ReviewRaptor's manga / #BAD WRITING(205)

Charming and the Beast

Ongoing | Wilbright | 2000 released

The plot is basic just like the characters. You're not introduced to the world at all and just constantly get things thrown at you out of the blue. The characters have barely any personality and aren't interesting enough to hold my interest. Just like the story itself. The art is on the lower end compared to most webtoons. Anatomy is funky at times and ugly in many shorts. I give them points for at least trying to draw the backgrounds and the horses themselves even, we rarely get to see that, but that's about all I can point out as good...which naturally isn't enough to keep me reading.

The Origin of Species

Complete | HARUSARI,ASHK ,TANSEOM | 2000 released
2021-05-05 08:06 marked

Okay, upßloading ONE promo chapter is enough guys. Stop posting multiple ones that basically already tell me that this is just like any other shitty Omegaverse story. The art is okay, but the plot is so basic that I can't even describe it. Characters seem to have no personality except helpless for the uke and arrogant for the seme. Nothing of interest to be seen here. Moving on.

Beware of the Villainess!

Ongoing | 뽕따맛스크류바,푸른칸나,Bbongdda mask ,Pureunkanna | 2019 released

The art is lovely but that's about it. The MC has SUCH an obnoxious personality, wtf. The story seems to have some heavy feminazi tendencies because the male characters have literally only the vibes of: man bad, so man do random things that come across as trigger points for anyone that wants to find something to be angry at. There is so little logic to all of this that it baffles me tbh. And the fun thing is: Instead of being the nice person she SUPPOSEDLY WAS IN HER PREVIOUS LIFE, she acts like a dam fuckwit right about any second. What the actual hell. Wasn't the goal to NOT act like a villainess? Then why verbally attack your own father and brother as well as the crown prince (who seems to have the spine of an eel and the authority of a worm as well as the awareness of one..). This is a clusterfuck at best. The writing is bad and random at many times and the characters are nearly all obnoxious as hell. I'll nope the fuck outta this one, this is just unbearable unless you're one of those that think a female acting like a shithead towards males is 'good writing of a strong female lead' (words which have lost all meaning on this website by now for sure btw). I'm out. This was such a waste of time. FFS.

An Immoral Night

Complete | Paeng yujeong,Kk | 2019 released
2021-05-13 05:50 marked

Okay, the art is nice, the base plot is cringey af to me and the writing is absolutely confusing (NOT because of false translations tho, from what I can tell). Not bothering with this one.

I am the Precious Daughter of the Greatest Villain in the Fantasy World

Ongoing | Solddam | 2021 released

The plot is nice, the art okay but the characters are really basic. Sadly the plot is so full of wholes and throws tons of "surprise, this stuff is actually like that or THIS happened while we randomly skipped over it, haha!" happenings at you...it's just not good. The people who made this probably tried to turn a novel into a comic but thought it would be okay to skip all explainations and detailwork...which is not okay. Reading footnotes to understand something is the worst idea to go about this sorta thing. It makes everything seem lackluster or really half-assed and just doesn't throw a good light onto the original work (IF there is one, I'm honestly not interested enough to check). All in all the execution isn't good. It was okay at first but around the later parts (maybe anywhere from ch 15 to 26, I honestly don't remember when it started) things just become obnoxious and confusing. It doesn't help that things feel horribly rushed atop of lack of explainations. It's really just not enjoyable to read. ALSO... I'm honestly finding some things VERY forced. I don't really care about their age at this point, but the 'reasons' for the apparent male lead to fall for the MC (which are literally zero, it's just random 'this is like that now, deal with it') is just really pure bs writing. If you're gonna make them fall in love...at least give some rhyme or reason to it, let it take some time. Not just the horribly shoujo-bs idea of: Aw, girl nice to me, me now love girl! hurrhurr

A Way To Protect The Lovable You

Ongoing | Hound,Kim ji-ee,Han Yujeong | 2021 released

The baseplot is absolutely amazing, super interesting setup and interesting characters (albeit some are a little bland here and there) but sadly this all looses it's charm due to the storytelling of the webtoon itself. I'm not sure if this is based on a novel (they usually are) and if or if not the novel is better written but...this webtoon feels like one of those that have been just too rushed by a team that doesn't quite know what can and cannot be rushed. If I had to boil it down, this feels like a comic drawn by someone that was told a quick summary of events by another person that read a novel. Then, said comic artist was left with a few instructions and the summary and told to go make a comic out of this...which sadly lacks a ton of things that make a story loose the story telling part nearly entirely or coherrent in some cases even, but all in all more like a recollection re-telling. Sometimes it even feels like the creation process went a bit like "Oh hey, and this happened between that and that, so you gotta squeeze that in over there.". And that's saddening to me, because the story has MAJOR potential with being so interesting and something filled with tragedy and potentially a lot of wholeheartedness. ;v; I actually think instead of reading this webtoon, checking out the novel might yield a better read. If you don't care much for flow and pacing and having a comic be more of a summary, then I suppose this will be a good read for you still. But I honestly think that in written form this definitely will be better (again, IF these faults aren't present in the novel too, that is). I would stick around but I'm not really into this type of writing as it is, too much is being rushed and thrown into the middle. It's not really enjoyable to me personally. So I'll see if I can sometime find the novel and give that a shot. You guys enjoy the webtoon if it's to your liking tho, the baseplot and art are definitely gonna be treat till the end, I'm sure!

Song of Reverberation

Ongoing | Xi ni,Cynnie | 2019 released
2021-07-05 10:46 marked

Struggle

Complete | 김닌자 | 2000 released

The only struggle here is me reading this shit. wtf. The story is lackluster by picture perfect sefinition. Everything, from the start, feels little to not thought out and things happen more for convenience (especially character actions/interactions/reactions) and that's just the shittiest writing 'method' to use to create anything. And as early as chapter 8, things fall apart entirely. Things feel more like a roguh summary someone drew pictures for rather than a cohesive story. It's a struggle to read. And a bigger struggle to keep being interested. I'll skip through the pages and see what the omega deals with during pregnancy and how they reunite again (and yay for the 'surprise, you're actually an omega despite never showing such signs!' trope btw, that's idiotic af (and gotta LOVE people in omegaverse being too retarded to make actually useful tests to determine gender, but I digress)). But yeah, this is unreadable. Not even a little. It's just badly written and the art isn't saving it.

How To Marry Your First Love in 3 Days

Complete | Woo youngsoo,Luvloo | 2019 released
2021-07-30 08:52 marked

Plot and MC are as dumb as a bag of rocks. The writing is a bit amateur-ish, but it's overall just the typical shoujo kinda 'convenient happenings' to lead from one happening to another as quick as possible. Whther it feels rushed or realistic be damned. It's not interesting and honestly a bit annoying, and that with only 3 chapters... Hard pass for me.

The Essence Of A Perfect Marriage

Ongoing | 영, 이범배,제리볼,jeribol, lee bumbae, yeong | 2019 released

Okay, at chapter 4 I'm really questioning whether it's the translation or really just the writing that makes this feel so bumpy, jumpy and a bit too rushed. The introduction of the marriage partner was lackluster either way, but I'm starting to wonder if this'll be worth bothering with any further... Conclusion: At chapter 7 I can confidentally say it's both. the translations suck AND the writing. Waste of time, really.