Oct 5, 2025
This series suffers from almost every pitfall of the munchkin regression genre. The protagonist is absurdly overpowered from the start, never faces real challenges, and undergoes no development. That in itself doesn't always make a story bad - there are series which can pull off a munchkin MC with a good supporting cast, or a good mystery, or at the very least a detailed power fantasy. This has none of that. I really struggle to see how it even got into top 30 popular on Webtoon.
Characters. Every character simply revolves around the MC - either worshipping or hating him - with no meaningful dynamics or
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rivals. That's it. He's just an edgy Gary Stu.
The plot is equally hollow. It follows the usual 'MC dies and returns to the past' formula but strings together random, disconnected arcs under the excuse of an antagonist’s 'master plan.' Nothing ties the events together beyond surface-level conflict, all the victims are unrelated to each other beyond being a potential enemy or ally of the antagonist, making the story feel like a sequence of filler episodes. This is my biggest problem with new-age regression stories like Trash Count.
Power scaling is nonsensical. The MC uses low-tier spells to overpower basically anything at the age of 12, simply because he learned/earned it all in his past life. We don't get to see any of that. We don't need to question it. And the author certainly doesn't want to bother showing or even telling us how he clawed his way up from being a bullied kid in high school to being a master assassin in his past life. The most we know is that he found a sentient sword and a god likes him.
The worldbuilding is equally shallow... race conflicts, meddling gods, mysterious organizations and sentient weapons/books all exist without logic or purpose aside from being typical fantasy plot devices. The author seems to think that bad storytelling equals a good mystery.
Overall, it doesn't even really do a good job at being a power fantasy. At most, it's just a collection of cool-looking scenes stitched together into the skeleton of a story. It's basically carried by the art alone.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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