July's Manga

Art is quite nice, the female lead is very distinctive. I enjoyed the first couple of chapters but she caught the interest of the male lead too quickly in my opinion, and the story is getting boring already unfortunately. There's no real conflict yet and I feel this interesting female lead's potential was wasted.

The art is truly beautiful, and the first half of the story really tugged at the heartstrings and made me cry. However, the male lead aged too fast to bring him to a romance-able age for the female lead, and now it's slowly getting boring. That's why I docked a star off. These types of webtoons always focus on ageing the protagonists too fast to get to the "juicy" romance, but it's a turnoff for me. I like a slow burn.
Update: It just sucks now. Please kill it off quickly. Even the art quality dropped a lot from the beginning. Also the translations are not good.

Wow, this webtoon is a classic example of wasting space. Literally, there is more white space between the panels than the amount of panels per chapter. If you add up the total area of white space, it would be probably 2-3x more than the area of the panels combined. It makes it really annoying to look at, with so much emptiness separating each panel. The panels are tiny as hell, and even the art is somewhat mediocre, it just smushes everything in cramped, small windows that don't fully bring the story to life. I'm not even sure why this webtoon was drawn in webtoon format, because it doesn't take advantage of the flowing nature of webtoons, where the movement is from top to bottom. This could have easily been drawn as a comic style with direction of reading going from left to right. The coloring and lines are super bold and dark, like Western style coloring, which I'm not a fan of at all. The girl in the cover image gets killed off in the third chapter, how misleading to put her on a cover like a feature character. The lore of this world is terribly explained, even though it spends a good chunk of the first chapter trying to explain it. Why is this magic tower is important and cool, and how come the royal family can't go in, but librarians like the plain male character can work there and read the books? Why is the library there like a regular library, with normal fiction on the shelves, instead of precious magical texts and ancient tomes? Magic Tower is the most lazy name I've seen so far. Also, I think the author shot themselves on the foot because they can't even get their characters straight. When the princess is introducing herself, she says she's the fourth daughter, but when the guards say she died, they called her the second princess. When I read that, I rubbed my eyes and scrolled all the way back up to make sure that they were talking about the same character. How can the fourth daughter be the second princess? She should be the fourth princess, if my math is correct. Well, it seems like this story might go for a Groundhog Day type plot, where if the main character fails his mission, he needs to redo the day over and over. If so, I'd be interested in reading how this goes. But so far, it's a meh webtoon.

Update: The size of the panels get better with newer chapters, thankfully. It's no longer a Groundhog Day plot, which is a bit disappointing, since I'd love to see it in a webtoon or a manga, other than Re:Zero. I'm adding a star since this seems to be improving as it goes along, but I'll still have to wait and see if the plot will become more original from here.
Update #2: Well, thank you for proving me wrong, author. It doesn't happen a lot, but I'm finding this more and more enjoyable with each new chapter. Kudos to you, here's another star from me. Give me more Groundhog Day shenanigans, and I'm a happy reader.
Update #3: Finished. Seems like this was cancelled, as the ending was extremely rushed and didn't address any of the major plot lines.

This is the law version of "Medical Return," except with much less lawyering. There's a heavy focus on real estate that doesn't quite grab me, to be honest, which is why I didn't like this as much as "Medical Return". After the mock trial, there hasn't been any real lawyer action going on. I hope it does shape up to be more of a law-focused webtoon instead of the strong real estate agent vibe going on. In fact, even in the story, he's more famous for being a real estate genius than for his lawyering skills. It doesn't show too much of his law school studies either. I wish it would show more of why his target (the villain) is so bad that he is single-mindedly focused on bringing him down, because that's the whole reason why he was given a second chance, unlike in "Medical Return," where that protagonist was given a second chance simply to live a better life. If the reason is to bring down an antagonist, there needs to be a better, and more compelling reason so readers can understand the protagonist's drive. The art is not bad, but most of the characters look the same or very similar, and it's hard to remember who is who.
Update: I changed my opinion, I think this webtoon is now superior to "Medical Return," the reason being that the protagonist here is actually smarter than the other one. Although characters praise him, he stays largely hidden and operating in the shadows, and it's extremely satisfying to see him take the villains down. Now we are shown why the baddies are bad, thank god. But there's
still no actual lawyering going on, so that's a minus.