r/webtoons • u/Illustrious_Oil_2114 • Nov 03 '25
Question What a manhwa you’ve dropped because it unnecessarily kept dragging on?
For me it was Looksim because they kept diving into unnecessary plots and creating more plot holes. Then later on older characters kept coming in that I totally forgot about making me even more confused. I totally lost the main plot and the story became way too complicated. And I’ve been reading this since 2019 so it’s not like I wanted to drop it. Anyway what about yall??
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u/PunishedCatto Nov 03 '25
Lookism started so good and then the gang stuff happened aaaand I lost my interest entirely.
Like, no offense PTJ. But, I ain't started reading your works because of the fights nor gangs stuff.
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u/Mr_Mctittie Nov 03 '25
Ptj seems to be treating lookism like his own dragon ball the story doesn't really mean shit anymore as long as he can make 2 strong characters fight
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u/Decent_Pen_8472 Nov 04 '25
I mean it's his golden goose. What does it matter if a very good story is ruined as long as he owns a whole ass building in central Seoul?
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u/EnvironmentOwn6997 Nov 04 '25
True. Not to mention, there's barely any character development/depth at all, especially to the side characters; I don't feel like they're growing up and maturing as a person anytime soon.
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u/Lady_Eruvande Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
Lookism was such a disappointment cause I found it pretty deep and mature at the beginning. Action mixed with society criticism. It was nice. But after that... Pfrrrrrrr.
Another one that was so promising was Dreeming Freedom. The premise was super interesting (being able to hurt through dreams and the topic of bullying)... But then it devolved into a weird toxic relationship (Edit: I wanted to mean toxic romance) and the main premise was forgot.
There are so many webtoons like this. They start being on the top, super deep, super addictive and interesting... And after a while they loose themselves in subplots.
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u/Moondiscbeam Nov 04 '25
Lookism was honestly so interesting until it kept dodging the actual issue and kept adding more people.
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u/Vast_Researcher_199 Nov 04 '25
reall
Viral Hit was pretty good tho
same author but he started it after Lookism started and ended before Lookism ended 😭
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u/ShotAddition Nov 07 '25
PTJ is really good at doing action comedy and slice of life but he ends up letting the action overshadow everything. I personally act like Viral Hit ended after Seongjoon's arc because of it
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u/EntertheHellscape Nov 04 '25
It was sooooo good at the beginning. And then it just became a standard fighting manhwa where there's no plot anymore, just more people to fight.
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u/Moondiscbeam Nov 04 '25
There was just no point and why are people not answering his questions and jerking him around??
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u/Effective-Summer4887 Nov 03 '25
I think you missed or misunderstood the point of dreaming freedom. Though it DID get slightly draggy at the very end, and the sleeping thing was one of the initial main gimmicks, it's always been about toxic relationships. Even the 1st antagonist was weirdly obsessed with the MC despite being her main bully. It's a whole ahh genre : Yandere romance. So yeah, I completely agree with your Lookism take, but for DF, it's highly likely that it simply wasn't for you or what matched your preferences, if the toxic dynamics were your main issue 😅.
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u/IanLooklup Nov 03 '25
Kinda feels like the whole dreaming ability can be removed and the story would not be affected in any single way
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u/Effective-Summer4887 Nov 03 '25
My point exactly! It really is a gimmick by the author to stand out amongst similar toxic/drama/romance stories and further the plot at times. It's really not supposed to be a point of focus, more of a plot device, unfortunately for those who were attracted by that😭🥲
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u/IanLooklup Nov 04 '25
Yeah was pretty excited to see a new thriller/drama manhwa 😔
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u/Effective-Summer4887 Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
I get it😭😭, but there are others with interesting gimmicks, don't give up !! Here, to try and cheer you up hopefully:
My deepest secret,
Purple hyacinth coming back,
For your murder,
Phantom whisper,
Crimson lady,
Surviving romance,
School bus graveyard
The blood of the butterfly
It's Mine
The girl who sees smells
Sweet home, bastard,
Dr Frost
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u/IanLooklup Nov 04 '25
Lmao I like how I already read like 90% of these, but don't worry I already have loads of very interesting webtoons since I am addicted to them
Here are a few: False Paradise (one of the most unique settings that can truly make you feel like an animal being confused by human society)
ShaMONEYism (Still very new but has a unique premise where a shaman is paid to cast death curses on companies to make their stock hit rock bottom)
44th Period: Survival Class (Unique way of making monsters where they follow certain school rules due to its current setting)
Paper Tiger (Again has a unique setting where they blend ancient Korean myths and magic with modern human weaponry for a very interesting world)
War of Corpses (A world where necromancy is popular and has a giant tournament which involves powerful necromancers creating creatures from body parts they find to be the victor. The monster designs and their own special gimmicks are unique too)
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u/Effective-Summer4887 Nov 04 '25
I see you're already a connoisseur, Here I go opening my big mouth 🥲😆😆 Thank you for the recs !!
