Status: Ch. 91 – "Invitation"

Rating: 3 / 5

Introduction:

I feel that the idea behind this story was great, and its start was excellent and appealing. I believe this story had the opportunity to become something truly remarkable. However, a few decisions in between squandered that. By no means is the novel bad, it's still a decent read, but I feel it could've been much better.

Note: As with all reviews, this review is going to be biased. I mention plenty of items in my review that I do not enjoy, but many others may. So, please, do keep in mind that everyone has different tastes as you read this review. Also, this review has no intention to slander this work or its author. I am writing this review because I liked the novel, so when I saw some writing decisions that diminished my enjoyment of the novel, I felt compelled to say something about it.

Grammar (★★★☆☆) :

The grammar of this story is decent. It's nothing revolutionary, and it's not bad. Sure, there are a few grammar mistakes here and there, but it's good enough to a point where it shouldn't affect your reading experience. You'll have to look for the grammar mistakes to find them deliberately.

Story (★★★★☆) :

I personally really like the idea of the story. Long story short, the protagonist is assigned missions by "god" to go into different worlds to complete missions. As of writing this review, the worlds "god" has assigned the protagonist to conduct missions in My Hero Academia and Harry Potter.

Not only do I like the idea of the story, I feel that the author also did a great job translating that story into text. There are many cases of a novel where the idea is good, but due to poor execution, the idea is wasted. Fortunately, this is not the case for The Epic of Leviathan. The author also gives the protagonist an uncommon power and uses it very well.

World Building (★★★☆☆) :

I believe world-building, when it comes to fanfiction, is a very different ballpark. The critical difference between world-building between an original and a pre-existing setting is that everything needs to be built from scratch in the original setting. In contrast, in a pre-existing setting, the foundation is already built. You, as the author, just need to do a good job utilizing those foundations while adding something of your own to it as well.

I believe the author did an excellent job using the already existing settings of My Hero Academia and Harry Potter. So, if I think the author did a good job, why would I only give it three stars? The reason is that I feel the author only used the foundations and didn't add enough of their ideas to it. Though I do believe that for the world-building of the Harry Potter arc, the author did do a good job implementing the pre-existing world setting as well as adding their twist to it, however, I very much dislike the Harry Potter arc, but for different reasons. My dislike for the Harry Potter arc does indeed negatively affect my appreciation for the author adding their ideas to the Harry Potter setting.

Characters (★★☆☆☆) :

This is my biggest gripe with this novel, the character development. First and foremost, I must have you understand why I incredibly dislike harem stories. I believe, unless a story starts with being a harem story, introducing harem destroys all character development and, and, in fact, causes the character development to regress. The problem with harems is with each new member of a harem, less can be written about any single love interest. At the beginning, where the protagonist only has one lover. All energy was spent to develop the character of that single love interest. In addition to making the relationship between the protagonist and the lover richer. However, with the introduction of new lovers, less energy and effort could be spent on each love interest. More often than not, this results in the lovers becoming carbon copies of each other, and whose purpose, become no more than to just be an object the protagonist has s*xual intercourse with. This, frankly, pisses me off and is the biggest reason that caused me to stop reading. This phenomenon begins late in the first arc (My hero Academia) but becomes painfully apparent in the second arc (Harry Potter). In the Harry Potter arc, the only time the love interests are mentioned in are when the protagonist has bedroom fun with them or wants to have bedroom fun with them. The love interests' characters now do not go farther than just being a human flesh bag with a hole.

When the protagonist still only had a single love interest. I remember when reading, and the author started hinting about the protagonist getting a new love interest, I said aloud, "Don't make this a harem, " but the author eventually did just that. Now, I'm not saying harem stories cannot be good. However, I do believe it is very hard to make a harem story emotionally rich, which, unfortunately, is the case here.

Another gripe I have with the story is the extreme power-creep. I feel that the protagonist got too powerful too quickly. It felt like the protagonist wasn't even in the world for a year before he was strong enough to kill the strongest villain. I don't like stories where the protagonist gets ridiculously powerful because it renders all other characters useless in the story. It becomes a one-man show which some people might like, but not me. The nail in the coffin for me, though, was when the protagonist goes to the Harry Potter world, he gets to keep his old powers. My problem with this is with his old power, the protagonist is already the strongest being in the Harry Potter world the moment gets there, and the author admits this too. What is the problem with this trope? Simple. It means that there is no challenge, no danger. There is no obstacle to push the protagonist to better themselves to experience character growth. In other words, the protagonist's character becomes stagnant. Protagonists should be dynamic characters, not static characters, a character who experiences no change as the story progresses. Static characters should only be reserved for side characters the protagonist will only see once or twice.

Final Remarks:

For me, this novel showed tons of potential. In fact, it inspired me to start writing my own world-hopping story where the protagonist is assigned missions by a higher entity called Avatar of the Prophet of Serenity. However, with all things, everything good must eventually come to an end, and it just happened sooner than I had wished for me for this story.

I still suggest you read through the story but don't get too attached to it. That's it. Thanks for reading my review.

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I have no idea how this got in the trending list. It's bland and too wordy. Most of the time it's just the MC's monologue which makes you ask why he did not use his tongue to talk with other people if he got one. There are also some grammar mistakes. The author is not that bad at English. He/she is just too lazy to fix his/her mistakes.

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The biggest problem with this story is the fact that the author tells and does not show. EVER. It feels like reading a journal entry of the MC. The whole novel is just the MC describing what happened in his life. I think that's enough to deter most people from this story. It's fun, but very difficult to read because I HATE the way it's written. It does not develop characters because of this and quickly becomes a slog. I hope that the author one day realizes that he can write better if he learns to show and not tell.

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This was really real good😳😳😳

Dont mind the other bad reviews cuz this was really good (feeling that if this story end I will feel really bored) 👍

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This is an awesome story and I'm looking for more! 😁👍 BTW just an opinion, but I think you should make the main character more secretive.

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This is one of the best fanfics and novels I've ever read I recommend this to whoever saw this comment to atleast give it a try.

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This is a nice, laid back read. You won't feel any tension, as expected from a laid back story, MC's interaction with girls are nice. Overall a good novel to pass time, I like it... and I love Nemuri!!!

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Just binged all of the chapters in one day! I understand why it got into trending! Keep up the good work!

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Okay so first and all as far as I have read the MC is kind of a horny loner (with a childhood gf) who calls the main trio names and overly exaggerating them for example with Midoriya he is big fanboy everyone knows that but now is he a"Creepy Stalker"? Nope right but the MC or author seems to think not then there is "Emo half and half' along with "villian in the making" for shota and bakugo each.

But if your okay with the MC being like that then feel free to read but the most important part is the fact that Almost everything that happens is being narrated by the MC so it is very hard to read because their is usually barely any dialogue and if their is it is being narrated to us by the MC it's a strange writing choice and If anything if I am able to read till the harry potter arc I will update this review.

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Mmm this novel is pretty good, some minor mistakes with gramar and kind of easy to get a power up, girls get super easy infatuated with the MC, there was never a quarel in the harem kind of sus considering the sheer size of it.

I personally enjoyed the switch from " hero " to " villan " (considered by society) .

MC is overpowered from begining (yes ik he trains, but strictly speaking from the kinds of powers he gets from god) .

Mmm that is all from me at the moment, I liked the story it was structured preety nicely, hope it continues updating.

Considering all the downsides of the story I still give 5/5 (im bias cuz I like it) 😤

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