The World After the Fall

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Basically, this story revolves around the mc, Unfortunately, this story is not like other stories where the mc embarks on adventures with his friends or team members, gathers an elite party, or does other popular stuff (It's not like that mc don't have friends but not like other stories.) But the most distinguished point is that MC doesn't buy the temptation of time reversal/reincarnation/returner stuff. The world where he comes from the Earth has fallen after that he is on a journey long and hard on his way he's trying to save different worlds (saving people precious to him) at the same time nurturing his ... own unique one. Obviously, he made new friends and enemies but even after being alone many times at the end of his adventures, he doesn't fall into despair. It is a story that tells you to take a lesson from your past and move forward with a positive mindset, this is a story with various types of worlds/beings/concepts/dilemmas. I'm only reading Manhwa 90s (chapters till now). It tells even the so-called end of the story is not the true end of a story, it keeps going on and on (continued lol xD
That's why it doesn't seem like something that everyone wants to spend time at but it's not bad either depends on person to person but I'd like to recommend it to those who like Omniscient Reader (you will be able to read about Kim Dokja and other stuff like star stream events in the chapters after 90s) or at least wanna try something new xD
I just gave some hints it doesn't count in spoilers, right ??? 🤣🤣

To start off, the first 50 chapters for me were a solid 8. The start was quite something giving you a ton of information with very interesting world building, it is a bit much but really fine and from there on out it looks really promising

Chapter 50~100 aprox is the real first arc, for me it is 9.5/10, absolute astonishing fights, very interesting power system, really good side characters and really superb villains. From here on out the story starts getting intense and serious, reading that arc made me fall in love with the manhwa, as it looks to close on some questions contiuning the ... story

But the newest arc chapter 100~(at this point in time)145, absolute horrible shitshow, completely 360 the series, all the seriousness is gone, all characters previously build up get thrown away almost, new characters get introduced that completely destroy the instensity and make it feel like a comedy goofy manhwa, it is super weird to read, im really close to dropping it. I just hate everything about it, even though there a few reedming moments, I'd rate this arc a 2/10, absolutely abymsall, diabocial, not utilizing a single character build up in the previous 100 chapters, just feels like an entirely new story, that is just disgustingly weird

Overall 6/10

Okay, the TLDR is do not read this Manhwa if you value your time. It is quite literally, all over the place in terms of story and plot. I was recommended this after reading a different Manhwa called Omniscient Readers Viewpoint claiming that both stories took place in the same world. Clarification, 55 chapters in and they are NOT. That doesn’t ruin the score I just figured people should know. But let’s get into a breakdown to better clarify my thoughts. Spoilers ahead!

Story 1/10
You’re going to hear me say this a lot, but the premise of this whole manhwa starts out pretty interesting. The ... idea of towers sprouting up around the world that need to be beaten RPG style was a cool premise that had a lot of potential. If the entire story took place inside the tower and explored the worldbuilding, consequences, and characters inside I think the score would be a lot higher. Instead, we get a brief introduction to our characters “trauma” which lasts maybe 1 chapter and then he breaks “out” of the tower into basically a fantasy world. And since he technically cleared the tower and faced an unbeatable foe, he is just super OP. This takes place like 5 chapters in or so, and after that the story just focuses on this new world and is a mid-tier world building that gets retconned every 10 chapters or so.

Characters 3/10
What can I say, 1-dimensional and bloated cast. It’s a real shame, again I feel like if they just spent even a fraction of a second exploring the main characters literally MILLIONS of years of trauma in the tower it would be more interesting. And we kind of get a glimpse of that when he faces the 99th floor boss and even less of a taste when he interacts with the female heroine, after realizing she too is human. HOWEVER, THEY LITERALLY JUST WRITE HER OUT OF THE STORY. The best character and arguably the perfect foil to our MC’s stoic, broody nature, and she just POOF, disappears after she is cured of ghoulism. She is instead replaced with an old man who kind of serves as comic relief. Then they start adding other characters who I can literally only describe by their powers. Fire-Guy, water-guy, smart-guy, lighting-guy, ect. And out of ALL these characters lighting-guy is like the only one to have a “backstory” if you can even call it that.

Worldbuilding 4/10
I’m going to skip the parts I touched on in the Story section about the tower and just focus on the world of “Chaos”. This Iseki land is, at first, meant to be the afterlife. Souls come here to live for eternity. They set a bunch of rules in place about how higher beings can’t interact with Chaos, but they retcon this pretty quickly. They also add a place called the “abyss” which holds some life fruit that can return someone to life and that is the ONLY goal of our MC for no reason. The sort of personal reality of “ascenders” or whatever the MC and old man are, is kind of interesting. Seeing the world through your own eyes but it only serves to make our MC look more badass.

Art 8/10
Good art, good on some scenes, wasted on others. In the typical Manhwa art style so nothing to write home about.

Power System 4/10
The power system starts off as an RPG style, video game thing. Characters get XP from killing tower monsters and level up skills and all that. It’s not really explained in depth and is instead exchanged for “Adapters” and “Ascenders” which are basically people who exceed the limits of the RPG leveling system supposedly. However, after clearing the tower you never see this system again and all power relies on basically “magic” or practicing 1 thing for like a million years. Lazy and forgettable.

Alright rant session over if you read this far thanks and good luck. Just don’t want to see anyone waste their time. I mean it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever read so if you have time to waste give it a shot otherwise go read literally anything else!