego sword, an ant-colony there are gender-reversed elf nation, and I believe there might have been attempts at comedy. There are also s*x scenes. But it's all just so relentlessly generic and one-note that I just couldn't care. It's not funny, and the slight twists on the cliche just make me dislike it more.

There's also POV of Kang Hyuk and Sherin as he suffers because there's no Bern around. I think it's supposed to be cathartic, but just like the rest it just falls flat for me. Bern is basically the OP protagonist - he gets handed everything he wants and needs. In fact, for me, in a completely tone-deaf manner, he's become the very tr*shy protagonist he was complaining about and has me rooting for Kang Hyuk.

Maybe that's the point of it, I suppose. I've written quite a long review, so I'll stop now. If I get transmigrated because of this, I hope I end up in a better novel than this. <<less

Yet another mediocre tr*sh novel.

'Nocturnal intuition' somehow gives him a parallel thought, like an alternate ego but only at night and that too completely abruptly.

Abrupt is really the correct word for this novel.

... more>> Japanese cliche of randomly rescuing a princess as soon as you transmigrate.

No moral dilemma to killing.

Magic system is literally nonexistent, cast spells just by saying the spell name, no knowledge required.

MC's motivation to do stuff is 'meh' at best which boils down to "i'll avoid being a cuck by running away from the story entirely"

Oh and he keeps making the usual 'why do beings only introduced in the later parts suddenly present now, as if the world didnt already have them from the beginning.

This shitty original author who did things without forethought, suddenly now has a hidden backstory of one of the bosses being a bereaved mother who had the daughter kidnapped.

The first heroine is dumb, really quite naive actually. Also bog standard power to literally see people as white or black depending on their nature, leaving out any trace of moral ambiguity and depth.

Lacking to no descriptions at all, situations aren't explained, series of events happening aren't established. The scene in the prologue literally never happens cause man leaves literally in the first hour of waking up in chapter 1 and in chapter 2 he's already long gone. Its like nothing matters, no one in academy did anything about it, literally nothing.

This is a japanese novel which happens to be written by a korean author. Its tr*sh by almost every single metric. <<less