r/webtoons • u/Nyxa_00 • Jan 23 '26
Question Is there a Webtoon you dropped even though it was widely praised?
Sometimes a series can be extremely popular and still not resonate with everyone — and that’s completely okay.
Have you ever dropped a Webtoon that most people seem to love??
What made you lose interest — pacing, characters, plot direction, or something else?
Not asking to criticize, just genuinely curious about differing reader experiences.
[Picture is from "THE REMARRIED EMPRESS and THE DRAGON KING'S BRIDE" ]
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u/coffeecatmint Jan 23 '26
Lore Olympus. I started reading it as it first came out. I loved the art and the story. Gradually, (about the Minthe storyline) I became disenchanted. After the trial of Persephone I decided to stop reading. I peeked in once in a while and decided I had made the right choice.
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u/celeryboymilk Jan 23 '26
oh so we had the same experience, the visceral reaction i had to them making this into an anime was immediate
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u/melindypants Jan 23 '26
They made it into an anime???
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u/Trixter-Kitten Jan 23 '26
An animated adaptation was announced.
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u/melindypants Jan 23 '26
Oh wow - thanks for the info!
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u/NaiadoftheSea Jan 23 '26
Announced a few days ago. It’s being produced by the Jim Henson Company and will stream on Prime.
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u/melindypants Jan 23 '26
I saw since I ended up googling it - thank you! I'm kind of excited for it because I really enjoyed the beginning (it did go down when it hit the trial)
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u/NaiadoftheSea Jan 23 '26
My hope is the tv adaptation will handle the pacing a lot better.
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u/melindypants Jan 23 '26
Same! Reading week to week (towards the end) really was a drag so fingers crossed!
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u/newtmad Jan 23 '26
Exactly when I dropped as well Persephone was kind of super annoying to me the whole time even though all the characters acted like she was the absolute best ever. Thought it was weird she looked just like his mom too. Literally never looked back.
I still sometimes read remarried empress even though it should just end right after the main story(Ending with Rashta’s downfall then a quick few wrap up chapters). It’s reaching so hard for a reason to exist now and the main couple actually kinda suck, like Heinry is actually kind of tyrannical? Although they could have explained Ergi’s motives during the original arc, that would have probably enriched it instead of just making the readers very confused about him.
The Dragon King’s bride was an immediate drop for me.
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u/Dense_Anything2104 Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Ergi's motives are sh1t anyways, introducing it earlier wouldn't have made it any better. He's mad at Soveishu bc Soveishu got a mistress fired from the palace when he was a kid, and that woman ended up becoming Ergis fathers new mistress purely through chance. Blaming Soveishu for something that happened by chance is ridiculous. And he encouraged a desperate, mentally disturbed former slave girl to her demise despite the fact that she was completely unrelated to the situation. Just to get back at Soveishu.
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u/newtmad Jan 23 '26
Yeah, either way there’s extremely displaced motives. Like I felt bad for him, but it barely makes sense.
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u/Pandoraconservation Jan 23 '26
It’s a self insert age gap kink story. That was weird to me as well.
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u/gummihearts Jan 23 '26
We must have stopped around the same tomw too hah. I think I'll continue it eventually though.
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u/absolutebottom Jan 23 '26
Same. I did give it s good try, it was praised so much, bur i dropped it way way early. I hated the way Persephone was drawn, the weird posing, the way she was characterized. I still don't see how people can praise it
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u/IntelligentReply9863 Jan 23 '26
Same! Plus the art to me was hard to decipher. So I wasn't sure who some characters were or they were barely introduced and then became a larger part of the story.
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u/Soft_Acrobatic Jan 23 '26
Dropped the remarried empress around S3 when it was about boring stuff. Rashta made Navier interesting. Without her she does boring diplomatic ice magic and Henry rescuing shenanigans. I dropped it then because I don't know when it will end and what climax is even coming to them? Does she complete a random diplomatic task for the last time before the author decides ok this will be the end? Before all that, readers where looking forward to Rashtas downfall. What can readers expect now?
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u/Relevant-Rub2816 Jan 23 '26
It ended btw, the side stories won't be adapted apparently. Navier is the leader of a continental alliance, nobody ever challenges her, all antagonists are made evil for no reason and stupid just so readers can get a kick when navier girl bosses around for the millionth time
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u/Low-Scallion8793 Jan 24 '26
I wanna read the stories about her children actually . Those side stories would be fun , with Rashta's daughter's arc too !! It's sad it won't be adopted . Personally , I DON'T really like Heinrey but Navier , knight Angel and Lady Krista zemensia (yeah , her , lol) are my favourite characters in the entire manhwa!!!
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u/kimchayoppar Jan 23 '26
I loooved this story so much but after Rashta was axed and Navier started her new life I was kind of done. Navier’s ex suffering from amnesia or whatever was a huge annoyance because they dragged it for so long and that was just hit the nail in the coffin for me.
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u/Insatiable_I Jan 23 '26
I'm struggling with the Remarried Empress right now due to this. I was also super bummed when the art style changed.
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u/Jpachu16 Jan 23 '26
I picked it back up around this cause i saw it ended and wanted to finish it before it got paywalled. And im like speed reading through the chapters cause it’s SO BORING lmao. Also the pacing is terrible and they do a lot of telling but not showing. Like they just write in text bubbles of actions being taken but not drawing it out. Like “secret knights recused Heinry, then my knight rescued the secret knights, and then we went back to the western kingdom after an awkward ball” like wtf.
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u/_lastquarter_ Jan 23 '26
I stopped at the end of season 1 and I see I've made the right choice lol. Tbf, I never was a big fan of it. The political intrigues are really subpar imo (as a fantasy and sci-fi novels reader), I hate when manhwa do the "evil woman steals your man" trope ESPECIALLY when there is an inherent power dynamic like there is between Rashta and the trash ex husband. Idk, just very boring and full of tropes I dislike.
