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The Sword of Emperor · review

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Top reader Nov 6, 2013 · 2 min read
↑ Recommended
8 /10

This is a rather refreshing Korean manhwa. The story is good, it kept living up to or exceeding my expectations all the way through the manhwa. Its only weakness is that it often skips from one scene to another a little too quickly, so the reader has to fill in some blanks on their own. I sometimes got a little confused, wondering how the character got from there to here in zero panels. The art is great. Not too many characters look like each other, they're fairly proportional, the women have nice curves, most characters look their age and the ones who don't have done iton purpose in the story. If i were to complain about something, it would be the main character's rather unmanly face, but he's supposed to have the type of looks that attract girls, so it's not all that bad.

Most of the characters have a pretty simple design, apart from their looks. Their personalities aren't too interesting, many seem to have no hidden sides at all, and don't really betray the first impression they give. Luckily, the main character more than makes up for it by being one of the haughtiest martial artists i've seen in eastern comics who can also live up to it. And his followers turn out to be extremely entertaining despite their simplicity. Or maybe because of it.

All in all i want to say that this was one of the best korean manhwas i ever read, it made me laugh in pretty much every chapter, the fights were many enough and all kinds of awesome. But it only gets an 8 from me, because in the end it didn't end. I enjoyed it until the very last chapter, which promised me a continuation that never came because the publishing company went bankrupt, and thus gave me yet another reason to learn korean (so I can read the novels).

But at least there was no rushed disappointing end to this, so it gets a higher score from me than it that were the case. It continued to deliver pure entertainment until the sadly premature end, which gives me reason to recommend it despite the sudden cutoff.

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