What is self-cest? For this specific niche, it means that the romantic partner is yourself, usually one of them is changed to the opposite gender and another body. It's some magical stuff so no down syndrome okay!!!

What is the appeal of self-cest? It's a bit hard to answer that question. One day I just stumbled into it.I have to say, it's quite a different feeling from normal gender bender. It places less focus on gender and more on the interaction with yourself. Why do I like it?it is because... more>> of extreme narcissism?I hardly believe so.... I'm sure most of us dislike ourselves more than anything. We trod along with our daily life feeling lonely because there is no one that understand us.

but what if there is? someone who understands all the things about you down to the thought process. likes, dislikes, down, regrets, dreams down to the thought process. With anyone else, you have to keep certain thoughts in because it's not normal, but you don't have to with this pairing because one of them is your older self. Basically, you don't feel restrained.

Hows the actual novel? The dialogue is like your usual jp light novel. Might seem a bit simple and silly but jp light novel has its charm. If you tell me this is from japan I would believe it. So author got that checked out.

Summary : The MC is a lone wolf who is strong and battle-hardened. She had to face-off aliens to save his planet and comrade so she went kamikaze on them. After that, she traveled to the past with a new body with a system. Forced to guide her past self to become stronger so that they won't get screwed by aliens. Where does these goddamn aliens come from? Their origin have something to do with a vr game that suddenly appeared.

The Bread and butter of this novel: Umm, delicious. Back to the vr game, you have to do one mission after another to continuously get more powerful. It's the world-hopping complete mission type.Having a hard time? Think, terror infinity, thriller paradise and lifeline. Those novels.

Ayo hold up, isn't this like your usual cn novel? Exactly, but it's written with the intent to mimick jp novels so it's quite refreshing. Also, usually with these world-hopping novels, they just go to another world without break. but this novel places slice of life moments for a breather. This novel manages to mix action and sol moments pretty well.

Crown and jewel of this novel:

Usually, with these type of novels, the main protagonist is a man. With this no el, I consider it is the same. It's just the novel is written from the love interest pov. When I think of it like this, it just makes it better. She prioritize his safety first and his gains. So the scenes that come with it when the past self is in danger is satisfying. After that happened, the past self is like fk I am so useless and then he tryhard. It's like a scene from a vn or anime.... You might say it's just your usual tr*sh sob moment but since it's in such an anime way it's just too good.

I tell you now, it's the moment where both of them interact with each other. That's where life just oozes in. First impression, since the girl is not such a tsun, both of them does not conflict with each other. It makes me feel childish, not the bad kind, it's where you are small and happily going with your parents to travel to places. Watching them tease each other just makes feel I dont want to be h**ny, I just want to be happy

How they act:

Past self : Naive, wary and hot-blooded. Since he's just a teenager, he's pretty weak in the early part of the novel. He's like an ADC in LOL. Scales hardcore late game. He's a pretty go-along-the-flow guy but changes due to the MC contribution.

The mc: Mature and calm. From the past self, what is she like? I reckon she is like a dream girl in your boy-meets-girl story done right. Since she is more experienced, the way she deals with problems is calculative. Endure trouble with a smile and then strike while the moment is right. So she seems like an innocent girl but cool-headed inside.

Target audience: Uhh it's definitely toward shounen and seinen. Male-frequency type novel. Probably more towards otaku. <<less

This is a fantastic story, following the development of the relationship between the MC (female) and the ml.

For anyone interested, at the bottom of all the chapters translated by MTLRookie, he has his discord link. On his discord is a high quality Mtl word doc with the entire, complete novel

This is some cringey selfcest shit.

I had to stop reading about halfway through the third chapter. It's just that bad.

The protagonist goes to the past as some kind of Goddess among mortals and fails to seduce her former self into being her roommate. The conversation was more cringe than you can imagine and I just couldn't read any further.

I'm only bothering to write this review because there are literally none right now.

