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“Psychopathic North Korean defector Yoon Karma becomes adopted avenger, hunting school bullies for her grieving adoptive father.”
Plaything
놀이감
7.78
1,547 rank · 5,044 readers · 96 favorites
Psychological
School
Suspense
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Synopsis
Psychopathic North Korean defector Yoon Karma becomes adopted avenger, hunting school bullies for her grieving adoptive father.
Lee Myung-jun, the Vice Chairman of Hyun-do Group, lost his daughter to a group of bullies. Seeking revenge, he adopts Yoon Karma, a psychopathic defector girl. Yoon Karma: A sadistic human weapon created through drug experiments in North Korea. After killing everyone in the research lab, she escaped to South Korea on her own. Having just been released from a juvenile detention center in South Korea, Yoon Karma sets out to hunt down the bullies at school, driven by the desire to avenge her new father and satisfy her sadistic pleasures. (Source: Naver Corporation, translated)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
7.4
/10
What 8 readers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 9
σ 2.55
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.55 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.2 pts
Recommenders 9.2 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↑ 3.38
Running avg · Apr 2025 → May 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I don't think I've ever liked a revenge story so much as this one, and that's surprising because I was thinking I would get bored with this story fairly quickly, but once I started reading, nothing...”
- 9 “Pure Horror, Revenge and KARMA, lots of karma, notably that of the cruel and unusual punishment kind. Season 1 is 46 chapters, and I think it's good read. It'll make you FEEL conflicted, have you...”
- 10 “This is a really dark manhwa, and I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone. That said, I was hooked from the very first chapter and ended up finishing it in one go. The story follows a girl who was...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 25%
Long · 0%
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A Manhwa Publication
- Published Apr 2024 – ongoing
- Source Manhwa media type
- Ref. BS-M77625 catalog