Comment by Ethan Elliot on Tyrus

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@Tyrus yeah, I outright refuse to read murim bull and run in the opposite direction of manhua, though a few still end up luring me in because they are so similar to manwha. 🤣 The entire inner and outer energy, breathing techniques, body disorders that are actually beneficial for martial artists because... energy! Take this pill, that pill, and this other extract and you will become 150x stronger as long as you can meditate! 🤣 it's all about how you breath, that's how you get stronger, just breath! 🤣 yep, it all just gotta come from the gut, ya know? 😂 breathing like that is just SOOOO deep. Eating them energy plant ba*** are just SOOO deep. Meditation... hashtag deep... 😂

Anyways! Yeah, just about every manwha/manhua, for the first 24 chapters, is just the author tossing cr** at a wall and seeing what sticks. This means that any philosophical bull will eventually mean nothing anyways -_- Them usually being based off LNs, which are written the same way, is a big reason why. You have a good idea, you just start writing cr** out and seeing where it goes. You then take your favorite parts and end up going in a completely random direction and that's what your story becomes... so all the pseudo-philosophical bullshit you spewed at the beginning quickly just becomes a gate keep to keep people from actually getting to the good part of the story bunny stickerthus why I prefer a trickle in... you only have 2 or 3 items to adjust instead of a massive world building element that half your audience just dropped your product because of.

...becauseMAGIC

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@Ethan Elliot

well that's up to personal taste^^ Murim/Wuxia/whatever, they always start as light fun and it's fantasy so if you just say "There is energy all around us and you can get stronger by either absorbing it or using plants that have absorbed it" that's totally fine with me (eating plants that have absorbed and converted nutrients and breathing to produce energy is literally how our bodies work xD), but even fantasy needs rules and the moment they try to implement deeper stuff, the rules go out the window for the sake of "coolness"...

Ha, and I wish they were based on Light Novels, at least they have to go through an editor, so there is some quality control. that's why any manga based on a LN is better than a webtoon based on a WN, because everyone involved is at least a semi-pro, but every idiot with an internet connection can post a WN and then produce some AI art or work with an artist who draws the rather simple character designs and adds stock photo backgrounds with a comic filter^^'

Well if the story is halfway entertaining I still keep reading, I complain after 24 chapters and I will still complain after 100 chapters^^ but lately I've been seriously thinking about why I even bother reading webtoons, sure it's entertaining for a while, but 80-90% will never be finished because it makes more money for the publisher to start the next new series that won't be finished, so if you want to know the end you'll have to then keep reading the horribly written WN that at that point propably already has 500 to 1000 chapters with no end in sight as well...

So I guess I will start sorting out my bookmarks and limit my reading to manga and only a handful of webtoons that have higher production quality and at least seem to be on a good pace to being finished^^