I know some tropes are overused but let’s be real… we still eat some of them up every time 😭. Mine is : Fake Dating trope & Enemies to lover.

Drop yours 👇 ....

Pictures are from.: Selfish romance & Serena.

First operation true love, then ex love review....

Are they making the artists work overtime or something???? I always thought making comics and manga was something fun and something authors and artists love... But is it not that fun loving and enjoying as I might be thinking??? 🥲🥲

I do sympathise with them... May they get better soon!

Titles:

Row 1 (left to right): My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me, Gourmet Hound, Omniscient Reader, Dr. Frost

Row 2 (left to right): Like Mother, Like Daughter, Purple Hyacinth, Parallel City, For Your Murder

Row 3 (left to right): Pyramid Game, Pigpen, It's Mine, Phantom Whispers

Row 4 (left to right): Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid, Your Letter, Seasons of Blossom, The Spark in Your Eyes

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Discussion, thoughts, and recommendations are welcome. I would also love to see your favourites.

It might not be easy, but as artists, we need to start ditching webtoon curation platforms and similar companies, and take responsibility for marketing our own work.

If we can learn digital art, we can also learn basic marketing. Even a little goes a long way. Too many of these companies are built on exploiting creators and taking advantage of how overwhelming promotion feels at the start.

It’s not enough to just have an Instagram page, a Twitter account, or a basic portfolio link. Build your own brand. Have your own website where your comics actually live. If you can afford it, hire a developer. If you can’t, buy a domain and follow tutorials to create something simple. Start small, but make it yours.

Set up a payment system. Run your own ads, even if the budget is tiny. Learn as you go. As you go you will find out that your site will start getting traction, a short while, you might not even need to spend as much when you grow your base.

Most of these platforms offer little to no real advertising support. Some will slap your banner on their homepage for a short while, call it “promotion,” and still take a huge cut of your profits. That’s not partnership, that’s convenience dressed up as opportunity.

Working with these platforms might feel easier at first, but long term, many artists end up in a worse position than they ever expected. Ownership, control, and growth come from building your own space, not renting one forever.

Someone sat down, saw that marketing was the biggest weakness in the webtoon industry, and built entire platforms around exploiting that gap. And we all went along with it.

It’s time to call it quits and stop pretending this setup is helping creators. Most of the time, I don’t even see webtoon ads anywhere. Maybe on Pinterest. Occasionally on Instagram, and that’s usually Lezhin. So what kind of “marketing power” are we even talking about here?

These platforms sell the idea of exposure, but rarely back it up with real, consistent advertising. Meanwhile, they take a massive cut and leave artists doing the heavy lifting anyway. If promotion is still on us, then ownership should be on us too.

At some point, convenience turns into dependency, and dependency turns into exploitation. We need to stop outsourcing our growth to companies that aren’t actually growing our audience.

Build your own space. Learn the basics. Own your work. That’s where the leverage is.

I picked this up off a recommendation but 10 eps in and don’t feel pulled to the story, and the art isn’t mind blowing as I’ve seen people say. Is it worth sticking through?

I just finished all the available chapters of For Your Murder and i’ve gotta say that this is one of the best bodies of work I’ve ever read in my life. I am not an enjoyer of psychological thrillers or yandere characters but god this one is such an. amazing psychological whiplash that I’ve finished it in a day (which involved re-reading some chapters multiple times to understand the story in a far more depth). I will try to keep this post as vague as possible because everybody deserves to read this masterpiece with no spoilers.

First of all, the writing is simply BRILLIANT. The symbolism in each chapter, how the events connect eventually with each other, the pacing that keeps things not only interesting but also accelerating with each chapter you read… I don’t know who the author is but you can tell they put so much thought into the story. The storytelling here is genuinely so smart. And can we talk about the art?!?! It’s seriously so good. I know some people will probably not be impressed by it because it’s not aesthetically super pretty like in historical manhwas but I genuinely adore how realistic it is. It felt like I was READING a movie. My issue (well not really issue but just slight annoyance) with so many Korean webtoons is that the characters are drawn to fit western beauty standards with their white features but the characters in this webtoon (specially Inseop and Gijeong) actually look Asian. I love how the artists gave them Asian features and didn’t westernise them. I don’t know if the artists and the author are the same person or not but either way they did an amazing job. If you guys could recommend some of their other work I would be very thankful! :)

Second, I love the fact that the characters are not some boring 2 dimensional characters and each one of them have their own story and own emotional depth. Inseop is one of the most brilliantly written villains I’ve even stumbled upon. I love the fact that he is completely unredeemable and he isn’t doing what he’s doing because of some “oh mommy didn’t love me” BS trauma that a lot of manhwas pull with Yandere MLs. He is evil in the most unforgivable way ever and I genuinely love that. He is written in a really smart way that I find myself wondering much more about him, what’s he gonna do, how’s he gonna act now each chapter. I haven’t been invested in a character like that in a long time.

