July's manga / #Webtoon(264)

Art is quite good, it gives a 1900's feel. Premise is male lead is in a complicated family where he's abused by his father, and he wants to bring him down by becoming a male prostitute. The man who solicits him has a grudge against the male lead's older half brother, so they join forces and have lots of sex. Convoluted plot shenanigans abound. The best part is the art, but I'm not too fond of the other stuff. It's just not compelling to read, since it's hard to sympathize with these characters.

Cultivation webtoon with weapon souls, the male lead wants the weakest soul to achieve the perfect martial arts technique. There's a girl who likes him but when she sees that he's obtained the weakest weapon soul, rejects him because she only likes strong people. Basically don't judge people by their apparent strength. The art is not bad, and translation is understandable, unlike other cultivation webtoons. Interested to see more. I don't really like the male lead though, he's as off-putting just like all the other leads in cultivation webtoons.

Trying to bring a new twist to the both tired genres of Cinderella and isekai stories, the female lead ends up reincarnated as the evil stepmother. But this time, she's going to raise all her kids right, including Cinderella, yay~ Although it sounded interesting at first, I feel the execution is severely lacking. There's too much thinking going on in the female lead's part and nothing happening. Seriously, almost every panel is filled with her thoughts. I don't care for any of the characters, they're all bland and don't stand out. I am not getting any personality from any of them, even the main character, since she thinks too much and doesn't do anything. She's too passive and it's boring. Sigh. The art is ok, but nothing great. The daughters are ugly compared to the stepmother and Cinderella, which sucks. They don't question their mother's sudden change in attitude at all. The names are incredibly stupid. We have Mildred, Sandra, Iris, Lily, Ashley, Gary, and Fred. Like the most uncreative names ever....

I don't consider this to be incest because it's not between blood-related siblings. They're as biologically related as two random strangers, since the brother is from father + previous wife and the sister is from mother + previous man. Lots of incest-seeming stories have this fake-out like it makes it ok, but then it just makes the whole set-up pointless. When I read incest, I want incest, not fake incest! Also, between cousins doesn't count either. Anyway, besides the awful switch out, there's lots of rape in every single chapter, so I don't know what the author was going on for, is incest bad and rape ok? No clue. There's no development and it's just the same chapter over and over again, with the brother raping the sister, the sister saying no, the teacher being clueless. Skip this. Also, the art is shit.

It's really trashy smut, which is typical of Coolmic webtoons. No plot, flat characters, meaningless sex. The art is not that good, since it's in black and white but lacks the detail of manga. It's basically a poor man's yaoi manga. Yep. Skip.

The art is not good, it uses blurry and faded lines which make it look washed out in a bad way. The proportions of body to head look wrong. Story is about a vampire raising a werewolf child, but plot twist is that the vampire killed his father. It looks unpromising. I would have been more interested to know how the vampire raised the kid, but nope, it skips straight to young adulthood so the BL can happen. Bleh. Not very inspiring to say the least. Also makes no sense he doesn't recall his father's killer's face.

Dam seems to be immortal and has the power to make things grow quickly, including plants and humans. I'm not sure how his power works or if he can control it. It's unclear how much time has passed since Dam was in school and discovered his dark gift. Everyone around him grows old and dies, and he's lost connection with the human world. I'm not too enthralled with the story just yet, since it's so early, but it doesn't really make me want to read more, like I want to know what happens next. It might be because the author chose to make Dam the main character, and since he's so complacent and apathetic, it transmits to the reader as well. The storyteller's voice is super important! Anyway, the art is very simple and not that pleasing to look at. Overall, a below average webtoon.

Promotional one shot for a novel I'm guessing. Too much is going on in the single chapter, and the art is so-so, it doesn't really interest me to want to read more. Pretty average one shot. Update: Looks like this got serialized. Looking alright so far, the art is more palatable now.

Uhhhhhh. This is really bad. The art is poor -- the coloring and heavy solid lines are extremely unappealing to look at. The body proportions are off. People walk around half-naked or naked like it's normal, for fan service purposes, even when the drawings are atrocious and no one wants to see such abnormally drawn muscular bodies (except the rabid fangirls/boys). Anatomically speaking, more is not always better. There's a limit on how muscular a guy's body should be. Also, it's not realistic that every guy is that muscular. Unless I guess this is bara. Does it even make sense that a mage is that muscular, even more muscular than the knights and the kings? You do know that mages fight with magic and not with physical strength right? Anyway, the male lead is a passive idiot and he just goes along with everything. Not to mention he's acting completely out of character for his supposedly evil king persona, yet no one questions it. People seem to forget that he's a king sometimes, including himself. He doesn't even speak like royalty, he uses informal language. You know he's doing a bad job when his daughter sounds more like royalty than him. Even the young prince of the other kingdom sounds more formal. Also, I don't know which country would just call the King by his first name, people would always address royalty without names, since it's a title. You don't say King Kenneth directly to his face. Ugh. Also Kenneth is a terrible name. Vicar is not a name, it's a position in the church. Sigh. So awful.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this webtoon. The art is not my taste, although I can see that it might appeal other people. It's overly simple and uses a faded palate of colors, that are pretty limited in scope. Lines are opened like they're leaking onto other objects. It's almost like a watercolor style but it's not drawn with the details of good watercolor style drawings, and lacks the bolder lines to complete the figures and objects. The plot is non-existent. A really strong prince is cursed to feel sexual pleasures every night, but he can be helped by having sex with a divine beast man. Sigh. The characters are not likeable and lack depth. The divine beast man is like a child so it bothers me to see them doing adult things, even if they're aware of what they're doing. He's also really stupid and it gets on my nerves. It's not "cute" or "adorable" to not know things and fail at learning them quickly. That's just being stupid and not adapting easily to the human world. I've read stories where non-human adapt and learn much quicker than this. The prince is supposed to be a badass but he's really not, he's so passive and weak and being a tsundere for no reason. Also I hate how they always don't communicate and that leads to "plot" or lack thereof. It's bad story writing to use forced misunderstandings constantly to advance. Like nothing else can happen? Such as external forces or internal struggles? Hating oneself for something like "Oh, I killed a bunch of people, so I don't deserve happiness" is not a valid point, especially the way it's done here. That's the same plot line that the webtoon "Truthfully, They Only Remembered Her" uses and it sucks there too. It's one thing to actually show the killing and follow the emotional turmoil after in detail, but it's another to just skip the killing and tell the readers about it. What happened to show, don't tell? It also bothers me how the prince looks so feminine with his clothes on and so masculine with his clothes off. I think that's poor drawing skills at play here, since if you know any anatomy, that's not remotely possible. That's just stupid fanservice at work. Yeah, skip this if you like good stories. If you just like sex, it sucks too since it's doubly censored with light sabers and occlusion, which makes no sense to me.