Martial God Asura Novel Review - Review4reader

Heh... Yeah... So, let's get started on this review.

If you're looking for a novel with horrible romance, bromance, asspulls, plot holes, characters and general view on women (along with a lot of other things), but fast pace on the revenge and pretty much bloodshed along with a retardedly reckless MC with a lot of hypocrisy and double morals that manages to cause everyone he walks by to want to kill him as if he had used an entire can of axe on himself (only to get killed shortly thereafter after a nonsensical and illogical development), then you've come to the right place.

This novel... isn't a good one. Giving it a 2/5 or 2.5/5 is already me being very generous. I would've given it a 1/5 if it didn't manage to somehow keep me reading for so many chapters despite being so horrible. It's pretty scary how this novel is a rollercoaster of ups and downs, sometimes it's pretty interesting and makes you want to click the next chapter, sometimes it makes you want to drop it out of sheer fury and annoyance, sadly the downs are far more numerous than the ups.

The romance, bromance and the authors views on women and how men should treat them are probably the worst parts of it all. No, I'm not a raging feminist, I'm just someone who wants a somewhat decent romance. The romance, yeah, the harem (and the bromance), they're all pieces of tr*sh that are the definition of worthless. They drag the MC down all the time, never can they help him, they just leech off of him and their only worth is as ornaments that can let the MC act out the whole "damsel in distress" plot. They're all shallow and even if they were somewhat interesting when introduced, as soon as they fell in love with the MC (or in the brothers case, became fully loyal and adoring), their personalities was overwritten, all of them became identical and their previous personalities pretty much disappeared, replaced with a suck-up, meek, clingy, restrictive, demanding and annoying personality. This seems to be part of chinese beliefs on what happens when women fall in love. They're all pretty much just there to praise the MC and show how good the MC is to have so many awesome harem members and brothers, they're also not there for most of the time (thank god) and tends to be hidden away somewhere, the MC visits them once in a while. Oh, and they're super weak with no real talent, but as they are the harem and and brothers of this story, they also have plot armor. While the MC is slaving away and risking his life every day 24/7, they get a smooth journey by cheating and forced plot. First two girls too weak? Let's give them two heaven-defying pearls that'll boost them up so that they're just strong enough to join the MC on his journey to the next zone! They didn't need to do sh*t, just sleep. All 5 of the harem members/brothers are really weak compared to you and can't pass to the next zone? No problem, you just go ahead on your own, we'll come when we catch up, but then when the MC leaves, some weird old man just so happens to take all of them as disciples and forces their cultivations all the way up to the point where they've, in one year, caught up to the MC and even all exceeded him in both cultivation level and world spiritist level! All without doing anything, even if they had no world spiritist power or anything before either. Of course, this leaves a backlash effect which will, guess what, make them useless to the MC even after powering up, and the MC will very soon catch up to them and far exceed them again, so they can just be hidden away somewhere, so once again they're just burdening ornaments without getting to display their powers even once and help the MC. These powerups will continue later on... Oh, by the way, the MC has that disgusting mindset of committing suicide if one of his girls dies, which is obviously REALLY smart since he'd kill off Eggy along with him and all other people will be left alone, whew, retarded MC.

Then the author is really annoying when it comes to girls. He keeps on introducing unlikeable girls and makes everyone think that they will be harem members by making the MC like them a lot and get turned on by them. A lot of young, beautiful girls show up all the time and here we see the true power of the MCs hypocrisy and double morals. He seems to very easily like just about any young and beautiful female, no matter how unlikeable they are or how offensive and rude they are, he will usually always like them. Even worse, if the enemy is a girl who tortures him, almost kills and turns him into a soul-less puppet, cuts his family jewels off and plans to use him as bait to torture a little girl the MC was fond of to death, he will still not really truly hate them. When he catches them, he "can not bring himself" to torture them or kill them, so, at most he will r*pe them and then he will feel guilt and pity towards them despite all they've done, and also feel a "bond" to them since he took their virginity -.-. Oh, and no such girls ever truly dies. So, as long as you're a young beautiful girl, you get a free-card to act like a conceited, rude, pretentious arsehole and the MC won't do sh*t. However, if you're a guy, he will torture you until your soul breaks and you die if you so much as look at him the wrong way. I really hate this attitude and it was one of the most enraging things in this novel. Both genders should be treated somewhat equally in a story, especially if you already have a lot of girls and aren't planning to add more, and even more so for enemies. This MC might as well get stabbed to death for being lenient to females, see if I care.