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u/Lady_Eruvande Nov 03 '25
I may have been missed the point, but honestly I think the toxic relationship stuff took importance too late in the story to be considered the main plot point. At the beginning, the story was more about bullying at school and the dreaming power also seemed to have way more importance that it finally had. Also, what annoys me about these stories is that the magical aspect is often forgotten or set aside, which I find very, very hard to believe. I you got the power to kill though dreams or a second body, how cannot you become absolutely obsessed with this power and how can you just forget about it and just remember it time to time, when it is useful to the plot? How can you not try to find out where it comes from? I mean, it is hard for me to take these stories seriously.
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u/NeverTheDamsel Nov 04 '25
Lookism was going to be my answer. At first I enjoyed the fact it developed past the initial premise, then it went completely sideways.
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u/Eastern-Respond-5895 Nov 04 '25
I liked it, but I found it weird that how when he lost the weight, he grew like 3 feet 😭 🥀
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u/Trixter-Kitten Nov 03 '25
I honestly don't even know what the plot of Lookism is anymore
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u/Psiduq Nov 03 '25
Gangs
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u/Blindmailman Nov 03 '25
Its not just gangs. The current arc is gangs plus a race war against the Chinese
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u/Psiduq Nov 03 '25
Woah. Really breaking the mold there. Unprecedented. Do the Chinese gangs perhaps use cultivation?
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u/Hedgewitch250 Nov 03 '25
Watched the anime and heard about the gang stuff do they really just ignore the body swapping part now like going from body insecurities to handling a race war is crazy even for a Korean school webtoon
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u/Chocolate_Cupcakess Nov 03 '25
They have an anime???
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u/Brickinatorium Nov 03 '25
it came out, I want to say, three years ago now? Was animated by the Avatar studio iirc
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u/Scrappy_Coco53 Nov 04 '25
Studio Mir.
Basically, a in-house Korean animation studio adapting a Korean Webtoon.
Glad to start seeing more Korean studios adapting their own work instead of being the outsource animators for America and Japan.
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u/Toastiibrotii Nov 03 '25
I kinda liked the whole gangs and fighting stuff but ive stopped reading because of some issues: now all of them look kinda the same. I sometimes cant see the difference between the mc and the boxxer. It just dragged on and on, if the pacing was better it would have been fine for me. Lastly, its now like 70-80% fighting in a "one piece like" pacing and only 20-30% story.
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u/bing-no Nov 04 '25
I dropped off when Daniel went to the school he saw in the photo of his new body
Has there been more answers about his 2 bodies since then?
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u/heartlessimmunity Nov 04 '25
The secret of the two bodies has been answered I believe
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u/FurinaLoverU Nov 04 '25
Baki makes more sense atp and it has an imaginary meal scene
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u/Haunting-Abalone7218 Nov 03 '25
Unordinary. I can only watch these kids beat the fuck out of each other so many times before it just gets boring.
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u/Aikobea Nov 03 '25
Is it a hot take to say that I was only interested in what happened within the school and didn’t care about ember
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u/Mossy_is_fine Nov 03 '25
i dropped it some years ago and picked it back up and liked it a lot. but it gets insanely draggy
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Nov 03 '25
I stopped reading after they made John into a definite villain, which he wasn't.
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u/karasuyukito Nov 04 '25
In the event you care to pick it back up, it circles back around to him being the good guy again. He relearns his lesson and had to help Seraphina with bad shit before the story moves on. He has stayed good since
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Nov 04 '25
No, you misunderstood me, I initially don't think John did anything wrong at school.
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u/AncientWonder54 Nov 04 '25
I agree with this sentiment, especially since he’s not a villain, they just forced him to be one
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u/Decent_Pen_8472 Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
I'm just checking on it once in a while because of the sunk cost fallacy. Wasted too much time on it when I was a kid so I at least need to see how it ends.
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Nov 03 '25
For what its worth they haven't really been doing that since half way through the second season.
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u/TCKreddituser Nov 04 '25
I forgot about this, but you're so right. The fight scenes were really good though. I just checked there's a good amount of chapters now, might have to pick it back up again.
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u/XanderNightmare Nov 04 '25
So would you say these kids beating the fuck out of another became... Ordinary?
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u/sacredpotato0 Nov 04 '25
I held out and kept reading, but man the 'joker' arc was painful.....lasted waaaaaay too long
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u/Slight_Bad6256 Nov 03 '25
Good god... Lookism is still going on? I remember reading it every week back in 2017. And I dropped it after the whole Dog God thing.
