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I’m the Slit-Eyed Character at the Academy, but I’m not the Mastermind
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“When I opened my eyes, I found myself as a character in a game. It was bewildering, but I thought it was worth a try. That was until I saw the skill given to me. It was [Opening Eyes], with no abilities whatsoever.”

The story starts with the MC playing a game that is “Very Difficult”, so difficult, in fact, that no one has ever managed to kill the last boss. After 18 years of playing and, having the best attempt be at 30% of the last boss’s HP, he decides to try out a character that he never used.

This character was the Slit-Eyed character. It had garbage stats and garbage traits. But, since the MC had ran out of options with every other character, he was trying to see if he could find any secrets with this new character. So he puts in his name ‘Zero’ and presses play… Only to find himself inside the game, as the Slit-Eyed character.

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아카데미 실눈캐지만 흑막은 아닙니다
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Fluffums
New Fluffums
July 2, 2025
Status: c132
This novel is made significantly worse by the presence of the main heroine Luna. She constantly attacks the main character, physically and verbally. Most importantly, everyone around her gives her credit for the protagonist's good deeds and blames the protagonist for her misdeeds. Oh yeah, she's a dense clumsy yandere tsundere. No, those traits don't make sense together.

The extent of gaslighting by every character in the story is insane, and my breaking point is the addition of the second party member who is obsessed with Luna and acts like she... more>> can do no wrong while the protagonist can do no right.

-1 because of Luna, -1 because everyone else enables her, -1 because the author decided to have 30 chapters dedicated to Luna getting a new simp added to the protagonist's party to double down. Everything else is interesting. All the bad stuff is related to that one character. <<less
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Noobao
Noobao rated it
March 25, 2024
Status: c300
This is quite bad, it has an wonderful background setting but it manages to blow everything off due to the amateurish writing. The only reason I'm not giving this a 1/5 is due to that.

The setting:

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The setting has a fairly cunning main character (?), and a interesting background setting in the overworld.

Rats are what we call spies in that world, they are excellent, ironclad and determined, having a truly abrangent source of information. However multiple activities of the demon army are going on, unbeknownst to the rats of the greatest super potency in the world, the empire. From raising an Undead army in a ancient battlefield to mixing humans together with bipeds and demons to create an chimera that can be used in the demon army, danger lurks towards humanity. Politics in the human world are also not simple, a collusion caused the fall of an ancient noble family under sketchy circumstances and deal with demons, leaving no survivors that they knew of, while the heir successfully escapes and prepares herself for revenge.

Such person meets the cunning main character (?). Embroiling themselves in a conflict far beyond their capabilities. What would such an combination cause in this world future?

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Sounds good right? But the author manages to blow it all out by making the place of their activities to be a damn academy. The character's are wasted in this location. Every single outside activity that is happening looks to be more exciting and interesting than what's going on in that place.

Also this heir of the ancient family that fell? She's insufferable and is more of an main character than the supposed main character, she has that whole shounen aura of making friends and is considered an awesome person by everyone and everything.

As seen by people in the comment section, boy do they also love this character named Luna.

Pacing is atrocious. You keep seeing a ton of slice of life filler chapters which are meaningless.

"Comedy" is a major complaint of mine. The comedy is pure garbage that should be thrown under a bus and set on fire. It takes everything bad from early anime slaptistic moments and puts it into text form, I don't want to read how Luna decided to bite the 'main character' head for the tenth time because he was being a pe*vert. Stop it.

An amazing background setting throw away by amateurish writing, shitty pacing, bad comedy and filler episodes. Don't read this unless you have nothing to read.

Edit: man, the demons are so nice... No wonder people with mc's appearance sided with the demons. I kinda feel bad for them since they're so naively exploited and killed in the work. <<less
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cjvrns20
cjvrns20 rated it
March 16, 2024
Status: c67
Look, the novel is great it's just it's hard for me to read because of the girl Luna, I'm just constantly annoyed with her... In the beginning I was happy for their relationship but it became repetitive and Luna limits the mc's growth, basically all of the scenes from cha20 - 60 have almost Luna sht8ng every time... that it's not even funny or enjoyable.... it just annoyed me... I would probably love her if she could stop being clingy... but no.... every fkin scene she's there to dimnish my... more>> motivation to read this. but overall the story is grade... just that because of Luna, the MC don't grow and all of the chapter only include filler with luna's banters...

