Naruto: The Time Looper

This novel is worth a read.

Theres plenty of things I like and don't like about the novel, so let's start with the good parts first.

Rating might be slightly biased cause i can't completely hate a time loop novel, it being one of my favorite genres, and it's pretty well portrayed, with a somewhat unique leveling system.

Another thing that I enjoyed, is the mc actually being able to use his brain to his advantage, making use of this professional bs spouting skills that comes with the protagonist package. Although, this is both a good and a bad thing which i'll cover soon.

The novel is full of mind games, especially at the beginning, so if you like those, you'll enjoy the novel. With those mind games, comes a lot of thinking, and overthinking things. 

The power system is pretty straight forward, ranks go from D (genin lvl strength) to S (kage lvl strength) there could be more to it, but we haven't found out about it yet. System doesn't interact, only exists as a progress tracker and creates missions with rewards that increase depending on the difficulty.

Now on to things I don't like about this novel.

First off, grammatical errors are my kryptonite, if you can tolerate those, this novel will be significantly better for you. Just a warning though, the writing in this novel is bad at worst, mediocre at best. Being completely honest, i wanted to drop this novel at times, but it gets better after chapter 20 or so.

This is especially prominent during early chapters, but a high percentage of the chapters are filled with the mcs thoughts, and his plans, which can be annoying at times.

Now onto the characters. Characters are. annoyingly one dimensional, and are dumbed down for the sake of the mc being the most intelligent, even though mc is out there 'glazing' the nara clan, when even they are dumbed down for the sake of the mc.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we have the mc. Mc is annoying to read about, especially when he starts 'acting.' Kazuo, our mc has no friends, and for a reason. Even when he's acting with high charisma stats, he still manages to make people uncomfortable how fake he is. Every interaction with another character feels somewhat forced, with the mc being cringey and edgy as 'a result of the looping'. The mc is difficult to like, or even route for with how insufferable he is at moments, not what I would want from a protagonist. There are moments, however, that I enjoy reading about the protagonist.

reaching 2.5k characters so I guess i'll add a tldr, too lazy to write more.

TLDR; this novel is pretty decent, would reccomend, but only if you have a certain tolerance for poison.