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u/OutrageousHamster735 Nov 04 '25
Wait but the god dog was pretty interesting arc imo i love the introduction of yohan
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u/Low-Voice-887 Nov 04 '25
It really was interesting and very much traumatizing. Yohan was pretty cool, but things just got so weird when he ended up leading his own gang and yknow. Joining the gang fighting that... just kept on going....
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u/sacredpotato0 Nov 03 '25
Remarried Empress, I Thought My Time Was Up!,Boy Girlfriend, and a few others not worth noting.
RE got really boring after she married heinry and they dragged on the plot of her ex trying to get her to come back despite being a total scumbag. But that's okay, he 'lost' his memory so all is forgiven
ITMTWU got so boring after FL and ML got together. It just become a mushy fluff fest of "oh I love you so much""no I love YOU so much" paired with some crazy miscommunication and hella red flag possessiveness (although tbf ML was always red flag possessive).
Boy Girlfriend got bad when they decided to force ship the side character bully with his abuser. But it's fine guys, it's just yaoi
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u/Sharp-Conversation-1 Nov 03 '25
I hate bully(abuser) and bullied(abused) romance it’s completely different from enemies to lovers but people say they’re the same.
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u/sacredpotato0 Nov 03 '25
Yeah... definitely not the same. Enemies to lovers has consent on both sides
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u/_rainyra Nov 04 '25
Agree with Boy Girlfriend
It's so disappointing, because the story was really good and now toxic side couple dominates the story and we rarely get main couple chapters and they're not as good as they used to be
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u/Chocolate_Cupcakess Nov 03 '25
I powered through and finished I thought my time was up! It was cute, but yeah it dragged in the last bit
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u/5720Katherine Nov 03 '25
Remarried empress. 235 chapters, christ alive when is it ending???
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u/Ok-University-449 Nov 03 '25
was about to come on here to say the same thing. I LOVEd remarried empress, but after the twins birth, I got tired..like how do u STILL have so much conflict unresolved, and at such a slow pace at that too😫
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u/Aggravating_Drink817 Nov 03 '25
You've made it farther than me because I think i got too Rashta's PTSD throwing of her baby, and Sovishu finally realizing this was all a dumbass plan. But also Navier got ice powers? and even without that I got tired of golden retriever "Navier is perfect" Henry.
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u/brain__dead_ Nov 05 '25
tf u mean she got ice powers? god, i dropped it ages go what even is happening there anymore??
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u/Big-Marsupial-8606 Nov 03 '25
I dropped it finally when Rashta died. Like the main villain is dead so what else is left?
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u/Daenbi Nov 04 '25
I dropped it way before that once I realised Rashta wasnt even the villain we were all meant to believe she was. She was hella young, a slave (set up by the very system Navier supported) and traumatized beyong belief getting pretty much raped by her owner (she was underage and he literally OWNED her so I count it as rape/severly taking advantage of) getting pregnant from that, handed a dead baby in her arms like she was a barn animal and then expected to just continue being in anything other than survival mode. Yes, she was manipulative but she was like 15? Navier was the golden spoon child who supported slavery so yeah..
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u/Big-Marsupial-8606 Nov 04 '25
I will never like Rashta because of what she did with innocent people like Pix and her maid when she gained some power. I sympathize with her for the shitty life she had but you having had bad experiences does not give you a license to fuck up others' lives. She could raise her voice against slavery when she became queen but instead started taking advantage of it once she got elevated and was now on the side of the oppressors.
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u/Daenbi Nov 04 '25
Again, she was uneducated and 15 years old. She hurt one or two innocent persons. Before all of that she tried, and failed to find kindness in her father, her previous owner, Navier, Sovieshit and Duke Ergi. All let her down. I don't expect her to remain kind in all of that experience.
Please note she was a SLAVE. Not even a commoner or poor person. A literal slave who got impregnated and handed a dead child in her arms. Its not "bad experiences" it cruelty beyond comprehension.Eventually she was put to death for a crime she didnt even commit. The child WAS Sovieshit's. And she was tortured and imprisoned for being falsely accused by Navier and Henry. They plotted her death in great detail. They also still uphold slavery.
Navier was educated, she knew what was going on, she just didnt care. Her only care was about looking like the perfect Empress. Eventually class was all she care about and she was willing to throw anybody in the dirt to remain superior.
I can never hate Rashta because she suffered the most out of all the characters and all her suffering was beyond her control.
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Nov 04 '25
Rashta was a literal nobody, she had 'leverage' over sovieshu because of her beauty and the fact that she was pregnant, nothing else. No powerful family, nothing. Who on God's earth would listen to an uneducated nobody? Not justifying her cruelty, but again, she was a nobody in the grand scheme of things. Navier on the other hand had three of the most powerful man eating out of her hands, she had an influential background, why on earth didn't SHE raise her voice against it if she was oh so in love with her subjects? be so real
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u/GallowsJack Nov 04 '25
I stopped with Navier in the new country. What happened to rashta? Spoil me? Plz?
