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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
 

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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
Korean "system/hunter awakening" or isekai/regression manhwa is often like that one.. very very few exceptions to the case, which are often the standouts. Strong recommendations for ORV/Return of Mt Hua Sect/Solo Max Level Newbie/Greatest Estate Developer, probably still have a few more but these are off the top of my head

Otherwise the genre is filled with stuff like OP MC, and irrelevant, forgettable side characters, and is just a lame power fantasy. I think the massive popularity of Solo Leveling only made it worse, when everybody tried to copy it. And there are still a ton of web novels that are very similar in premise that have yet to be adapted, it's really low effort copy paste. In fact, SL itself is a copy paste, but with higher effort of course, before everyone else decided to hop on the bandwagon. SL just happened to be picked up by a good manhwa studio, which really launched the popularity of the genre, and inspired many other studios to adapt other webnovels with similar premise
 

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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
thats the whole point ma, already say in title is solo, the rest all not significant characters haha
 

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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
Most of the good webtoons are like that. Maybe you more towards Naruto, bleach, dbz type.
 

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Korean "system/hunter awakening" or isekai/regression manhwa is often like that one.. very very few exceptions to the case, which are often the standouts. Strong recommendations for ORV/Return of Mt Hua Sect/Solo Max Level Newbie/Greatest Estate Developer, probably still have a few more but these are off the top of my head

Otherwise the genre is filled with stuff like OP MC, and irrelevant, forgettable side characters, and is just a lame power fantasy. I think the massive popularity of Solo Leveling only made it worse, when everybody tried to copy it. And there are still a ton of web novels that are very similar in premise that have yet to be adapted, it's really low effort copy paste. In fact, SL itself is a copy paste, but with higher effort of course, before everyone else decided to hop on the bandwagon. SL just happened to be picked up by a good manhwa studio, which really launched the popularity of the genre, and inspired many other studios to adapt other webnovels with similar premise
this genre will always be popular, people just wanna experience some amount of OP hence the popularity of all these.

Probably started from China, china novels still very popular with all these OP mains
 

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Korean "system/hunter awakening" or isekai/regression manhwa is often like that one.. very very few exceptions to the case, which are often the standouts. Strong recommendations for ORV/Return of Mt Hua Sect/Solo Max Level Newbie/Greatest Estate Developer, probably still have a few more but these are off the top of my head

Otherwise the genre is filled with stuff like OP MC, and irrelevant, forgettable side characters, and is just a lame power fantasy. I think the massive popularity of Solo Leveling only made it worse, when everybody tried to copy it. And there are still a ton of web novels that are very similar in premise that have yet to be adapted, it's really low effort copy paste. In fact, SL itself is a copy paste, but with higher effort of course, before everyone else decided to hop on the bandwagon. SL just happened to be picked up by a good manhwa studio, which really launched the popularity of the genre, and inspired many other studios to adapt other webnovels with similar premise

Most of the good webtoons are like that. Maybe you more towards Naruto, bleach, dbz type.

thats the whole point ma, already say in title is solo, the rest all not significant characters haha

I read The Gamer halfway, also same genre but the storyline much better imo. I dont mind if the MC is OP but not to the point where everyone else becomes totally incompetent, One Punch man does this quite well.
 

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Its still a good anime i guess
Just not anime of the year calibre
Can't say I rate it high at all for S1

waiting for S2 finish den i binge....
 

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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
koreans love badass bad attitude lonewolf MC. jp prefer betaish op harem mc. solo levelling as the name says is about soloing......
 

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this genre will always be popular, people just wanna experience some amount of OP hence the popularity of all these.

Probably started from China, china novels still very popular with all these OP mains
Japanese anime always got these kind of overpowered MC fantasy lar.. especially with all the Isekai anime... :sick:
 

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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
It's like john wick... you watch it for the flair, the style and the fight scenes... It's not there to win an oscar :s13:
 

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Dont like the storyline leh

Main character overshadow everyone else, all the other characters no time to shine, very boring
I also find this anime one-dimensional, too blunt and boring. The fighting also not say very interesting. Lore and story very generic too. Is basically like one of those generic anime like those isekais i keep seeing churned out now. I dont like too cheesy romance also but i hoping to see at least the main char show the slightest bit of acknowledgement for the girl lol.
 

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compared to this i actually wanna see overgeared animated......
i read halfway and dropped it.. dont know why also...

now only following omniscient reader's viewpoint.. Tower of god on the verge of dropping..
 
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i read halfway and dropped it.. dont know why also...

now only following omniscient reader's viewpoint.. Tower of god at the verge of dropping..
you got find korean formula a bit too emphasized of "being cool"...
from kpop, drama to their manhwa.....
that "gotta be cool even if need to fake it" vibe sometimes is jus too overbearing
 
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