Simply put, don't waste your time on this.

I think that among the books about Gender Bender this one is one of the best. The characters here develop and do not stand still. Although in fact the MC is OP, this is not at all visible in the text. And about the gender swap, here it is done, as for me, very well.

The first chapters of 100 MC just uses her body as a tool for manipulation (without excesses, of course), but then she becomes more and more feminine, which is logical, all the same, hormones are a... more>> serious thing. But many authors forget about this (or don't add it on purpose), which makes me very sad, because teenagers do most of the rash acts just because of hormones and not because "they just wanted to." And MC and her current bersion of herself are teenagers.

Summing up all of the above, I would like to add that in my understanding of "genderbender" this is exactly what should happen to a character that has been affected by it, because it is not the mind that determines your existence, but the body. And, well, if there is no way to return back to the male body, then it cannot be considered gay :3

P.S.

I almost forgot to add, even though in theory this is a selfcest, after ~150 chapters it's almost 2 different characters, so don't worry.

P.P.S.

The world is described so-so, even about the city in which the main characters live, they did not tell anything at all, except for the name. And about other countries in general there is no word. It feels like events are not taking place on Earth. I would give 9/10 only because of the undeveloped surrounding world, but here only 5 stars... <<less

This the first selfcest novel that I have read and I have say it wasn’t that bad because I was going to read it with mentality of giving it a try. And the thing is that after just a few chapters in I was not able to think of MC and ML as the same person... I like the twist and turns regarding the world background but the except for the needs for the plot, the rest of the details were very vague... I find MC’s mental journey from start... more>> to finish interesting and sometimes amusing at times... though I’m not satisfied with hurried ending... I want to see their wedding so badly 🥺 <<less

The premise and plot of the story are great with a unique spin in the later chapters.

The dynamic between the ML and FML is one of the more original and naturally written relationships I've read so far, with the FML being a good example of what the exploration of self using the genderbend genre can be like and is not just acting like a girl from the beginning.

The pacing in the first half is quite good, and every character had their chance to shine.

Unfortunately, the novel later suffers due to... more>> the author rushing the story in the latter half, with some things such as the setting and some side characters seemingly being written as convenient tools to progress the story.

The supporting characters, especially the ones introduced later in the story, get almost no development.

This is unfortunately quite common in a lot of novels - where characters only interact when the author tells you about them interacting in the narrative - especially with such a wide cast of characters.

The ending was quite abrupt, and it was stated that it was due to the author being too ambitious in their setting, which took up too much time for them and their personal life.

It's quite reasonable, and I appreciate the author not outright just cancelling the novel but instead giving us closure to the characters we've become invested in.

In conclusion, fatty is the best character in the novel because he made me laugh a lot, and new viewers who don't mind the genderbender tag should go try it out. <<less

Finally some unique gender-bender instead of just another Yuri, and selfcest at that lol it's fun read even though some of the event are a bit rush and lack world backgrounds it's still good and make me curious what happened next

A lot of tell and not a lot of show. Readers are presented a scenario in which a future self must help their past self succeed by any means. Unfortunately, the author never delves into all the time problems that would be caused.

Xia Xinyan, the genderbent (?) version of Ling Mo, is forced to save themselves because they are the clone. Xia Xinyan is not an exact copy of Ling Mo as a girl, because the Tianji System created her as the ideal girlfriend for Ling Mo. The conclusion drawn... more>> here is Tianji wants some selfcest romance to happen. For example, Xia is given two abilities, catgirl and succubus, that both increase the chances of Lian Mo falling for himself.

I recommend reading this if people can overlook how much the author repeats previous topics like they are new information, as well as never showing the character's reactions to things and instead only telling about it.

Just to save future disappoint to new readers, I jumped to the last few chapters, and the ending was really rushed. No spoilers, but I did not enjoy how the author failed to actually make a satisfying conclusion to this selfcest romance reincarnation apocalypse. <<less