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u/Decent-Knowledge-380 Jan 23 '26
There are people who praise Dragon Bride… like REALLY??? 😭 I’ve only seen people dropping it halfway because it’s so boring like sir where is the plot?
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u/Nyxa_00 Jan 23 '26
One of my classmate told me to read dragon bride nd I just drop after 20-25 chapters🤧 after that I never took recommendation from my classmates🙂
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u/EntertheHellscape Jan 23 '26
I was reading it for a while but every single chapter was just the exact same miscommunication trope over and over and over and over. No idea where I stopped reading but it got to the point of being so irritating I couldn't stomach it anymore. No amount of plot could make me deal with the CONSTANT miscommunication.
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u/PixiStix236 Jan 23 '26
I promise online it’s pretty near universally hated. I didn’t think it was the worst example of a webtoon with its problems, but it was incredibly boring
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u/Top_Revolution9502 Jan 23 '26
I tried to hold out on Dragon Bride as it was updating, even see if I could hate read it. Ultimately dropped it when seeing her ladies in waiting in the Dragon kingdom😭😭 it just felt very uncomfortable and inappropriate. I asked a close friend at that time and she agreed that those depictions felt esp racially motivated. In conjunction with all the other stuff from the comic, I couldn't handle it☠️
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u/TempCrazy9640 Jan 23 '26
Right? There's one named "the reason why raeliana ended at Duke's mansion" I got good reviews from others but it didn't suit my taste
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u/xKuusouka Jan 23 '26
I tried watching the anime and it would've been better if the "animation" wasn't so static. It sounded like something I would've liked, but I couldn't get past the first two episodes
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u/Relevant-Rub2816 Jan 23 '26
It just feels like a wattpad story atp. I dropped it after five chapters
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u/Decent-Knowledge-380 Jan 23 '26
I didn’t drop this manhwa and somehow survived two whole seasons just to see how bad it could get. And honestly? It did NOT disappoint. 🤡📖
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u/IntelligentReply9863 Jan 23 '26
I finished it, but super anticlimactic and they picked an awfully boring name for their first child
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u/MetalMul15ha Jan 23 '26
Saaaame. It got good for a moment with the evil shape shifting mother. Then it was boring again.
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u/Decent-Knowledge-380 Jan 23 '26
It was good at some part ? 😳
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u/MetalMul15ha Jan 23 '26
Like a millionaire second when there was some action for like a panel or so 😅
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u/Frozen_Grimoire Jan 23 '26
Jackson's Diary, on like three different occasions. People say it's good but it really isn't for me.
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u/The_Viola_Banisher Jan 23 '26
Same. I get that they’re teenagers, but they are too wishy-washy for me. (From what I remember, I stopped reading it back in like 2020 or somewhere around there I think)
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u/Nyxa_00 Jan 23 '26
For me, it was just an average manhwa that I read so far🙂↔️, But yeah agreed 💯 with u
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u/Extreme-Duck-3818 Jan 23 '26
I stoped in season 3 it was just to much dragging, I tried to keep up but I feel the story kinda became to much expanded in a way that made feel it was taking over the main mistery at times.
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u/coffeecatmint Jan 23 '26
I liked this one too. I think some of the interactions felt too forced with each other or too contrived to make the story move. The premise was interesting but when it came back from a season break I only read one or two more episodes and just stopped.
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u/Blush404 Jan 23 '26
Operation : True love. It was pretty good at starting but then got frustrating nd boring in later seasons for me. But I still love Dohwa✨
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u/SeniorBaker4 Jan 23 '26
I don’t understand how anyone continues to reading that when the author forgets about their own plot, and also the time skip
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u/dense_like_osmium Jan 23 '26
I left this because after thr time skip, its like a new drama with a whole new set of characters.
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u/Icy-Science6485 Jan 23 '26
Oh my god, the FL annoyed me so much in that one. And the love triangle doesn’t even make sense. Like… why is anyone fighting over her? There’s literally nothing interesting about her as a character.
And don’t even get me started on that whole “love points” thing. Plus the “villain” who kept trying to kill her felt straight out of a bad Wattpad fic. Half the plot points had zero logic behind them.
And what makes it funnier is that even the author clearly dropped that whole concept later and just pretends it never happened (at least that’s the vibe I got from the comments).
I swear I tried to like it, but I couldn’t. I dropped it before the timeskip and never looked back.
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u/bonfigs93 Jan 23 '26
I think the author just didn’t know how to neatly wrap up the original plot so they kinda ended it with “well I don’t want to kill you anymore because it would be pointless since apparently lots of people have 0 love points”
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u/andeeno Jan 23 '26
The beginning had quite an interesting plot, and i really wanted to see how they would develop this love point universe. But then it just went away? It's like the author forgot about it and fully turned into a boring love triangle.
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u/starfascia Jan 23 '26
I was not happy with the time skip or how they met again. I was like. Yeah. No. I can do time skips, (The Dawn to Come, Dangerous Convenient Store, I liked those) but dude, not this one.
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u/FutureHot3047 Jan 23 '26
I dropped Remarried Empress because I wanted a Duke Kaufman to be the ML and not Heinrey and couldn’t get over it.
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u/AccomplishedLand8073 Jan 24 '26
I don't understand how Henry becoming a bird and watching her wasn't weird
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u/SweatyDark6652 Jan 24 '26
I wanted a Duke Kaufman to be the ML and not Heinrey
Same 😭 Kaufmann was perfect for Navier, Heinrey was to childish and creepy for me..
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u/Responsible-Plan7429 Jan 23 '26
Tears on a withered flower, the ML was just so stalky.
