Codex of Dimensions

If you are looking for a crossover anime infinite-flow novel that is generous in quantity, Xibei Mao's Codex of Dimensions is almost impossible to avoid. It is a rare ten-million-character work in Qidian's game-otherworld category; more than four years of serialization made it the author's longest book and essentially a concentrated survey of the genre: Sword Art Online, Detective Conan, Fate, and many other familiar worlds are rewritten one by one, and readers will always run into characters and scenes they recognize. The author's prose does not aim for weight; its strength lies in brisk pacing and dense quips, the switching frequency between instances is handled fairly steadily, and the protagonist is always stronger than his opponents without being entirely without suspense, making for effortless reading. More unusually, the protagonist Fang Zheng is not a pure tool; he has his own private grumblings and reflections about the forced stupidity of plot in the instances, which gives the book a bit of the author's attitude. Of course, given the truly astonishing length and the many niche games involved, readers unfamiliar with anime memes will hit obvious moments of not being able to follow; at the same time, the author's handling of some original protagonists is quite controversial. Best read as electronic pickles you can keep by your side long-term and pick up or put down at any time.