For the chuunibyou guy inside us all: male MC
For the chuunibyou guy inside us all: male MC
1 to 28: Novels I read completely (if not ongoing), sorted in order of personal preference.
29 to ?: Novels I plan on reading in the future, not sorted.
Male centric (male protagonist) novels in both modern and ancient settings, no BL unless it's a little bromance (meaning, author may have added a dash of bromance for fan service, but no actual shounen ai or yaoi included in this list). Shounen, seinen, xuanhuan, no-CP (no romance) or novels featuring a little straight romance but mostly focused on action/adventure (ie, romantic subplot). A few of these have romantic relationships detailed in extras only, such as Chronicles of Primordial Wars and Everyone Else is a Returnee. Thus, if you dislike romance or harem you can simply skip the epliogue/extras portion altogether.
Majority of these had fan translations completed at some point, so you can find them on various novel aggregator websites if the chapter links are gone from NU. Otherwise it's not bad to MTL them for yourself.
29 to ?: Novels I plan on reading in the future, not sorted.
Male centric (male protagonist) novels in both modern and ancient settings, no BL unless it's a little bromance (meaning, author may have added a dash of bromance for fan service, but no actual shounen ai or yaoi included in this list). Shounen, seinen, xuanhuan, no-CP (no romance) or novels featuring a little straight romance but mostly focused on action/adventure (ie, romantic subplot). A few of these have romantic relationships detailed in extras only, such as Chronicles of Primordial Wars and Everyone Else is a Returnee. Thus, if you dislike romance or harem you can simply skip the epliogue/extras portion altogether.
Majority of these had fan translations completed at some point, so you can find them on various novel aggregator websites if the chapter links are gone from NU. Otherwise it's not bad to MTL them for yourself.
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Created: Feb 19th, 2024, Updated: Jan 18th, 2025
Created Feb 19th, 2024
Updated Jan 18th, 2025
113 Chapters Every 563.1 Day(s) 17610 Readers 380 Reviews 02-06-2019
I feel like this should be listed as tragedy genre, because the MC's life is rife with suffering and watching everyone around him die. The... more>>
520 Chapters Every 95.2 Day(s) 23211 Readers 194 Reviews 11-24-2021
My favorite gaming novel! Really thankful for the fan translators working so diligently to bring us this work in English. Romantic subplot, the female love... more>>
43 Chapters Every 264.5 Day(s) 1705 Readers 66 Reviews 02-29-2020
Probably one of my favorite xuanhuan novels. Because the MC is so hard working, loves his family no matter how much he has to struggle... more>>
78 Chapters Every 266.1 Day(s) 6603 Readers 148 Reviews 01-19-2018
A genius composer dies during the apocalypse after decades of suffering. He reincarnates into a bullied, suicidal musician 500 years later and finds that his... more>>
86 Chapters Every 97.3 Day(s) 25287 Readers 467 Reviews 08-01-2025
Completed Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Mature Mystery Psychological Sci-fi Seinen Supernatural Tragedy
I actually love this because of the BL fan fiction/fan art based on some of the main characters lmao. Other than that, it is a... more>>
42 Chapters Every 299.5 Day(s) 5459 Readers 104 Reviews 11-04-2017
I love this author!!! This is a kind of gluttony-based xuanhuan (eating beast flesh = genetic evolution), but that's not the entire scope of the... more>>
1149 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 41825 Readers 613 Reviews 08-12-2025
The fan translators will work for a while and then quit, leaving us poor readers to stick around for years waiting for updates... This is... more>>
697 Chapters Every 1.7 Day(s) 787 Readers 3 Reviews 08-09-2025
Not sure why it's rated so low, but this is a really good novel, makes the reader very emotional. I read via MTL on my... more>>
51 Chapters Every 0.6 Day(s) 288 Readers 3 Reviews 08-12-2025
Romantic subplot. More realistic in terms of historical detail, and bigotry that the MC and other minority characters have to face in a time when... more>>
12 Chapters Every 186 Day(s) 138 Readers 1 Reviews 07-31-2023
I read with MTL. Really hilarious gaming novel! No-CP. The webtoon adaptation is also not bad. Not sure why someone rated it low, it's really... more>>
41 Chapters Every 27 Day(s) 1609 Readers 9 Reviews 07-05-2024
Has a webtoon adaptation now, which Asura Scans has posted over 160 chapters so far. I tried to MTL this but it's quite difficult due... more>>
98 Chapters Every 9 Day(s) 3769 Readers 7 Reviews 05-08-2025
I was reading this a while ago and forgot which chapter I was on. The webtoon is really nice too! Romantic sub plot.
106 Chapters Every 477 Day(s) 4022 Readers 60 Reviews 09-07-2017
About a sick protagonist who needs to earn money to get a cure, so he enters a dangerous virtual reality game where death in the game equals death in reality. Compared to similar stories, it's much easier to empathize with the MC, who has significant struggles and is not overwhelmingly OP from the start. This one I read on vipnovel. For a long time I thought this was actually shounen ai, but it's just a gender bender (╥﹏╥). I was angry because I love BL so much and I have this kind of fujoshi filter when reading, but it was obviously not listed with danmei genre categories on NU so it was my fault for... more>>
315 Chapters Every 149.9 Day(s) 11733 Readers 165 Reviews 08-16-2019
The author doesn't really understand scientific principles in basic physics or chemistry (just because you have 2 moons does not mean that the entire scope... more>>
28 Chapters Every 198.3 Day(s) 8954 Readers 119 Reviews 07-14-2024
All chapters of the fully translated novel are on Ranobes website. One of the few good fantasy shounen type novels where the MC is both... more>>
40 Chapters Every 314.1 Day(s) 7839 Readers 200 Reviews 12-14-2018
When I finally got around to reading the entire thing, I realized it's actually a romantic subplot novel (late in the book) with a Gary... more>>
20 Chapters Every 317.1 Day(s) 15100 Readers 137 Reviews 02-09-2021
When I had read 300+ chapters it was still a no-CP fantasy story about revenge. Later it had something like romantic subplot (MC almost completely... more>>
11 Chapters Every 69.6 Day(s) 445 Readers 1 Reviews 12-17-2023
I read it with MTL. This one has a reincarnated protagonist who uses his past life knowledge (previous life in ancient times as a swordsman)... more>>
50 Chapters Every 220.7 Day(s) 13746 Readers 148 Reviews 04-18-2018
If the author of Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God (Lucky Old Cat) could get some tutoring lessons from this author (Mad Snail), he would... more>>
20 Chapters Every 90.3 Day(s) 2779 Readers 14 Reviews 01-18-2022
A story about getting revenge on those who betrayed and stole everything from the MC. Full of face slapping a lot of hypocritical and selfish... more>>
147 Chapters Every 212.5 Day(s) 19637 Readers 254 Reviews 02-17-2019
The novel is also called, I Alone Level Up. Korean law is strict on removing fan translations but there are plenty of places you can still read the fan translation if you search online. There are those who won't read it because of the romantic subplot, and those who say it's not really worth reading, but it made this kind of leveling Korean subgenre super popular on a global scale. Not to mention, if you like the webtoon or anime, the novel version is much better because it has a lot of details you'd miss otherwise (I generally prefer novel versions to other adaptations).... more>>
39 Chapters Every 155.9 Day(s) 3099 Readers 55 Reviews 03-29-2019
This one I read on vipnovel, which I guess is moving to a site called newnovel. This is a kind of fusion cultivation/system/gaming novel which... more>>
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Oh, I didn't read that far... I hadn't doubled back to finish the story because it wasn't completed in COO when I started it a while ago
I'll fix my blurb on it!