Demon Lord 2099, Volume 1 – Cyberpunk City Shinjuku Review

[Ian Wolf]

Although at times predictable, the mixture of science fantasy and reverse isekai elements make for an engrossing setting and central lead character: a magical evil overlord in a futuristic megacity.

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[Ian Wolf]

A quick question - does anyone else think that this review of Demon Lord 2099 from the website Game News 24 is suspiciously similar to my review?

Demon Lord 2099, Volume 1 Cyberpunk City Shinjuku Review - Game News 24

This award-winning light novel has a unique composition: science fiction, in particular cyberpunk, that can be referenced as a subtext of this volume, and

game-news24.com

 

[Gemsy-chan]

It's like they've copied and pasted parts of your review with theirs and changed some words.

That's the feeling I got when I read both.

 

[WMD]

I haven't read all of it but what I looked at wasn't even subtle. Classic year 9 paraphrasing of homework.

They haven't even mixed up paragraphs or structure at all.

 

[Rui]

Definitely copied and either run through an auto-translator back and forth or manually rephrased into a less intelligible version of your review by someone who isn't very good at writing. A lot of their articles appear to be that way!

R

 

[Sarah]

@Ian Wolf: Well! They seem to have been taking all our manga reviews since 2021 and ever-so slightly altering them (interestingly the apostrophes and speech marks have disappeared). They were extremely quick off the mark with yours today, too - how did you come across it?

S

 

[Ian Wolf]

@Ian Wolf: Well! They seem to have been taking all our manga reviews since 2021 and ever-so slightly altering them (interestingly the apostrophes and speech marks have disappeared). They were extremely quick off the mark with yours today, too - how did you come across it?

S

@Sarah I was looking to see if there were any other reviews of Demon Lord 2099 apart from mine, and this was the only other one I came across on Google.

 

[Gemsy-chan]

I think with the next manga review we need to catch them out by putting something in it.

 

[Ian Wolf]

I think with the next manga we need to catch them out by putting something in it.

@Gemsy-chan Ah, a mountweazel! I was thinking along those same lines.

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Shame you didn't catch this before April Fools Day. You could have made up a LN with an even more ludicrous title than the real ones and written a fake review or news story about it.