Masters of Lightning Knives

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I must say that this is perhaps the greatest manhwa I have every read. Not particularily because the art style is the best or the story is fantastic. In fact, I would say that its pretty mid.

But for some reason, I can't stop coming back. Sure the weird and annoying info blasts are not good at all but if you look past that and the at-first bad mc, the story becomes something that really grapples me in. I always want to read more and find out what is going to happen next.

The very best thing about this manhwa is the mc and the ... connection with the main female character. dramatic irony plays a big role and if you don't really like that sort of thing then you might not enjoy this part as much. But it all just works so well. Not to mention the cross-dressing is a nice unique detail which I think makes this a whole lot more special and less cliche when looking at most romance manhwas today. It all just works beautifully and I couldn't recommend this enough to at least try. If you don't like it then you don't have to read it.

Overall. I would say that this is a honestly pretty mid manhwa when it comes to most of it except with the main 'romance' element. But thats enough to make it worth it. And this really does come from experience since I've read hundreds of mangas and mahwas alike over the last few years (school gave me lots of free time to read). So I would definetley recommend this manhwa to anyone. Give it a read.

10/10

Starts off interesting but becomes a slog to read through.

Story: 3/10
The story isn't that great. Our MC just wants to become the greatest martial artist against his will. Nothing new. The thing I found interesting at the start was the comedy, however, I got adjusted to the same jokes in a few chapters. I ended up dropping the manhwa because of the useless info dumps and huge speech bubbles filled with text. Also, the story tries to be overly edgy by using rape and other violent scenes for shock purposes. This doesn't work the expected way because of the 'comedy'.

Art: 7/10
The art is good enough ... and the character designs are satisfactory except for the old folks, they look very similar.

Character: 4/10
I didn't really like the writing of the master and our MC either. Both of them are overly one-dimensional and cliched.

Enjoyment: 4/10
I gave up on this manhwa because of the useless info they keep dropping. There is a way to worldbuild without it being so annoying.

Has more crossdressing romance than action. I think the genre might be incorrectly listed because as far as I can tell this is shoujo crossdressing romance. If you are interested in this series because you're a fan of martial arts and action then stay the hell away from this one. The story itself is basically nonexistent. You follow around a young kid in his daily life and that's it. If the author can't be bothered to give us a decent plot in 50 chapters then I'm sorry but there is a problem here. Where are the rival schools? Where is the beating up bullies? Where's ... is the anything? This is just so lazy.