By Bokuboy
Have you ever wondered what happened to people after they were summoned and sent back? No one ever tells those stories. Until now. Of course, just as the banished hero gets settled back into a normal life back home, guess what? He gets summoned ag
This has to be my favorite book on this site, simply the flow of the story is god tier as every little thing is explored in a fast but impactful way then each one comes together to mold Alysara into a new person. The power system is also another massive plus as instead of the typical 1000 things eventually making the MC powerful this story has a semi-hard limit on how many skills Alysara can have making each one feel like a large step. The detail doesn't stop either as each level has a reason or feat behind it so each one truly is new in some way. Power levels are also done really well as each tier (lesser, adept, grand, major, heroic, legendary, then mythic) is explored well with each one having a light 'in this area' precent bonus. Except legendary and mythic, those can be anything it seems.
There is also a truly grand and personal feeling to the whole story with how Alysara deals with her previous life and the conflicting ways of moving forward. There is a lot of 'if I had never done this what would today look like?' on both ends of the spectrum of good and bad.
Enemies and allies are also done well, there really isn't a dumb king or noble that just has it out for Alysara for some reason nor is there a 'I was crossed ____ and now I must kill them all' idiot running around. Most of the time Alysara doesn't have an enemy to fight just the occasional monster that causes Alysara to change how she fights or make a counter to at least help. The true enemies that do appear have reasons and motives albeit twisted, but they do follow those motives very well.
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Currently reading this on Patreon which is 14 chapters ahead.
Don't be fooled by the short synopsis: this novel is deceptively good and the short description doesn't the story any justice unless you read it yourself. Reincarnation of Alysara is a truly immersive fantasy novel with fantastic world building and a realistic, logical main character that you could relate with. The story follows the main character who is reincarnated into a world by a god. There's no OP power or anything balance-breaking given. Alysara only starts a relatively normal starter bonus, with everything she gains after being purely her own efforts and struggles.
The novel is a slow-burn story, with it following Alysara's growth and progress through life from being a baby, child, and teenager. There's constant progress of the story despite the slow paceand the world-building is gradually told throughout all the chapters rather than any dense info dumps on the reader. This novel is very realistic in that there's no plot armor felt. There's no isekai protagonist ticket that lets her smoothly get everything she needs. Real consequences and dangers are shown for Alysara and sacrifices sometimes have to be made for her own goals or wishes.
Everyone around the main character has a real influence on her, as should be the case for any child, isekai protagonist or not. Her family is there to nurture her as she grows while the community around her gives her a sense of belonging and purpose of life. All of them are well written characters with the own indivuduality. They have proper backgrounds, history, and and personalities which helps bring realism to the story.
The potential for this story is really great, with all the world building showing that what is currently shown is but a very small, isolated corner of the world. As of now, the story is still in its early stage, following the childhood growth of Alysara. For how it'll continue after is still left to be told, with only hints here and there about how it will be.
Some spoilers ahead if you still want to know more:
In the story Alysara is regarded as a genius by her community with her fast, unprecedented growth as well as her innovative inventions that are revolutionizing her society. Despite that the individual herself isn't as mentally strong. She undermines her own achievements, finding excuses such as how anyone else could've made this or that it's due to stealing the inventions others made in her past life. On the other hand, many disasters struck the Nexus throughout the story and she generally takes the lead in solving them. Her mentality isn't perfect and the other characters are well aware of this and tries to help. Alysara believes she should try her best to grow stronger and help her community as much as possible while most of the other characters believe she's doing too much and hope to catch up to her and hold some of her burdens.
The adventure aspect of the story has grown wider as time passes and continues to stay interesting. Alysara has recently found a large island with several countries. With that Alysara begins to make contact as a representative of her community for trade.
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Man, this story went so far beyond my expectations. I got here through the 'Blind Protagonist' tag, and got intrigued because the summary mentioned the protagonist learning to see through sensing mana, so I decided to give it a go.
So first off, to discuss some of the tags. While this story does have the Gender Bender tag the story doesn't go into that topic too much. It's there but has little to no effect. The Isekai tag is also not too relevant, apart from it making Aly a child with the maturity of an adult, and giving her ideas that people from this fantasy world wouldn't come to.
The Futanari tag might scare some people away, but I implore those people to ignore that tag. Contrary to a lot of stories with that tag, this one isn't smut, isn't ecchi, hell, it isn't even romance.
