Finally more people will notice this masterpiece ..

Huh interesting, can't believe I've never heard of this webnovel before. Usually I'm averse to isekai and reading novels that are only on the web/don't have a physical copy, but after briefly skimming reviews and threads and other stuff, this sounds like something I'd love (I'm a huge sucker for worldbuilding) so I'll give it a shot. Just hope this isn't another one of those isekai/transmigration stories where the MC is super OP...

Only thing it's attractive is bots LoL, but hey we agreed 100 percent LOTM is a peak fiction. Current arc in "circle of inevitablity" agains prove that fact. It's on same tier as first book volume 5.

@Xiao do you read Chinese web novels? I’m pretty sure everyone who reads cn web novels know it, and I’m also pretty sure you’ll absolutely love it lol it’s the best isekai imo. Dw he isn’t super op but since lotm is also a progression fantasy he’ll slowly get stronger as he climbs up the ladder lol

@fanaticrat Hmm not Chinese web novels so I guess that's why, but this seems promising based off of the first chapter alone. Will get to reading through this, thanks!

@Xiao no problem. Also here are warnings since you’re a first time reader

Do NOT go to the fandom wiki unless you’re finished with novel because there are spoilers plastered everywhere on there

Also don’t search up the characters too since uhh spoilers would be lit on the first page sighhhh


Also be patient if you find the start slow, it gets better

Good luck!!! Lol

They are, which is exactly why they are in the database. MAL does not have any WebNovel.



MAL uses a weighted system, so entries with less members do have their ratings decreased : https://myanimelist.net/info.php?go=topanime

Not in the West; they were published (in physical format) in their original country, which is why they are there.

MAL never has tracked works that are officially licensed somewhere in the West, but simply those released in their own countries (for Japan, Korea and China). If they did not, like half of the database would have to be removed, as they never were released, or even merely translated into another language.



I'm not a man of maths, so i can't say much, but oblitering the ratings of some entries just because they are not popular doesn't seems right. The graph also shows that a huge % of people who has read that one absolutely loved it, bringing the score up (on top of the bots used to downrate it being ignored). The formula already takes into account the number of votes, and it does already impact the result by a relatively good margin.

Trailer looks cool. Just hope that it's not another garbage about an op gary stu protagonist that people praise for no reason.

@Alexioos95 I mean, of course those Chinese stories that were recently added (they weren't here before) will get inflated ratings because only people who already read them and liked them would recognize those works to begin with. So only fans will vote, while everyone else will ignore those, almost all those votes are from people who knew of the story before it was added to MAL. So those votes aren't representative of an average MAL lurker, they are from people who at the same time are interested in manga and Chinese web novels. And webnovel readers tend to overrate their works way more than manga readers, which is easy to see from novelupdates where probably a tenth of all stories have an average rating above 4.5, which is 9/10 in MAL system. While on MAL there are only a few such works. So if we add all those stories here, then there would be no manga left in the "top-rated" section. As a rule of thumb, the more people rate on something niche, the more it averages out. I mean, if we take any yaoi story and will make straight guys read it and vote for it, you'll see how its rating gets lowered by a large margin instantly. A broader audience will always be less likely to vote highly because it's hard for a story to suit everyone's taste, this is why those top-rated stories are so special.

Then again, as of now it's not much of a problem, especially considering the fact that you can just search stories by type, so it's easy to only have manga OR light novels displayed in the search. It's too early to be too alarmed as right now there are only a few of those here, but I predict that in a few years it can make the site less convenient to search for an average user.

I have no idea how it's 9.06 with this


Example Re:Zero is 8.78 with this

Most ratings under 8 are made by bots, as you can see by looking at the Recently Updated By: All members part. Their ratings are not taken into account for the calculation, so the score displayed is way higher than what you can calculate manually with that graph.



A lot of 9 and 10 are made by bots there. It was one of the Manga/Novel entry most affected by the implementation of the bots detection algorithm.



If the account is flagged as a bot (or vote brigading), their rating stays in the graph, but gets removed from the calculation. (https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1824703) It's not managed by mods, but directly by an algorithm in the back-end/server.

Yeah, that's their database, after all.



Vote brigading. If you allow them, the database have absolutely no legitimacy. Something like Music Videos removed from the Top is a way more debatable subject than that.