Millennium Witch千年魔女

Any news on the updates? Been more than 2 months without it

Don't read it, it's really good but there is no update since 2 month, it's useless to read a good story only to be frustrated afterwards

It's better to wait and see if it's only a hiatus or if it's a dropped novel.

Why did this stop updating these days?

Dropped after Book 1. It's readable, but I found it simply dull.
First of all, magic has no mystery, it's boring in both essence and action. As in many modern novels, magic functions as science. Here, spells are runewords - runewords are programs. Who is a top tier mage? Not even a good programmer, but someone who has a memory card with good rune spells stored and a lot of mana.
Battle is a classical "throwing elemental spells at monsters" with some minor tactics involved. Could be flashy in an anime I guess. There are also entire chapters describing her new spells, or stating she optimised existing ones. That's not necessarily a bad thing, on paper at least, idk if it's worth it for this novel, there aren't enough clarity in battle anyway, and battles aren't that good, it's not LoM, after all.
Character development is the only thing I can't say anything bad about, though, it's not the focus and there aren't that many characters so far.

The story so far seems not character- or action-focused but "mystery-focused" to me. You're (probably) supposed to care about how the apocalypse happened and other questions like that. There is intrigue in some cases, but I didn't find world-building interesting, and it's interconnected with boring magic system, which partially ruins it. Maybe it gets better, or the focus will shift, but I don't have the desire to continue reading.

Oh my God after a month of waiting finally an update

Genuinely one of the better novels I've read in a while. Which admittedly doesn't say much but on an enjoyability factor, I'd rate this like a 8-9/10 till ch 270 which is the latest ch as I'm writing this.

I see many people having qualms with the gender bender tag but you don't have to worry about it, it is only mentioned in like the first 5 chapters and then never again. It has quite literally 0 plot relevance, just assume that the mc is a woman from the start if it really bothers you that much.

I do like the world building and exploration. The side plots aren't boring, the newly added characters mostly get decent screentime and get explored an ok amount with like the exception of 2 towards the later chapters but it seems like they will have some relevance again in the future so I won't comment on it much.

The power system is simple, but in a good way. How magic works etc isn't explained much but it doesn't take away from the story, on the contrary adds to it.

There is a decent bit of mystery in the novel as well. Something that I've been trying to find ever since I read LOTM years ago and this is the first novel that has managed to scratch that itch.

Overall, I'd say that I have been enjoying this novel quite a bit, it's just a bummer that it seems to be a bit unknown and has no comments in the chapters.