The Statsguy's Mag 12 Apocalypse Meltdown

Views : 6.78million

Rating : 8.8(120)

Chapters : 1937

Status : completed

Word count : 4.03million

Author : Twenty-Two Knife Flow

author level : lv5

No of works : 2

Disscussion : 876

Year started : 2015

Translated works :

Genres : Action, Fantasy, Harem, Mature, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen, Supernatural

Tags : Aggressive Characters, Apocalypse, Army, Army Building, Artificial Intelligence, Calm Protagonist, Cannibalism, Cautious Protagonist, Clever Protagonist, Dark, Depictions of Cruelty, Determined Protagonist, Evolution, Firearms, Game Elements, Gore, Hard-Working Protagonist, Leadership, Loyal Subordinates, Male Protagonist, Military, Modern Day, Past Plays a Big Role, Post-apocalyptic, ****, Reverse ****, Ruthless Protagonist, Scheming, Second Chance, Special Abilities, Strong to Stronger, Sudden Strength Gain, Wars, Zombies

Popularity : somewhat in China.

Last edited : 24/nov/2018

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Website : qidian international

Views : 6million

Rating : 4.1(572)

Chapters : 296

Rank : 143

Status : ongoing

Schedule : 16ch/week

Translator : Sky_

Editor : WetChick1200, vb24, Valvrave

Popularity : Not much popular

Last edited : 24/nov/2018

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POSITIVE REVIEW :

So I've read ahead till about chapter 1333 in chinese. For those reviewers below I can safely guarantee that most of their complaints are unfounded by about that point.

Spoiler

So the MC has survived for up to ten years in the apocalypse, before he was reincarnated back to the day before the apocalypse. Now the thing that people don't realize is this. Before his reincarnation, he was a normal evolved human in the apocalypse. People like him were a dime a dozen, and he evolved pretty late as well. Despite his slow start, he survived a good ten years and had friends in lots of high places, that get revealed as the story goes on. This gives him an extremely big advantage when he reincarnates cause he retains 2 things: The survival skills he has built up over the ten years, and knowledge of important future events as well as knowledge of powerhouses before they rise to power. With these two advantages, he now goes forward to build his own power in the apocalypse, to protect the things important to him.

Pros

-Harem where the members aren't actually useless

Spoiler

As of now there are 4 members. First member is Shang Jiu Ti, she ends up being the manager of the base he eventually founds, as MC has to travel all over the place both to get stronger and to find loot. Second there's Guan Yu Ting, she's actually the daughter of a general and she ends up taking over the base her father owns and supporting MC. The third is the Bai girl, she's a member of a hidden family and way stronger than the MC. Last is a girl with mental powers that rapes the MC cus he rejected her.

-Side characters are interesting and actually relevant to the story.

As long as a character is named and doesn't die, you can bet he's gonna appear again and contribute to the story. Some of em are pretty hilarious as well.

-Kingdom building

-Not just a simple apocalypse story

Spoiler

Hidden families! Aliens! Mermaids! Conspiracies galore! At where I've read to the story has revealed more and more secrets, that the MC has encountered in his previous life, and have never come close to unlocking.

-Antagonists that matter

Spoiler

The MC only seems OP now cause he's a dragon in a shallow pool. Right now he's like a adult playing with kids. Later on he meets real antagonists, such as members of hidden families that could crush him with a single finger, the king of cannibals that has a huge power advantage over him, and despite the fact that he's strong he's not a match for them. He survives via ingenuity and good use of his resources. And scamming. He's the king of scammers.

-Interesting MC

Spoiler

He has a goal and he works towards it. He's filial to a fault. He's a scammer. He's a scrooge. He's basically Meng Hao if you threw him inside an apocalypse. He's ruthless as well, which is the temperament you'd expect someone who survived 10 years in the apocalypse to have. But he doesn't ruin plans by randomly slaughtering people. He slaughters with a purpose. And I enjoy that.

-Comedy

MC is somewhat similar to MC of LLS as well. He scams a lot of people, and always ends up getting out ahead. The process is extremely fun as well. Certain side characters are r.e.t.a.r.dedly funny as well, and their interactions are amusing.