Well overall its probably 4.5 for me but it lowered because of the constante repetitive Luna moments, that's all but still a good read just losing my motivation a little <<less
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Infermite
Infermite rated it
April 13, 2024
Status: c152
This is an annoying novel to review in a lot of ways because I have rarely felt so frustrated at something like this, which toes the line between greatness and incessant mediocrity.

First, I will preface that the novel is a very traditional take on a academy setting based on a game that the main character is privy to. It's a character whose goal is to fight against the big bad, using his knowledge of the future, and how he slowly integrates with the true 'main characters'.

An anomalous presence and someone... more>> the world cannot help but take notice to. It's a formula that is hard to dislike, mainly because it ticks the boxes of someone who is powerful, but not living in power. In essence, it's a setting a reader can easily relate to.

The author has good skills weaving this narrative forward, and the scenarios have sufficient depth where they can stand on their own. No scenario ever seemed forced and nothing emotional came off as melodramatic. It is very competent in that sense.

However, as other reviewers have mentioned, the author also seems to be trying to stand out of the crowd by adding something else... Comedy. I don't particularly mind the pe*vert jokes and their subsets, because it's easy enough to ignore and it's not like he's saying anything or doing anything outrageous.

I'm not going to pick specific characters or whatever, I'll just state the simple fact that this novel isn't that funny. This means, really, that when the comedy becomes a large focus, it just pisses me off. It's like a piss stain is on my screen whenever I have to read it.

Later chapters do seem to balance this comedic writing better, but be warned that earlier chapters have certain moments which can raise ones blood pressure. Also, if you actually want to read something funny, look at "Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy".

Anyway, I will say that if you can get over this flaw, and it's a flaw that gets better over time as the author realizes that nobody wants to see the main character get imprisoned for a gag, then there is a lot of good here. Enough good that the existence of the poorly executed comedy pisses me off. <<less
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IcyD3
IcyD3 rated it
February 23, 2024
Status: c85
I thought this novel would turn out to be amazing based on the premise and the first few chapters. 85 chapters at the time of this review, and all I can say is that it is disappointing. My biggest gripes are the author's use of slapstick comedy and the pacing.

There's a reason that slapstick isn't used in novels, but in movies and animation. The whole point of the joke is that it is over-the-top action that is witnessed visually, writing down that someone is biting on your... more>> head or performing a WWE wrestling move on you just falls flat because it's hard to imagine seeing that action and then having your characters continue on like it's a normal occurrence. As if that wasn't bad enough, the author inserts these jokes at least once every chapter. As someone else mentioned, he's also a massive weeb that has to insert anime tropes and then repeat that trope the next chapter. He's one of those people who thinks that the joke gets funnier each time you repeat it.

Example:
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The trope about someone opening the door without asking and seeing the MC in a pe*verted position with a female is used twice as an ending in the span of 5 chapters.

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My main issue with the pacing is that in these 85 chapters, about 60% is the plot being moved forward while the other 40% is filler content. Whether it's monologuing, exposition, comedy, etc., it's all just meaningless dribble that has you skipping through until they mention something related to the main quest. As of chapter 85, we haven't even started to get ready to take down what is essentially the chapter 1 boss. Literally, the story is framing it as
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The MC still needs to learn the boss's backstory, set up a time to meet the boss, resolve an inner dilemma with killing, etc., all before even getting to the actual fight. WTF

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something that will need another 10 chapters of setup.

It's still 3 stars because the cast of characters are pretty lively and there are some abilities that are so peculiar that you can't wait to see how they get evolved, and the translator is GOATED, but if you truly want to try and get into this, wait till it reaches at least 150 chapters if not more. Might as well find another novel, because it's gonna be a while. <<less
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SonicWizard
SonicWizard rated it
April 19, 2024
Status: c95
Aside from playing the Academy genre in a very typical way, it does have some interesting facets. The issue is the author repeatedly sidelines the interesting bits for some very forced, and very not funny, slapstick comedy. It makes the read painfully frustrating at times, and that quickly diminishes my desire to read more.
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Kira. 111
Kira. 111 rated it
March 11, 2024
Status: c110
Initially I really liked the setting of this novel.... the way the game was explained the way MC isekaid into game and the world building is also nice but out of all the things most intrigued me is character setting of MC. how he explained his skills the slit eyes and all and the way he told us that he's like that mysterious character everyone fears..

