Comment by Tyrus on Ethan Elliot

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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^^

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@Tyrus yep, yep. I know how this feels. There are several series that need to end or come to a conclusion.

I should say though, LN is a format, it does not require editors or quality control. Thanks to the internet, it can then be put online and sold for a few cents a chapter. WN is the name for any type of novel that is only on the web, and there are several publishing companies that don't even bother with printed versions now thanks to things like audiable. Several manga are also based off WNs, even anime. The biggest difference has to deal with the amount of time that's spent on the finished product. A Manwha having a raw release of 2 weeks is a LONG time. On the other hand, the second a manga gains popularity, it switches over to a monthly release, giving them more time to rewrite the amatuerish script they've been forced to work with. (weekly and bi-weeklies are actually rare now in comparison to monthlies and are usually done with the flashy new stuff)