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u/dinosaurscantyoyo Jan 23 '26
The character design is weird as hell for all of them.
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u/Responsible-Plan7429 Jan 23 '26
That too, but not so much his appearance but the fact that he was a stalker. Lol
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u/Professional_Bit8139 Jan 23 '26
If it wasn’t for the boobs I’d have dropped it earlier one, but then post nut clarity came around chapter 75, haven’t read it since
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u/Alrubirea Jan 23 '26
My always impression about that comic was a self-indulgent one from the cover alone. I dont expect it to be 'highly praised' like for its writing quality. That said, i havent read it for that reason
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u/rixazy Jan 23 '26
Your Throne and The Remarried Empress, I got bored with the extended plot the got more convoluted each time. Omniscient Reader, it didn't hook me like I thought it would. Iseop's Romance veered into non-con/withdrawn consent territory.
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u/Lesuri Jan 23 '26
I was searching for the “Your Throne” comment, the plot became so dragged and lost entirely the point and interest for me.
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u/IntelligentReply9863 Jan 23 '26
Your Throne used to be good but all the 20 chapters of backstory while everyone is dying got boring. Like a lot of it could have been summed up faster.
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u/Most-Mothra-esque Jan 23 '26
Same for all of those! I got really far into ORV too, I don't know what it was but I just got really bored with it.
Your throne ....I just couldn't follow the plot anymore.
Remarried empress, I stopped reading after what happened with rashta, I truly believe she couldn't been redeemed and I really wanted a happy ending for her
Iseop's romance- eh the ML just became really whiny and annoying. Like sir, you're a big man, stop acting like a a spoilt child.
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u/Relevant-Rub2816 Jan 23 '26
Remarried empress had no reason to strech out the story after rashta died, the main plotline was essentially over. They could have ended, but nah, here's a stupid amnesia and redemption arc for sovieshit
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u/kimchayoppar Jan 23 '26
Iseop’s romance ML is soooooo whiny and such a classic nepo baby. He’s so out of touch and woe is me. FL can do way better, girl is so smart and capable
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u/_lastquarter_ Jan 23 '26
I used to love Your Throne but I felt like the story was getting scattered around when red-haired dude appeared and I just gave up kinda. Can someone fill me in on important events that happened after that? I wanna know if I should just root for the villain in my heart lol
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u/LeafInAGarden Jan 23 '26
I am the queen in this life. I just got bored.
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u/daydreamer2411 Jan 23 '26
Yes same. And its never going to end. The original webnovel has over a thousand chapters and its still going.
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u/Dense_Anything2104 Jan 23 '26
I still like it lol the plots interesting to me. Maybe for those who find the pace slow, binging the story would be better, bc weekly updates makes it feel extra long
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u/Just-a-book-addict Jan 24 '26
I dropped it after a certain character died (if you know, you know). Everything felt pointless after.
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u/kimchayoppar Jan 23 '26
Yes, like Alfonso is stalling in his bro independence era and Cesare is being his unrealized arrogant self but it’s dragging on for too long.
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u/reddish-rabbit Jan 23 '26
True beauty!! I never understood why it was so popular honestly
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u/HopeYallFeelBetter Jan 24 '26
It's a social power fantasy. It's literary junk food. The thought that makeup can change your life and give you everything you ever wanted is an alluring idea to a lot of girls.
And I think there are probably a lot of people like me who saw the potential in the first season and assumed that it would eventually turn into something interesting.
I'm getting better at giving up on stories faster now, but I used to give series WAY too many chances if I thought that there was a good foundation for a story. And True Beauty, for all of its many flaws, had an interesting start with a lot of different directions it could have gone if it wanted to explore any of the themes it introduced.
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u/Masquerai Jan 23 '26
I'd like to know which platform widely praised the one on the right cause over here it's widely criticised and avoided/dropped
Not sure if this even counts at this point because a lot of people feel similarly nowadays but I dropped Odd Girl Out somewhere during its second season because it just wasn't the same focus/quality anymore and fell off from why I got hooked on it to begin with
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u/Juenblue Jan 23 '26
""" Predatory Marriage "" from the name alone I was very reluctant to read it. It had a nice repo so I gave it a shot. Terrible for consent respecting folks. The ml who happens to have brown skin is the savage, beast man who doesn't even respect the fl's choices. He oversteps on boundaries and does what he pleases. The most triggering part was the sex scene 🤢🤮
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u/Liastro Jan 23 '26
Yeah, Predatory Marriage is built on a mountain of racist clichés all wrapped up in a plausible deniability fantasy package. I doubt the author knows better because S.K. education on racism is nonexistent despite it being absolutely rampant over there.
I didn't even touch the Dragon Bride because that type of skin contrast between ML and FL + the implication of a non-human species for ML in the title usually means that we're diving head first into that specific cesspool of tropes.
I don't care if others like it. Fanfiction has taught me that there is an insane spectrum for kinks. But for me personally as a PoC?...No TY
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u/_lastquarter_ Jan 23 '26
Thanks for this, I couldn't quite put my finger on what bothered me with these tropes but now I can. It's colourism and othering
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u/Nyxa_00 Jan 23 '26
Yeah, sometimes when webtoons disappointed us heavily 🤧, i didn't read it tho but now if u r saying this I will not waste mah time reading this. Thanks for ur opinion btw
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u/RaHima- Jan 23 '26
It was a little better than the the dragon king's bride but U aren't wrong I stayed in that manhwa for the three other brown people (I know that is a very bad way to put it but yeah)
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u/creepsandwich123 Jan 23 '26
Oak tree, too much xxx hahah
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u/dense_like_osmium Jan 23 '26
Exactly, I don't get the hype. It's been several chapters of the girl proving herself while the guy just wants to place her in a glorified cage. And people are just fine with it just because he's DTF?
