Manhwa is a general term used for South Korean style comics which you will often find released in Webtoon. Unlike most Manga style from Japan, Manhwas are usually colorful and Webtoon also provides background music while you read the chapters.
1. Dice(ongoing)Hyunseok Yun
If you could
change your life by playing a game ... Would you? And if yes,
How far would you go?
I love games
and the idea of fantasy world that has game-like elements to be precise,
virtual reality.
* spoiler
free*
We have our
protagonist Dongtae, feeling like his life is a mess and wishes what if he
could change it. He is granted the power
of a dice and a chance to become a DICER. Of course not everything is greener
on the other side, it has its cons. If I have to compare it would be kind of
like the movie Truth or Dare? Gamified life but also shows the ugly truth of
human who go beyond human reasoning for the sake of selfish desires.
Great
character development and you might even root for the blooming relationship
Dongtae has for his beau Mio who is a DICER too. It has mystery, suspense, drama
and great fighting scenes and NGL I'm a sucker for such things, so if you are
into that definitely give it a try. Over all good read and it has been updated a
lot since I first started so one can binge for longer period, unlike me who had
to wait 😭
It was my
first Webtoon so I have deep sentiments for it;
How I
discovered webtoons? I discovered them by chance when I was tired of reading Manga
and wanted 'colored manga?' My only regret is that I am very restless and
cannot wait for the story to complete hence I usually wait for them so that I
can binge till the end and not have endless nightmares because of unanswered
questions and cliffhangers ughh
2. Tower of God(ongoing)SIU
Twenty-fifth
Baam or simply Baam is our main protagonist, he is not over powered or been
blessed with many magical stuffs like many other shounen stories tend to be, it
has a slow start, if you want badass character right off the start sorry this
manhwa ain't for you. But if you have patience and ample of free time (because
you will need to binge many chapters at one go to understand instead of waiting
for single chapter once a week T_T) then you will sure love it 🥰
Baam (or
night in Korean) feels like a child of my own as I see him grow into the person
he is now from the time I started to read this Manhwa (P.S. 2015-2016). I
usually like to read the introduction for any manga/manhwa/manhua that I read,
so below I'll be giving basic introduction and if you the type to skip intro
and just jump straight into the storyline you may skip this part.
The story follows our main character Baam who was born in darkness and at the bottom of the vast and mysterious Tower. His only ray of light being a girl named Rachel, they grew up together and has been his light and happiness. But Rachel didn't want to be in the dark her whole life; she wanted to climb to the top of the Tower. Baam was devastated to see Rachel go, so he decided to follow her, in hope to reunite with his childhood best friend even if it means dying.
Pretty intense, eh? 👀 Idk bout y’all but "For the sake of Friendship" theme always pulls me towards such story-line 💞
It has been
adapted to anime if anyone is interested to watch ⌚ 👀 (Season 1)
Now this
series of webtoon has been ongoing like a long long night (Baam), get it??
3. Athena Complex (completed), Kaisar
A bit of change of air for now and it is a COMPLETED series... oooohh I love the word "completed" 💕
I love love love greek mythologies 😍 (any Percy Jackson fans?) And this is based on Greek Mythology between Poseidon and Athena, now this series gives us an alternative universe where they both are school kids in modern Earth world, *ahem* ... also Athena is a looker and gives a bishounen, meaning a young man of androgynous beauty (although she a girl technically)
It's a
love-hate relationship; between Modern Athena and Poseidon on Earth World 😚😬
I have a soft spot for love-hate relationships 🤭
It's a shorter series compared to the ones I mentioned before, I love the artwork and storytelling 😍 Overall it's a fun, good read, get yourself coffee, tea or whatever comforts you and get on the journey of a blissful read.
4. Yumi's Cells(ongoing),
Donggeon Lee
Time for some
slice of life, now I'm not a slice of life person :3 I like fantasy, things
that are different from the ordinary, because I'm bored of mundane world and
love to read or watch things that make me escape into a different realm, this
shit gets me higher than drugs (don't do drugs!!!) But I have to say Yumi's Cells have broken
through the wall I placed and now lives in my head rent free. And the funny
thing is it's a story about a girl name Yumi and her cells, yessss the cells in
her body got lines and characters of their own.
It has much shorter pages in a chapter compared to most mangas and good for a binge read. If you are familiar with the Disney movie- Inside Out (GOD I love that movie), you will probably have an idea about the type of manhwa it is. It’s fun, humorous, sad, and tear jerking at some places, I read this when I had a bad break up so maybe that's why it was tear jerking for ... anywayyyyy TMI, Do read it if you are more of shoujo, and Rom-com, slice of life person 🤗
5. Siren's
Lament(ongoing),
Instantmiso
Even if I
love action, fights and dramas and suspense there are times when I need to
please a tiny part of me which is cheesy AF 🤭
A cheesy love
story between a girl and a Siren 💖
Introduction:
Content with her ordinary life, Lyra is somewhat of a wallflower. However, her
comfortable lifestyle suddenly goes astray when she accidentally plunges into
the world of sirens. Entangled in a curse, Lyra will learn that her world may
be a lot bigger than she had ever imagined
My favorite
thing about webtoon other than its beautiful art and storytelling- it is the
music. Did you know you could read a chapter and have a BGM that fits the mood
for that chapter??? I did not and so it was a pleasant surprise, the music
pulls you in and your brain produces "feeling good chemicals". How
cool is that?!