This story isn't a fast-paced action story. It has a somewhat slow pace, and tends to focus on Alysara studying mana or trying to grow stronger. The story does grow into a story with more fighting later on, but that takes a good 50 chapters.
A lot of stories would become incredibly stale and boring if they were just the protagonist studying something for like 50 chapters with only some interactions with other characters and very few action scenes in between, but this one makes it work because of its worldbuilding.
Not only is the magic system incredibly detailed compared to most other stories with a similar setting, but because we learn about this system alongside Alysara, we learn about it even more in-depth than most other characters in this story. It also helps that it doesn't feel like you're just watching from the sidelines. You learn about this system alongside Aly. Any setback to her feels like a setback for you and any success for her feels like one for you.
Of course, there's more to the world than just that system, but learning about this world is probably best enjoyed alongside Aly. I could go on about this story for a long while, but I'm not here to write a book. So to conclude, I thoroughly recommend this story to basically anyone.
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I think Aly is associated with solitude for the best, from the beginning she was different from everyone else, loneliness is part of her color.
One day Aly will become a great creature, even an immortal, like it or not she will have to leave behind family, friends, and more (unless her evolution doesn't extend her lifespan).
I think that's the price to pay for her growth, it will all be just memories and romance or love that doesn't suit Aly and the story.
Just my personal opinion but I don't like Aly's story turning to romance and love with Tana or with other male characters, a beautiful friendship is best. Her intrinsic is loneliness and it makes her special.
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A lovely story so far. I'd give it a 4.8/5 or so if I could, but it's worth the 5 stars.
The pros:
The main character is likable, logical, and has actual empathy toward others. (Uncommon in the the reincarnation genre) Alysara is quite powerful, but not in an obnoxious way - she's quite grounded, and thinks about her community and family more often than not. There's a price for her talent, and it's not sailing through life easily. There are a few cases where she pulls inventions and novel idea out with unnatural quickness, but this makes sense, and it isn't overwhelming in the narrative.
The worldbuilding is amazing. You really feel like Alysara is living in a real place. Her people have innate skills that make sense with their history, and their general strengths and weaknesses just add to that. The presence of futanari makes sense, and isn't just a thrown in kink. There's real attachment to her family, and the local culture influences her. I look forward to seeing how the greater world works, and how the culture clash between races might pan out.
The magic system caught me off guard at first, but it's grown on me. More importantly, it's consistent and has enough variety to keep things fresh.
The cons:
There are some grammar errors here and there, but I think this is a case where the author has improved over time.
A few chapters are a little excessive with the skill-ups and stats.
There are times where characters' tones are very similar. A goddess might speak like an elder who might speak like a parent. It's only really noticeable occasionally.
Overall: It's really worth a read through. I binged the story in a few days and can't wait for more.
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What is there that hasn't been said by other reviews?
This is almost the perfect 'scientific' take on mana. The MC is legitimately very intelligent whilst remaining believable and grounded. She is undeniably powerful but never feels OP, she excels in her field but is understandably a loner which is even reflected in her abilities.
Unlike other novels that attempt a 'genius scientist' protagonist, here we actually see the 'science' happening, rather than hearing about the unrealistic results after a random amount of time.
I personally love the way the plot is going the latest chapters and can't wait for more
Minor cons:
Some characters feel forgettable and unnecessary, their naming doesn't help
Dungeon arc is a repetitive slog that drags on for far too long is some parts
MC's research feels underutilized in combat, would be nice to spice it up to be more than fairies, spears and protective gear. Maybe mana storm grenades? Javelins that destabilize mana/vitality? Just something to make combat more interesting
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Well written. didn't expect it to be this good one of the best
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The best and most well-thought-out power system in novel history. God tier book, I love it.
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Very detailed power system written in a way that just makes sense... Very much enjoy reading and feel proud of the character at breakthroughs.
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There are just not enough chapters for this story. It's the first time a story has captivated me so much that no metter what I could not stop reading it. It has the best power system that I saw to this day, and it even explains it with so much detail and with a good logic that no metter how much of the novel it is just describing Alysara descoverings of the world and it's forces I could not make myselfe skip even a paragraph.
It has such a good world and power setting that even if the characters and everything else was bland (which is not) it would be worth reading. And a plus from me this novel so far has very little political games and things like that.
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