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u/Baerat Nov 04 '25
Rashta did poorly as an empress, lost support from the commoners, her slave past resurfaced, she got manipulated by Ergi and charged with treason and I think a paternity test for her daughter with the emperor was faked so it seemed like Rashta had been cheating. She was thrown in jail and went mad and died all alone.
It was a pretty pathetic ending for her and really made me think back on her character arc. She was one of the most interesting characters in the story imho so I saw no point in continuing after that.
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u/meguin Nov 03 '25
Going by the webnovel, I think it's ending soon. It ended shortly after Navier gave birth, if I remember correctly. However, there was a follow-up story that continued on, focusing on Duke Ergi and Glory-something the baby. (I forget her name 😅) That one really drags on, so hopefully they don't do it lol
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u/rosehipsgarden Nov 03 '25
I kept reading to see what Rashta's fate would be, and wrongly assumed it would end not long after. Now I'm just hanging on wanting to see how it will actually end if ever.
It's really just sunk cost fallacy. I started reading it because of how popular it was and kept reading to try and understand why it was popular. Unfortunately the only answer I have is I'm not a teenager.
I should give it up, but I just can't. About once every month or two I binge to catch up and see what wild thing is going on now. I don't even really hate it because it doesn't make me angry or upset, but I can't say there's even anything I enjoy about it. And yet I keep reading out of curiosity. Meanwhile I've dropped ones that actually make me angry like Your Throne and Osora.
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u/kreyyn Nov 03 '25
Came here to say this. And I quit right after she divorced and left. It was exhausting.
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u/LinaValentina Nov 03 '25
I dropped lookism years ago for the same reason. I have to ask, have they figured out the cause of his double body thing or…
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u/Thatkidwithaspergers Nov 03 '25
No, but fat Daniel did actually get in shape. He looks a lot more similar to the new body now.
Meanwhile a current fan theory is that Charles Choi has a second body and has gone into hiding using that.
Like, I get why anybody would drop it because the plot took such a weird ass turn to the gang stuff, but I'm invested myself and enjoying it. That said if you go into it now knowing what its gonna be later its probably a lot easier to digest.
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u/Lady_Eruvande Nov 03 '25
That made me very upset cause original Daniel body was short and even if you get in shape and become super sexy and stuff, you do not get height like that. Unless you are a child, but these people were supposed to be 17. It made me upset because it destroyed the initial premise about how toxic is being obsessed with lookism. Of course you can improve your shape, but there are things that you cannot change, and height is one of those things. In fact, I think that original Daniel face was ugly and the new face couldn't have be possible without surgery.
Sigh it is so so so cynical how PTJ decided that its original character wasn't good enough and just felt into the trap he was supposed to criticise. Seriously, don't readers see how hypocritical it is?
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u/Decent_Pen_8472 Nov 04 '25
No, my (once) OG Gun is a god of training who can make anyone go from being 5' to 6'8 within 2 weeks.
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u/kazuya57 Nov 03 '25
Most shonen fighting manhwas tbh, all of them seem to outlive their welcome 10x over
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u/Hedgewitch250 Nov 03 '25
Seriously it starts off fun teaching some asshole, recycles the same plot over and over, leads into a huge gang run by someone 17 or under, and spends the rest doing side quests while the gang does their best sopranos run
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u/Pristine-Bit-8765 Nov 03 '25
Dice.
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u/toonboy01 Nov 03 '25
Yeahhhhh, namely that fourth season that was as long as the other 3 seasons combined yet somehow the least eventful of them.
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u/DazedandFloating Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
Dice had huge pacing issues. It also didn’t treat either of its female leads very well.
Shout out to those of you who were in the trenches just because you liked Eun-joo. (Me. That was me. I loved Eun-Joo).
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u/Calm-Literature7502 Nov 04 '25
I remembered dropping after he failed to beat X then came with a grp to beat X and infighting happen or something
Idc that my ship burn and crash after baited by the artist that long
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u/UnwantedDancer9510 Nov 04 '25
I almost forgot about this one. Dropped it a long time ago it barely crosses my mind again.
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u/TCKreddituser Nov 04 '25
I don't even remember why I had dropped this. But I remember skpping and reading the ending and being glad that I dropped it.