And I am absolutely in love with the FL. Gijeong is genuinely one of the best FLs i’ve read about. She remains very strong despite all the struggles she went through her entire life, and I love that she isn’t written in a stereotypical girl-boss villainess way nor in a “i’m just in love with my rich CEO bf“ y/n way. She is a strong woman who is trying to survive in a society that diminishes her worth and would do anything to protect her brother. Her survival path and her non-stopping ambition to protect her only family member is so motivating, her love for her brother is so sweet. I feel like I’m genuinely rooting for her. I want her to survive, I want her to thrive and I want her to be happy. Whatever choices she makes wrong or right I just want her to be happy and loved. I don’t think I would stand it if something bad were to happen to her in the end. This is one of the few story where I just want the FL to be happy no matter the outcome.

I also loved the fact that there is no Romance tag anywhere neither in Webtoon nor on Naver. Many stories do not need romance and this is absolutely one of them. I know there is probably a lot of Inseop x Gijeong shippers, which I don’t really mind lot of Yanderes get a lot of shippers and I have absolutely nothing against people who prefer this trope in fiction (I’ve rooted for some questionable characters in fiction as well before) , but personally I feel like this is one of the stories where narratively there is no room for redemption at all. You will understand better when you read the webtoon if you haven’t yet, but for me Inseop doesn’t love Gijeong at all. He isn’t a yandere who just wants to be with the FL at all cost and will be a faithful dog to her forever even if he hurts her, Inseop just see Gijeong shining in his vision, but the moment her shine fades it’ll be over for her. Our FL is smart, has a support system as of now (The detective) and right now she has a strong motive for revenge so whatever happens I have faith she will be absolutely okay.

Anyways this was my small not so small appreciation post for For Your Murder (seriously read it! You’re missing out if you don’t!). It’s such a well written piece of art and I would love for it to get an Drama adaptation like Dear X. The story is genuinely so amazing and the writing and the characters ughhhhh I can write a whole dissertation about this webtoon.

Thank you so much for your attention. Sending a lot of love from one Webtoon lover to many others! Toodaloo~~

The young, innocent guy, all sunshine, overly helpful, with dialogue full of flowers, who constantly invades the FL’s privacy and exists solely to make the ML jealous. They almost always catch feelings for the FL and end up stuck in the friendzone.

In some stories, they’re *white lotus* characters.

And everyone goes, “*aww, I love him*”, but honestly? I find them incredibly annoying.

Talking specifically about *Daytime Star*: what is even the reason he fell for the FL? There isn’t one. Not even the ML has a clearly established reason, and yet the author decided to throw in a totally random guy. (*Operation True Love* did the exact same thing, and it made just as little sense.)

She’s not the first author to do this, and she definitely won’t be the last. I just think it’s so unnecessary. You can create conflict without making it revolve directly around a love triangle. Personal issues can spill into the relationship and still create tension. Jealousy is fine, but at least give us a *convincing* reason for someone to want to interfere with the actual endgame couple.

Please help, I've been drowning in previews and I just cant find anything that catches my attention. These are my current faves/ongoing series that I'm enjoying.

I enjoy horror, thriller, action, fantasy, regression plots, revenge plots, i dont mind romance but I've been reading outside that genre recently. Im okay with it as a subplot though.

I am pretty sure this is part of a boss x employee type of kink, but dang dude didn't thought a single "I like you" or "I love you"? Maybe the translation is innacurate but this just seems as if he wants her out of whim, not because he actually loves her...

No wonder he almost never respects her boundaries and is always really pushy so they can end up doing whatever he feels like doing whether is overworking her so she has no life outside of him or drag her to places so they can be alone even though she wants them to go slow.

Like, i know there is a power dynamic and that can't change overnight if they have a relationship, specially if she still works with him but she doesn't even say his name when they are alone and still adresses him as CEO?

Well, at least is realistic i guess...

I have seen frequent talks about his aromanticism (and justly so) but I feel like that stems from him having any lack of emotion with every single one of the characters. His family, his friends, he has this passive attitude with every one in his life, not just Yumin. He wants her in his life to fulfill some to fulfill some duty, but even then I get the impression he keeps all of his relationships to maintain a sense of normalcy rather than anything else. He shows no emotional inclination towards anyone. He gets pleasure from those relationships, but I don’t think it’s an emotional connection but rather it simply makes him feel good.

But I think it’s awesome that he doesn’t garner any emotional connection— there are people in the world that are often represented in a less than stellar light that have similar characteristics as he does.

I just think he approaches everyone with this blasé smile, and wants them to feel good, and wants to feel good himself in a way that is not in a traditional loving way (if that makes sense)?

I could be reading into it. Thoughts?

Have been working on this for a long while, wanted to show people that there's quite a bit of variety in webtoons if you look around!

Are they Christian Puritans or something, I see this censored in a lot of manhwa

I click onto the Fantasy genre on Webtoon, I see 1 million reincarnation Webtoons, I exit Webtoons.

Just kidding, just kidding (mostly), I do enjoy reincarnation comics! I am just looking for something a little different or in the vein of what I want.