But the biggest drawback was unnecessary gag comdey.... the pe*verted template was used like 1000 times repeatedly...I mean what I expected in the MC's character... more>> was that he's serious cold mysterious guy whom everyone fears and misunderstands him that's what I expected and that's what I looked forward to. But they made him into pe*verted gag comedian trope... like okay we can laughg at it for twice may be... but what's with the continuous use of the same trope.... but when the story gets serious it's really good takes us to the edge of the seat...

But as the chapters went on they even started to use this trope in the middle of the fights which ruined the tension in the fights.. and that first heroine.. they wanted us to see her a cute yandere but at this point she's just annoying and ruining the seriousness of character built around MC which I don't personally like. she trying to possessive is okay but the childish fights everytime and obstructing MC's plans that she'll solve everything..... and most of the comedy scenes that built around her are not at all funny and just lagging the story...

The rest of the heroines and side characters are really good and they got depth not just 2d...

That's all I want to say about this... just the comedy template annoys me tho initially it made me laugh but unnecessarily dragging story just for sale of those... that too especially when we're in the intense moment of plot reveal is not good <<less
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s3978871
s3978871 rated it
February 6, 2024
Status: c60
edit: -->This novel is not worth reading.

It has your typical isekai setting into an academy life but also throws in lots of attractive characters, settings and situations to make it interesting. It has a lot of comedy mixed in too.

The problem I have is with 1 character, the main (?) heroine of the novel, she's the 1st to enter the protagonist's harem. She is also a psychopath obsessed with him. She constantly sticks close, steals all of the protag's time when he's busy powering up, and is always biting, hitting,... more>> and twisting his neck. I know I'm supposed to laugh at how miserable the protag is but only at the beginning. I have read to chapter 60 and I swear every chapter after 30 will include her hitting the poor guy at least 2-3 times per chapter, it's getting tiresome.

All in all it's a 1 star novel for me, she's monopolizing all the screentime recently so I can't see more progress on the storyline and other characters <<less
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Random_NPC_69
Random_NPC_69 rated it
October 12, 2024
Status: c180
After reading hundred chapters I realized, This novel is not about MC. It's all about Luna, everything revolved around her and her family.

MC is just a punching bag for slapstick comedy and Luna personal babysitter. Everyone treat MC like tr*sh while pampering Luna.

If you expect Badass MC who get stronger fast using his game knowledge and mistaken as mastermind of the academy. This novel is not for you.
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FireIsGrey
FireIsGrey rated it
March 20, 2024
Status: c120
if ur a fan of a written slapstick comedy (reminds me of shonen anime but probs more female characters), that can also be emotional and srs when it needs to be, this is the story for you. If u favour hyper-realism and love consistent characters with no unnecessary gags, dont read this.

lot of ppl in the reviews seem to dislike luna and the use of weird gags. I agree that luna used to get on my nerves, but once I started seeing this series as a pure comedy and not... more>> a weird 'tsundere' romance, I realised that it was honestly, pretty funny. Unlike other series where the tsundere is just an as*hole for no reason, here luna recognises herself for being a bit of an a**hole. Shes shocked when reze wants to be her friend and she apologises to zero near ch 70 cos theres a bit of self-awareness in her character.

but u might say, thats inconsistent character writing. How can she be aware shes an a-hole, want to be close to MC, but also continue acting that way? And my answer is - its a damn comedy. Its meant to be on the nose, characters are meant to bend to add that brevity. Ppl dont bite others on the head, its obc unrealistic and meant to be pulled as jokes to lighten the readers up. If that pulls you out of the story, fair enough, but just dont read or review-bomb this series

i think ppl also get thrown off bcos this series can get super emotional at times as well, with the parrot and the 1st boss both having some srs backstory. I think it just adds emotional weight to the story, and the inconsistent characters add brevity. When u see the story as these sections just that, insted of the author inserting weird romances and writing a srs work.

