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God, I need to say this after the long turn-around panel, but the art in this story is fucking phenomenal. Genuinely the best colored art I've seen on here. It doesn't have that stiffness, that comes with inexperienced artists focusing on making all the characters as attractive as possible.
Did they use stock 3d models for the background? I genuinely do not know, but if they did, they did it masterfully. Characters aren't teleported from place to place, we can see Slan maneuvering the tight corridors of the palace. Rather than the studio-lighting we're all used to, the artist isn't afraid to color grade and let the characters blend in. The pacing is GORGEOUS, the composition is BREATHTAKING!!! The character design is great! The motions are great!! The subtle details are great!!!!!
Despite not being tagged as such, I'd argue this is largely a psychological manhwa. We are put in a place of the amnesiac Slan and we know for a fact, that someone is scheming against him. Not only can we not trust the other characters, but we can't even trust Slan, as he sometimes hallucinates or falls into complete panic. The art of this manhwa serves this atmosphere phenomenally. What is real and what is a delusion? What do those tiny twitches in that characters face mean? What can I get from those fragments of a memory? Why did the artist decide, that this character needs another panel to capture their reaction or lack of it? It keeps you wondering and it keeps you tense. It's so goooooooooood oh my god it's so good!!!!!!!!!