This story is about a hero whose destiny is forced upon them to defeat 100 demon lords and at the start of the story 99 have already been defeated, meaning the hero has already lived 100 (original +99) lives.

For their last battle they were allowed to choose which race and gender they would be reincarnated as, and as the title says they chose to be a cat girl.

So far, so good. I was expecting a more goofy story with lots of fun and cat shenanigans, something to read and laugh about as the hero gets stronger in a fantasy world, makes friends and stumbles into funny events. At least the title gave me that kind of impression.

Sadly, that is not the case. The story is trying to be serious, with a hero who is thousands of years old, but behaves like a toddler. The cat aspects are almost all pretty much just demerits that are strewn in and not really comedic relief but stupidity.

Spoiler

While in the midst of battle for her life, she was overwhelmed by her instincts of not being able to get down a tree, ffs.

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Midway through chapter 11 I could no longer stomach her idiocy. She is the hero meant to safe the universe and remembers all of her past lives, but is completely scatterbrained, takes unnecessary risk, and risks EVERYTHING that way. After the first battle, which was a calculated risk and very well written, everything went downhill. The story could have very well ended at several points already because of the weird decision-making.

It also feels like she doesn't have any kind of blessing that gives her a boost (besides the knowledge and technics from her past life), since she is easily taken down by a girl her very same age.

If this were a normal reincarnated as a catgirl story, it would have been fine, but by giving her the background of thousands of years of experience, knowledge, and wisdom, her behavour is just infuriating.

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Doglia5

Status: chapter 2: being born as a...

Jan 8, 2024

The prelude to the action is snappy and well done. The action itself is well paced and the fight scenes make sense. The reasoning for why our hero is the one used throughout all of the worlds make sense as something that can happen without being contrived and the characterization for all the people shown is very well done.

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