Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim

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I've read this manhwa 3 weeks ago and oh my, I find another great harem plot here. Why I stated that? When u try to read this one, u'll find a well written story with stunning illutration. Every heroine here get their turn with the MC. Did u know why some harem mangas are failing nowaday? That's because they just dropped the "harem" tag to bait the readers and then focusing the plot for just a heroine and give no chance for another heroines LOL. They just want to write a basic romance with a harem bait.

Of course, some readers will prefer the MC to ... only with a heroine at the end. I know that well and I respect that. But, my focus is the middle of story. WCNKL is written with a good proportion for every heroine in every arc. So that, if Na Kang Lim ended with just a woman, I won't complain about that. That's author right to write the end as he wishes. I'll still say this one good because every heroine was did her best to get an ending with the MC and none of them had no panels in the manhwa.

At last, I recommend this one for y'all to read. It will remind us how the harem genre should be written and show that a lot of authors were forgetting it.

Thank you for reading

*sorry for my confusing review, I ain't a native English speaker :)

Webtoon character na kang lim details the adventures of a high school boy, the titular Na Kang-Lim, for whom the world of a romance/harem/action webtoon he was reading comes to live with him in the main character role. Except, while the original main character was charismatic, popular and most importantly supernaturally strong, Kang-lim is none of these things. The bulk of the story is Kang-Lim 'saving' and bonding with the girls that appear in the original webtoon in your classic harem/visual novel style. The gimmick here is that the story is pretty self aware regarding the clichés and tropes of the genre. All of this ... in a vacuum would make for a very interesting take on this classic harem approach. However, I believe it falls flat in the excution. For how 'in the know' this webtoon wants to appear it really fails at the adressing the biggest issues you'd generally find in a harem series. It never dares to truly question the faith characters have in the MC nor does the MC ever truly have to make a decision that negatively affects his relationship with the girls. The idea of the main character actively not trying to be dense really falls apart if he acknowledges the issues that exist and yet does nothing to counteract them. This is especially frustrating at times when the story does cut through a trope. Because it really tricks you into thinking the result will differ from the expectation, but instead each time nothing really happens that I would personally call surprising. The main character is, as expected from a harem protagonist, uncool, a loner, and weak in name only. In reality he only views and portrays himself this way because of the image others have of him. He already has friends including a girl that is in love with him in the first chapter, is effortlessly cool and endlessly charming once you get to know him and obviously good looking as well, after a haircut which he cannot get before this point due to personal reasons ofcourse....

Having said this, being generic at times is not a crime and I don't think this series is a particularly bad offender. It is just that because of the image of selfawareness that it is going for that these things stand out like a sore thumb. There is a lot to like here, The characters are interesting and all likeable for different reasons. The arc story lines and the backstory for the main character are maybe not super unique but actually pretty fun and well executed. Ofcourse this is not always the case, I think that some of the more action oriented ones kinda fall flat. I think that this story is at its best when the main character has yet to find his footing. The first arc is really strong in this regard, so is the much much later backstory arc, in the flashbacks atleast.

Sadly the issues I mention are really amplified in the last 20 chapters or so. The core issue of the series not wanting to challenge Kang-Lim's convictions past a certain point becomes blatantly obvious near the end. Any mental turmoil thrown at him from a certain point in the story onward just feels like an excuse for the reader to feel bad for him and for the girls to give him a pep talk. He no longer changes, everything else is just changed around him. The ending is just the ultimate culmination of this and falls very flat. If you ask me I would say it goes against the character of the comic and is the ultimate irony for a story that pretends selfawareness as much as is done here.

Actually, for the first 20 chapters, this is an interesting comic when the main character said he would save his favorite heroine, but after that, I don't understand why he did it to the other heroines which made him break his word, yes, I know this is a harem genre, but for some reason I didn't get good character development for the heroines. main character, Na Kang Lim, is the definition of a cliche harem protagonist: plain, dense, and lacking any real development. After hundreds of chapters, he remains the same, learning nothing from his repeated experiences, and relying solely on luck and the sympathy ... of the heroines. Speaking of which, the heroines also fall short of the standard tropes—tsundere, yandere, childhood friend—without any depth to make them interesting or memorable. they feel more like na kang lim’s trophy collection than characters with their own personalities. emotional depth from each character makes me confused as to why each character can immediately trust our main character. I thought at first that this was a harem story to counter the cliche harem stories from other comics which just got more and more cliche towards the end. typical korean story with perfect character syndrome.