나노마신

NANO MACHINE

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STATUS
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DESCRIPTION

Nanotechnology meets martial arts at the Mashin Academy. Yeo-Un’s mother may not be one of the High Priest’s six official wives, but his father’s blood still qualifies him for a chance at the position of Minor Priest. Will a mysterious nanomachine injection from a future descendent help Yeo-un in this fierce competition against his powerful half-siblings?

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CAST

Yeo-Woon Cheon
Gyu Mun
Maeng Seop
Mu-Hwa Yeon
Sang-Hwa Ho
Ran-Yeong Mun
Baek-Gi
Yeo-Gun Wang
Ga-Gyeong Jang
Yeon Hwa
Geukdosin
Mu-Geum Cheon
Yu-Jong Cheon
Won-Ryeo Cheon
Jong-Seom Cheon
Baek
Soyu Hang
Mu-Yeon Cheon
Gyeong-Un Cheon

CHAPTERS

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REVIEWS

xMarcel1243
95/100
A martial arts and cultivation revenge story, with a bit of comedy
Nano Machine is one of the many cultivation mangas I have read since the beginning of my career as a manga fan. Because I have read many high quality and also a few not so good cultivation mangas, I think I can differentiate them between good and bad mangas. So I can proudly say that Nano Machine is one of the top , cultivation mangas that I ever came across. Now I'm going to talk a bit about the main aspects of the manga, and why you should also try and get into it.

Description

Nano Machine is a martial arts and cultivation manga that plays in ancient times. The manga begins with the main character running away from a bunch of assassins, who were hired to kill him. This is because he is the 6th Prince of the demon cult and is a danger to the five other successors of the demon cult. After being stabbed in the stomach, a mysterious man saves him and injects him with the 7th Generation Nano Machine. Because the Nano Machine is connected to his nerve system, the main character can talk to it. With the advanced techniques of the Nano Machine and his willpower, he enters the demon academy and so the battle of the successors. After entering he swears to become the lord of the demon cult and take revenge for his dead mother.

The main plot itself, with him wanting to take revenge and entering a cultivation academy, isn't really something new, if you have read a few cultivation mangas before, it's the Nano Machine, and the dialogues he has with it, that make this manga special. Of course, the drawing style and story might be better than other such mangas. However, without the Nano Machine, it would only be another one of so many cultivation mangas.

The drawing style isn't really something special, yeah it's not bad but also not excpectionally good, but it fits the manga well with all the different facial expressions: sad, angry, surprised and sometimes embarrassed too.

A bit about MC Yeo-Woon Cheon

As the manga proceeds on we can see the amazing transformation of the MC from a little boy, to a man with outstanding strength and great intelligence. He has a strong-minded personality and is kind to his friends/subordinates. However, when someone is against him or tries to harm him or his friends he becomes a ruthless killing machine.

Thoughts

Personally, I find this manga really enjoyable and think it's one of the best I've ever read. A masterpiece if you want.

Also, in most mangas, the MC gets Isekaied/Reincarnated before they get a cheat, but in this story, a future descendent injects the cheat into the MC, which I find very interesting. Because I really like cultivation mangas.

I gave this a ten in my personal manga list. However, this is a review and not everybody has the same taste as me so I will give it a 9.5
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Cookiefudge
50/100
None of the genre’s thrills: weak characterization, power bloat, and boring plot twists
Reading murim and cultivation manga has become a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, and I've since read many amazing works, as well as an equal—if not greater—amount of subpar or simply bad ones. The quality of the Murim/Cultivation genres tends to fluctuate wildly in every aspect, from the art to the story and beyond. Sometimes, I keep reading a manga even if it's of poor quality because there's something mildly interesting about it—some sort of quirk or hook. Some have unique and interesting artwork; others have engaging storylines or fascinating characters. However, I'm sad to say that Nano Machine has been extremely uninteresting to me and lacks any of the aforementioned qualities, despite being one of the highest-rated and most popular series in the genre.

The Heavenly Demon Cult plot is a classic by now. Plenty of other manga use the same plot point but add a twist to make it unique. For example, works like Heavenly Demon Reborn, Myst, Might, Mayhem(Same Author as this), or even manga where it is not the main focus such as - SSS-Class Revival Hunter - have more interesting takes on the Heavenly Demon Cult and the Heavenly Demon concept.

I'm not too fond of adding nanomachine technology to murim/cultivation manga in general, unless it has other redeeming qualities or is simply played for comedy. More broadly, I’d prefer if cultivation manga avoided “cheat systems” entirely—especially those given only to the main character—because it undercuts any sense of satisfaction when the protagonist accomplishes something (it all just goes back to the cheat system). Even among cheat systems, however, I found nanomachines particularly silly. I explored a little bit, and the protagonist receiving the system is explained in another work by the same author, but I don’t think it works well in Nano Machine as a standalone.

Its worst aspect is not that it’s “very bad” because that can be entertaining in its own way; rather, it’s simply extremely boring and repetitive. It’s hard to connect with any of the characters. Most of them are bland, uninteresting, and one-dimensional. The protagonist lacks any real depth, and if you remove his nano system, there’s very little to justify why he’d even be an interesting side character. I don’t mind gore, but the frequent arm-cutting became comical. The main character bounces between murdering innocent people and being compassionate without any introspection about his actions. The way he powers up—through “dual cultivation” with Yeo-Gun Wang—also feels cheap and lazy, creating a story scenario where the protagonist basically has to sexually assault a character to save their life leaves a really poor taste in my mouth.

At least in Myst, Might, Mayhem, we learn that the protagonist is basically a psychopath who feels alive when he commits horrible acts, which builds character and tells us something about him. I don’t particularly like a main character like that—it's a bit too over the top for me—but at least it has substance. Myst, Might, Mayhem also features distinctive art and a power system involving spirits, both relevant to the world it creates. Even though Nano Machine is meant to be a sequel to that, it fails on many fronts compared to its predecessor. The art is probably its strongest point, but even that isn’t appealing enough to keep it interesting.

Even as a power-fantasy it falls short. The power scaling later becomes so bad that no battles feel relevant anymore: Cheon is so powerful that even multiple peak-level fighters can’t challenge him. There are plenty of ways to handle an overpowered main character without destroying all sense of tension, but Nano Machine doesn’t pull it off. The story would have been better if it had ended after he got his revenge and became the Heavenly Demon; that would've wrapped things up nicely atleast. Instead, we’re left with bland characters and a godlike protagonist doing whatever he wants in a boring story.

Having completely lost interest; I decided to drop the manga around chapter 220+. I hope others can find enjoyment where I could not.
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