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Misunderstood/Hidden Personality (comedic)
Misunderstood/Hidden Personality (comedic)
Novels where the main character hides their real personality, and/or their real personality is misunderstood somehow! Comedic undertone, rife with other misunderstandings too. (The scope of this list is a little broad.) No particular order!
Please drop recs in comments if you have any :)
Please drop recs in comments if you have any :)
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Created: Feb 2nd, 2025, Updated: Jun 20th, 2025
Created Feb 2nd, 2025
Updated Jun 20th, 2025
339 Chapters Every 1.1 Day(s) 3298 Readers 21 Reviews 08-05-2025
MC is an alien who transmigrated into an F-rank hunter, but people think he’s a genius, powerful hunter hiding his power! His face is also expressionless, making people think he’s always unfazed (when really he’s freaking out). ... more>>
481 Chapters Every 0.6 Day(s) 9258 Readers 69 Reviews 08-05-2025
MC gets transported to the world of a fictional horror wiki. The only problem is that he’s a coward and has to hide his fear!... more>>
280 Chapters Every 7.6 Day(s) 2539 Readers 23 Reviews 08-03-2025
MC gets transported into a game as his edgelord OC, and eventually gets stuck continuing his edgy roleplay. The way it all unfolds is super funny!... more>>
824 Chapters Every 6.5 Day(s) 4611 Readers 35 Reviews 07-21-2025
MC is super lucky(?) and somehow everything falls into place and makes him look super powerful, even like an omniscient mastermind. Through no fault of his own, of course -- he just wants a peaceful life!... more>>
65 Chapters Every 13.8 Day(s) 2192 Readers 12 Reviews 04-01-2025
MC becomes a haunted portrait and his identity/personality ends up getting misunderstood by the people who discover him. A bit vague, but for this novel I think new readers should experience the mystery of MC’s identity and the funny ways others perceive him!... more>>
124 Chapters Every 93.9 Day(s) 6215 Readers 98 Reviews 06-10-2024
Villianess novel, but the protagonist is actually a self-centered prick. Tricks other people into thinking they’re actually a good-hearted saint. The contrast between their true feelings and how other people see them is hilarious!... more>>
456 Chapters Every 53.8 Day(s) 11014 Readers 123 Reviews 06-14-2023
MC is a bookworm and gets isekai’d into a magical world as a simple bookstore owner. The catch? Everyone else sees his regular books as magical, evil spellbooks! ... more>>
145 Chapters Every 1.4 Day(s) 2683 Readers 11 Reviews 08-01-2025
MC, a soldier, realizes that he’s in a game and he fights for the losing side. He tries to get dishonorably discharged, but everything he does just gets him promoted! Everyone believes that he’s a bloodthirsty, tactical genius, when he’s just trying to live a peaceful life.... more>>
484 Chapters Every 5.5 Day(s) 6652 Readers 109 Reviews 06-02-2025
MC gets supernatural cheats that make him an amazing actor. He’s actually a pretty normal guy, but to the public he acts cold and emotionless.... more>>
139 Chapters Every 1.3 Day(s) 794 Readers 5 Reviews 08-04-2025
Same author as I Was Mistaken as a Monstrous Genius Actor. Similar concept where he maintains a calm, cool facade, with an idol setting instead.... more>>
632 Chapters Every 24.7 Day(s) 4034 Readers 32 Reviews 12-19-2024
Executed princess goes back in time and tries to prevent the revolution that killed her. She acts to help the struggling people, but really she’s doing anything to save herself. Even her blatantly selfish acts are seen as genius or saint-like!... more>>
50 Chapters Every 6.7 Day(s) 305 Readers 1 Reviews 06-23-2025
Not many translated chapters out yet.... more>>
162 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 1689 Readers 52 Reviews 08-06-2025
MC gets a system that lets him make money when he suffers losses in his company. Unfortunately, he's super lucky and all of his "bad" ideas turn out to be major successes! Everyone thinks he's an amazing boss and is a mastermind when it comes to business, when really he's just thinking of the best way to lose money.... more>>
163 Chapters Every 126 Day(s) 18934 Readers 127 Reviews 09-20-2022
MC gets transmigrated into a game and becomes an evil overlord character, and everything he does gets interpreted as a hint to his mastermind plan to take over the world! Would recommend seeing the anime too, it’s iconic.... more>>
66 Chapters Every 56.7 Day(s) 3861 Readers 14 Reviews 10-31-2023
MC is misunderstood by everyone, even himself! He thinks he's just roleplaying fighting against a cult he made up, but he doesn't know the cult is real and he inadvertently makes a powerful secret underground society... It's crazy, just read/watch it.... more>>
272 Chapters Every 23.9 Day(s) 17728 Readers 173 Reviews 08-05-2025
MC has a shitty life and is isekai’d, claiming that he’s going to be selfish and evil in his new life. But really, everything “evil”... more>>
229 Chapters Every 1.7 Day(s) 1907 Readers 12 Reviews 08-06-2025
MC gets transmigrated into a game villain; he has to keep up his villainous personality in order to not get caught! ... more>>
86 Chapters Every 7.7 Day(s) 2623 Readers 14 Reviews 07-25-2025
MC thinks she got transmigrated as a villainess, meanwhile everyone else thinks she’s a demon that possessed the young lady! She’s a silly otome isekai protagonist, but her weird actions make her seem like she ominously looks down on humans as an otherworldly being.... more>>
184 Chapters Every 6.7 Day(s) 576 Readers 6 Reviews 06-11-2025
MC remembers his past life and tries to get fired from his job as an academy professor, but everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) he tries makes him look like thoughtful, kind, and powerful! Had me laughing out loud.... more>>
215 Chapters Every 4.1 Day(s) 1171 Readers 18 Reviews 07-26-2025
MC posseses a tr*shy, weak villain, and gets the ability to be invincible for 1 second. Due to his perceived “strength,” everyone thinks he’s a cunning mastermind who was hiding his power the whole time!... more>>
102 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 932 Readers 13 Reviews 08-05-2025
The MC, Li Li, is a regular girl who can go back and forth between the real world and the comic world! In the comic world, she has multiple identities in order to gain popularity and survive. She ends up creating a whole elaborate narrative for her characters and readers fall in love! ... more>>
112 Chapters Every 254.1 Day(s) 8997 Readers 90 Reviews 07-01-2024
MC is a Sun Knight who has to live up to expectations set by the generations before him. The Sun Knight is benevolent, graceful, and kind; but our MC is the complete opposite of these things!... more>>
324 Chapters Every 4.5 Day(s) 1750 Readers 18 Reviews 06-18-2025
MC gets dropped into an acting novel and has a system that rewards her for becoming unpopular. But everything she does to flop makes her more famous, and everyone misunderstands her as a genius breaking the norm, a kind upholder of justice in the industry!... more>>
Comments (10)
Hahaha love this trope so bad
Definitely novel/anime The Eminence in Shadow has to be in this list
This anime is the best anime I found this year (but I wish I found it more later cause rn it only has season 2, the movie and season 3 is this year and next year respectively) 
@Devil Heart Can't believe I forgot these two! They're hilarious
both animes are well worth the wait, they just get even better as they go on 
@nokiaberry i read the #1 yesterday and omg i cannot sleep, the horror feels like it can seeped through my phone, idk if that's due to very good translation (which no doubt is VERY GOOD) or the novel itself really intention to be that way
The blue font text "Good child" it is just SOOO nerve-wracking and the RED text i couldn't say anything
Honorable mention:
The Art of Gold Digging (English, found on Royal Road)