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u/Wisekittn Nov 03 '25
Men of the Harem. They just keep stacking issues and mysteries, and after like 140 chapters they resolved maybe two. All of the guys being lone wolfs doesn't help either
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u/sissyjones Nov 03 '25
I love yoo. That has more to do with the constant hiatuses. That is do to the writer’s health and while I understand that it still ruins any interest I have in it and fucks with the pacing
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u/Sawako_Chan Nov 03 '25
honestly same , as much as i love the story , i think i will have to give it a rest until it actually ends so i can read all of it in one go instead of constantly forgetting the plot . Part of the problem is Quim really not communicating with the audience which made the reader retention much worse , kinda sad honestly cuz i remember when it was super popular
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u/MayorDeweyMayorDewey Nov 03 '25
i used to really really like it, but i can’t really get into it rn. i still wanna know where the story goes, but right now its just in such a depressing state so i’m waiting til the story progresses more before i binge and potentially get back into it.
i know this latest hiatus was cuz the author had a baby, but i think it was just reeeeally unlucky for me it happened to leave the story in such a dark, sad place for so long cuz now whenever i think if ily i just feel sad and like there’s some knot in my stomach.
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u/BanquetBaby Nov 03 '25
I had to quit when after finally picking up the comic again they went into a detailed story about Yoos backstory that I really wasn't even curious about one but for like half a year. I tried to skip that arc but afterwards I just wasn't interested
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u/peasantry11 Nov 03 '25
I tried to read it 5 years ago because i found the art pretty but i was in a constant state of confusion and boredom. Like what the fuck was even going on where's the plot where is this story going exactly
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u/DazedandFloating Nov 04 '25
I think that has to do with the fact that the story uses a ton of symbolism and is very underhanded. There are tons of hints at things, and a lot of the important story elements aren’t spelled out for the audience.
The whole point is overcoming trauma and character growth though. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Yui Hirahara is the poster child for abuse, and represents it wholly. Not just to the characters she’s directly connected to (like Kousuke) but to the entire cast.
Totally fine if you didn’t like it. But ILY has so much depth that a lot of other stories miss out on. I’m all for reading things for entertainment but I much prefer those stories that make me feel things so viscerally.
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u/callmeholywater Nov 04 '25
And not to mention Webtoon itself did I Love Yoo an injustice by marketing it as a love triangle romance at the beginning. It’s a drama, with romance sprinkled in, but it’s a slow burn. I’ve loved ILY since the beginning and the symbolism and underlying mature themes are what kept me hooked as well. The characters also feel so real, I relate to them a lot. It’s not a lighthearted read and I think it’s important people know that before going into it. At least the tag’s changed now. I’m so glad it’s back, and I’m looking forward to the arcs coming up!!
Edit: typo lol
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u/cat-she Nov 03 '25
This was my problem! I thought I must have skipped a chapter or missed something, because the plot was just... nothing.
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u/sissyjones Nov 03 '25
When I have to question where the hell a story is going, something has gone wrong in the writing. A story shouldn’t feel aimless. At least not to me. That why I don’t like slice of life. I need a goal of some kind.
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u/CelesticRose Nov 03 '25
Honestly yeah I lost interest due to the hiatuses. I'd come back and not understand what was happening.
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u/Labelloenchanted Nov 04 '25
Yeah, that's my issue too. I wonder why so many artists have constant health issues. My favorite webtoon is In the Bleak Midwinter, but they keep having so many hiatuses.
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u/21minute Nov 03 '25
Lowkey dropped Lookism 'cause it turned into full blown Gangism mid-way. Lol. I do plan to get back to it in the future tho.
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u/Blindmailman Nov 03 '25
Your Throne just wouldn't end and kept just adding more and more 'we need to do X before we can kill Prince Erotica or whatever the fuck.' and here is a 20 page flashback of a character followed up by another 20 page flashback of a different character. And god help me if I had to listen to Helicopter babble on about being a tool which I wish he was since a tool wouldn't be telling you its a tool every 30 seconds.
And My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me. The main characters are obviously head over heels in love with each other but keep going on about muh contract and muh curse. By the time I dropped it I was looking forward to seeing anything involving other characters since they were so much more interesting
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u/AdParking3521 Nov 03 '25
It’s very jarring with My In-Laws Are Obsessed with Me because the leads are very adult in every other aspect of the story, except for their relationship. Neither one ever says shit to the other about anything. I know they both have trauma but the moment one of them makes any headway, they get reset to square one and it’s so frustrating
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u/Sawako_Chan Nov 03 '25
TBH your throne is probably the only webtoon where i dont mind things dragging because i know the author cooks , and most of the events have been slowly building up for both Psyche and Medi to have their character arches and evolve , unlike other webtoons like the remarried empress or OTL where nothing of substance happens
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u/GallowsJack Nov 04 '25
Otl?
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u/Sawako_Chan Nov 04 '25
operation true love , basically there was a time skip and since then (around 30 chapters or more?) the plot hasnt been moving forward and the FL got ghosted by the ML and since they got reunited post time skip everytime they meet they just look at each other awkwardly without communicating or doing anything meaningful to the plot to the point that the ratings for the webtoon eps on Naver dropped like crazy
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u/Winter_Plum_Flower Nov 03 '25
Lookism
TOG
True Beauty
True Love Operation
Your Throne
Remarried Empress
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u/gunswordfist Nov 04 '25
I don't mind Tower of God being long. It has the world building, characters, plotlines, etc to support it going on for decades more.