There's also plot holes everywhere and extremely forced stuff where you knows the author just f**ked up and conveniently added stuff, half-step martial emperor is one such example where all of a sudden there's a new big realm that we WOULD'VE known about earlier if the author had actually properly planned ahead. Then there's stuff like us never knowing progress of skills or what the MC poaches from other peoples bags, he can just conveniently pull out anything from his bag if it's needed. When he faced someone in world spiritist weapon techniques, he was somehow extremely skilled at it and had all materials prepared already, despite us never knowing he had even trained it. When he faced someone with pill techniques, he somehow had all the ingredients and he could somehow copy the opponents formation and perfect it in a very, very short time before using it extremely well. Well, there's a lot more everywhere.

Then there's the repetitive plot. This author recycles plot like there's no tomorrow. He re-uses the exact same scenario several to dozens of times, over and over again, to the point that we knows what will happen before reading. There's absolutely no originality or variation at all. The same stuff happens all the time, every time, in every zone... There's also arrogant and retarded bastards around every corner, as soon as one is dealt with (killed or humiliated), another one will pop out of the woodworks to keep the circle turning, often the new ones are the stronger people related to the person that was previously killed or humiliated, the same villain often comes back a few times too. There's about 99% bad people and 1% reasonably good people in this novel and every single one, including the MC, is retarded to some extent. Oh, and not only do enemies court death, the MC courts death as if it's his profession, he doesn't even try to avoid offending people, he says whatever he wants and keeps on jumping into the fire, by this point I'm starting to believe that he's a legendary masochist. It also doesn't make it better that 50% of this novels text is just rubbish that you don't need to read, filler text with absolutely no purpose whatsoever, it's painfully obvious how the author cheats his way to the wordcount all the time.

There's also a lot of other flaws, of course, but that's enough from me about that. So, since it's so bad, everyone would think that it's not worth reading at all? I'm not really sure about that. It shouldn't be high on your reading list, but it might be worth a read, even if it might also be a good idea to avoid it like the pest. I mean, I managed to read this many chapters despite hating most of it, it's pretty amazing in a way, and I know I was far, far from the only one, as you'd see in the comment section of that novel. This novel is pretty good if you want to just take a few hundred chapters of massacres and fast revenge while just skimming the romance and other irritating parts. It's kind of the fast food of the novel (mind) world. You know it's not good at all for your health (mental health), but it's pretty damn tasty at times and it's fast-paced. It should be kept in moderation and not bulk-read in one go, just go for a few hundred chapters at a time.

By the way, the first few hundred chapters were pretty good, then it turned bad for around 200 chapters, then it was readable for 200-300 chapters and then it was bad again for a few hundred chapters before turning readable again... Though there was always annoying stuff and a lot of sh*tty parts, there were indeed some huge arcs that were pretty interesting.

So, that concludes this long review. I really had to get this out there. This novel might be worth a read at moderate doses, or it might not be, it depends on what you're looking for and how much you can tolerate. I enjoyed some parts and it let me have something to do for a few weeks, but my mental health suffered due to stress from rage and annoyance with the author and I think I lost half my brain cells while reading it. It's really best to keep this low at the reading list and just go for it when you don't have much else to read.

Anyway it is just my opinion, for any MGA fanboy who might get butt hurt and wanna come in here and do shit in my comment section, 

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