Reviews of Me! Zombie! Summoned to Another World!
Me! Zombie! Summoned to Another World!
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This is translation review, not novel review. If you are not familiar with it, webnovel has started westernizing most of the novels in 2021. This is awful practice that kills original novel. At best you get only names, places and organizations westernized and at worst you get half novel gutted and other half totally rewritten by translator. With best case scenario you get only names, places and organizations westernized which introduces plotholes cause while names are westernized, actual writing and character culture arent. You get chinese way of thinking, chinese places and organizations translated into most famous western (USA) alternatives and as a result you see absurdity. And with the worst case scenario, you are not actually reading original authors work, but some "translators" plagiarization cause half novel is removed (sometimes critical explanations) and other half is badly rewritten. And cause this requires so much work compared to normal translation, either webnovel is stealing original authors work and rewriting it (cause most of those novels dont come from qidian) or they are just using translators that dont know chinese so they are rewriting story with help of MTL (seen too many edited MTL translations lately on webnovel). overall any westernized novel deserves automatic 1 star review.
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Read till Ch.15 and it seems good so far although I might not continue. Translation quality is good. The prompt is MC was summoned by a necromancer in a fantasy setting from a post-apocalyptic world as a zombie. After he eats the necromancer's brain he takes over his memories and starts going on the path of necromancy himself to eventually become something as close to a human as possible. He does that by cultivating with the technique he got from some inheritance the necromancer had but the entire cultivation premise is a bit too shallow in my opinion. He meditates and depending on the quality and quantity of his undead subordinates his meditation speed varies and he progresses till he managed to reach "basic necromancer" and he absorbs "death particles" and stuff like that that are very niche and from my limited experience every time authors try to reinvent the wheel here it doesn't end up well. That's pretty much it. His main goals atm are being as close as possible to a human being and getting stronger. Seems nice but I guess not really what I'm looking for right now...
How shall I say it... This is not my cup of tea however the translation is pretty good and the westernized names doesn't really matter that much since immediately we are transported to another world which I assume is a western style fantasy world. Also it's written using first point of view instead of the typical third point of view. this dampens the usual jarring effect from having westernized names for Chinese main characters greatly. While I did not enjoy this story, so far for me it's one of the more enjoyable reads for this terrible week's trial reads. Goodbye!