the story seems to be thought-out (at least so far), the plot is considering the long-term and beyond the teasing and the gags, the characters are well fleshed-out

trust me guys, if u go into this with the mindset of a fun shonen-anime comedy style in ur head, with a little bit more female characters than is usual, while also being quite emotional, ull find this series to be a masterpiece like I did. Come in expecting smth super serious will just leave you disappointed. <<less
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DailyLurker
DailyLurker rated it
July 30, 2024
Status: c185
Look, I don't usually write anything, hell I even made an account just to say this but I SWEAR TO GOD. THIS NOVEL WOULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER without Luna. The s*upid, unnecesary and cliche trope of 'accidentally finding MC in a suggestive position after opening the door' happens way too often. It happens way too frequently like what the fck. Luna's head biting isn't doing this novel any favors too because those situations only work for animated or drawn works, visualizing it in my mind while reading just doesn't... more>> fit in well.

PLUS + This novel overuses the misunderstanding trope too much, especially the pe*vert trope. Just imagine, the MC being labelled a pe*vert EVERY 1 or 2 chapters and accidents like that happening every time. Gets old, boring and annoying doesn't it? I'm still giving this novel a chance to get better though which seems unlikely since at the time of writing this, I'm at chapter 185. There's also 0 romantic tension between anyone in this novel as far as I've read, except for (?) the occasional teasing and headbiting... So yeah, romance fans or fluff fans can just drop this, it's not worth the pain.

I just ranted about how much I despised Luna Lmao but overall, quite the decent read, idk how but I'm still reading and there's something that makes you wanna learn more. The author did a good job with the characters (except for Luna), world-building, and etc. Would've been a way more amazing ride without the unfunny humor and Luna. <<less
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Grandork
Grandork rated it
January 16, 2024
Status: c50
As of writing this, I've read it up to chapter 50.

First and foremost, it's very obvious that the author is a massive weeb. Many troupes that you would see in a Japanese Novel are present in here, including the long ass novel title.

Also, most references are about Japanese Novels and Anime, like how Zero is basically Xellos from Slayers.

With that being said, it's actually quite a fun novel to read. If you enjoy Japanese Shounen and Korean Academy Novels, then you will feel right at home reading this one.
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Thecomicgeek
Thecomicgeek rated it
August 30, 2024
Status: c278
TURN OFF YOUR BRAIN (not required for die hard harem lovers but for the sake of inclusion you may turn off your one functioning brain cell)

Translation Quality: Great!

Its a gag book. Like KonoSuba, That psychic kid with pink hair who wears an antennae hair band.

... more>> You will see alot of comments their all generally true.

The humor is repetitive just like slapstick humor which is predominantly the joke theres also alot of implied pe*verted humor which it says its not which is also a kind of humor. Again its a novel written to be funny and not so serious and like all comedy it has err... Specific audiences. I agree with most of the opinions that Luna (Short for Lunatic... Duh!) is a tiring heroine I don't hate her and I dont love her either, but tbf she has her moments very few microscopic tidbits where I slightly sort of empathized with her maladjusted personality..., still better in written characterization than most harem "heroines" (translation: their just cardboard fleshlights) I dont find anything too special with the hero or characters or even the plot lines. But I did find myself laughing, getting annoyed, driven to tears from a dramatic arc/development or frustation, smiling at nothing, fantasizing about bashing a certain characters lower jaw with a maul and sealing it with gorilla glue... *Ahem* anyway negatives aside I would still read it for fun which I did have and I advise any future reader to not at all have any serious expectations.

Seriously this book only needs the GAG COMEDY label. <<less
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Night crawler
Night crawler rated it
September 27, 2024
Status: c292
If you like the genre this is pretty peak though there is a lot of slap stick comedy if you're like me and can easily picture the scenes being described it's really fun, as others have said this needs a manhwa adaptation I think that would really help with the people hating on poor Luna.
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Vi.virie013
Vi.virie013 rated it
July 14, 2024
Status: c66
Ok so... I know I'm not that far into the story yet, but... Luna.. she's making my blood boil and heart ache. Don't get me wrong she's written very good, it's just her antics that ticks me off... And I know the comedy inserts are well.. not that funny to me. But the other than that, the side characters backstory like the parrots and the guy (can't remember his name) are very immersive that it managed to make me tear up, but not enough to make me cry..

