The Regressor Can Make Them All
Ongoing

The Regressor Can Make Them All

87%
42 Reviews
Author:
Magyojolgae
Translator:
kyokon
Lee Se-Hoon, the blacksmith of humanity's last desperate united force, fought against the demons until the very end. However, the result was mutual destruction, with the world coming to an end. The moment he took his own life over that futile conclusion—
“…What is this?”
He had regressed to his days as a candidate at the hero training institution, Babel Academy. Having obtained a second chance, he swore to use anything as material to gain victory this time. Anything at all!
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Chapters
213 Chapters
Licensed From
Magyojolgae/KWBOOKS

Details

Status in Korean: Ongoing

Editor: sigh

Original work © Magyojolgae/KWBOOKS

Release rate: 6 chapters a week

Reviews
87%
42 Reviews
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Alfoodo
6 months ago
Not recommended
Dull.

If the nonsensical title didn't irritate you enough, the writing will.

Despite forcing myself to read 24 chapters hoping to find some reason to give it a positive review, I've come to realise theres honestly nothing redeeming about the novel thus far.

Its an extremely generic regression story, in fact think of any korean regression story and you'll have guessed half the plot.

It's hard for me to elaborate on my frustrations without giving spoilers, but in essence, the mc's abilities and what changed after his regression isn't explained well, the side-characters are very 1-dimensional, not existing out of the mc's realm, so it doesn't feel like the world is real, it instead seems like the world stays static without the mc's presence.

The mc themselves after 24 chapters, doesn't really have a noticeable personality which anyone would be able to describe and his unique ability DOES NOT suit the mc's personality at all. Figuratively speaking if his talent was the power of friendship and for 24 chapters you had to read about an absolute npc of an mc, thinking why he can't make bonds, trust me, you would feel irritated as well.

Unfortunately this novel also falls into the classic trap of telling instead of showing.

Instead of demonstrating events to show the mc is mature, as he's a 50 year old regressor among teens, the novel just constantly hits you with the:

Side character A noticed the mc had a "mature glint in his eyes, unnatural for his age"

and dialogues similar to this are thrown in every other chapter, yes yes the mc is very special and unique, we get it.

I also wasn't a fan of the multitude of side-characters none of which are particularly important, this wasn't helped by the fact the progression is just really slow, this novel BEGS for a time-skip.

In fact from as earliest as the first 4 chapters I felt like dropping this novel, as the main reason they were not able to defeat the demons was because the strongest heroes couldn't work together, and to rub salt in the wound, 3 mercenaries were nearly able to get the job done in the end before the regression.

So now that the mc has regressed theres 0 TENSION. His power is literally to do with friendship and bonds, so what do you guys think will happen?

Also another pet-peeve I had was the mc is meant to be the best blacksmith before his regression, he already has a easy way to solve the future, make the op bastards work together, but now the guy is learning new skills in school as well, which arguably in my opinion is stupid as he should already know this basic stuff. Maybe it was because of this, these 24 chapters have been so draining, it's like a guy sharpening his sword to open a treasure chest despite having a matching key to open it, and the audience knows this.

JustNa
VIP
6 months ago
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Edited
Recommended
Ok after I read this story quite ahead (100 chapters, still read the translation, it makes the story a whole lot better, Mtl is really bad lol, boarderline unreadable as story moves along).

I can recommend it for people who likes blacksmith + actions + regression with all the Korean troupes that come with Korean novels.

Anyways let’s use royal road format again.

Style: 3/5

This is mediocrity at its best. The style is nothing to write home about but I enjoy the fact that Korean authors got character expression to convey their feelings down. This makes the reading alot less artificial than another story that I recently hated on (if you know you know).

The broken part about his power is the soul smithing which he learnt from his master in the previous life. This is basically the Persona soul link thingie but also for people who hate you. It’s a good device to show how other characters are feeling towards mc (as if it’s not obvious from their reactions to MC) but also give mc better way to craft equipment for them. So I really enjoy that

Grammar: the translation is fine. No rating here

Story: 3/5

Sincerely, the start is very troupy regression story where mc got super overpowered as blacksmith cus this guy was basically the top blacksmith in the previous life. So I get, you the boss. The start sets up the part why he’s in the academy (the one he didn’t go last time) was because there’s a lot of issue with it that cause things to go out of hand. So basically it’s to lay the groundwork on his investigation to stop things from getting out of hand and it starts to pick up from like 70 chapters forward where there are a lot of fights. I say that around 80-90 chapters is when we see why he came to this academy (despite other other characters showcasing their skills, imo Jake and Erika really shine in these chapters)

Still, imo, the start could’ve been done better so I’ll give it 3/5.

Let’s put power scaling. I would’ve given 5/5 if it’s the outside of time level, it’s obviously not that and it’s not 4/5 cus of the criticisms I had.

Characters: 4/5

You know what, the characters are troupy but they’re nice. They had reasons and background to support them. The villains ain’t that great tho (they’re more of, I want power so I make a deal with the devil kinda villain) but the support casts are decent so it’s a 4/5.

So imo, it’s recommendable if you like this kind of over powered Korean stories.

Belforks
6 months ago
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Edited
Recommended
Twenty+ chapters in and I think the novel is alright, well then again many novels start out good but end up dropping massively in quality later like Frozen Player Returns with that very rushed third season and ending. I’ll come back to edit this review when there’s about 40+ more chapters are released or whenever I feel like it.

The MC Lee Se-Hoon (LSH) has a pretty interesting power, he has the power to literally materialise his “relationships” / “bonds” with another person into metal / materials to use in creating equipment, The deeper the bond with someone the greater the quality and effect that the material has so you’d imagine what kind of quality material he’d gain if his parents were still alive, if he had siblings or even had a spouse or something.

That power seems rather reminiscent of the Persona series where the one of the main mechanics of the games is to build and foster relationships with the characters around you to obtain more power and better personas.

His power literally depends on him making deep bonds / friendships with others to obtain materials to convert into strong weapons (it’s literally Friendship is Magic/Materials), yet he himself is not that much of an interesting person.. his personality is pretty generic? A boring guy. His power doesn’t suit him personality wise and feels like it should’ve gone to someone with a much more interesting peculiar eccentric personality?

Regarding the MC himself.. he’s got his deep pride in his smithing skills but aside from that.. I can’t really remember much about him aside from that, he seems like he’s just your typical normal tower climbing levelling up MC. No charisma that draws other characters to him, they only come to him because he’s currently the academy’s blacksmithing prodigy and is really good at weapon making. I hope the author really makes him stand out more since this shouldn’t be simply “level up grow stronger” story but also the “make deep bonds with others” story. He HAS to be the extrovert that drags the introverted weirdo hunters into his care and befriend them.

Plot so far is fairly straightforward, MC wants to stop the end of the world and to do so he plans on reaching 3 Doglike players who if had helped out much earlier in dealing with the monsters could have prevented the worlds end, he regressed back to his ‘academy’ days and is building his reputation as a prodigy blacksmith while creating bonds / relationships with others to obtain materials.

Even though it’s been about 6? years worth of reading novels I still find it really hard to remember Korean / Chinese names and I don’t know why.

#ReviewRush

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