Kim Roksu has one life motto: "Let's not get beat up." But after dozing off somewhere midway through the novel "Birth of a Hero", he wakes up as Cale Henituse - one of the minor villains in the novel who gets the beating of a lifetime from soon-to-be hero Choi Han. Only time will tell how much longer he has before that dreadful encounter. Can Kim Roksu change the course of this story so he can enjoy a long and lavish life free of the soon-to-be hero? 59f33
Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage
Official Translations:
•English: Tappytoon, Pocket Comics, Lalatoon, Tapas, DAYcomics, Lezhin, Manta, Dashtoon
•French: Delitoon, Lalatoon, Tappytoon
•German: Delitoon, Lalatoon
•Others: Japanese, Thai, S.Chinese, T.Chinese, Spanish, Italian, B.Portuguese
153 Chapters (Ongoing)
S1: 52 Chapters (1~52)
S2: 40 Chapters (53~92)
S3: 42 Chapters (93~134)
S4: 19 Chapters (Ongoing) 135~

I really liked this one, but the more we advance on the story, the more it seems rushed. Battles doesn't even make any sense anymore.
I loved this one ever since a few years back however, it gets a bit more and more harder to read as it continues. I do want it to continue but sometimes it's just boring as hell.
Its good by the way😅
I feel like I've just forgotten a lot of the earlier episodes and that's why I'm saying this, but I'm starting to lose the ML LOL. Idk what he's doing, or where he's going, or why most of the time. I asked a friend who said the manhwa does cut a lot of the novel out, mainly because there's just so much stuff and the novel's pacing is too slow. Since I never read it idk if that'll make this story better.
I personally don't see why so many people swear by this manhwa because it's kind of boring and hard to make sense of things, but I have no idea if that's just because I can't the previous 100 episodes or because it's just gotten boring lately.
Reviewed @ch118
First, stick to the official translation. I switched over to fan translation around ch100 and it's mostly a huge step down. At time unintelligible sentences.
This series has a strong start. The in-story book's main character isn't very interesting but our main character is fun enough. The kids are absolutely adorable. The other ing cast are solid enough.
Plot points themselves were carried out well until around ch80-ish, at which point it's losing steam.
Pacing was pretty fast, which I took to mean they were cutting extraneous stuff from the novels. Unfortunately it looks like a bunch of world-building and magical theory was also cut, as at times the main character says things as if they're assumed knowledge for the reader (I know he has peggy sue knowledge). Also magic feels so ill-defined I'm pretty much just thinking 'yeah, strong mages can do whatever the plot needs'.
But later, around idk 70? chapters in I felt there was a pretty huge cut. People in comments were saying that actually a LOT of stuff was cut from novels. So I'm guessing the worldbuilding and magic stuff was cut out, hence my confusion.
100 chapters in, I'm losing interest, but this might be due ti poor translation. I'll check back in a year or so.
Or just read the novels, some time.
I like how the animal characters are drawn. The story though is getting repetitive. The all-knowing MC powers up and wins over an ally and powers up and wins over an ally and powers up… It’s like watching someone else play a video game on story mode. I hear good things about the novel. Maybe it’s better.
Based on other reviews I would read only the novel if I were to start over with this series. The pacing of the webcomic is so fast that it only made sense when I found out later that they were trying to condense too much content into comic form. There isn't much time to dwell on scenes or actions because of how quickly the characters move on. The MC isn't memorable because every action is chalked up to an act of self preservation based on his past life. Why did he feed bread to a hole? Because past memory. Why is he befriending this person and that person? Because past memory. None of the side characters serve any purpose beyond their past purpose in his memory that he is now trying to replicate. He constantly repeats how important Choi Han is and leaves the fighting to him, making Choi Han more of a muscle side character than anything. Sure MC's character does not need to be likeable, but his purpose and personality does not feel meaningful to whatever overarching story there is. Art is standard.
I’m not going to say much because other reviews have written so much but the manhwa just does not do the novel justice. I hope the story will get better at stroytelling and showing characters thoughts and behaviors because almost everything, and I mean almost everything will eventually connect to each other in the story. The novel is over 800+ chapters right now and it’s genuinely such an amazing story filled with character individuality, emotion, and my favorite trope “found family.” The manhwa is barely introducing characters and doesn’t show Cale’s through process well, it was just lacking so much because it’s sort of rushed and compressed, I don’t really like the art as much either. The future arcs are very intense and information filled, hopefully they do better at the storytelling. And the story is not typical in the sense the plot is very much intricate in the novel, hence I’m unsatisfied with the manhwa. It’s not a ground breaking novel but it’s still an amazing story with great action.
No romance at all, how refreshing, world and character building to the max, liked it so much, I read all the novel volumes so far, if you liked omniscient reader’s view point, this one is definitely for you! 11/10
But in all seriousness. The most interesting part of the story for me, was uncovering who on earth the MC was on his previous life, some of the flashbacks made no sense without context, and no, it’s not a translation error, it’s just that we don’t have all the facts. The novel is way better than the manwha, simply because the dragon’s design isn’t akward and it’s just non existent.
... Last updated 2 years ago
The manhwa/webtoon seems to have all the right pieces—likeable characters, pretty artwork, interesting storyline—but the storytelling of it is terrible. It's hard to follow the dialogues and I don't think it's a matter of translation. I've tried reading the official and unofficial translated versions and I still can't focus on what's being said. The conversations and thought processes are jumbled. The scenes feel disconnected. They do, for the most part, appear in chronological order but it's like we get glimpses of the main events without any additional info to make it make sense. Haven't read the webnovel so I can't really compare the two. Unfortunate, but most likely will be dropping it at ch 60.
... Last updated 3 years ago