I Became a Childhood Friend of a Mid-Level Boss Edit What would you like to edit? SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsTypeExternal Links   5y5w6g

I finished reading the set of chapters in an hour, this series is brilliant.
Sure it takes place in a usual "game" setting but it goes in a new direction.
The MC takes the initiative to befriend a doom-like character from the game for the sake of a better future.
Not only that, there is good steady growth across the chapters. He is making gains to break out of the hopeless game character persona and become someone more confident and stronger.

This is how you are supposed to portray an intelligent MC who knows what needs to be done and sticks to his resolve.

Bummer it got axed at chapter ... 39, the potential was so good, I guess the readers or numbers didn't speak other wise

6.5/10


Imagine if you read a story with a good, wholesome, and well-written premise, but the author then decides “hmmm, this is too unique,” and he just throws the story in the trash by neglecting the premise completely and turns the story into a basic leveling manwha. Oh wait, you don’t have to imagine that if you have read this — seriously, there is so much wasted potential due to how the author just doesn’t want to include the fmc in any chapter.

Also within the premise, there’s some attempts of world-building, and other what-nots like the mc’s backstory, but it seems the author is a bit ... confused on what he wants to write — I mainly point this out because of the mc’s convoluted and jumbled past life/lives (?). The mc often references his current live’s past life as his own life, so he holds deep grudges, but there’s an entirely differently chapter addressing another life that has nothing to do with the game world, and blah, blah, blah — It doesn’t make sense, much like the rest of the story.

Besides for the premise and interactions between the fmc and mc, the story is just a generic mess of a leveling story, which is a large majority of the story or chapters, as the fmc appears every now and then and disappears for another 10 chapters.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

*THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL* *THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL* *THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL* *THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL* *THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL* *THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL* *THIS MANHWA IS SECRETLY AN AD FOR THE NOVEL*

Turns out this was just promotional material to promote the novel it's adapting all along, it skips a bunch of content from the novel and ends after only 39 chapters with an abrupt ending. Although it starts off good it quickly derails and ... isn't worth reading. Don't waste your time on this.