Spotlight#64: Self Q and A!

Hello all, Donniedarko 15 with a rather interesting entry. Since it's been a while I thought it would be cool to share with you some of my webtoon thoughts.

Artist

If we are going with overall favorite artwork for an official webtoon then I'll bite and say that it's Yongjie Park. If anyone has seen the God of Highschool anime I'm just going to say that the manwha is just as if not more beautiful. It can be over the top but sleek at the same time. It really does give a sleek modern look to famous mythology figures or fight scenes. And when the gifts get symbolic, believe when I say you're going to be making freaking wallpapers all day. My favorite genre is mostly action, since I'm a junkie for it and think it can lead to the most pulse pounding stories. The different uses of action over the years will never fail to get my hyped. On the flipside I do think that romance is my least favorite if only because very few stories I've found have been about healthy yet interesting relationships but I've found a lot of good ones webtoon wise(Always Human, Down to Earth).

Reading List

My webtoon reading list is stupidly long and redundant at times so I'm going to be pretty brief with only a couple of them. Tower of God, My Giant Nerd Boyfriend, The Four of them, Dustinteractive, Room of swords, Safely Endangered. Waffles and Pancakes, Murrz, Elecced, MyDeepest Secret, Acception, live with yourself, Adventures of God, Odd girls out, Boyfriend of the Dead, Small world, Let's play. Bluechair, yumi cells, Age Matters, Elf, and Warrior. Unordinary, Mage and Demon Queen, My Dictator Boyfriend, Hardcore Leveling warrior, God of highschool, Urban Animal Lookism, Blood ink, Lore Olympus, Solo Leveling.

I plan to read The Boxer, Scorching Romance and True Beauty.

Favorite Characters

My favorite characters in webtoon are Gray Yeon (Weak Hero),Mori Hui (God of Highschool), Frankie (Noblesse), Dog Man (HIVE) and Hardcore Leveling Warrior, Zack (Lookism). Besides Mori Hui I and Zack I like all of these characters because they are scummy in a sense. Almost all of them are brutally efficient to their enemies and given them no mercy. But to counteract this most of them are probably the sweetest thing to their allies. The balance of light and darkness between these characters are just endlessly fascinating to me and I wouldn't change a damn thing.

Overrated/Underrated Webtoons

To be a special little snowflake I'll put in 2 different overrated webtoons: Noblesse and Solo Leveling. I don't hate both these webtoons but I do have major problems with them that 'll describe here. When it comes to Noblesse in general I noticed very clearly that it suffers from a pretty ridiculous formula. Villain shows up to target some weak innocent people related to Rai, minor character gets cool scene to be badass while still being relatively useless, Rai or Frankie usually show up and wreck the shit of the incredibly bland villain of the week and wash and repeat. As much as I do like Noblesse' focus on different characters I don't like how a lot of them don't get many real wins till the end, which really makes most of the characters achievements and development feel skin deep. I also think the fillians were all incredibly disappointing given how the Union's presence is apparently so big. If the heroes had more losses and more wins for minor characters with a better focus on the Union we could get somewhere.

Solo Leveling is a weird one since I do get the entire point is to have an op protagonist who doesn't struggle. That being said, a part of me kind of wishes that he did have more struggles, implying that Sung would start enjoying the life and death fights more while showing more intelligence in his fights. It would also be I also think the side characters can have a little bit more impact to feed into how powerful Sung really is. Keep in mind that these aren't hard rules since I think the ant king was where my rules would definitely not have worked out at all.

On the flipside an underrated Webtoon is Soul Cartel. It honestly has one of more interesting worlds in manhwa as the Underworld grants an amazing set of unique locations. The characters are somewhat bland but the fights are overall incredibly entertaining and art is fantastic. The prespance on human evolution and improvement of one's self also isn't remotely a bad thing either. I really wish it gets more love and attention from the masses soon since I do think people

First/Favorite Webtoon

The first serious webtoon I ever read was When the Tangents Meet. Effectively it was a cute romance story between the cynical Landon and the airheaded Rachel. Honestly for one of my first romances I thought it was cool. Unlike other bad boys Landon at least acknowledges his own shitty behavior and seeks to move past it. The supporting cast is also pretty amazing as they do also give many interesting dynamics to the 2. Landon and Rachel have some cute reactions. I do like how they are an overall comfortable couple to be around. It isn't the best webtoon but it definitely was a good one.

My favorite webtoon is GOH. It probably has the best action of anything I've ever seen. Beautiful characters and interesting world. Awesome art and so much more. I've talked about it before so I'll just leave it at that.

My biggest disappointment in a webtoon is Girls' of the Wild. The series overall is pretty enjoyable but I will admit that the fights don't feel very interesting given how most of them are heavily regulated. Another bad thing to note was the romance. I know that the series was going to be somewhat romance related. I still kind of find the drama to be very scripted even for this genre's standards. The fact that I'm supposed to feel bad for DalDal, a woman who from day one asked this random dude to effectively marry her and kiss her is ridiculous by my standards and I wish it was acknowledged more. I think romance works best when we understand all sides and I don't think this series did it well.

Tough Characters

John from Unordinary for me is a tough character that has gone through a lot. People often paint him as nothing more than a psycho. Imagine living in a world where you're constantly bullied and put down by something you couldn't control, and then gaining a power that literally makes his opponents get hit with what they've done to him. And the minute you follow through with trying to abuse the same system that abused him he was punished for it, becoming the thing he hated and resetting. No matter what you have to say about him you have to admit that most men would fall into this despair. Unlike most characters he is a man who's experienced the weak and strong sides of this society and it's tearing him apart. Rivals and scenes will be for later since I've already got a lot of reviews and scenes that kind of go over this so there's that.

Epilogue

Overall all I've got to say is thank you for all the support I've gotten through these months. 2020's been really hard but it's nice to know that almost everything I've put out has been supported. I can't wait to see where this road leads. I don't think I could ever be a curator but I'll still try my best to support this amino however I can if you ask. Other than that this is my Q and A. I hoped you enjoyed it.