Solo Leveling
This was a great read. Am glad to have made it to the end, although I'm not entirely sure it was as satisfying as I would have liked. Still a great read with well executed action and jokes that land along the way. The ultimate power fantasy, where romance isn't annoying or objectifying and keeps finding new ways of achieving that over powered high. If over powered protagonists don't bother you, then I highly recommend giving this a whirl.
Tale of a Scribe Who Retires to the Countryside
This wasn't bad, but it is kind of harem-ish. All the girls (including children) introduced in the story fall for MC, though notably only after he actually gets into martial arts. It's nowhere near as overt as some harem stories, but i have started to get tired of every introduced female character falling for MC. It started taking away focus from the political intrigue, but that has finally come back, so it isn't that bad. If you're not a fan of harems, this can still be readable as it's more of a background kind of thing, but if you *really* can't stand harem stories, I'd give this a miss.
The way MC gets stronger is also weird. You do see him training a bunch, so this is probably more of a me problem then an actual problem with the story, but he "gets gud" a bit too unbelievably for my taste. We see him train with the sword a lot, but no strength training or stamina training, so it feels like he went from 0 to 100 by simply moving in ways he really shouldn't have stamina or even flexibility to do so. I dunno, it just feels like there isn't enough effort there, but yeah, this could just be a me problem.
Some other things I didn't like: for a scribe writing the martial arts master's story he was told surprisingly little of what was going on and because the manhwa is from the scribe's perspective it became a little difficult to care about the battles happening. There's so much drama, but because we as the reader are barely given any context, you end up not really caring about any of it.
There isn't much tension, the person you want to win the fights, does, and often with no effort. Or should I say, all the effort was expended at the beginning of the story, and all the fights after that are just... easy. This isn't necessarily bad, i mean One Punch man is a thing after all, but it's not executed as well in this story, in my opinion.
The premise was pretty cool, and i do love the big beefy master who just drags a poor random scribe along on his journey, but unfortunately the journey itself isn't executed quite so well.
Rebirth of the Divine Doctor
The summary gives you more of the story, than the actual story. The ghostly Doctor is a much better series and this feels like more of a prototype. The MC apparently dies, but this is told to use through a nightmare, and when she wakes up, she has the powers already and we have no idea what they are or how she got them. The powers aren't even properly established and even the translators feel the need to leave hints in order for us to understand. Like that inner world thing where she found the fox. She was just suddenly there and while she knew where she was, us the readers were given absolutely no context. Then she find books there. How? Why? What??? It's bad. The story progression is kind of slow, and not as good as this author's other story. There seem to be quite a few people who like it however, and I guess that's nice. The art is passable when the subject is people, but the animals are quite badly drawn. Lol especially the horses and the fox familiar. But I honestly don't understand who would tag this with "Beautiful Art", it's honestly average at best. =_=;; The coloring on the other hand, is pretty good. Anyway, I'm dropping this.
Mad Dog