
A Hero Can Die, but They Can’t Be a Nobody
勇者可以不活,但不能没活
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 2.5M Words
- Genre
- Light Novel
- Subgenre
- Original ACG Fantasy
- Updated
- 1d ago
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- The Hero Doesn’t Need to Live, But He Must Have a LifeEnglish name
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To be honest, I really dislike the trope of summoning a hero from another world to save it. The human hero and the native inhabitants of that other world have no sense of belonging; they're probably not even the same species, just humanoid figures; there's a high probability they can't return; and there's a very high chance they'll be discarded after being used.
Can it really work?
The first three chapters are well-written, fantastical, fast-paced, and humorous. A few more chapters flow smoothly, and the fantasy light novel seems poised for further brilliance. However, around 20% of the way through, the plot feels both fluid and information-rich, with frequent climaxes. Yet, the foreshadowing feels forced.
The demons' attitude is terrible, the humans clearly have problems too, and the gods are all problematic. In this situation, we might as well just kill them all.
Finished watching
It's very good, it has the feel of watching Crazy Lich back then, but one thing that makes it less enjoyable than Crazy Lich is that the plots of the female leads are really awkward, and the male lead's inconsistency between accepting and rejecting her made me laugh, although he was full of sweet talk. Actually, the awkwardness isn't the problem; the problem is the slow writing pace.
Honestly, the writing has lost its appeal and makes me want to keep reading.
Every time I open the page, all I see is a bunch of environmental descriptions or a bunch of meaningless dialogues; I don't want to push the main plot forward at all. Even if you just wrote about interactions with women like before, I'd be happy to read it.
All eyes are on me, look at me, look at me, I have something to announce—
Regardless of your opinion of the plot, dear readers, let me clarify a few points first: 1. This book has an outline, an outline, an outline! This is the book I've spent the longest time conceiving. The detailed outline for the hero's part alone took over a month to optimize.
After finishing the climax of Kill the Hero, the story shifted to slice-of-life scenes. This part of the story was indeed watchable, and the author stopped constantly spouting riddles. The protagonist also didn't seem to have a split personality. To be precise, the beginning was difficult to watch mainly because of the constant use of riddles, coupled with very little character development.
Why is it always about harems, harems, harems...?
Why are all the light novels on Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform) harems? It's become so overused... Qidian keeps recommending these to me. Next time, could the authors please add a disclaimer in the synopsis: "Harem/Clean Romance Not Allowed." I only realized it was a harem halfway through, and several of the earlier ones were like that, without any warning. The romance is also slow-burning. By the time I realized it, I was already quite far down the page.
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