100 · review
100 has a surprising amount of detail and effort. I did not expect the PUBG Manhwa adaptation to have this much work put into. It has 50 chapters and therefore lives up to his name, half way. I find it to be a lot of content considering this series is based on a game with no story mode, let alone references to lore/past events in the in game world. Sadly, the visual quality leaves plenty to be desired. The artwork looks average at best. At some points there are even grave anatomical errors. For a while, the artist, Yunyeol Choi, really struggled to draw faces from the side. Hedid improve after a while, but the bad impression remained.
It is cool that the Manhwa features the exact models and textures from the actual game, but these resources haven't been implemented very well. They don't blend in with the hand drawn art and feel “slapped in”. Sometimes the guns are way too large, and I also remember seeing a stun grenade flying through the air with its pin still attached.
The main appeal of 100 however lies in its action scenes and plot twists. This is where the series is able to be entertaining. It kept me curious enough in order to keep reading until the end. The conclusion however had a limited amount of impact on me, and one of the biggest reasons for that is pretty disappointing: lack of character depth. You will have a tough time growing attached to any of the characters because they mainly serve as plot devices. Especially the bad guys are as shallow as it gets. This series features murderers that murder and say “man, I love murder”.
You can read it if you got time on your hands. It's an interesting niche because you probably won't find a single person who plays the game and wonders about the lore. So if you can't get any wins then at least you have an alternate way to feel special by reading these hidden scriptures, no soul knows about in order to claim you “finished PUBG”.