untethered

While I, myself, am currently a rage filled cupcake over the latest unexpected plot-twist, the writing is phenomenal! Of course I don't know how the story ends at this point and the possibilities are nearly limitless. An author is supposed to take you on an emotional roller-coaster and keep you wanting more. I finished reading the most recently released chapter and can definitively say I felt ALL the emotions and am counting the hours until the next chapter is released tomorrow. Sometimes we want art to be predictable. Art "is something which the artist creates for his own satisfaction, without thinking about what the world would say about it". Your readers are incredibly privileged to be able to step outside reality and into the pages of your imagination. Every part of this book has been exceptionally executed. So in summation, dear author, I'm very impressed and proud of you even though I'm slightly untethered about the whole thing!! I am confident that however the story evolves and ends, you won't disappoint me with your skills!

To start with, this is a fantastic fanfiction and I am enjoying it thoroughly. Simply put, if you like reading about a journey through fame from the bottom to the top you should read this! Now for the criteria for rating this: Translation Quality: Doesn't really apply here the English is fantastic and I honestly haven't found any grammatical errors while casually reading through this. Stability of Updates: Thus far at chapter 31 the frequency of updates seems rather satisfactory, though admittedly I would love to read hundreds of chapters at once. But alas the author is a human and cannot release chapters at such a pace. Story Development: One thing I can say is that it started off rather quickly with no real-time beforehand to solidly build up a notable introduction. But I will say that thus far the story has been moving at a very satisfying pace and I find the quickness at the beginning to be a good thing rather than a hindrance. Character Design: As far as up to chapter 31 I can confidently say that all of the characters introduced thus far are not paper thin but rather seemingly all have their own thoughts and feelings. The bonds and feelings shared between the characters can really pull at you and make you quite emotional. World Background: As it's anchored in reality and the past, there isn't much needed to further build up the world as it has already happened, allowing one to easily look back on what occurred. Thus far, though, the world feels real and not some kind of hand-drawn background that makes things feel untethered and messy. In conclusion, read it. Author, if you read this, more chapters pls!

Overall, I think there is a really good story here, but it is also a diamond in the rough. A very rough diamond. Starting with the good, the story is interesting. Classical weak to strong, training arcs, near death experiences and all of that. It leans heavily into talents and pretty much all strength comes from their, which is a little different than other systems where talent is only a factor or maybe only a dominant factor for the mc. In this book, talent is the end all/be all for all characters. There is a harem, initially it is done well, but later it is not, especially with the 3rd addition. So with that we move into the bad. To start with the mc is either overpowering, or on death's door with no in-between. The mc nearly dies in almost the exact same way, several times throughout the novel. There is no struggle where there should be struggle, either he effortlessly handles it, or he runs into a big bad that he should no way be able to handle and gets ex machina'd. Speaking of, the mc is often given tasks that have no clear answer, but the mc magically knows the answer without any buildup or clues to lead to that point. There are several points in the book where characters lose the plot like a bad ai, with characters saying things like "for a long time they've known" but the longest they could've known was a few hours (even if those few hours were dozens of chapters) Which brings us to pacing. The mc is at F rank for literally forever, but he is easily fighting A ranks before he breaks though to E rank, which he sits at for another eternity, then he and all the other characters break through to S rank in only a couple chapters. It's kinda sorta covered with the more broad mortal->ascendant->divine categories, but that explanation isn't even given until the mc is C rank and we've already endured the F rank grind and ridiculous overpoweredness, Also still kind of a bad explanation since the typical power progression goes: fights at tier -> fights above tier -> fights way above tier -> fights above tier. Instead the power progression here immediately starts at fights way above tier -> fights the celebrity power houses (while still F rank) -> fights the gods. In addition the talent scale isn't given until extremely late (like I just read it seconds ago in the mid 300 chapters) both the mc's ex rank and later another character's saint rank talents are untethered to the talent scale initially, later an overlord talent also appears that is untethered to the scale. initially a character gives the explanation that other races have different scales, but when it is finally revealed hundreds of chapters later: there's only 1 other rank that other races have recorded that humans don't. every other talent rank is from broken people like the mc and he intuitively puts a power scale together on those, which he could've done much earlier. The author also has a bad habit of switching the narrative to nobodies at a cliff hanger. The cliffhanger and the narrative switch are fine, but the switch should be to characters we know or who will become important later. It's really hard to keep reading when the narrative switches to characters I don't know and who will never appear again. For narrative switches to nobodies that are important to the narrative they should be brief, less than half a chapter. instead the author averages about 3 chapters with the narrative switches. Author makes some minor physics mistakes as well, such as "enemy is kicked into the distance 100km away and the sound of the explosion returns seconds later." Even with ridiculous scale battles, sound and light still need to behave right. Even if it's just nerds like me that will notice 😆. And returning to the harem, author, please talk to some real life girls, your characters aren't the worst on Webnovel, but they're still shining examples of what happens when men try and fail to write women. There's a writers discord, come up with what you want the end result to be and have some female writers help you with dialogue and actions. There are some other character inconsistencies such as the mc allegedly having routine baked into his bones and he never wakes up late, but simultaneously he always sleeps in and nearly misses important dates. He can't be both! I get that you might be trying to repeat Barry Allen's flaw, but Barry Allen is always consistently late, if he is ever on time then the cosmic rules of the DC universe unravel. Yes it's funny because he's fast, but always late. That makes him quirky. A character who is both always on-time and always late isn't quirky, he's a paradox. paradoxes are bad (unless it's the plot of a time travel story, but otherwise bad). I know I leveled some harsh criticisms here, but it's because I see the diamond underneath all that.