+99 Reinforced Wooden Stick · review
HAAHAAHAA - WHAT IF THE WEAKEST ITEM WAS SIMPLY THE STRONGEST - HAAHAAHAA That's exactly what ‘+99 Reinforced Wooden Stick’ is about. Through extreme luck, a noob manages to upgrade a stick to level 99. This makes the weapon strong enough to destroy the world in one fell swoop! Of course, this must be utilised. The complete gimmick of this manga is that the noob has this badass stick. Who would have thought it from the name? The concept also entertains for a few chapters, but pretty much everything else is extremely off-putting, which is why I just couldn't continue reading after about chapter 15. The protagonist isa complete idiot, all the other characters are just unlikeable. The story isn't really taken seriously, but it doesn't really manage to be funny either, which is why strange situations keep arising that seem serious but are resolved by slapstick or other (often stupid or repetitive) jokes.
I'm all the more surprised at how bad I found the whole thing. Normally I'm a fan of such gimmick game world stories - I really liked ‘Bofuri’ or ‘Speedrunner Cannot Return from the Game World’, for example - but something about this manhwa made me find everything stupid to the max.