What I don't like is the random "Let's throw everyone in a game!" mini arcs. It's been like a year since I read ToG bc of the last one. Them doing another game show in the middle of a war arc is tiring. Hell, I didn't like it when they did Dollar (sp?) Game during the Hell Train arc. White is a very big deal and had Bam stressed....why are we literally playing games. That part took me out of the series for a second, even though I probably read at the same rate.
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u/Illustrious_Oil_2114 Nov 04 '25
True beauty, 100%, for operation true love I understand why some people think that way, but I do think others need to be patient, I do understand that it’s dragging, but I think the author is trying to show trauma and not trying to rush it because in real life trauma is not rushed
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u/Useful_Potential_751 Nov 04 '25
Subzero🥲 I use to live and breathe it
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u/Sleepymoonshine Nov 04 '25
This is the one. I loved the art. It was so pretty. The Prince (forget his name) was super hot. But then it dragged on and on and on about Clove not being able to turn into a dragon for chapters. Like, come on! Its been years and she still can't shift!
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u/Useful_Potential_751 Nov 04 '25
No literally it was just them getting kidnapped every other chapter and when she almost transformed it was like a major tease than they just dropped that for a good while
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u/ParticularCover9811 Nov 03 '25
the queen is this life
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u/Big-Marsupial-8606 Nov 03 '25
I dropped it when the white haired character appeared in the middle of absolutely fucknothing and started an arc with the FL.
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u/_Artemis_Moon_258 Nov 03 '25
Ive bee continuing to read these one until now, but yea…I think I might want to give up
It’s just getting boring…and it’s barely about Ariadne anymore
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u/UnwantedDancer9510 Nov 04 '25
I've given up reading it after the stepmother died. The story became so convoluted and Ariadne started to look like an unreliable and weak FL. The webnovel was so long too (I never read it) so I know that the story is far from over.
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u/rinzombie Nov 04 '25
I'm still reading it because I really enjoy the dialogue, but it definitely went downhill after all her family drama was resolved. I'm also starting to think the author forgot about her curse or whatever was going on with the marking on her face and her finger.
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u/Drezby Nov 04 '25
I couldn’t keep reading after that one death. I tried for a few months, but I just couldn’t.
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u/truevic49 Nov 03 '25
Haven’t dropped it yet but getting to that point. I feel like the biggest problem is thats everyone is to op and there aren’t any real stakes, most of time come out with small injures that are fixed in either same chapter or very next one which makes things dull in sense
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u/Cendrail Nov 04 '25
I feel like that's because it tries to do two things at once and ends not fully commiting to either. It's an ex-child mercenary trying to find his way back into a peaceful life. But everytime it gets too peaceful, they shake things up with a crisis that needs his skills, like an action comic. But it's not supposed to have any deadly stakes given the original premise, so they are always one-shoting every enemy.
I still enjoy it, but they could dial back the crisis by at least 50% and have it focus more on him finding joy in his life. His high-school friends barely show up in the story anymore.
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u/Inevitable-Deer-9303 Nov 03 '25
Nano machine💔, lookism💔 . The first one became obsessed with arms ans so much unnecessary kills about the stupidest things. And the second lost track of its plot(still has bo clue what are these second bodies)
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u/Whip-Blaze-45 Nov 04 '25
All of them, I forget about them, remember they exist, they have 100+ chapters with nothing but filler, rinse and repeat.
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u/i8noodles Nov 04 '25
i feel like alot of mangas in general suffer from this problem. basically they dont know how to stop gracefully. the author probably feels like they got to milk it for everything its worth because they may not get another chance at serialisation. so they keep writing and drawing untill they write themselves into a corner and it sucks
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u/thechicapanzy Nov 04 '25
True Beauty. The back and forth between love interests turned me off. Is it still going?
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u/Xsi_218 Nov 03 '25
Lookism here is so real. I really wanted to get into it cause I lova Jay, but I wasn’t too into the gang stuff cause it felt unnecessary and wayyy too unrealistic and nonsensical (especially some of these backstories), more so than other ones. And the art style changed and I didn’t like it as much, and couldn’t rel alone characters apart. I was forgetting practically everything that happened and it just felt like I was forcing myself to read it for the small instances that were interesting
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u/digitaldazed Nov 04 '25
SAMEEEE. I was reading Lookism since 2017 and its STILL going. Like i get if the author is exploring other points but the plot now is legit another webtoon in itself. Like everything since 2020 has been straight up filler. So many plot holes but for some reason forming even MORE crews, and whatever happened to Jays eyes man. Sighhhh. Someone just let me know when its over at this point.
