Chapter 3: Important Message

This message no longer seems relevant given how old this novel is, but I will say it nonetheless. A few years ago I fell into the slippery slope of Japanese fiction, I started with innocent anime like One Piece, Dragonball, and Naruto, but then I started to read manga, and eventually that lead into light novels. Of course that path would eventually lead to this website, where you and myself most likely have found our source of entertainment. In the beginning when I joined this community and would indulge myself in the vast repository that this website has, most of the novels followed a basic structure of power growth that typically started from a weak point and eventually becoming one of the strongest. This was changed however with new implementations in this website that fostered fan-fictions and with it came a genre that I believe essentially removed a year of my social life: wish fulfillment. I often see these new fan-fictions or even originals sometimes that literally have the main character given whatever they want. I presume these stories are largely self-inserts and based off of what the author themselves want. I would like to emphasize this before I continue: ---->I am not speaking from a place of authority and thus do not believe that reading these are bad for everyone<----, but in my experience ever since I have started reading these wish fulfillment stories I realize that, in a snowball effect, I have become essentially addicted to these writings. I would go hours on end looking for a new novel that would feed my need for an "overpowered character". Often I found myself ashamed to show people what I was reading on my phone, and this cemented the idea even further that I should not continue to be a part of this "community". I am sure there are some good parts of this website, many have good stories and character development, but right now this website is not built to incentive that, and thus these crappy yet addicting SI fan-fictions run rampant. I wrote this just in the off likely chance that someone sees this and they found themselves in a similar situation that there are other people just like you. After I am finished writing this I will delete everything from the library and maybe I'll read a book with genuine literary merit. Also, I understand people might hate this and feel free to vent in the comments. This message will be posted on all my other shitty novels that I wrote when I had a bad idea for a book.