Yes! That was my impression of people doing it. It wasn’t like SL was purely original with its concepts (hello HxH chimera ants!). It is heavily inspired too.
ah yes, I loved moonlight sculptor! well, until it came back with a new art style.. completely ruined it for me.. I could have lived with the different art style, but the character of the mc changed completely?? I couldn't stand him after that, so sadly I stopped reading it
but I love how you perfectly described the isekai trope :'D
I personally have never read Moonlight Sculptor but it's always on ppl's recommendation list... so yeah I've heard about it.
:') Guess I've read too much isekai..
amen!
If you guys are still comparing every single dungeons/hunter related webtoons to Solo Leveling, then that shows that u r new to this world and probably never read korean light/webnovels...(bcs I'm pretty sure that The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor is the one who popularized dungeon thingy) ╮(￣▽￣)╭
This hunter/dungeon themes is slowly becoming the new "isekai" trope, you know, the "I reincarnated/rebirth/transmigrated as the mob character/villainess that has a bad ending and soon will be killed by my ex-fiancee (which turned to be the crown prince/duke)! I must avoid my bad ending at any cost!" trope?
The "I was given a second chance to undo my life and become the world strongest's hunter/ranker!" is slowly becoming a new trope too, starting by its popularity & its well written-ness in Korean webnovels (bcs the Chinese/Japanese ones sometimes suck...)