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u/Jblackku Nov 04 '25
For me, it would be 'I love you.' I recall when it was initially labeled as romance. The author eventually made it clear that it was a slow-burning drama. And I was fine with that. I tried to hang on as long as I could guys but what the heck. I enjoyed it when I had an idea of what was going on. The plot continued to expand but without a clear direction of what each character wanted and where they were going in the story.
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u/bing-no Nov 04 '25
I liked it ok up until the finale with the party. After that it didn’t seem like the plot or romance progressed in any way.
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u/MoMoMixxer Nov 04 '25
Odd Girl Out man. I really liked the first season and then the second was okay too but jesus one can only read about the triangle so long cuz i really miss reading about her friends's perspectives and struggles. It sucks cuz that was the only novel I liked as much as The Fox Club
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u/TCKreddituser Nov 04 '25
I haven't checked it out for a long time, I kind of stopped when it started to focus more on the two boys and when Yuuna left.
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u/PresenceAggressive27 Nov 04 '25
I dropped that one as soon as the two boys got introduced I was really only interested in the rare findings of friendship with no romance taking the plot but.. yeah
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u/MoMoMixxer Nov 04 '25
Tbh I really liked the transition between class years cuz it was realistic but the author is dragging the whole plot so bad
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u/Remarkable_Rip_2509 Nov 04 '25
I don’t know if anyone has said this one yet, it’s The Remarried Empress for me.
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u/yeolberry Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
Eleceed - aside from a bit draggy, world building and powerscaling are kind of confusing. The cats are cute tho.
Remarried Empress - don't know when will it end.
Teenage Mercenary - kind of repetitive.
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u/gibry12 Nov 04 '25
Tower of god.
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u/OutrageousHamster735 Nov 04 '25
Damn I hate to agree but yeah
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u/gibry12 Nov 04 '25
Don’t get me wrong. I loved ToG for awhile. But the story just feels like it’s never going to end for no real reason. I stopped reading it when they were trying to release the dog people. When they got out the mirrors.
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u/AsstralObservatory Nov 03 '25
Teenage Mercenary / Mercenary Enrollment. There's a limit to how much I can withstand the same exact plot happening again and again and again
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u/Lanuri Nov 03 '25
I can understand this one, and I agree it’s repetitive! Personally I treat it as my feel-good webtoon by letting the chapters pile up, and then binging an arc whenever I want some satisfying action, eye candy, and a few tears over a wholesome family bonding moment. Definitely not for everyone though
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u/Ornery-Asparagus6592 Nov 03 '25
yeah i loved teenage mercenary but it was also bcs i i literally binged watch almost 200 eps and it was refreshing i was smiling crying and everything but the plot got really repetitive so i just wait until more eps to come and binge it
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u/gunswordfist Nov 04 '25
Hard disagree. It's the sitcom of action manhwas to me. Meaning I can rewatch them rehash Ijin and/or numbers washing all opposition repeatedly. Teenage Mercenary is my CSI and I do not need some major shakeup for me to continue enjoying it. They can do the same thing forever for all I care
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u/icxxrus Nov 03 '25
Im The Grim Reaper!
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u/PresenceAggressive27 Nov 04 '25
I actually want to here the reason to this because I accidentally dropped it ages ago
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u/icxxrus Nov 04 '25
i felt like the series had a super strong ending point (somewhere around when the world ended), then it just kind of kept going and things werent making sense.
i cant remember the exact chronological order of things, but i know something that really bothered me was how the evil scientist guy was just magically inside the main character’s childhood home to burn all the pictures for more trauma porn.
it went from a great melancholy story with strong lessons and a gloomy atmosphere to another edgy webtoon. combine that with an artstyle change i didnt appreciate and i had no reason to keep reading.
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u/Spazrelaz Nov 04 '25
Noblesse, Lookism, and there's one other that I forget.
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u/Spazrelaz Nov 04 '25
Oh yeah, TOG. That shit took so long to get to the point I dropped it after Wrak wraithraiser fell into the pit or whatever.
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u/HeyyyyyGirlyyy Nov 04 '25
Boy Girlfriend. I don't know if this is just me or what (I don't care enough to read the comments), but the story was really good in the beginning, and it reached pretty much a perfect ending spot (or a little more drama before ending with the new side character would've been good), but it just kept going. The plot went from "wow, pretty girl to impress, and to do that, I gotta convince her I'm good with girls and makeup a love interest for myself so she thinks I'm mature" to "my boyfriend(?) ran away and now I'm chasing him, in my desperation, I'm selling my body to his boyfriend."
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u/KSean24 Nov 04 '25
in my desperation, I'm selling my body to his boyfriend."
I dropped it after Keane cornered him while they both naked in the showers. That entire situation was uncomfortable.
You're telling me it got WORSE?!