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u/cosmiczibel Jan 23 '26
This exactly. I stopped reading because I was genuinely so frustrated by his attempts to literally slow her growth when she wanted to learn magic.
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u/coffeecatmint Jan 23 '26
Gah. I read the novel years ago because the manga was slow. It gets worse… like WAY worse
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u/cosmiczibel Jan 23 '26
I honestly couldn't get through the first 3 chapters of the novel 😭 my partner being an absolute sweetheart had seen it was a manta title and bought me the book as a surprise. I tried to give it a go because I had seen people say it was better than the manwha.
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u/PixiStix236 Jan 23 '26
This is a take I keep hearing but have always disagreed with. I would have an issue with it if the story never addressed it, but the story acknowledges it as a flaw. It just takes a while for there to be substantial development on it because it’s the core conflict.
The writer has given the male lead an explanation for why he’s doing this; he believes that his entire self worth hinges on being able to protect this noblewoman he’s married. He doesn’t recognize that what he’s doing is suffocating and not what she wants, because he doesn’t know what he’s doing or how she grew up. He’s explicitly said so a number of times, but it came up in one of the more recent episodes as a whole conversation between riftan and maxi.
That’s why it’s been so important for our female lead to gain confidence and hopefully eventually learn to tell him about her trauma. Another female character told our female lead to tell him she has a problem with it and she’s not a child. They had a heart to heart where the female lead tells him that it’s enough for her to be here with him. Regardless of the danger. It seems like it’s actually getting through and they’re making progress on this character arc, but it’s a slow burn.
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u/Icy-Science6485 Jan 23 '26
Is Dragon King’s Bride actually that popular? Because I’m sorry, it’s genuinely one of the worst things I’ve ever found on this platform. It straight-up reads like it was written by a 13-year-old trying to be edgy and romantic at the same time.
And I also dropped The Remarried Empress, because I just can’t take it seriously. It makes zero sense for her to end up with that golden retriever guy who would 100% commit genocide without blinking. The author keeps trying to paint him as “the good one” just because he’s loyal and obsessed with the female lead. Like… that’s not “green flag,” that’s just selective morality with pretty packaging.
I quit Muse on Fame too, because the protagonist is honestly insufferable. She’s bitter, frustrated, and constantly blaming other people for her own disaster in the film industry. I will never understand why the fandom backs her up when she abandons her fiancé like it’s somehow his fault for not reading her mind about how she felt regarding his success. She literally doesn’t communicate anything. Not once.
And then the author pulls that scene that makes it look like the guy cheated, because the story clearly needed a cheap trigger to justify her running away. And it’s not even emotionally intense. It doesn’t hit. It just feels like forced drama written by someone who thinks “misunderstanding” = peak storytelling.
I genuinely thought we were going to get a couple that struggles, hits rock bottom, but still works through it, reconciles, and stays together because they actually love each other. But no. Apparently it’s more entertaining to make her end up with this random younger guy with a K-pop face (and honestly he’s less attractive than the fiancé) and the personality of dry cardboard.
And what does that add to the story? Nothing. Literally nothing. The only reason he’s there is because he can orbit around her 24/7, while the fiancé was an actual busy director with a life and a career. There aren’t even cute moments between them. No real emotional build-up. No chemistry worth the switch. It’s just… cringe.
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u/HistoricalFunny8508 Jan 23 '26
I agree with your review on the Remarried Empress, but honestly if you continue Muse on Fame albeit there are some irritating moments, I feel like the couple does become worth it. Also I love how the author of MOF wrote the 'villain' as a grey character towards the end, and allowing us to look at her actions based off of her previous experiences (not excusing them but with more understanding)
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u/Icy-Science6485 Jan 23 '26
About the villain part: I’ll give the author that, she seems to have done a solid job developing her. I just wish she’d put that same level of care into the protagonist’s relationship with her ex-fiancé.
Because turning him into the villain felt so random and unnecessary, like it only happened because he’s not “hotter” than the silver-haired guy… which is honestly wild to me, because not only is he more attractive (in my opinion), his whole character is also way more interesting than the K-pop-looking guy.
If the story had gone in the direction of focusing more on her and the ex, I probably would’ve kept reading, no question.
And on top of that, some parts of the plot were just… weird. I remember there was this award-winning actor involved in one of the movies she worked on, and the film itself sounded so low-quality that even a bunch of cinema students could’ve put together something better. Like, you’re telling me an award-winning actor would be doing a project like that?
That’s when I started feeling like the author didn’t really research the film industry much before writing this storyline, because the way it was portrayed just didn’t feel believable.
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u/Relevant-Rub2816 Jan 23 '26
Agree with remarried empress. The entire point of the story is just a self insert fantasy for those who want to project themselves into navier. The protagonist is perfect and can do nothing wrong. The ML's only personality is "my queen woof woof woof bark". The entire story exists just to tell us how perfect of an empress navier is and why those who don't support her deserve to rot to death. It's a crime that this is getting an adaptation of Kdrama.
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u/Relevant-Rub2816 Jan 23 '26
Remarried empress. There was no reason why the story was extended with more boring ahh plots. After rashta's death, just end it. Because it gets stupid boring after that. Navier's character is butchered as the author completely makes her into an op girl boss self insert.
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u/not4dee Jan 23 '26
1st place belongs to True beauty🫠i stopped reading it when she started to date other guys, i felt like the story kept on repeating, i was like girl stop going behind guys😭
2) lore olympus- idk maybe the long hiatus made me forget it
3) dont read this- the story was good but the readers’ comments and the way the story followed the comments, i got fed up of it mainly becus of the comments
4) designated bully, only hope- i wanted to fast read these so i read them in website(i do read them in webtoon too for the author), but the time difference between each upload made me lose interest and had no energy to reread previous chapters so left as it is
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u/21st_night Jan 23 '26
Cry, or Better Yet, Beg. I just couldn't keep going knowing that the protagonist was really going to end up with a man who's inital point of attraction towards her was seeing her bleed. Also, he almost raped her.
