Famous Plagiarist Protagonists

Famous Plagiarist Protagonists
These are STRAIGHT CHINESE & KOREAN NOVELS in which the transmigrated/reborn/reincarnated MC gain popularity by presenting other people's ideas or works from different world/era as theirs. Please advise if there are any misses.

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Hollywood Ace (?) -4☆- https://www.uukanshu.com/b/29810/ - Reborn as orphaned fast food worker, the overly handsome MC with prescient advantages soon make it big in Hollywood & Silicon Valley. Light read with gary stu MC. Quite realistic romance & no heroine.

Long Live Director (?) -3☆- https://www.uukanshu.com/b/20074/ - A modern-day Chinese director got transmigrated to US in 1925s. He used modern shooting method & adapted scenarios to build Hollywood. There's gang fights, chaotic consortiums, politics, polygamy & sketchy depiction of US.
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Created: Jul 30th, 2020, Updated: Oct 11th, 2023
Created Jul 30th, 2020
Updated Oct 11th, 2023
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  1. Mefis
    Mefis· Feb 2, 2022 02:58 AM
    I just now realized that I only recommended novels about Hollywood and movies... here's a list of good novels about plagiarism, well, or life a second time around.

    1. World of Entertainment: The Wild God of Gourmet [娱乐之荒野食神]
     https://www.uukanshu.com/b/51619/ (Chinese original)
     https://www.novelmt.com/novel/entertainment-world-the-wild-god-of-gourmet.html (Mechanical translation, but not bad.)
    A guy is taken to another world and given a system of extreme sports. Streaming in the wilderness and making damn good food even in those conditions is a bit of a Mary Sue, but the author did a good job on the book. It has a lot of real information about plants, food, animals and so on. I checked it out, it's all true, respect to the Author for that. But after 600+ chapters, he dropped the book, which is sad.

    2. 直播之极限巨星
    https://www.uukanshu.com/b/119033/ (Unfortunately, only Chinese, but DeepL helps out, and it's more or less readable even in Google).
    It's the same as the first novel, but it's more Mary Sue... Let me explain, the dude has entered a world where long-distance running is considered an extreme sport!!! He takes advantage of this and purely copies many famous feats of great athletes and masters of survival. But it is quite easy to read, if you close your eyes to the inconsistencies and logical holes due to the total lack of the concept of extreme sports in the world. Same... dropped.

    3. My deep sea fishing [我的深海渔场]
    https://www.uukanshu.com/b/144666/ (There are on MTL sites, but I prefer Chinese via DeepL).
    It's not really plagiarized or second life. But the content, the general style is the same as the ones listed above. A guy finds a miracle shell and becomes something like Aquaman. But don't worry, he's not a superhero, he's... A FISHER!!! Yes, he catches fish and sells and sometimes even streams how he fishes). Lots of real facts about the fishing and the fish themselves, all authentic - I checked it out. I liked it, recommend.

    4. Hardcore Chef Dad. [硬核厨爸]
    https://www.uukanshu.com/b/136339/ (Chinese original)
    https://1stkissnovel.love/novel/hardcore-chef-dad/ (Readable for MTL, though just awful in places)
    A very famous chef who goes back to his youth and tries to undo everything he's done. Cute story about a man's redemption as father, husband, apprentice and heir to a chef. A real-life version of the Fantasy World restaurant dad, and when you consider the mc's first life, the story could be called tragic...
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  2. Mefis
    Mefis· Feb 2, 2022 01:36 AM
    I recently discovered this: https://www.uukanshu.com/b/175485/

    A good novel, about a Chinese man living his second life in the body of an American Jew. Unlike the other main characters, he was not placed in another person's body, he was born! Because of this, he wanted to be a filmmaker since childhood and worked and studied very hard for it. The story is set in early 1990's Hollywood, and MC prefers to make darker, or more serious films, but not forgetting of course the box office (Jewish genes ON!!!) He has knowledge of the future, is an adequate guy himself and understands the rules of the Hollywood game.
     
    - Harem - Although, the harem isn't big, it's annoying and yes it's worth noting that he doesn't run after every actress. He also sometimes sleeps with actresses, but doesn't get into a relationship (There was an episode with Monica Bellucci... Very wrong, by the way, I wouldn't let her go (≖ ͜ʖ≖)).
    - No English translation, original Chinese! Although Through DeepL reads fine (sometimes with minor errors in names and titles).

    + MC doesn't work with Marvel and doesn't elevate that sh*t to Absolute.
    + Makes more or less quality movies.
    + Copied the Marvel Cinematic Universe concept and went after Warner Bros and DC with it. Indirectly prevents Disney from doing what they've done to Hollywood these days.

    P.S.: The book is not finished, the author is actively writing and has already written over 400 chapters.

    ================================ Edit after 450 chapters ================================

    I would like to add that after chapter 200 the author started writing fillers.

    First of all, a harem! Although here, too, he is more or less realistic about it. Women are willing to sleep with him, for the sake of his influence in Hollywood, and he does not believe that if he slept with one woman, she will now forever be with him.
    It just all got annoying because it is poorly written and you can see that the author is just stretching the text.

    Second, the repetition of the event, on behalf of other characters. At first this was fine and contributed to the plot, but after 400+ chapters, it also became an excuse to stretch the text. To this you can add more reports, press conferences, where the author repeats over and over again, thereby stretching the text.