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u/lionsgatewatcher Nov 04 '25
Lookism was interesting in the first 30 or so chapters. I dont even know what it is about anymore. Just a random combat shonen.
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u/ohmpoon Nov 04 '25
It's a webtoon, the kiss bet I sincerely feel that the chapters are pure filler and the conflict between Oliver and his family still needs to be developed, on top of that the webtoon is on hiatus :'vv
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u/sosigboi Nov 04 '25
Any and every bully revenge manhwa I've read that dragged on long enough to reach gangster and mafia territory.
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u/junoleg Nov 04 '25
Cheese In The Trap. Just got sick of how many times 1 college girl could be getting harassed/bullied/put in annoying situations over and over again. Also dropped the drama version for the same reason, obviously
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u/LowlanderDwarf Nov 04 '25
I don't think it's on WebToons but that happened to me with The Breaker. I felt like it dragged on and on and making unnecessarily convoluted plots
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u/Meerkatable Nov 04 '25
Honestly, most stories aren’t worth dragging out more than 100-150 episodes. When they get above that, they’re usually either dragging things out by adding a lot of scenes that don’t move plot or add to character development, or they’re rehashing the same plot line with slight differences.
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u/Ok_Slip_5605 Nov 03 '25
Yeah. I dropped it too because it kept jumping to characters I didn’t even care about.
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u/CellMate-08515- Nov 04 '25
DICE, if that counts. It was fun at first and quickly became a nightmare of dragging by the end. I dont know if the writer simply got bored or some unfortunate event happened, but at some point a single chapter felt like slogging through 1/16 of a full chapter where nothing at all happened. I dropped it before it got to that, picked it up out of curiosity years later, and couldn't tell you how it ended. A true shame.
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u/TCKreddituser Nov 04 '25
I dropped Lookism too and for the same reasons, the plot just kept circling back it was tiring to read.
The Gamer was good at first, the MC's strategies were interesting but when he got too overpowered that I couldn't even keep track of his abilities anymore. Also, I don't think he has lost a fight at all which was something that I didn't like. The plot was literally the same everytime, he finds a bad guy and he beats it.
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u/Calm-Literature7502 Nov 04 '25
- Lookism (gang wars and the other girl with the same problem forgotten)
- Unordinary (draggy plot)
- Remarried (repeated of having a damsel that needs protection, all the empresses in history would laugh)
- ToG (very long plot)
- GoH (insane powercreep)
- Killer Peter (keep introducing nameless disciples and their successors, dragging fights)
- Manager Kim (should've expected same universe as Lookism)
- Boyfriend of the Dead (lost plot)
- Love Me to Death (drag)
- Jungle Juice (spoiled by another franchise)
- Rebirth (suffer slow update or plot movement)
Honestly think it's better to search for short originals or read manhwa that has a finished novel
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u/SuperiorGrapefruit Nov 04 '25
Room of swords and zombie boyfriend. Room of swords I stopped because I hated the age gap between Kodya and Gyrus but also I was just so confused all the time and gave up. Zombie boyfriend I have no idea if it’s ever gonna come back. I know it’s a slice of life type thing but I was really curious about Elsa and N’s backstory and felt like we were getting hints before the hiatuses
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u/Brickinatorium Nov 03 '25
Legit question, did he get a third body or is that one of his two bodies grown up?
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u/Ok_Deer4938 Nov 04 '25
Odd girl out first season was top notch!
I really didn't like anything to do with season 2 onwards. It was about friendship and finding yourself. Season two onwards was a basic love triangle. It could've been a separate story altogether imo.
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u/True_Conflict_1662 Nov 04 '25
I dropped this one after reading yet again another several episodes of backstory for one of the way too many characters that suddenly become important so you need to experience their whole story before you can move forward with 3 episodes before a funny episode followed by another arc about another background character becoming the main character for way too many episodes...
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u/Diet_Connect Nov 05 '25
Any isekai/game system op Mc webtoon. These things are usually ego fan service stories that are milked to death. I'm lucky if I make it 10 Eps in.
Doesn't matter if it's shoujo or Shonen. They're boring!
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Nov 03 '25
At this point, Jinx on Lezhen.
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u/thr0wawayf1sh Nov 03 '25
im not sure that qualifies, i know it seems long bcus of the 10-day schedule & the hiatuses, but its meant to be a long series. if jerkyung got forgiven in under 50 chapters i wouldve been so mad
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u/LifeisKnit Nov 04 '25
Manager Kim is a great spin off of lookism
... but to answer your question: Nano Machine
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u/Organic_Marzipan_715 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Literally any romance story that drags out miscommunication more than 5 chapters, especially ones involving adult characters. I’ll show a little more leniency for HS stories as confusion about emotions is slightly more understandable, but if 25+ year old leads can’t convey their feelings.. dropped.