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The God of High School

"The God of Highschool" is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by Yongie Park. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon from April 2011 to December 2022, with the individual chapters collected and published by Imageframe under their Root label into four volumes as of January 2023. It received official English translations by Line Webtoon beginning in July 2014.  It has received a mobile game and an original net animation (ONA) short attached to the aforementioned game's original soundtrack. An anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA aired from July to September 2020. The action takes place and involves the inhabitants of three different realms, the Human Realm is mainly populated by humans and identical to our known world. It is the least powerful realm followed by the Sage Realm and then the Heavenly Realm at the highest. The Sage Realm , also known as the Demon Realm, Taoist World or Ot...

Omniscient Reader

Omniscient Reader is a South Korean web novel written by Sing Shong. It was first published on January 6, 2018, on the platform Munpia and ended on February 2, 2020. The main character Kim Dokja is an office worker who reads the novel "Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World". The world of the novel suddenly becomes reality, and Dokja becomes the only person who knows how the world will end, as he was the one and only reader of that novel, cause it wasn't famous. He attempts to change the course of the story by solving and conquering challenges, known as scenarios in the series. The MC's life takes a drastic turn, his boring office life becomes actively challenging and adventurous. In the story, he gathers a group of allies and companions, known as Kim Dokja's Company. An ongoing webtoon adaptation illustrated by Sleepy-C launched on Naver on May 26, 2020. Its first two collected volumes were released by A.Tempo Media on December 22, 2020, with nine collected volu...

A Bad Person

"A Bad Person" is an ongoing Korean manhwa which revolves around a kind high school guy struggling to become a bad person. Now what would be the reason to do so? The reason is quite interesting. The protagonist has a girl bestfriend who once in childhood told him that he is kind and she will marry a kind person like him. From that day, he becomes kind, who helps everyone, behaves decently, being polite with everyone, tops in the school, appreciated by everyone in school and society. But one day, he sees his crush which is his childhood friend being close with a delinquent boy from his class and she confesses that she is dating him. Our MC asks her that didn't she said she wanted a kind guy? She replied that now she like bad and cool boys. This totally freaked the MC and he returns his home in fury deciding to be the worst person in the society. The plot twist is that our kind and gentle MC belongs to the biggest gangster family of Korea, that is the Fire Bear Gang. He is ...

The Boxer

"An unimaginable talent without rivalry. Will it prove itself to be a blessing or a curse? You have got the raw talent. Or you are the underdog. But do you have the heart? Do you have what it takes? Let's see what you are made of. The real fight starts now! "  The Boxer is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by Jung Ji-Hoon. It was serialized via Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon from December 2019 to June 2022, with the individual chapters collected and published into 8 volumes. The story goes like this that there is a 17 years old boy named Yu, who has suffered ruthless bullying for most of the part of his life and thus becomes emotionally numb, no longer able to act like a normal human being. Although he possesses an exceptional talent to dodge punches, Yu prefers to let his perpetrators beat him down as he finds no meaning his survival. Things begin to change when Yu meets an old boxing trainer "K". Having...

Existence

Existence is a Korean manhwa created in 2022 by Gwang-Jin and Kim Kyungjun. It is a story about Lee Ja-in , a human who has the power of every creature he has ever reincarnated as. He has lived tens of thousands of reincarnations and lives as various kinds of animals and plants, every time died by the hands of humans. He doesn't know why every time he dies gets reincarnated with the memories of previous lives, and he develops hate and agony for the whole mankind. The time he gets reincarnated as a human, he has the power of everything he has lived as. He was born with the purpose of eradicating humans, however, in his life as a human, he began to meet people who made him feel emotions. His mom loved him so much, although every other single person used to call him abnormal and a freak, as he never spoke for years, nor showed any facial expression. After so many years he started to feel love and care for his mother, but she was killed by few men in order to protect him.  The fatherle...

Lookism

  Lookism is a South Korean manhwa written and illustrated by Taejun Pak. It was first published weekly in November 2014. The story revolves around a high school student who can switch between two bodies, one fat and ugly, and the other fit and handsome. So the protagonist Park Hyung Seok is an unpopular and bullied high school student who is looked down on by his fellow students for his obesity. Bullied and harassed everyday by a delinquent. Resolving to run away from his problems and start a new life, he moves to Seoul and plans to attend a new high school. A few nights before attending his new school, he receives a new body, which is tall, muscular and handsome. When one is in use the other falls asleep. He uses the handsome one for the daytime and the original one for the night. As with the time passes, he sees that how the world starts to treat him nicely because of his new looks and realizes the discrimination against ugly people. He experiences discrimination and hate for hi...

The Beginning After The End (TBATE)

"The Beginning After The End" is a very popular manhwa novel series developed in Korea. It was first published on January 18, 2017 and officially released on July 6, 2018. Crafted by the talented TurtleMe, this series has a breathtaking storyline and can be considered one of the most popular manhwa out there. It has nine volumes : Early Years, New Heights, Beckoning Fates, Horizon's Edge, Convergence, Transcendence, Divergence, Ascension and Reckoning.  It is thrilling webcomic, accentuating a fantasy oriented realm with powerful mages, beasts and godly personalities. The core of TBATE revolves around Arthur Leywin, a unique character with an interesting background. He was a king, namely King Grey who was living a mighty life as a responsible king but wasn't happy and satisfied. After his death, he gets reborn and wants to live a more fulfilled life as compared to his previous one. However, he encounters difficulties and momentary obstacles that prevent him from achi...

Solo Leveling

  Solo Leveling is a South Korean web novel written by Chugong. A webtoon adaptation of solo leveling was first serialized in KakaoPage pn March 4, 2018; it was illustrated by Jang Sung-rak (Dubu). The webtoon's first season concluded on March 19, 2020 and its second season was released from August 2020 to December 2021. Its individual chapters have been collected and published by D&C Media in nine volumes as of August 2023. The webtoon has been licensed in English by Yen Press. In a world where hunters, human warriors who possess supernatural abilities, must battle deadly monsters to protect mankind from certain annihilation, a notoriously weak hunter named Sung Jinwoo finds himself in a seemingly endless struggle for survival. One day, after narrowly surviving an overwhelmingly powerful double dungeon that nearly wipes out his entire party, a mysterious program called the System chooses him as its sole player and in turn, gives him the unique ability to level up in stren...