*Another Notable Mention by same Author- Where Tangents Meet (completed)
Introduction:
As Landon and Rachelle venture into falling in love with one another, they hit
ruptures in the road. The more they learn about each other, the more they
discover about themselves in the midst of encountering jealousy, scandals,
accidents, and misunderstandings. Despite the losses and hurt, they face
together, they reconcile and create an unbreakable bond that guides them not
only into a stronger relationship, but also to self-acceptance.
6. Noblesse(completed),
Jeho Son/Kwangsu Lee
It's a long
series which I LOOOVVEEEEEE, and it's COMPLETED, GOOD LOOKING CHARACTERS, OVER
POWERED MC, ugh... also plenty of surprises and a thrill as you unlock more
idea about the story line, cool action scenes, now I'm gonna say it's a vampire
story, but forget about your typical blood sucking, can't go out at daylight
shit, throw your knowledge about cliché vampire stereotypes into the dustbin
and then go for an enjoyable read 🤗
It has anime
adaptations too, both Korean and Japanese, if you are interested 👀
7. God of High
school (ongoing),
Yongje Park
Now now the
anime adaptation has been getting lots of hype for it as it should be, typical
Shonen manhwa, lots of action, "for sake of friendship", "power
of friendship", being the best fighter ❤ 💪 Butttt we love Shonen
because of that don't we? The setting is similar to the movie DOA (Dead or
Alive) where multiple martial artists/fighters/ability users are invited to the
Tournament and winners will be given prizes. But what is the prize that people
are willing to risk their live for?
I remember
people would joke about how we will achieve victory in life once Jin Mori (God
of High School MC) wins GOH, when Baam will reach and conquer the top of The
Tower... the pain of webtoon readerssss 🤣🤣🤣 Anyways
jokes apart, the webtoon is thrilling and funny and has good story, gives you
lots of insight and comedic scenes that you wouldn't find in animation (no
shades intended) 🤗
8. True Beauty(ongoing), Yaongyi
This might be relatable to teens and girls who experience low self-esteem because of the beauty standards around the world. Feeling like you are not enough because you don't really fit into the standards. Now we have heard it couple of times that True Beauty is what is on the inside and not the outside, but it's not easy isn't it?
True Beauty follows the story of a girl named Jugyeong Lim who uses her talent in makeup to transform her life by improving her looks. And she also meets two friends with a past Suho Lee and Seojun Han. A beautiful chemistry between both the male leads of the story gives you anxiety about who she will end up with 🤔 Maybe I'll have to wait for you drama to air to know that. There are many female readers of this webtoon and we can see why, the Cinderella theme story seems to be the dream of many young girls and hopelessly romantic people
😌
The webtoon is funny AF, I can't even count the number of times I binge read it at 3 AM in morning and had to control my laugh to not wake up my landlady downstairs 😆
9. Lookism (ongoing), Taejun Park
Now think of beauty standards but from a male point of view, life is already hard as man in a patriarchal society but now they have to maintain beauty standards too. Lookism talks and shows us through their art and story about the ugly truth of world blinded by the idea of "looks". Our MC is another "unknown guy" who by the some mysterious ways become a super good looking guy with all the right features matching the beauty standard. Again beauty is on inside not outside theme.
But love the different takes it take outside if the main character story, we see ugly sides of society mainly the country Republic of South Korea, it has lots of controversies in the country and we can see why 😌
10. The Gamer
(ongoing)
Sangyoung Seong/ Sang-A
Nuf with
series related to ongoing world problems, Lemme head back to my favourite
fantasy world and nothing beats THE GAMER for me, this easily takes the no. 1
spot for me based on my choice and preference. A modern fantasy world with
gamified elements, where the higher level you are the more stronger you
are also even
more deeper into the abyss. Like Nietzsche said " If you gaze into the
abyss, the abyss gazes back". There is no shortcut to life and if there is
obvious it involves risk, so how to avoid risks? Being OVERPOWERED ofcourse
which is like a broken bug in a game but instead with life 😌
Life of Han
Jihan was pretty normal until one day he wakes up with the ability of a gamer
like a game character would ability to improve stats by training and leveling
up, and using mana for handling magic, like any typical rpg video game, as a
gamer myself this story setting is obviously a dream come true, the story
follows his adventures and also meeting other "abilitu users" and
learning more about the abyss and what he wishes to do from now on since he
acquired this cheat of life 😌🤝🏻
Special Mention-For the Sake of Sita (completed), Haga
*HUGE
MODERATE SPOILER ALERTS*
Words cannot
express how much I love this manhwa but numbers can. A 10/10. One can always
learn new things and sometimes through unconventional methods like reading a
webtoon. The story is about a girl named Sita and it gives us a beautiful story
line of the practice that Nepal does "Kumari-Living Goddess". The
life of a once Kumari is not as easy as walking on flower petals like it used
to be when they were training to be Kumari. It's a bitter sweet story and
romance between a Nepali girl and a Korean tourist who fell in love with Sita
and did things FOR THE SAKE OF SITA.
It did get
controversial because Indians mistook the meaning and condemned the author for
the blasphemy of Goddess Sita, but I would like to clarify that it's not
defaming Goddess Sita of the Hindu Religion, but a girl named Sita who was a
Kumari and considered a living Goddess according to the beliefs.
I love the story line, I discovered it when I was fed up of ongoing webtoons and had to wait for new chapters, and I found this gem 💎 ❤ It's a must read for all. 😍🥰
Hope you enjoyed the list. Happy Reading!
By Lirybon Terangpi
P.S. We do not own the pictures. Courtesy to the artists.
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