General Manhwa Thread

True, but just look at the thread, it's almost brain dead and honestly, some works like Noblesse, Tower Of God, and Trace needs more attention.

Trace is over (making it harder to talk about) and I have to disagree with Noblesse not being popular by pointing out that it is the 7th most-popular series on www.tenmanga.com and 17th in monthly views on Mangafox. We just don't talk about it that much.

Though the reason for that is probably the same as the reason the other thread does not get more trafic: we are manga/mamhwa fans more than webtoon fans and so we hang out on this part of the forum and hardly ever visit the Webcomic part. Or at least that is true for me.

edited 24th Aug '11 6:40:05 AM by Belian

Ah, true, I should correct myself; Noblesse is not very known in THIS site. Still, I want more tropers to be fans of this series.

Hmm...if I were to describe this show in terms of other series, like "X but much more awesome" or "X meets Y", what would be good?

edited 24th Aug '11 6:43:58 AM by dRoy

weird you say that, dRoy, because the only reason I made a separate thread for them was because they were detracting from the other manhwa!

I think we need to ask a mod to move thayt thread from the webcomic section to the anime-maanga section. It was a mistake on my behalf to suggest it to be made there, when the fans are most likely to be looking for it in this section.

Anybody know a mod?

I do...but I need to stay away from them for a while.

My brain wants to say "Like Twilight..." but my heart rejects the idea of even associating the two, let alone comparing them. Even if that is the only other series I can think of with a lot of supernatural (and supernaturally) "HOT" male characters.

Hmm... have to think about this a bit. Maybe True Blood, but that is still a Lit reference, not an anime/manga one, and does not have the Mad Scientist stuff.

edited 24th Aug '11 8:38:06 AM by Belian

What's the best Manhwa that has women with kidneys?

The women in "Unbalance x Unbalance" seem to need serious blood filtering.

Cross-post because I would like to talk about it and the other thread is fairly dead

I don't know if anyone is still interested in this thread, but the current Tower of God chapter explains a WHOLE LOT about the situation everyone is in at this point. And dang the floor master-thing is smart (I think that is the right Pot Hole). Not only does it set up a test that challenges the whole group of people, but it arranges for Baam to fight a tough opponent to prove that his own skill/power is enough to bring her along up the tower. Not to mention said "arranging" requires taking advantage of all the unique people who decided to get involved all on their own.

Not sure anyone has noticed, but Trace is updating again :D

Currently "Trace 1.5" is up to chapter 4 on a site I visit.

I must say... this is going to be interesting.

Holy fuck YES!

Well, would you look at that, the tenth and possibly the last volume of Unbalance X Unbalance is out.

Recently came across a very nice adult Manhwa, don't know if it's been posted before:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SunKenRock

I'm not sure if it's own thread is justified yet, since it doesn't seem to have a large fanbase here.

Necroing for the hell of it.

Stuff I've been following:

The Legend Of Maian - Shaping up to be the kind of classic Epic Fantasy Adventure that Manga just doesn't do any more. The main cast is entirely likable, the art is good, and the world is generic enough that nobody's gonna get lost.

Beast 9- Gender-bending Mecha Action. It's all stuff that I've seen before, but perhaps because of that it's very, very good: Like a double-with-bacon-and-cheese at your hometown burger joint, it's nice to find something that's simply fun to read, without any extra narrative strings attached.

School Shock - Chinese instead of Korean. It's like Infinite Stratos, except somebody took the highly-mobile-powered-armor premise and used it to do something other than establish a harem.

Overall, I think the thing I like most about Manhwa is that it seems like everybody's focused on telling a story that people want to read first and foremost - the series here aren't trying to be different for the sake of being different, they're not pandering to a niche market, and they're not trying to win awards for being 'artsy'.

edited 29th Apr '13 12:40:24 AM by HighVelocityPointyThings

To add to the necro: I just finished Unbalance x Unbalance. Despite an iffy beginning, sticking with it ended up satisfying. I thought it was a good read.

Guess now to find other Korean stuff that I'll try to get into later.

The Breaker Manhwa Dub Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TteflLpRFA

Actually kinda nice, for a fan dub