Well, in all... more>> of this.. it's pretty okay compared to the academy novels that I've read, and I don't really hate hate it. It's just.. Luna. she's the sole thing that irritates me. Not even Raymond irritates me like Luna does, and I every much like the side characters too. It's just... very focused to Luna and her interfering with his plans..

I'm bad at reviewing. And sorry if you don't get my point and I'm just kinda venting now... Still, this is a good read. <<less
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DarkRayne
DarkRayne rated it
May 10, 2024
Status: C155
Quite bad MC is contradictory sometimes he appears empathetic with others trying to save them sometimes cold hearted abandoning them to their fates also it's quite ridiculous that MC is not much strong yet is not using gold shop after more than 150 chapters. It's like plot armour is the only thing that is keeping him alive. Story had potential but it's too poorly written leaving huge disappointment.
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RodrigoBRZ
RodrigoBRZ rated it
September 19, 2024
Status: c83
Can't Luna just be gone, maybe I would give a 5 star review if she was not there, c83 and it only gets worse. Why do writers insist on makin such bad caracters relevant in a storie, like, EVERYTHING ELSE is good, she alone can make the troupe a bummer. I swear if this WN was writen with the main caracter doing things behind everyones backs in the shadows.... and alone, it would have been a magnum opus.

Now for real, if the worldbuilding and premise is this good. Why... more>> not just get rid of romance, I'm pissed and I have not gotten to the harem part yet, it means is going to be worse. <<less
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Luztuz
Luztuz rated it
May 20, 2024
Status: c210
so far it's alright, minus the amount of unfunny slapstick comedy that appeared throughout the chapters and a certain girl who is clingy to the protagonist, it is the novel you can read in your free time.
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Rs69
Rs69 rated it
January 12, 2024
Status: c50
Definitively a pretty good novel.

A bit like Death Flag, not so much like BTDG but I would rank it at the sale level. The closer light novel might be Terminally-Ill Genius Dark Knight.

Translation is top level, almost professional level. Furthermore, it is pretty uncommun getting 10+ chapters releases per week.

By the way, I am a suscriber to this translator

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What I am wondering is how Zero may successfully keep a low profile and do not turn out as a protagonist. Actually, he has no choice there, as he must defeat the hidden bosses in the shadow.

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IncognitioMode
IncognitioMode rated it
June 4, 2024
Status: c113
It is a great novel when it wants to be. I may just be a sucker for schemes and political intrigue, but I love that it isn't your usual "constant battle" slop. Sure, there is combat, but it isn't overplayed. The MC doesn't seem to be gunning to supplant the game protagonist either which is nice, rather just co-existing. But to circle back to my first sentence, it can get bad when the author decides its time for the "funny" "jokes." The largest issue is the comedy. It's terrible. Like... more>> very bad. The author is a rare Korean super weeb who had his sense of comedy poisoned by 2000s romcom anime slop. It is a pain to get through. One moment you have this fun game of the MC manipulating something to his advantage and then everyone promptly loses all but one of their brain cells for the slapstick "funny" time. It has severe tonal whiplash. <<less
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Razordor
Razordor rated it
May 29, 2024
Status: c166
The first hundred chapters are really enjoyable, especially the world building and character setup. At first the characters seem to be somewhat 3rd dimensional with interesting backstories, and some even relatable and quirky, but that's only in the beginning. As the story continues I started to notice the story takes a backseat and we get this really bad slice of life comedy that most of the reviews find distasteful.

Personally I would be fine with the slice of life parts if it weren't for this strange disconnect with the main character.... more>> Imagine being domestically ab*sed every single day and just be fine with it. Imagine being blackmailed by multiple people and being fine with it. It's just not funny nor relatable to me, especially given Zero's complete apathy with all of the ab*se being thrown at him. <<less
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