The Overpowered Newbie

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7.3/10

The Newbie Is Too Strong is a mixture between streamer manwhas such as: Ranker’s Return (Remake) & Archmage Streamer along with the notorious tower manwhas we’ve seen a thousand times.

Instead of going the more serious route, the manwha seems to be playing on comedy from the chat along with the “lighthearted” looking art. Though, there are times where this manwha seems to be having an identity crisis. Up until every moment, it radiates a wholesome feeling, but seemingly out of nowhere, the mc becomes violent and cold blooded; mixed feelings come from said actions because the art style does not match the violence supposedly ... displayed.

Along with these factors, would I describe it to have a good plot? No, definitely not. Random characters with a “deep” history pop out of nowhere at times and not much of the mc’s background is revealed either. Most of the rewards seem to be for convenience’s sake as well.

But at the end of the day, it’s a streamer + tower manwha, do you seriously expect godlike plot from that combo? It’s a fun (and cozy?) read, but it doesn’t leave a strong impression.

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

Tower opens up in the world, adventurers are selected randomly by magic forces to climb the tower in an RPG IRL setting with classes, gear, etc. People who enter the tower are free to leave but aren't allowed to speak about what's inside to outsiders so the contents of the tower are a mystery to normal people, except the main character who's sent a recording of himself beating the tower, which he studies to get perfect information once he's invited to the tower. Very generic plot premise and mission structure for the genre, right down to the missions being altered slightly to compensate for the ... MC doing everything perfectly. Arcs drag out way too long and the art is kinda weak IMO.

Adventurers inside the tower livestream their missions to other adventurers that climbed higher than them, the viewers can chat and interact with the streamers, including donating the tower's currency, so the adventurers have to appease their viewers. It's an interesting concept for a power fantasy story because a lot of readers do like seeing normal peoples' reactions to the OP MC, but I think the implementation is wasted potential. The MC has to act like he's just noob but the writing for his acting is pretty bad, and the story gets pretty repetitive with the pattern of MC pretends to not know what's going on -> Chatters are doubters or people laughing at the doubters -> MC does something no one else does -> Chatters spam "OMG/WTF"

The most absurd and ridiculous series I've ever read. Nothing in this makes sense. It's like the worst leveling up story ever written combined with the worst IRL streaming story ever written. It's so boring and convoluted you'll be wondering how something like this even got published. If your idea of a compelling story is seeing video game popups and streaming chat logs then I guess you found your series. If you read Solo Leveling and thought it was "okay" then this is one million times worse than that. The whole thing is just incredibly shallow and childish. Definitely would never recommend this to anyone.