Seoul Station's Necromancer

by 진설우

When former high school student Kang Woojin finds himself returned back to Earth after being forcibly summoned to a foreign planet for 20 years, he soon finds that Earth is not the same, normal place as he once remembered it to be.

With his former strength and age reset back to zero, watch Kang Woojin as he gets back on the path to becoming the Earth’s strongest Necromancer!

Genres: Fantasy, Light Novel, Magic, Action, Fiction

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Phoenix · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can an ending be so bad that it ruins the rest of an otherwise good story?

Overall, this reminded me a lot of A Monster Who Levels Up (written a year after this one), with a lot of the same exact problems: a bunch of threads started that are never fully explored, and many internal inconsistencies.

So many inconsistencies...


* Trahnet invades Earth after conquering Alphen after the Immortal leaves Alphen undefended to go back to Earth, but the invasion of Earth started at the same time the main character had been summoned to Alphen in the first place (timey-wimey...)

* To summon a skeleton, he specifically needs an animal with bones, until later when it doesn't matter if they have bones or not. Both times it goes out of its way to make it clear that bones are DEFINITELY/DEFINITELY NOT required.

* Everything with Trahnet is nonsense. It's made to keep humans alive during the trip to another planet, no it's made to keep humans alive on Earth while terraforming is taking place, no it's to make a way to travel to another planet without a ship, no it's actually made by aliens who are invading Earth (except it's invading VR-Earth??), no it's not VR since things can come out of it SOMEHOW...

* Everything with the Dimension Lords, Domains, the real-time-strategy game, all of it is nonsense and inconsistent. The monsters can be bought with points, no wait they're real people, they're wanderers that have lost their home planet, but there's an infinite number of them available (even though there are finite planets). Speaking of...

* The Thrones. Thrones with lower numbers are more powerful, no wait, your throne number equals the number of Thrones you've captures, so the higher numbers are more powerful, and somehow the Lords have all captured a different number of Thrones (what an amazing coincidence!), and Thrones are the same as Codes, but the gods who have the codes aren't the same as the Lords that have Thrones...?

* Alphen is Mars after it has been terraformed, but Trahnet is a VR of the past, but there's spaceships on Alphen, but it's not terraformed in the non-VR future, but... None of the timelines can possibly match (timey-wimey...), and wouldn't he have noticed that the stars in the sky are basically the same as on Earth? And if you can terraform, can't you terraform the ruined Earth??


But overall I enjoyed it more that AMWLU... until it got near the end.

Everything, EVERYTHING fell apart (some of which you can see in the previous spoiler).

And the actual finale is supremely unsatisfying.

The early chapters are great and I was quickly hooked, but in the end this is just a mishmash of different concepts thrown together with no semblance of a plan, and it never pays off in a meaningful way.

Waste of time.

(But still three stars because the early chapters were so good, not that it's worth the time to read them since there's no good ending)

[AppleSec · Rating 1 out of 5]

It starts out good, plot is rushed, the ending felt rushed, the whole story right from chapter 2 felt rushed, like it was decided to be cancelled from chapter 2 and editor-san says end it now and the author drags it out for 200 chapters. There's one romance character in there but it doesn't go anywhere, its just there, with only one time mc has to save her but if the author wanted the mc to save someone there's still his family who is his number one priority, but the only event where he gets sort of desperate doesn't involve his family but the romance character that has no reason to be there at all.
Then there's another female character that has so much more explanation to her character than the others but doesn't play any part at all in the story. Worse still, she just gets bunched up with the romance character and even then nothing happens. No drama no deep meaning, not even shallow meaninng. But she still gets mentioned a lot and we get to see her point of view instead of the other characters who are directly involve in the plot. She feels like an extra that got more screen time than the side characters. Important characters don't get any development outside of one or two sentences every now and then and minor characters get whole chapters and arcs going through their entire backstory and motivation that could've been summarized in one sentence. She's jealous of having her fame taken away and eventually gets scared so she she sticks to mc's girlfriend. Or, she was pretty and now she's not so people bully her and mc decided to do a tiny favour and she mistakens his intentions now they're dating, even though the mc has bigger problems to deal with.
The mystery side of the story is also disappointing and confusing, there was an explanation for whats happening but it does not get explored at all and we have to just take it as it is. No explanation of how it works and weak explanation of why it matters, and it leaves you wondering why they couldn't just explain it from the very beggining.
Several concepts or plot devices gets thrown in there all of a sudden to serve a singular point, like the god seed and the domain battles, and it is painfully obvious that the author never intended to follow that plot line once you finish the story.
The weird unit of measurements for currency is just plain confusing, why not just use won like every other translation and if you want to change it to usd then my keep changing the currency back and forth? This doesn't even happen between chapters, it happens between sentences, AND THERE ISNT EVEN THE UNIT WRITTEN. I wouldn't reccomend any spending a single one(one what?) on this novel. Money isn't even mention anymore halfway through, that would've been a nightmare.
This story is a complete power fantasy, the only setback the mc has is right at the beggining when he realizes he lost his powers, but even that isn't a problem since he didn't lose all of them, so why even.
The entire story feels like the author just winged it the entire way, like the draft was written on ai dungeon and the author just went with it.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This novel... has multiple personality disorder.

It started out as a typical fantasy with a guy who got taken to another world and then came back, powers dungeons etc. It was fun to watch him regain his strength and grow in power. I rather admit that the part where he rode a missile with its warhead removed to get back to Korea was quite funny.

Then... it turned into a war game. Odd, but I went with it... then it just kept getting stranger and stranger, turning to the sci fi and virtual realities etc. I admit I got frustrated around the last eighteen or so chapters so I skipped to the end.

[Sunny Butterfly · Rating 3 out of 5]

It starts out entertaining and died near the end. My eyelids curled like a window shade with boredom the last 30 episodes. This is identical to Solo Leveling in major parts of the novel. I do not know or care which came first. But, the MC in Seoul Necromancer is very funny. I read Solo Level before reading this. So, this was funny enough in places to keep me reading. Then, it went over a cliff near the end.

[Aurélien · Rating 4 out of 5]

Je ne devrais peut-être pas noter se livre aussi haut, le style d'écriture n'est pas excellent, l'histoire bien qu'originale est plutôt basique et tirée par les cheveux. Mais ce que j'ai passé un bon moment ! C'est mon deuxième "Light Novel", et je trouve ce style de livre rafraichissant, d'une originalité bien venue.

[James Redman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started out very good but disappointing in the end for rushing things out. Despite that, this novel is full of blood boiling moments and decent actions, and it's very funny!

[Jonah Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book until last 40 chapters

[Sam · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is an absolutely shitty novel. Please don't waste your time on this shitty novel.

[Alfred Xyy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story went a little bit weird near the end but still an awesome novel nonetheless

[石神 花王の美 · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far, it's good and funny, I'll be back again to make a review after I finished reading this.　ありがとう、Authorさん。

[Keoni · Rating 2 out of 5]

it's better than bad but could still insult your intelligence if you read too many words.

Read to ch 92/208

[Chang Huey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fast food leveling manhwa a la Solo Leveling style