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“Overworked programmer dreams of RPG world, accidentally unleashes disaster, and can't wake up.”
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲
7.54
2,995 rank · 12,376 readers · 311 favorites
Isekai
Reincarnation
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Overworked programmer dreams of RPG world, accidentally unleashes disaster, and can't wake up.
Suzuki is a programmer in the midst of a death march-crunch time, when coders live on caffeine and pull twenty-hour days. He just needs a little nap...but then he has a dream. A dream where he's in another world, with RPG powers right out of his game. A dream where he calls down a great disaster. A dream that, suspiciously, just won't end... (Source: Yen Press)
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
7.4
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 2.80
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.80 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.8 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 2.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↑ 5.40
Running avg · Nov 2015 → Apr 2017
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “9.8/10, Truly masterpiece, underrated novel, absolute bliss. [review as webnovel volume 13-36 (405 chapter)] this is not hot-blooded type novel who makes rush adrenaline. this is not carefree...”
- 8 “This is review of the Light Novel. I've not read the web novels. The author says, in the afterword, that the light novel contains 70% new material. I suspect that the negative reviews are mostly...”
- 8 “I don't write reviews often, (like once or twice). But I had to write one for this. Seriously though, there were people here giving it an overall rating of 3 or 4. So I felt that it was...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 60%
Long · 40%
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Mar 2014 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M31356 catalog