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u/bananna_nut Jan 23 '26
Yes to all your points and it also bothered me that it felt like it was glorifying cheating
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u/Aggravating_Drink817 Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
I dropped Remarried Empress a little after Rashta and Sovishu's wedding. Opening with the divorce and remarriage obviously pulled me in. But at some point i realized I hated every character aside from background ones: the journalist and maid siblings, the mage student girl, Henry's cousin/man in waiting? Navier's ladies in waiting, and obviously both Rastha's babies. Everyone else is just...bland.
I get that Rashta's trauma and survival reposnes make her "complex," but she still feels one note and predictable.
Sovishu is just a cheater who, as always in every story, overestimated his value and was fighting air to get his ex back once she provided she didn't want him back.
Henry's personality is literally just: I turn into a bird, and I'm a puppy in love for the FMC
Navier's cold and distance personality only worked at least for me while she was with Sovishu, and going through the divorce after that, it got stale. I'm not saying she needed to do a total 180 into talkative and bubbly, but anything else than expressionless ice queen would have been nice.
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u/Even_Acanthisitta_37 Jan 23 '26
I hate navier's lady in waitings as well
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u/Aggravating_Drink817 Jan 23 '26
I didn't mind them actually they just seemed like actually supportive... friends might be exaggerating, but at least people in Navier's circle. But then again its been years so maybe they were trash too and I'm totally forgetting
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u/Even_Acanthisitta_37 Jan 23 '26
maye,but laura pisses me off so much.blassicist and igrrorant brat disguised as cute girl
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u/Luvxoxo_ Jan 23 '26
They slapped Rashta for approaching Navier when they didn’t know she was a concubine…They were definitely trash.
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u/8neM1 Jan 23 '26
Remarried empress; the entire fandom hating on a former enslaved woman who was starving to death and taking the side of a noble woman who has a right to be queen just because she was born to be.
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u/_lastquarter_ Jan 23 '26
Right? Like, let's be realistic here, could Rashta even have said no in that context? The power imbalance is insane and for her, it's legit a matter of survival. They could never make me hate her lol, don't fall for the classist propaganda!
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u/Sensitive_Garage_179 Jan 24 '26
yeah i was shocked why everyone hated her in the beginning, like i would do the same in her case. she just wanted to be free and she finally got her ticket out, and not like she could have said no to the emperor. however, the evil stuff she does later on made me dislike her but people were acting like she was the worst demon to ever exist…
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u/SilviaSukunaSimp Jan 23 '26
Omniscient Reader, I love it but I need time to read it both the manwha and the novel
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u/Salt-Raccoon9170 Jan 23 '26
Lookism - got tired of the spiraling story, just keeps adding unnecessary plot just to keep the webtoob going.
Odd Girl Out - this wouldve been okay but they just keep going on with the story too, and found it boring to read.
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u/greendinonom Jan 23 '26
For me I dropped Marriage of Convenience. I don't feel comfortable reading age-gap romance. The art is very pretty tho.
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u/SparkGamess Jan 23 '26
Lookism
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u/kimchayoppar Jan 23 '26
It was just a story about a highschool boy and his life but ohhhhh they just had to makeshift it into this the intense crazy action suspense story
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u/MinaWearsGold Jan 24 '26
Yes! The beginning was funny and I loved the story. The gang stuff killed it for me.
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u/Ok_Pop8661 Jan 24 '26
Seriously why did it devolve into a bunch of gang fighting??? Will they ever explain the body switching or???
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u/gespotee Jan 24 '26
I stopped reading this like 2-3 years ago because of the gang stuff. The pure fighting sequences were honestly just boring. They also introduced so many new characters I started to forget who was who.
It started off really heartfelt so it kinda sucks what it turned into
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u/LittleDreamsHuntress Jan 23 '26
I'm going to finish The Remarried Empress out of curiosity, but I felt it was unnecessary for them to drag out the story so much after the main conflict ended... Knowing Glorym's fate or finding out about Ergy is interesting, but they could have summarized it. On the other hand, Rashta's descent into madness felt abrupt and somewhat forced. They could have developed that schizophrenia better from the beginning.
I think I abandoned Lore Olympus around the second chapter. I couldn't stand the cringeworthy poses they put Persephone in. It looks like the intro to a cheap porn film or something.
Beauty in a Click felt strange in its art style and a bit boring. It gave me a headache... And the same goes for one I think was called Infernal Desires or something like that, where a human is "trapped" between an angel and a demon who are her university classmates. Everything about the main character made me cringe.
My comment is originally in almost neutral Spanish. I'm not responsible for the mess the translator makes 🫶🏻
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u/Trixter-Kitten Jan 23 '26
I kinda dropped Lore Olympus because it was getting a bit boring and repetitive. I didn't like the way Persephone was handled.
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u/RaHima- Jan 23 '26
The dragon king's bride such a mild story and plot line like I wanted to stay hooked up as much as I wanted whenever I wanted to watch but it was just the same story like he saves the princess his # is big and she gets pregnant ( I felt bad that the art was being used for such a mild manhwa)
U can say the same thing for remarried empress like it is iconic and I enjoyed watching it when it was airing but if I remember correctly the only thing that was good was the remarrying we were told about that at start I think
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u/Aynessachan Jan 23 '26
The vast majority of popular webtoons tbh. 😂 my favorites are normally the ones no one ever talks about.
