It's still a bit of a hierarchy in Asia with these kinds of media, 1st is Japan, then South Korea then China. SK is catching up slowly in Manwha but Anime still dominated by Japan.
Though got no clue of the hierarchy when it comes to asian dramas, I just know my grandmother switched to watching Korean dramas years ago.....despite not knowing Korean..
Its always amusing when you start reading a series without really looking at it closely, then get this creeping feeling that everything is just slightly off. Then a guy with Three Names walks out and you realize its Korean and it suddenly makes sense.
I will say, while manwha is lacking in a lot of ways the one spot they aren't is going full balls out. If there is violence its chunky and excessive, if there is romance they will be fucking quickly and overtly, if things are gonna get gay its gonna go full homo. No restraint, which is probably what's giving them a huge leg up.
That and a larger willingness to go full color, which I'll give them credit for as it often looks great.
True, they do great action with that the only problem I sometimes get is that it sometimes comes at the loss of story progression
For example, I was reading one, about some guy leaving a dungeon party because they took him for liberty as he was a jack of all trades and forms a party with his old students
Seems OK but then drags on so I skip a few chapters at a time just see if it gets better, slow progression, skip 5 chapters, still slow progression, another 5, no real resolution against his former party, ok let's skip 10, his former party gets trapped in a dungeon with orcs, the leader and tank guy is eaten alive by them while the one girl there gets raped to death by them.
Sometimes going extreme to make up for slow story progression is REALLY jarring in a bad way.
Yeah, I've noticed that while they will jump right to the action, they will still drag it out regardless. Like unnecessary amount of time focused on what would otherwise be a short bit or even skipped over. If they have a sex scene, it will take up the entire chapter or even more than one. The big fight will go on well past the point of anything interesting happening.
But I suppose at the end of the day, you can always just flip past when its dragging wherein the opposite you can't just invent the scene you wanted to see.
It's still a bit of a hierarchy in Asia with these kinds of media, 1st is Japan, then South Korea then China. SK is catching up slowly in Manwha but Anime still dominated by Japan.
Though got no clue of the hierarchy when it comes to asian dramas, I just know my grandmother switched to watching Korean dramas years ago.....despite not knowing Korean..
Its always amusing when you start reading a series without really looking at it closely, then get this creeping feeling that everything is just slightly off. Then a guy with Three Names walks out and you realize its Korean and it suddenly makes sense.
I will say, while manwha is lacking in a lot of ways the one spot they aren't is going full balls out. If there is violence its chunky and excessive, if there is romance they will be fucking quickly and overtly, if things are gonna get gay its gonna go full homo. No restraint, which is probably what's giving them a huge leg up.
That and a larger willingness to go full color, which I'll give them credit for as it often looks great.
True, they do great action with that the only problem I sometimes get is that it sometimes comes at the loss of story progression
For example, I was reading one, about some guy leaving a dungeon party because they took him for liberty as he was a jack of all trades and forms a party with his old students
Seems OK but then drags on so I skip a few chapters at a time just see if it gets better, slow progression, skip 5 chapters, still slow progression, another 5, no real resolution against his former party, ok let's skip 10, his former party gets trapped in a dungeon with orcs, the leader and tank guy is eaten alive by them while the one girl there gets raped to death by them.
Sometimes going extreme to make up for slow story progression is REALLY jarring in a bad way.
Yeah, I've noticed that while they will jump right to the action, they will still drag it out regardless. Like unnecessary amount of time focused on what would otherwise be a short bit or even skipped over. If they have a sex scene, it will take up the entire chapter or even more than one. The big fight will go on well past the point of anything interesting happening.
But I suppose at the end of the day, you can always just flip past when its dragging wherein the opposite you can't just invent the scene you wanted to see.
korea >>>>>>> japan = china(?)
tbf theirs not much competition when it comes to asian live action show. That said though Philippines, for once in its life. Is actually trying.
I was going to ask why the filipino show had samurai robots in it then i found out its based on an anime lol.