Synopsis
A world filled with heroes with superpowers. A world attacked by calamity fiends. A modern world filled with wonders and dangers.
Shi Xiaobai, a child from normal Earth, walked into such a world, proclaiming to be its king. But at the first signs of danger, he is forced to make a choice, one which he cannot refuse for time would repeat, making him face the choice again.
He is not humble nor is he modest, but neither is he delusional. Yet, the Absolute Choice seems to make fun of him. Will the joke be on him or will he laugh at his opponents? There will be many watching his escapades, and there will be some joining him in his adventures.
To see through the world and to grasp its truth, that is the destiny of the King
Series Information
Author: Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring (梨落秋溪)Title: Absolute Choice,绝对选项
Type: Xuanhuan
Genre: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Martial Arts Mystery Xuanhuan
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0, 871 votes
Year: 2016
Status: 558 Chapters (Ongoing)
Publisher: Qidian
Translator(s): CKTalon @Wuxiaworld
EPUB: Wuxialand
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Series Reviews
Please not that reviews might contain spoilers.Review by Zariox. Rated 4/5.
The MC is a bit annoying until you notice he's just a little chuunibyou. I mean, Absolute Choice is just like Noucome with all the humor and comedy, but also gore and 'kind-of' mature content. Yes, Shi Xiaobai may be a little smug and eccentric, but from the first chapter we read things like: "He was the strongest in his universe/He was a king above everyone else" etc, and yet he suddenly appears in the body of a 13yo kid who thinks he's overpowered?As I said, if you get annoyed by the "This King"-sh*t, just treat it like you're reading a kid boasting, this novel is worth a read, try to read at least to chapter 5, chapters are short so don't worry.
Review by Endius
Originally, I'd have given Absolute Choice a 4/5 rating, or even 5/5. The beginning was fairly weak, yes, more similar to a fanfiction or a parody than anything else. However, I believe the author, Pear Lands in the Autumn Spring, suddenly decided to take the story more seriously and spiced things up. We were introduced to some pretty interesting plots and characters, and the battle scenes weren't half bad. Of course, there were some parts where the quality dropped, but the story still managed to keep itself interesting.Personally, my favorite parts were Shi Xiaobai getting hold of Kali's corruption (loved her character), and the scenes with Dawn Li (even though her appearance is pretty much Saber from the Nasuverse). However, the author... managed to majestically fail later on. Not only did he throw filler chapters at out way time after time again (at least a 100 of those), he clearly started to drag on the story, with all of that random filler paragraphs, and the characters reacting to the random filler chapter, saying how they were random filler paragraphs (in other words, the author is clearly aware that what he's doing is unprofessional, yet he persists on doing it. Go figure).
There are also various immersion-breaks and over-explanation. Like the author suddenly mentioning, in the middle of an important, deep scene, how 'the author is a really awesome guy, so, of course, Villain A won't touch MC's girlfriend B). That's the definition of an anti-climax. It COMPLETELY breaks the flow. It's silly, dumb and ridiculous. And it happened countless times over the past few chapters.
Anyhow, with all of that flaws summed up together, I've lowered my rating from a mighty 5/5 to 1/0. If I could, I'd give it a negative one. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. It turns into a huge disappointment later on. Unless the author gets his game together, it's not worth reading.
Review by Empress. Rated 4/5.
The absolute choice system made this story into something more intriguing and refreshing to read. MC is somewhat naive, dense, and very arrogant, but somewhat amusing. Too bad there are some characters from another fiction pop up here and there, but not the characters themselves, rather they are. you can call them... fake or second-rate imposter which somewhat ruined the story.If you're fine with that shortcoming, then this is a great story to enjoy.
Review by ZhaWarudo. Rated 4/5
As the author or translator says you need to bear with it in the beginning, it may seem stupid, lame, cliche, w/e but later it all makes sense. The story gets really good after ~50 chaps and it follows a chunnibyou MC (there is a reason why he is such, explained in a tragic flashback so don't think he's just an idiotic shallow character). The first few characters are plagiarized for parody, not really funny though and the author realized that perhaps so he switched to originals. There seems to be a developing harem but actually there won't be, just funny situations where the MC gets caught seemingly doing something with a girl, but he isn't ofc and he barely knows what s*x is (no he isn't a wimpy bloke of wood, he is a bloke who doesn't care for s*x), and he won't know for a long time and only then with 1 girl perhaps, so harem haters worry not. Yea I know my sentences are mish mash but as long as I say the important things and fast, I'm not writing an essay for a grade here. Anyway, it's about funny shonen adventures in a sort of a One Punch Man world where the MC gets ridiculous quests he must fulfill.Review by Ray-critique.Rated 2/5
While reading "absolute choice" I enjoyed the humor and the writing style is good, good translation, good description of battle scenes and lots of tension from reasonable situations, even good character development and personality. The problem is the further the author progressed it's as if he didn't know how to end the arc, and when it finally ended the chapters of description explaining how everything came to a close should've been understood when the arc was finished. Frankly for me and my general opinion when an author takes multiple chapters to explain how an arc ended is a failure as the reader shouldn't have to be told through filler the author should be able to inform you throughout the arc not when it is finished and readers are still wondering what the purpose and point of the story is 500+ chapters into a book.Furthermore, after chapter 100 the humor is good but it's too much to my liking it's like the author wanted to make a comedy. Humor is good but not when it's forced. Another problem I had is the MC is impossible to take serious at any moment throughout the story. Frankly, I feel the author should go to writing comedies but doubt as the jokes became increasingly dull and I felt I was reading what a high school kid would say as a naughty joke to his friend.
Review by Nyururin. Rated 3/5.
This has to be one of the worst novels I have ever read. In fact, this might be the first time I felt so negativity towards a novel and I have been reading for at least 5 years.Stolen characters, arcs that are over 100 chapters, the whole plot needlessly dragged out, later chapters are 90% fillers which serve absolutely no purpose even if you skip 20 chapters you still wouldn't miss anything and so much freaking unnecessary details which repeated at least 3 times in the same chapter
It has become a real chore to read this garbage. The authors writing skills absolutely suck so many unnecessary dialogues so many fillers
The beginning of the story was ok I would have given it 4 stars but now it has become absolute garbage I would even give it 0 stars if I could I wholeheartedly regret reading this novel and wasting so much of my time on it.
Review by Rasha14. Rated 5/5/
If you are looking for something of a light reading material with humor included then you should give this a try. As of late, this is not a harem kind of novel although the plot twists with the female protagonists is a fun read. I think most readers who do not prefer childish protagonists should avoid this. Anyway, this would really depend on your own preference. Personally, I am enjoying this novel. Thumbs up to the translators too with its fast release and quality translation.Table of Contents
- Absolute Choice Book 1: Chapter 01-100
- Absolute Choice Book 2: Chapter 101-200
- Absolute Choice Book 3: Chapter 201-300
- Absolute Choice Book 4: Chapter 301-400
- Absolute Choice Book 5: Chapter 401-500
- Absolute Choice Book 6: Chapter 501-556 Incomplete