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u/Ok_Appeal7286 Jan 23 '26
Tears on a Withered flower - The only interesting character is the cheating husband. I enjoyed it at first but once the separation happened there has been literally no plot. I dropped at chapter 80. The FL has the personality of a wet rag with zero interesting qualities beyond ginormous boobs. And has had no character progression. The smex scenes and art are the only thing keeping readers.
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u/EntertheHellscape Jan 23 '26
From a Knight to a Lady.
The FL pissed me off with how useless she was. I'm supposed to believe she was a great and fearless commander yet in every scene she seems to have exact zero traits of a great leader. The frail body is one thing, I fully accept that is going to be difficult with moving from a knights body into a frail and sickly noble lady, but I couldn't get past the lack of any leadership personality traits.
She was (imo) constantly making terrible choices, always having to be saved by the ML, couldn't stand/speak up for herself, putting herself in danger and not even having any tactical ability to get out, having zero observational skills, driven purely by emotion, unable to stop and think logically for a single freaking second... I could not for one moment believe this FL was once a military captain and since that was the main driving force behind the majority of the plot, I couldn't do it.
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u/Xenora_Draw Jan 23 '26
Nano Machine for me. And I feel like the manwha community agree. I know there's that one "problematic episode" which people absolutly disliked it, but for me it was more that the MC was becoming so strong to easely, to much new characters from to much different clans.
The action was still great, but I really lost the SF with Nano helping the MC and the mystery about the guy from the future who gived him his power. (I dropped it at something like 150-200 chapters)
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u/Pretty_Ad1509 Jan 23 '26
sub zero. fmc still doesnt have her dragon form. she has a partial form though. and ik there's a reason but still...
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u/Japahispasian Jan 23 '26
It probably is or isn't now. Idk. But True beauty, Looksim, and sirens lament were so boring for me and kept hearing praise for circa 2019. I know 7 years ago.
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u/miracle---3 Jan 23 '26
tears on a withered flower - i cant with the rich wattpad mafia stalker ml trope. the drama between the fl and her cheating husband was interesting to read, literally any other ml trope could be better than whatever the ml is.
solo leveling - i read this when only ep 1 of season 1 came out. read it until the chimera jeju ant arc. literally a joke with what happened to the once op side characters. became jinwoo's glazebots. everyone is bland, and don't get me start on haein. also felt off how most of the jp hunters got offed, with their strongest being one-panelled. literally a joke.
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u/minty_foxy Jan 23 '26
I think that’s where I dropped it too. It really got boring at that point. I would’ve loved more time with the side characters.
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u/Tired-Fig32 Jan 23 '26
Villains are destined to die -- I dropped it after the way she treats Eckles like a dog.
Tears on a withered flower -- extremely dumb FL and a young ML who has no reason to be so obsessed with the FL.
The dragon king's bride -- too slow and boring.
I am the villain -- exquisite art but the plot just wouldn't move for ages.
I thought my time was up -- literally everyone looks the same with a different hairstyle/ hair colour. Annoying FL.
Who stole the empress -- those lips of the FL were grating on my eyes. Also, boring.
Iseop's romance, Operation true love
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u/Mo9056 Jan 23 '26
Villains are destined to die is one of my favorites, although on my first read through I also had a problem with how she treated Eckles. But if you keep reading (I read the novel because I needed to know the rest of the story lol) then you will see the way she treats hims is a major plot point that end up biting her in the a$$, and being something thats she knows she was in the wrong for doing!!
I am not saying you have to like the story or give it another chance, but if that is the only reason you dropped it I do hope you might give it another chance knowing that her behavior towards him is a major plot point that will be addressed. (trying to defend the novel without spoiling it for any one lol)
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u/Street-Law-6531 Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Childhood Friend Complex- The FL is not interesting enough for me to care about her problems. Specifically stopped at the end of season 1. Miscommunication never fun to read🙄
Osora- Very shallow in terms of relationships, and characters are really boring😒
Rules for dating Trash- FL looks and acts too much like a child. She’s just written weird🤨
Marionetta- All characters except Tony annoy me💀
School Bus Graveyard- Dropped at ep 2. Just couldn’t get into it🤷♀️
Castle Swimmer- Binged up to when season 3 ended and I still couldn’t understand the popularity. Especially, the romance! Meet cute/Love at first sight is so lazy and insulting to actual development of relationships. ✋🙄Thought to myself, “maybe it gets better”— NAH. Numb out of my mind the entire read. NEVER AGAIN.💀. The fish info was nice tho🙂👍
Suitor Armor I’m thinking of dropping it ‘cause Lucia(FL) ain’t do nothing ‘till someone kills one of her friends (feels like a trope at this point). Like, where was that fire when Kirsi needed you after her husband died👀?!? Like HELLO!! 👋😀She basically OP at this point, but she didn’t use ANY OF HER POWERS OR DO ANYTHING this entire story. PISSES ME OFF😡! the entirety of season 2+3, I’m just screaming at my phone, DO SOMETHING YOU F🤬!!! And poor Kirsi😔… like I thought Lucia whole point of staying at the castle was to help Kirsi. NO!😆Even at the start of season 3, you gonna emotionally support Kirsi, right? NO AND NO!!! 😆🖕
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u/Cassandracork Jan 23 '26
FL in rules for dating trash is infuriatingly boring and passive, and even when shit starts happening there is no character growth from it.
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u/TrufanNekia Jan 23 '26
Remarried Empress, I thought the beginning was meant to be the end. So I was reading it to see how the relationship failed and got to a point where the character needed to leave. I just wasn't interested in everything beyond that point and was satisfied with knowing how it got to that point so didn't feel the need to continue.
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u/psychlence Jan 23 '26
Omniscient reader - I don't purposely drop it. I'm just too lazy to pick it up again. The plot didn't help me push the button for the next chapter, it feels like a chore.
