Nano Mashin

I'll be completely honest, this is an awful novel. I'm only giving it 2 stars instead of 1 because I can see how it might appeal to somebody instead of being 100% unreadable garbage. It's a lobotomizing OP ruthless MC power fantasy. If you just wanted to turn off your brain and read about some guy killing everyone who opposes him, then you might enjoy this novel. If you want anything like nuanced storytelling, multidimensional intelligent characters, proper romance, real stakes, actual power progression, or a good plot then you're ... more>> looking in the wrong place. Chun Yeowun barely has to work for anything, or at least the novel never shows him working for anything. In the early academy arc, he's just like "Nano, scan this and transfer information to my brain" and "Nano, remodel my body so I can do martial arts better" instead of properly training like everyone else. Even after the academy, Yeowun is just super overpowered until he encounters some guy who he can't beat with one hand and then he suddenly has an epiphany (with the help of Nano of course) which immediately rockets him to the next stage of cultivation and he's super OP again. None of the power progression feels satisfying or earned. It's kind of like Leylin from Warlock of the Magus World but somehow even more reliant on the brain chip. Every character in Nano Machine is an idiot. The MC is an idiot, the side characters are idiots, and the antagonists are total brainless buffoons. The MC only appears "smart" because he has Nano to solve everything for him. All the side characters just serve to praise the MC for his strength and get unreasonably worried over him whenever he appears to be injured from an attack despite the MC never having been injured before in any scenario. But by far the s*upidest characters are the antagonists. They all act like spoiled arrogant young masters all the time. They see Yeowun, then they all think "This is the Lord of the Demonic Cult? He's so young! The rumors must have been exaggerated, as I thought. I'll show him the harsh reality of the martial arts world. My heaven defying palm strike has no counters and will destroy him instantly! Hmph, the Lord is not much after all." even after seeing Yeowun kill a thousand other martial artists. I remember this one woman, the leader of the Empire's court ladies, calmly and coolly take down some rampaging martial artist. Then, as soon as she lays eyes upon Yeowun, her intelligence is halved and she immediately loses her cool and picks a fight with him while spouting nonsense like "You dare to fight in the Emperor's court! Let's see how your skills will help you now!" The romance is nonexistent. Mun Ku falls in love with Chun Yeowun for no real reason other than he's strong. Jegal Sohi was kind of implied to fall in love with Yeowun, but thankfully she didn't because that would make even less sense than Mun Ku. And finally, yes, we have to talk about that scene. The part where Yeowun is "forced" to "unite his yang energy" with some girl's "rampant yin energy". I won't make that big of a deal out of it, but yes, it's horrible writing. It was completely unnecessary, I don't know why the author wanted to introduce the second harem member like that. The author could have had Yeowun find some sacred sun stone treasure that would cure her extreme yin or something. Regardless of what could have been, what exists in reality is terrible. Chun Yeowun's ruthless "might makes right" approach to everything is sort of entertaining if you think about him as an edgy clown who only avoids the consequences of his actions through major plot armor. His solution to basically every problem is "kill them all". It's already ridiculous even in this ancient Murim setting, but it's especially egregious in the sequel Descent of the Demon God which takes place in modern day China. Honestly the only thing that just barely redeems this way of thinking is the fact that all of Yeowun's enemies are braindead idiots who try and kill him first. Yeowun is the character who embodies the "person who does whatever they want and suffers no consequences from it" fantasy and it's a little cringe. I can see why someone might want to just lie back and read a story like this every once in a while though. In regards to the story, I have to say that I actually quite like the idea of it. It's pretty innovative, all things considered. Spoiler It would have been really interesting if the idea that the Blade God was a man from the future got explored more. Like, what if the Blade God Six Martial Clan had access to technologies way past their time period? Or what if he had his own nanomachines? What if the Time Patrol played a much greater role? [collapse] I hate how much potential was squandered. In conclusion, bad novel. Read at your own discretion. <<less

This is not a bad novel. Without that one scene I could easily rate this average to good. But that r*pe scene ruined everything for me. MC doesn't want to do it, his girlfriend is there, and he is historically not interested in random girls. The best doctor in that world tells him she will die if he doesn't r*pe her. Her father begs him to do it. His girlfriends asks him to think of the bigger picture and do it. His advisors (kind of) tell him to do as the father ... more>> asks. After the scene the father thanks him, doctor says that was the only way, the girl is happy she is alive and thanks him. But still; r*pe is never ok. That scene takes 3 times as long because everyone chimes in to rationalize and justify it, and after it happens there's more narration and conversations that tell why it was necessary and what a good boy MC is to have done the deed. But all that only made one thing clear in my mind. No one but the author wanted that scene. <<less

All was well until the the r*pe incident. That was totally out of character for the MC who so insisted to abide by his principles. He broke it for whom? A complete stranger he met not more than days ago. Imagine two lovers, girl and boy who suddenly ran across a dying stranger and for them to save him the girl had to r*pe him, RIGHT INFRONT OF THE BOY. Does that make sense? If put into perspective this just breaks any common sense and it did which led me ... more>> to drop this. And for the guy who said MC did a lot more horrific thing than this like torturing and killing I will say this, do you expect your enemy to talk by showering them with flower and candy? The most logical method to get answer is torture unless you can read mind and the quickest method to eliminate threat is to neutralize the said threat. As for r*ping a complete stranger? Only degenerates can find logic in that. <<less

