Past Life Returner (Remake 2022)

Ok, I read it and I found the problem, the story is paced too strangely, the economy and the exclusive dungeon does not mash well and the transition was too sharp, additionally the stakes are simply not represented well enough. Hear me out, the economy in this story was actually done really well, for a person with the intentions of regressing it would only be logical to remember key events big enough that they would return enough money but also not be affected by his investments the problem comes with how fast the story turns from investing to fighting and there was no real kick off to it. In most stories “solo leveling” for instance has a introduction to foreshadow an arc think about how an ant was spotted right before the juju island arc and how it killed fairly high ranking heros meaning that it was a high class mission, in this story the dog dungeon kinda was just broken into and although the mountains had to be bought it never felt like a big event that gets people hype, the hype came from the fact that he was finally going to fight but not the actions that leads up to it. The second problem comes with pacing, as much as I love the investing it was just too long for a manga that was advertised to be fighting centric and although it undoubtably can lead to up some great stuff it runs into the same problem that LOTM does in the early chapters which is that it dosen’t immediately blow the reader away which is a big problem when A) there are other manga’s like this one and B) the author is as known as “cuttlefish” not only that but LOTM is a extremely unique novel even by today’s standards, the fleshed out power system, the pages from an all powerful ancient existence and the setting/characters being unbelievably convincing keeps readers there not only that but it dosen’t fall into the seemingly misleading advertising that regressor does (also LOTM is a 9/10 and I think that it is so good that making time for it AKA finding time specifically to read it is justified). Lastly the stakes were simply not as well depicted though imagery as the originals that was discarded and thats due to the antistyle that this one went with being much more cartoony then the other one. I honestly think that this decision isn’t terrible as it allows for more emotive behavior to push character progression but that just goes back to the first problem of the first chapters not enticing the target audience fast enough. All and all with a reread I now think its a great read 7/10 but would also wait for more chapters as I think the true quality of this can only be seen after shyt hits the fan for the MC.