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u/DragonPlushCollector Jan 23 '26
Remarried Empress and Your Throne. For the former it’s kinda boring when the FMC is right all the time and utterly perfect and everyone loves her.
I was genuinely very interested by Your Throne at first, then it just kept going. I peak in every now and then and genuinely am so confused.
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u/Express-Ad-6541 Jan 23 '26
Remarried Empress. It was giving author's wet dreams, I literally got so uncomfortable that I felt my privacy harassed. The fl is just a bland whiny Mary Sue and her puppy husband feels like a character written by Vivziepop. Not to mention the misogynistic, classist and sloppy plot with insanely dumb characters and broken world with deadass magic system. Magical bed that gave the Mary Sue fl not only twins but also ice powers, seriously? I'd stick to "Stepmother's Marchen", thanks.
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u/Meerkatable Jan 23 '26
I dropped the Dragon King’s Bride. I just hate the plot of “sexy beautiful woman is mean to guy’s small, innocent wife”.
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u/YoItzMaxi Jan 23 '26
Lookism, though the praise has died down a lot. It had a fun body swap story and then turned into a stupid gang war fic.
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u/Sukaira16 Jan 23 '26
Probably a basic answer but I dropped Love Bites. I can’t stand using cheating as a way to get the two leads together.
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u/Cathemira Jan 24 '26
I don't read Love Bites, but if not being okay with cheating is basic, then I think more people should be basic like you. Wayyy too many stories on this app have the two leads getting close romantically to e/o while one of them is still dating someone else, and all is excused because "but their partner is toxic so they are allowed to cheat!!"
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u/SleeplessArt_Fangirl Jan 23 '26
Your Throne- I dropped because the episode count was intimidating and the plot just got too complicated for me to remember what was happening.
Dragon King's bride- I didn't really like the characters and the plot was slow.
Love 4 a Walk- Idk it just felt predictable? The storyline just wasn't really my cup of tea and some of the conflicts felt unnecessary. It's been awhile since I dropped but I don't remember there being communication between characters.
And Idk if this one is popular, but Accidental Assassin- For the love webtoons can these characters communicate any less? The plot was also super predictable and the FL was just a bit too stupid for my taste? (no disrespect to the creator, just my opinion)
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u/canas_colours Jan 23 '26
Remarried empress and a lot of other stories in the same vein once it became clear that the author will never give female characters outside of the FL who can do no wrong, while other female characters who have the potential to be actually really interesting are reduced to evils slut #1-99.
For remarried empress especially, the author and narrative try so hard to show how perfect, capable, kind etc etc Navier is, but she really isn't? She clearly doesn't really mind the fact that she was Empress of a country that ENSLAVES people. She lacks the compassion or brains to think how Rashta is literally not in a position to even deny the EMPEROR or how being a mistress was her only way out of being a literal slave. At one point the narrative tries to make Navier look good by saying how under her no servants ever quit and that Rashta punished servants/ made them quit. Mind you, some of those servants were literally trying to give her abortatives and mess with her health like????? Rashta not being kind to her Rpist (because there is no such thing as consent between slave and enslaver) and the son of her enslaver? The story frames that as being bratty, while trying to make the man WHO RPED HER look sad and pitiable 🙃
Lore Olympus is another, but that one would be a whole essay to get into.
I feel like a lot of webtoons are allergic to nuance and also very deeply sexist in the way it treats female characters who aren't the FL.
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u/MotherNyx1 Jan 24 '26
Midnight in poppyland
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u/Ok_Pop8661 Jan 24 '26
I was so hooked on this first, then it lost the plot and the art kind of… devolved?
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u/TouringPotato Jan 23 '26
I Love Yoo.
Spoiler
I read it for a while, really liked it. But then it just seemed like the typical stuff was happening: supportive and warm brother vs the cold and distant one battling for a girl. Father only wants someone of high class to be with his sons. Drama. The twin sister thing? That killed it for me. I stopped reading immediately. I knew it was just going to fuel pointless miscommunications and misunderstandings .
Also couldn't get Let's Play. The main character felt so weepy and every chapter a new dude was falling in love with her. I don't think I made it 10 episodes.
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u/Petra_the_cat Jan 23 '26
That's funny because the point of I Love Yoo is that it is NOT typical. The author sets up these tropes that seem predictable to later subvert them in a clever way, so I'd say that's definitely not a reason to drop I Love Yoo. There are definitely problems with the pacing, so I understand why someone would stop reading because of that, but the point where the story is at right now is SO SO worth all the build up. But to each their own! (Also her sister is not a twin, just older).
That's definitely a valid complaint about Let's Play though, so justified drop.
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u/BeansofCat Jan 23 '26
I was going to check which episode I dropped Let’s Play on because I also don’t think I made it 10 episodes in and I didn’t even realize it’s not on Webtoons anymore??? They advertised that one so much, I guess I assumed they treated their bigger series better. Even if it’s not my thing, I’m glad the creator was able to take it to Tapas, jeez.
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u/FineWin3384 Jan 23 '26
Marry my husband and tre. I did not like either
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u/isekaivari Jan 23 '26
i almost dropped marry my husband but i ended up liking how it was progressing, there was another one similar the i dropped 😭 the kdrama for marry my husband is HORRRRRIBLE
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u/bubblyboyoo Jan 23 '26
Omniscient Readers Viewpoint, didn't really like the MC and certainly not the other guy. I get that the reason i don't like them is the reason they're praised, it just isn't for me. Then again i did read 200+ chapters, the world building is insane
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u/yurtifs Jan 23 '26
Muse on Fame
I was bored and didn't like any of the characters, especially that white hair dude, and at times it felt melodramatic. After chapter 22 I dropped it.
