I Became the Youngest Disciple of the Martial Arts Leader · review
Plot To be honest, I don't really understand this story. MC ends up dying to protect his master (murim alliance leader), when the demon cult members ambush them using leaked intel from murim alliance. The enemy commander tries to transfer his own soul into our MC's body, but instead causes MC to regress back in time with enemy commander's memories. Now, MC wants to eliminate the traitors from alliance and protect his master properly this time. Review This is one of the most generic slop murim you will ever read. That's completely fine, but the series doubles down by also messing up the execution. There's just nothing tolike here. I am just surprised that this is still not axed after 50 chapters.
- no comedy or feelings or drama or any good action. There's just no genre where this series excels (or even qualifies as the bare minimum).
- The art lacks soul and looks like the most generic manhwa. The character designs are also garbage. The action scenes feel incoherent and boring too. There's no fan service either.
- The characters have no personality and just serve as mouth-pieces for the story. The interactions feel very artificial and after 50+ chapters, not a single character is worth remembering.
- Main character keeps aura farming by acting cool, but just comes off as a loser that is carried by the "chosen one" plot armor. He keeps whining about sticking to the story, to avoid changing the future, but also gets rage-baited by the most basic provocations. He keeps getting into random fights for no fucking reason. Half of his actions just make no sense at all. This is absolutely an author's self-insert character, considering how multiple hot women keep throwing themselves at him.
Finally, the big issue is simply the garbage writing/pacing. We get multiple time-skips. Things just happen, with no rhyme or reason. Characters get introduced, just to instantly get pummeled by MC. Half the details are skipped over, and we instead just get an "overview" of some story's important moments, rather than an actual narration. There's no proper villain (or villain's underlings) either.
Overall
I kept forcing myself to read more chapters, hoping that there's a turning point somewhere when it actually starts getting good. But, now I regret wasting multiple hours of my life. There's no redeeming qualities at all to justify even reading it to pass time.