Toad

I read up to Chapter 500ish, I can appreciate some of the character work for the MC, but it feels like the sport aspect of the story suffers and the protag becomes disconnected from the main timeline(it just becomes an avenue for other uma to fangirl over her)

The story itself is quite good, but the whole concept of the "cheat" is very weird. At first, it seems like it'll just be time loops that allow the MC to repeat races/events until she succeeds, but then she is transplanted into the life of a random 6 year old and spends 10 years in that scenario instead? I'm not sure what the point of having the MC live multiple full lifetimes was, just to see her do the debut race again. Feels like it breaks the flow of progression and undermines any character growth/relationships.

This has flown up the ratings on webnovel, inexplicably so. I can only assume that people who don't speak English are enjoying the story or something? Or fake reviews. It's pretty terrible ngl, the only area where I might give it some leeway is update speed, but that's only if you pay for more chapters, so in terms of free chapters it's still pretty rock bottom.

I kinda hope he loses, just to make him beating them all in High School that much more satisfying.

I didn't read far enough to even realize that lmao

Naw, too much anime level BS for me, and playing it off for laughs isn't landing either

One of the better Naruto SI fics, writing is great and updates are steady. Only issue is that the pacing is pretty slow, it's one of those stories that spends a lot of time with the MC as a kid. It's not so bad though since the characters are interesting and it seems things are picking up a bit.

What part? The spies? That's pretty well documented. It's also known that Truman told Stalin vaguely about the nukes at the Potsdam Conference, but Stalin already knew about them.

The story kinda handwaves away the MC's descent into being a villain. First they make him randomly be super grateful and trusting of Aizen, despite knowing that Aizen is an amoral sociopath in truth. Then the MC just meekly goes along with it as Aizen murders and violates people in service of his goals. There's no real discernable motivation for it either besides "I trust Aizen now". Like he's not Tosen with his noble hatred driving him to wild lengths for revenge, and he's seemingly also not planning to betray Aizen like Gin did. Honestly the MC's motivations are never really expanded on, and he feels like an empty character besides a vague "get stronger" goal

I liked the concept, but in practice it disappointed. The grammar was decent, although there were a few mistakes here and there, but the writing read like a translated novel and really was a bit too simplistic(though that's par for the course on this site). The inner voice stuff was really vague and it was hard to tell what the girls were hearing, so it kinda fell flat. The characters were pretty shallow, and the romance was breakneck and again, a shallow excuse for smut. What really made me drop it though was the complete lack of any sort of introspection when the female leads learned that their world was a work of fiction and that they were being mind controlled and manipulated by the plot. Sure there was the obligatory "I concentrated for a few seconds and stopped the mind control from affecting me!" but you'd think there'd be at least a little bit of existential consideration after the realization of their situation.