Yeah, but solo leveling is kinda mid
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I remember reading the manhwa when it was starting to get hyped up and was like "this is it?". Imo the most "interesting" part was just the novel type of pro-Korean nationalist brainworms.
novel type of pro-Korean nationalist brainworms.
I see manhwa is following in manga's footsteps
Why'd it do well abroad? It seems like generic isekai
It's absolutely not an isekai, though it's definitely part of the supergenre of "incel with an irl video game HUD gains infinite power and concubines". It's actually more like the founder of the subgenre that became very popular in manhwa of "weakest incel in video game reality does extensive grinding and gains infinite power and concubines," a cousin of isekai. It's a very fine distinction.
It's also fucking garbo. It has the classic problem with its capitalist ideology of losing all sense of scope and goals that aren't "grow more" and just escalating into meaninglessness.
"Grow more" for some reason made me think of that one trump kid.
Baron, the largest son
I hear he ate some of the smaller ones.
it did well abroad because the manhwa adaptation had standout visuals, at least for the time, to the point that it tricked you into thinking it wasn't a generic power fantasy. that's pretty much it as far as I can recall of 16 year old me who was actually invested.
Eh its not thaaat bad, and its not really an isekai (at least not in the classic formula).
solo leveling mid, ORV sweeps in terms of quality korean representation in the genre