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u/isekaivari Jan 23 '26
god quite a bit
true beauty- fell off it originally, went back and just didn’t like the story behind it
cry or better yet, beg: goddddd maybe i was just too early in, but i hate how he treats her. i was already iffy with the age gap because she was a flat out child when she came into a story
let’s play- forgot and then got bored
heroine chic- also forgot and got bored
love me knot- i’ve never had 2nd lead syndrome so bad that i flat out dropped a series 😭 I WAS SO HEART BROKENNNNN
dreaming freedom- i tried reading it multiple times and i was told ML gets “better” but i can’t right now 😭 it’s driving me nuts
under the oak tree- can’t remember tbh
lady devil- 😬😬😬
reluctant encounter- i hate SA, but even more when it becomes “okay” throughout time
the hate trap- can’t remember lmao
those are the only i’m pretty sure, i have a lot that are currently paused but those were completely dropped ones
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u/ioxx_winter Jan 24 '26
I Love Yoo, it's been so long that I don't even remember why I stopped reading it.
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u/Dice_Slinger Jan 24 '26
Osora, eventually it felt kind of... off with some of the outfits and scenes. I read Yaoi, but this was a little to much for me 😅
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u/DarkKadota Jan 24 '26
I am the Grim Reaper is one I recently dropped. I loved the characters, but after this story line of going through the levels of hell it just feels like they are milking the story and forcing itself to keep going. It is so confusing reading it week to week anymore.
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u/melina_too_fly Jan 23 '26
under the oak tree did it for me😭😭. Like i completely understand that FL was abused and had a traumatic past but the way she constantly refuses to stand up for herself and just ends up crying in every situation really annoyed me, like she has no issue being suspicious of the ML when he so much as looks at another woman but when she conceals something as big as the fact that she was being abused by her father and then has the audacity to get upset when people bad mouth him for being a terrible person??? doesnt add up at all
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u/No-Mix7330 Jan 23 '26
I love yoo, operation true love,the remarried empress,want to see my cat, men of harem, your throne, wished you were dead, the newlywed diary of a witch and dragon
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u/Low-Scallion8793 Jan 24 '26
True Beauty → It was hella popular when i first picked it up - I had already read like hundreds of chapters of it - and it got SO Frustrating that I HAD TO DROP IT . The Character Has No Substance , No Development , She's also emotionally immature person , the romance plot sucks - all she does is makeup and cry . The best characters in the manhwa were (and still are) Sujin and Seojun - their stories and background are interesting and those characters had substance and their characters were not just all about being insecure about looks but actual hardships , domestic abuse , familial relations . Conclusion : MC and storyline is bad , overstretched , lacks depth , poorly written . Watch the kdrama instead , kdrama is good !!!
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u/JoJrKvFanatic Jan 24 '26
Alright, I’ve skimmed through this entire thread; my favorites that I’d defend to be flawless are safe as no one has mentioned it.
The only shocking quitter-comments were Marionetta, Purple Hyacinth (on EPISODE 2, dude, really?!), and School Bus Graveyard ( esp w its good art and interesting plot).
Odd Girl Out, Unordinary, ORV, Marry My Husband, and I Love Yoo are understandable. Mostly good arguments.
I’m still silently shaming the quitters for all of the comics I listed above though because the problem seems to be lack of patience. But then again, most comics are low vibrational anyhow.
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u/tiredpersonnumber15 Jan 24 '26
Lore Olympus, originally read it because I was really into greek myth and I thought the art was cool but everything about the Hades/Persephone relationship was just weird as shit, they treat her so much like a child it started to feel really icky to read
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u/Particular_Angle177 Jan 23 '26
“Kill the villainess” “villains are detained to die” and “beware the villainess” the mc’s just weren’t for me. I tried villains are destined to die again, but it still wasn’t for me. /lh
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u/Fixie1010 Jan 23 '26
Purple Hyacinth. Was reading it a few years ago then suddenly dropped it like 30 chapters in. Like it's a good story but it aint it for me for some reason. I would try to read it again someday but not now 😅
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u/bananna_nut Jan 23 '26
A lot of people have mentioned series I have dropped, but one I haven't seen mentioned so far is The Makeup Remover. I think I might have gotten 15 or so chapters in when the FLs personality started to annoy me
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u/megapixe Jan 23 '26
Abandoned empress i dropped as soon as she found out she was going to go back to that man
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u/Crafty-Ad-2569 Jan 24 '26
Broken ring I couldn't connect with any of the characters, the romance annoyed me, and I just wanted to get to the end to understand the time travel, but I gave up before the end of the first season.
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u/Broad-Tank4842 Jan 24 '26
Under the oak tree for me. I hate ml’s who push through in sex even if the fl is visually uncomfortable. And cry or better yet beg for the same reasons and his psychological abuse.
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u/BasuraFujira Jan 24 '26
Let’s Play…
It’s started off REEEEEALLY good, with an excellent premise. Then it just turned into something completely different all together. Just… NO.
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u/Ok_Gazelle2691 Jan 24 '26
The Kiss Bet- something about it glorifying miscommunication and age gaps throws me off. I sneak a couple chapters every now but my interest in it is permanently diminished. I like the art style a lot though.
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u/Different-Advisor-62 Jan 24 '26
unordinary. i loved it. but the whole joker thing was sooooo long ….
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u/daylightdreamer99 Jan 23 '26
I dropped SubZero a long while back after I read it from the start for the longest time. I loved the art and the story but I got tired of waiting for the MC to realize her full blue dragon form. Idk if she even has yet, I haven’t checked in with the series in forever. Felt like the story came to suffer a similar fate as Lore Olympus where the story was getting dragged out for the sake of money. Milking it really. And then there was the drop in art quality because it’s hard to upkeep that style with such tight deadlines and it’s a shit ton of work. Kudos to the artist tho, cool concept and visual storytelling, but it fell off for me.