-Story is pretty edgy

Spoiler

There's a part where a little girl gets raped by her uncle and her tongue cut off so she can't scream. MC saves her. He then proceeds to ask her what she wants to do. She wants to kill the uncle. So MC hangs the uncle on a tower in a zombie filled city where the zombies can't reach him, and feeds him everyday so he'll survive but he's permanently hung there. He tells the girl, you can have your revenge if one day you're strong enough to reach him yourself. So the little girl joins his army. I find this wonderful. The world has gone to h.e.l.l. If children want to survive they have to get strong as well. If they stay weak all that's left for them is to suffer. No, the girl doesn't join his harem.

-Multiple Perspectives

There are parts where the story goes on when the main character is away from the base, and the side characters aren't exactly helpless without him around.

Cons

-Translation is pretty bad.

-Chapters are short.

-MC is pretty lucky honestly.

And that's about it. If you can, do yourself a favor and read it in the original language. The translation doesn't do it justice.

-By SchneiderRitter(NU)

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NEGATIVE REVIEW :

Alright so this started out pretty decently in my opinion but it starting going down hill VERY quickly.

The translation quality started out acceptable and yet, somehow started getting worse and worse until it just devolved into broken english. I don't think it's much of a spoiler, really, but what bothered me a great deal about this story is how it seems that every male EXCEPT for Chu Han (The MC of the story) and his follower were immediately extremely violent, having their minds clouded by l.u.s.t, and arrogant. They are ALWAYS extremely covetous and malicious.

Spoiler

Every male character that comes across the MC and his rag tag band of miss-fits IMMEDIATELY wants to kill him so that they can **** the female members, who are described as beautiful, and take their food and equipment. The major human antagonists that I have come across so far (3) are all basically the same. The characters are very one dimensional and none of them display any real thought besides "he has something I want, he must die. If that doesn't work, I should beg for mercy and try again later." They're all incredibly dull and arrogant, one recently introduced character going so far as to hope that his brother, who is at that moment going out to solve a zombie tide heading in the base's direction) will die and never come back because he was slapped by him for wasting ammo and making a ruckus that could draw tides. This is the case even though just before being slapped he was basically being described as worshiping and loving his brother for being so dependable.

It just seems unrealistic. I get that it's the apocalypse but it hasn't even been a month and people are acting like complete savages with reckless abandon. The MC is also lackl.u.s.ter as he is described to be calculating yet he often doesn't even follow his own guidelines.

Spoiler

He has past knowledge and it is said frequently that he doesn't trust anyone, yet he has on several occasions blindly followed people who offered him food and shelter when he needed neither. It just seems like the author was pushing for events to happen even though there was no reason for them to. The MC also has said that he doesn't waste time with dead people (people he plans on killing because they are a threat) yet he broke a guy's wrist when he rushed for one of his follows and sat there taunting the man, effectively wasting time. He is described as rushing to go save his parents yet he constantly does unnecessary things that are a complete waste of his time. For someone who's biggest goal is to save his family before they are eaten alive, he doesn't seem to be in that much of a rush.

Honestly, the author just seems to try WAY too hard to show 'the dark side' of humanity which just ruins the story.

Spoiler

He far too frequently comes across people he is somehow acquainted with even though 80% of the population turned into zombies and it would only make sense that a large portion of the rest of the 20% died from the initial meltdown. Worse yet, the people he is acquainted with are ALWAYS rotten. If they are male, they covet his female followers and strength. If they are female, they try to kiss up to him to leech off of him. Its a reoccurring theme that was just trampled into the ground.

My last gripe with this story, so far, is that everyone besides the MC (and those that follow him) just seem to be completely useless.

Spoiler

Everyone is terrified of the zombies even though they're described as slow, weaker than the average adult (at least the first stage zombies), and they are said to have fragile bones and tissue. It's just ludicrous how people will just let themselves sit there and die even though the author tries to create a story about people devolving to their baser instincts and yet they won't even ATTEMPT to fight to survive. The people are just brainless morons and it's so infuriating to sit there reading over and over how people look down on the MC like he's some grunt when no one would do that after seeing him in action.

I'm really considering dropping this story because I'm just losing my patience with it. The translations are sub-par, the characters are copy pastas and everyone is so blindingly arrogant and simpleminded that the story has no tension at all. It just leaves me feeling frustrated that I have to sit there reading about c.r.a.p that doesn't even matter so I end up skimming the chapter to see if anything actually interesting develops. Even when going back to fully read the chapter, its disappointing to find out that, honestly, I didn't miss out on much at all. The story, while not exactly unique, I felt had potential but the low quality characters and repet.i.tion of their designs just makes the story boring and predictable.

Just... disappointing really.

-By Rorrim(NU)

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