I Grow Stronger By Eating! ending thoughts

Mondenkind3 years ago4

I don't understand what the author actually wanted to achieve with this work.

In my opinion, the author didn't really know what kind of story he wanted to tell, or it was really just that simple "no real goal, just keep going to the OR by eating storyline". After all, the main character had no sympathy points at all, which is why you couldn't truly connect with him, except for the cringe-worthy translator notes.

At the end, there are too many questions left unanswered and the cliffhanger is rarely dumb: "How does the red (baby) dragon get into the real world to rage there."

I think they could have changed the story a bit, so that in the end, Lionhands (The Paladin) wins the fight and absorbs him. Then flashbacks that tell his backstory again, that he had been harmless with his ability until just his family got killed and his child kidnapped. That basically this made him insane and would have made him shed all his humanity and go into his super-predator insanity.

So, that flashbacks make Lionhands (The Paladin) understand his madness more and more, and for the first time she accomplishes something he didn't even try to do, namely to repel the absorbed, and that's precisely what she does with his brain, which appears in her hand, and then she says, "Farewell, Mast... no Father." This, of course, assumes that it was not his son who would have survived for experimentation, but his daughter or Lionhands (The Paladin) was created from the son's experimentation. The author would not have had to explain it further at all, the sentence would have already given the readers enough room for speculation whether this was only meant symbolically or not.

Afterward, the story could have been wonderfully spun on:

How Lionhands (The Paladin) must learn to resist the urge and hunger, which of course is complicated by new dangers and aftermaths (triggered by the past story we know) and the more she absorbs to face a danger more strongly, the closer she gets to madness and instinct.
That she would use the ability of repulsion (to resurrect the people he absorbed) to do so to atone for the sacrifices of her master/father and thus his sins. Which would then also have opened up a new and interesting topic. Are you really you, once absorbed and months or years later (ejected) back into life? Did your soul leave you? Did it really return? Did you even have a soul?
To oppose the machinations of Kim and King Edward (the Fifth) by starting or supporting a rebellion.
Pursuing the question of how things, from the world of Kim, ended up in the fantasy world. Finding out if: Is it a simulation? Have cracks in space and time been discovered? Is this a causality loop that is still being triggered? To what extent does the real Earth had a hand in this?
What about further attempts to integrate Pet-Shop into the world? (more antagonists/dangers).
The stronger it gets, the more feared and respected. Hold human fear that overlooks it, no matter how much good you do in the end. So is the good deed only for your own salvation?!

I could go on and on, it's a pity that the author didn't think in more directions. Such a character change from anti-hero (villain), suddenly against a heroine (repent, save and understand), could have really given the work a lot of fresh air and also given Kim and his nature more meaning.

But I guess I'm just not made for Korean power fantasies. At the end of the day, it's mostly the same, even the Japanese are thinking much further when they tell OP characters/stories.

On a side note, I have a question: He wished the goddess/AI to reset him to the time when the demon queen was defeated. Thereupon, there were flashbacks about his following battles in the past. However, where did that shadow with all the eyes come from? I somehow didn't understand what exactly he consumed for it, and especially when and how.

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