It started good like every other novel.. But went down during half the way.. God.. the writing is so bad and repetitive. Everytime the hero does something to villains there'll be a line "an unbelievable thing happened at that moment". And the hero repeats the same f*cking thing he did few chapters ago. It's really cringe and so childish. Almost every character repeats the sentence" He is a monster" Or " Is he a monster" Or "You... Monster".. I get it respected author.. The hero is a monster. You don't ... more>> have to remind me that every 10 pages.. And doesn't the villains don't talk to each other or something... why those f*cking villains never plans anything and always gets awed by seeing the same f*cking powers (ex. Air sword) of hero and calls him monster then loses an arm or head. And another weird thing is that portraying the hero as some kind of political genius. The f*ck?? He just give some weird s*upid decisions and the villains and allies goes" Oh he is not only good at fighting but also very good at politics".. duh.. When the f*ck did that happen??? The most horrible part is the second female lead.. As usual cliche, she is suffering from some great disease that no one in the world can cure but only one person.. Guess who?? Our hero.. And how? To have s*x with her. It is the only way and hero has to sacrifice his liquid.. Wow what a sacrifice.. Until the moment he is a person who never deviated from his moral to love and marry only one woman because of his mother's death and few chapters later he is planning to marry her to get the girls father to his side.. f*cking hypocrite... The only good part is how he does things.. At least he is not a psycho killer. Man only if the second half of the novel is as good as the first half this would've been on the top 10 of my list.. But the moment author makes cringe reasons for the hero to have s*x with another woman the novel dug it's own grave... <<less

A huge waste. The cheat idea has good potential (can restructure body to improve it, to fit any technique, to scan and organize information, to simulate imaginary fights), but it's implemented so badly... Improvement is too fast so it's doesn't feel valuable, the protagonist is too s*upid and isn't entertaining to observe. The cheat is forcing all the good decisions onto him. MC is just a zombie going along with the cheat. Other characters are the most stereotypical, as in other tr*sh novels. Story is basically non-existent and plot holes start with ... more>> the first chapter. <<less

It starts off great, then like a lot of novels, drops off in quality later on. After a certain point in the novel (when the MC becomes the cult leader) the overarching plot nosedives down a cliff. The story should've ended when he achieved his goal, but it pointlessly continues on with the author jerking off the MC, piling power-up after power-up on him and making him invincible. It's fine to have an insanely overpowered MC like Saitama from One Punch Man, but the author doesn't do it correctly. There's ... more>> nothing interesting reading about enemies who're hyped up to be super strong but get defeated by the MC without a challenge. 5/5 Start. 1/5 End. Would I recommend reading it? Yes, but when it starts to get boring, just drop it because it doesn't get better. <<less

The start was really good. Unlike the chinese martial arts novel I was able to get a better grasp of names and levels. It's not fast paced or go into too much details where you start questioning your sanity. I liked the story building, it had kept me curious till chapter 325. But I couldn't give it 4 or 5 stars because around chapter 300 or so it didn't make sense, I didn't like the way MC behaved. He was OP, I get it, all thanks to nano. Even with the ... more>> highest level up if there's no nano, he won't be able to do half the stuff he's doing now. I believe he don't deserve to get Chen ma's inheritance. Power clouded his rational thinking and made him a monster who kills people just because. Spoiler The reason he annihilated six clans because they poisoned his mother, so all that revenge stuffs. But he killed Godly doctor's daughter because she refused to support him (which I find no problem at all, imagine some nut head comes and kills your husband and people you are close to, I too would go against him. Although she was kidnapped she had come to like the people around her and built a family with them. So I understand her reason.) But the MC killed her making her baby orphan. What's the difference between him and the six clans? He became unreasonable with power clouding his head. [collapse] Spoiler And for the romance part it was ridiculous. There was no progressive development shown between the leads. And it just straight away went to confession and did the deed. But then the Cold blood blockage part made me completely drop it. I wouldn't support that kind of behaviour no matter what. He forced her, even if everyone agreed to it, I couldn't read past it. [collapse] <<less

Alright alright alright guys first things first let's ignore the story. Lets first look at the tags the genre meaning the setting. The novel is set in Korean murim world i.e. a wuxia because korean novels are either wuxia or xuanhuan but no xianxia buuuuuuut.... our beloved author doesn't know what seperated wuxia and xianxia and blurred the boundaries which killed it for me. Imma tell you what seperated wuxia from xianxia- 1. Internal energy doesn't matter at all in wuxia and only techniques matter. Yes internal energy matter to but its ... more>> only required to fuel the techniques and nothing else. NOTHING. BUT in this novel internal energy seems to rule above anything else. Come on dude its a wuxia do it properly for Gods sake 2. Epiphany in wuxia increases the level of techniques not internal energy goddamn it. But here MC's internal energy increases with each epiphany. HOW? Its natural energy how is your body that is only 20 y/o at most producing 60 years for internal energy every epiphany? HOW? If you pick a demographic please stick to it dont jump around. 3. How does that nano machine thingy work? I am no med student nor technical topics related student but dont machines require an energy source? 4. Honestly the story shouldn't exist because the whole story is a GODDAMN paradox. 5. And the fifth reason and the most annoying reson... bro I didnt know wuxia novels have ying yang concept and that in wuxia novels you can r*pe people to fix their yin constitution. Damn bro must have alzheimers cause I thought tHAT happened only in xianxias *s*um CHE THAT's RIGTH I AM TALKING BOUT YOU* all in all read upto the part where he becomes the lord and leave with a good taste in your mouth as someone before me cited. <<less