do u have any recommendations? All the guideverses I've read before were also mid or just plain boring.
korean guideverses are either draggy slowburn relationship melodramas or just full on smut. they rarely have background plot like profundis. and not many of the novels have adaptations.
here are my other fave guideverse novel aside from profundis i read this year.
"유령 사과"
I haven’t read a crazy amount of guide verses but I quite liked “B-Class Guide.” You might’ve already read it, because it was kind of popular a while ago, but it’s less serious/stupid than this one and much more fun.
Huh. Goes to show how different tastes are. I enjoyed that one for sure, but it definitely wasn’t as powerful/impactful as Profundis, for me. To be fair, I am mostly a fan of the Profundis novel, which has some incredible passages. I agree the romance was mid and unconvincing though.
Yeah, I don’t think B-class guide was impactful at all but it was very fun. Based on what people are saying it sounds like the Profundis novel is better/more interesting than the webtoon. I don’t think it’s meant to be a true romance in the first place if I’m not mistaken, so maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe I’ll check out the novel sometime.
I highly recommend the novel, if only for the writing. It definitely inspired me in my own writing. Just turn your brain off when you get to the “romance.” Though even the romance grew on me because you get to read from Shinje’s perspective, really get inside his head, and you just kind of realize he’s totally insane and full of hate. And so at that point you’re more fascinated by his twisted mind then being horrified by the romance.
Everything about the fucking webtoon is mid. Mid as hell. Mid story, mid characters, mid art. It’s not even “psychological” or “deep”—just fucking stupid. A lot seems to happen simply for shock value. There are better guideverse and better dark stories out there.