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1696 was over 300 years ago

It depends.

I certainly like the MC of "One Punch Man". Or OP-Man for short. The story would not work if the MC wasn't OP. That's the deal. Being OP is actually his biggest weakness as he is unable to get any satisfaction whatsoever from fighting. It sounds stupid but it actually works great.

So yes I like OP characters, if that somehow makes the story work. I do not like if it makes the story boring.

You mean like western style fantasy, where viewpoints switch around a lot like Game of Thrones?

I don't think there is any. A lot of novels have groups around the main character, but it's always the one main character with his special lineage / magic item / system / spirit animal and sometimes all of these things concentrated on one person.

Also it's difficult to write viewpoints in a webnovel which is released chapter by chapter... you can't just leave MC behind for a hundred chapters just to build up some other character. You would lose your readers. Webnovels definitely cater towards the more linear stories with simple plotlines.

That is the concept of these novels, you're supposed to see yourself as this character, using cheats to rise above everyone else, everyone hungry for this one fantasy because reality is so bleak you just can't succeed whatever you do.

Closest I can think of is a Japanese novel that was also turned into anime, called Overlord. It has an entire game-guild transfer over into a fantasy world. It does switch viewpoints sometimes. However, at the core of it, it's still one player who is king.

Why does everyone write "sigH" instead of "sigN"?

I remember a novel repeating this typo like a hundred times. This is a sigh from the heavens!