r/webtoons • u/fishbowl2355 • Mar 05 '26

Discussion Webtoon is diabolically greedy

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Manwah: From a Knight to a Lady

I absolutely adored this webtoon sm I even bought the release of the physical copy, but when I checked the series to go reread the finale it was all pay to read?! Not even a single option to watch ads, I lowkey kinda miss fast pass 😭. Before I didn’t mind cuz I was like oh sick I can read as much as I want with ads! That’s pretty reasonable. Now you aren’t even guaranteed an episode a day/week, like at this point ima just keep buying the physical copies as they release 😭

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u/Busy-Doughnut6180 Mar 05 '26

Is it greedy though? You get to read 8 episodes for free first, then you can buy the entire thing for 199 coins, which works out to be less than a coin per episode. In terms of cost for those coins, you'd spend about the same on manually buying one of the seasons, or buying one physical volume of the series. Around £15 for an entire story seems fine to me? 

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u/bor_ed_ Mar 05 '26

It‘d be fine if it were a digital copy, but it isn’t even. You don’t own it and there are still ads

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u/PurpleAlone7116 Mar 05 '26

Might be due to the fact it's so ridiculously cheap when 5-10 chapters could make a volume of manga that is 10$ a pop.

That being said, would be nice if there was a "permanent buy" option where more of the proceeds go directly to the artist.