Is This a Novel or Something?…Everyone and Their Dog is Regressing, It’s Fking Ridiculous

gottesurteil says:

Not sure how to rate this tbh. It’s WILDLY hilarious, but verges on the absurdity. Also, expect copious amounts of Korean pop culture and LOL and StarCraft references. Seriously, if you aren’t aware of that stuff (or a really prolific reader of korean novels), might be better to give it a pass. There’s a TON of references, from chapter titles, to random lines.

Oh, btw, as a public service, let me give you a better summary: Basically it turns out that everyone who has an awakened talent (which is honestly pretty common, but for cultural/safety/monetary reason, many don’t want to be hunters, they just work normal jobs), has the ability to ‘regress’… except the key thing is is that NO ONE realizes it. They think they just have moments of foresight, which is in fact just degradations of their future memory. And they are super short, and not death dependent at all.

The MC, though it apparently doesn’t count as a Talent, for some reason has the ability to see when someone gets a dose of regressions. He can tell when they ‘get a flash of insight’ and chooses to do something else, and also can tell when they’re totally shocked and something out of the blue disrupts their insight. (Like when trying to avoid getting rained on, they get hit by a car, is the example given).
So his ‘ability’ is near useless. It still requires him to play a guessing game of sorts – well, what did they try to do (right punch), got some insight, saw it would fail, so then they’ll try to do a left punch. Basically it only notifies him when someone is going to do something. It’s super vague and useless.
The only thing the MC has going for him is that he was trained by an old coot next door, who he rather quickly finds out used to be the most badass of the badasses… so he himself is pretty damn strong now.

So yes, I don’t really know how to rate this: it’s super funny (provided you’re well read/informed enough), but the background is kind of a mess, the narrator is unreliable, and so on. I do suggest giving it a shot for 15 chapters or so. Not that many, and you should be able to tell whether you like it or not.