    ------------------------------------------------------

    I can say with absolute certainty that the author took a wrong turn! I thought this was a story about cinema and movies, but alas, it is sad.
    At some point the author started to hammer on the subject of Movies and went off into Harem. And then even worse, started outright filler chapters, and sometimes 2-3 chapters in a row. In these chapters, the other characters or retell the past achievements of the protagonist, I would even say retell the past chapters! And then it all started praising the main character, how clever, beautiful, rich, talented and blah - blah - blah.

    With difficulty, but also turned a blind eye, but the author went crazy and started writing outright idiocy.
    The MC wanted an Oscar, for this he decided to copy an Oscar movie from our time. He finished a previous project and was supposed to make an Oscar movie. There's a lot to do, marketing, promotion, a successful and important release date... But! The author just skips six months, during which mc did nothing. And then he hurriedly starts shooting the film for the Oscars, and as a result the project doesn't get a mature marketing plan and the film comes out at a bad time.

    Seeing this situation, everyone starts scoffing at Max, saying he doesn't have much of a chance at the Oscars.

    Okay, I get it, but what the f*ck? Why skip six months, just like that, no one died, no one got hurt, Max's head is in order, he's not stressed... Why?

    I thought it couldn't get any worse, but I was wrong! The author threw the logic book in the tr*sh and started writing Mary Sue. The MC has a strong body (I mean, thanks to the rebirth) that he could satisfy a harem with, but when the movie had to be made, he got the flu ......
    A skirmish ensues, some bandits who are sure to drag the protagonist into their skirmishes. An equally silly way out of the situation on the part of the main character and just absurd Rewarding mc for his "brave" act...

    I... I just don't know, I feel like the first 300 chapters were written by a different author.

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  3. Mefis
    Mefis· Dec 21, 2021 01:11 AM

    https://1stkissnovel.love/novel/the-greatest-showman-big-play-bone/  ---- The Actor (Really good!)

    https://www.novelmt.com/novel/american-fortune-life.html ---- The Writer (Good in the beginning, then mary sue.)

    https://www.novelmt.com/novel/king-of-hollywood.html ---- The Movie Director (But the author's knowledge of cinematography, derived from the Internet, hence the Harem with all the famous Actresses of Hollywood.)

    https://www.novelmt.com/novel/hollywood-legendary-director.html ---- (A real film director, good!)

    https://www.novelmt.com/novel/made-in-hollywood.html ---- (About the Director, Michael Bay in Ultras).

    https://www.novelmt.com/novel/rebirth-in-hollywood.html ---- (Mary sue)

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    • makenai89
      makenai89· Author · Dec 26, 2021 07:04 AM
      Thank you so much for all the recommendations clear.png
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    • Mefis
      Mefis· Jan 2, 2022 05:03 AM

      @makenai89
      In honor of the new year, I dug up these novels from my browser history.

      Important: These are links to Chinese sites, so use the translator DeepL, everything is readable there. Google and others fail to translate and the text is very hard to read. But DeepL is fine, just a few mistakes, but if you're used to reading mechanical translations like me, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

      1. https://www.uukanshu.com/b/29810/ [About the actor, but the author didn't do much preparation and apparently he is interested in gossip about artists' personal lives rather than movies and acting. So the novel looks rather naive, mc is a vase man who can supposedly surprise with his acting... But again, instead of writing about the actor's acting, the author writes what a handsome man he is, just an angel, not a man. Seriously, mc got the role of Legolas from The Lord of the Rings and instead of writing about the shooting (because there was a lot to see there), he writes how mc went out and painted the landscapes of New Zealand, but so he ended up in Legolas makeup, they thought he was an Elf and there was a boom in the local papers. I ... I don't even know how to comment on this silliness, it was at this point that I stopped reading. But the book seems to be finished, so I decided to post it here].

      2. https://www.uukanshu.com/b/20074/ [Director. The scenes are Hollywood 1925. The author writes well, the pace is only a little slow, but the lyrics are good. If you compare this and #1, it's heaven and earth! A more serious story, without the silliness and other crap. But I'm still in the beginning, so I can't guarantee that the story will be good in the future].

      ------- [Correction after 250+ chapters: [The author, hates the Japanese to the bone! In the beginning it was just minor details, but then the author went crazy and started writing outright nonsense that ruined all logic. Just so you understand, he writes in blatant text that the Japanese are not people, they are Animals! But before that it was fine, the author wrote well about how Cinema was born in the first place. It's a shame that the author, in order to show his love for China (To Censorship), spat on the common sense of the whole book.]

      3. https://www.soxs.cc/ZuiJiaYingXing/ [This one I recently finished reading, and is the author's best novel (White Thirteen). He either drops his work or flushes it down the toilet and says the book is finished. You can familiarize yourself with his work, it's just better not to expect much from him. Well, okay, about this particular story: The actor who goes the way of Cool is Macho. He plays mostly tough guys, gradually becoming a Hollywood superstar. He even played the role of King Leonidas in 300 Spartans). Very good stuff, I recommend it!].

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    • makenai89
      makenai89· Author · Jan 2, 2022 09:33 PM

      @Mefis great tips, thank you! clear.pngclear.pngclear.pngI have just spent the new year holiday to read The Greatest Showman, and it was truly awesome till the end. You've got good eye. Can't wait to read through your list~ 

      I usually read untranslated CN novels via Google, but DeepL seems very interesting. Definitely will try this next clear.png

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