Anomalies have always existed in the world, without any specific pattern. Sometimes they were places, other times objects, and occasionally, beings. Almost all anomalies possess something called “anomalous power” an innate ability that grants them capabilities that defy all the laws of nature. And I... ended up becoming one of these anomalies.
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The perspective swaps are enjoyable, the story is written cleanly with enough information to be clear, but not to overwhelm.
My only complaint is that I found the story too soon.
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Kicks off to a similiar start like other scp-like novels, Seoul Object Story in particular, but I don't mean it as a negative.
The Characters are neatly introduced, the MC is cute and the story is rolling. Honestly, the stage is set for this to be very cool, with a lot of potential.
Will definitely keep up-to-date on this from time to time.
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Worse seoul object story.
Characters don't have enough setup/development, relationships of the characters with anomaly progress too fast, faster than in seoul object, and that story starts with 1 year time skip and plenty of worldbuilding setting the stage.
Very little worldbuilding, with it being told not shown due to it having to be ""retconned"" (flashback) when it becomes relevant, when it should have been setup previously, current chapter being a great example, anomaly inability to write was told rather than shown, due to it being remembered as happening in the past, when it should have appeared happening in the present in an earlier chapter, thus being shown instead of told, and removing the need to break the tension of the current chapter to explain it. (Preferably before chapter 18, or rather, the conflict of chap 18 should have come later, with more setup and worldbuilding done before)
Another important thing to compare with seoul object story, is the 'humanity' of the character.
Gray reaper starts human and then becomes an object, but acts very "non-humany", but in a way that feels that the character hasn't lost their humanity in becoming an object, but that they had always been that way to some degree, especially with how the story progresses in exploring the past of it's world.
Anomaly on the other hand, is the opposite, the story starting with the character already as an anomaly, and focusing on the knowledge of having been human, but barely remembering that life, aswell as calling attention to the inhuman calm at the starting crisis, puts the character on the path of having lost humanity, to have originated of a human, but not be human itself, only to repeteadly be characterized in a very human way past that point.
Gray Reaper is indifferent to the human point of view, simply doing what it wants without care for human centric consequence, (save for the few humans it grows attached too, and cases where it too would be affected indirectly), and being labeled as childish/cute as unintended consequence.
Anomaly though, actively portrays themselves as cute and childish, thinking on how the humans will react.
Gray Reaper reads as a comedic "person turned supernatural"
Anomaly reads as "a teenager using an OC model in VRchat and fumbling".
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Interesting premise for a simple understanding it’s like the SCP organisation and the MC is a scp though the terminology is a bit different and lore is a bit different but this genre for sure has a golden potential, looking forward to what happens next ?
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I like this fiction. The creepy cute thing is done really well.
My only gripe is that the chapters are really short, a lot of stuff doesn't have much build up so things feel rushed. That is not enough to knock off a star though. Overall, anyone who likes creepy cute should give this one a shot.
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