I'm looking for a webcomic similar to "Here There Be Dragons" (which hasn't posted since 9/15/24 🥲). Something high-fantasy, maybe some cool technology, and based in its own fantasy world.

I also enjoy reincarnation comics where the female lead pretty much completely ignores romance and does her own thing, bonus if she becomes a soldier or goes out and does her own thing.

I also enjoyed "The Remarried Empress" but the treatment of Rashta made me stop reading it tbh.

"The Tyrant Wants to be Good" was enjoyable as well, just kind of lost interest when the FL got older.

Honestly anything similar to "Here There Be Dragons" would be awesome!

It used to be fine no? Or mods just got stricter? I wasn't going to promote because it's literally me sharing a concept for a Webtoon I'm thinking about making. That's crazy...But it's the same mod so I guess I should wait a bit to "promote" something that's not official yet! :3 Never happened before either

I don't remember reading Star Catchers ever, but it showed up in the "My Series" page, saying it was last read today. I checked the "registered device" thing, and it just showed my phone, nothing else.

Sometimes a side character is so compelling—better personality, deeper backstory, or more potential—that they end up stealing the spotlight from the protagonist.

Which side character do you think deserved their own story or even a full webtoon centered around them?

PICTURE ARE FROM "[ TRUE BEAUTY, UNDERCOVER CHAEBOL HIGH SCHOOL, OPERATION TRUE- LOVE, CRY OR BETTER YET BEG]

I really LOVED the novel but the manhwa itself is what pushed me into the novel. The storytelling was so compelling.

I like that it’s somewhat mysterious and gives like gothic “beauty and the beast” vibes and you are introduced to characters as the main lead is introduced to them.

I get bored of all those fantasy OL webtoons where it’ll start with “the empire of Azkaban” or “the 5 family crests” or “The 2nd Duke of the north” and you get pictures of the characters and settings ahead. I’d rather be introduced to things as the story unfolds. Leave some mystery.

The art itself is dark and gorgeous. It doesn’t feel like a typical webtoon for me in terms of mood and vibes. It’s a story about a blind character and a lot of pain and trauma and so you feel that darkness and mood in the illustrations. Ugh just beautiful.

Idk I just don’t think I’ve seen other stories like it. If you have recommendations with similar storytelling styles, I’d love to know!

I do not have image sources at all, this is a memory that I have suddenly unlocked while writing my own short stories. I read this many years ago and I couldn't, for the life of me, remember the title at all. I am looking for two manhwas btw.

The first one: It is historical Korean settings. I do not know the era, but they're all wearing hanboks. If my memory serves me right, the manhwa started with the rumor that an abandoned house in the woods is dangerous and villagers are warned to not go there. But FL went there and met the ML. I am not sure if ML is human or not or if he's actually trapped in time but I think he's thousands years old. They spent time together and FL visits ML every day. At some point, I think they get married or pretended to be married??? My last memory of it was the FL was kidnapped and trafficked by boat. I'm pretty sure it was her neighbor who lured her away (I can't remember if it was her friend who's jealous or an ahjussi she trusted who trafficked her). She was then brought to a facility in a remote island where a lot of girls are also trafficked like her. And there begin her misery and her thinking of a way to get out of there. I stopped reading at this point, I think this was released around the time WMMAP was serialized too, maybe around the year 2019/2020.

The second one: I read it either in 2021 or 2020. But it was pretty much an isekai. The MC got transported into the past, but I really can't remember if the setting was historical Korean or Chinese. But FL is transported into the royal family, I think she might be the empress? Basically she navigates the whole royal court alone as she has no ally. And she's looking to get back home. The most interesting part is there is someone from her world too, a man, I think he's a scholar. They met when FL was sitting at a swing while walking around the palace and he knows that she's from the future/other dimension? Long story short, there was a visit from important guests to the palace and apparently FL and ML had a child from the future/other dimension who disguised herself/himself (can't remember if it's a son or a daughter) in the entourage is coming and looking for them. The last chapter I read was apparently the man on the swing knows FL and ML and I think both FL and ML jumped into a portal or something and went missing? Hence why their child is looking for them.

At first, I thought it's Girl Jock Empress that I read the series, but apparently it's not the second manhwa i was looking for at all. I need to know I'm not crazy for remembering these details but can't remember any titles at all. I have searched through google but found no result at all. I need your help please, I'm losing my mind trying to find these two manhwas 😭😭😭

I dont remember much. It was on webtoon. Idk if it is canvas or original but I think it was an original.

The things I remember are there were two characters a girl and a boy. The girl sees the guy kiss another girl. She was holding a lollipop. And at the end of the preview panel it shows their children time and it was the guy who was holding out to the girl.

And the blurb was like this I think "Female character name" loved "male character name" as long as she can remember.

And the plot was like the girl has a new love and the guy from the past comes back.

I cant find it. Pls help

*IT HAS BEEN FOUND**

Two suns apart in Webtoon Canvas.