As someone who isn't really a big fan of Korean manhwas or webtoons I was really surprised by how much I actually enjoyed reading through this.
I'd say it's a crime so many people don't give this a chance, I really feel like this deserves even more popularity.
STORY 8/10 - Seeing that this is a sports/cycling manga at the end of the day you can't exactly expect it to have some outstanding story, but, for what it's worth I do think the story and the overall plot is handled well enough, the premise of the story is also interesting. Safe to say I did not
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expect this to revolve all in just one single tournament. (So far that is). The drama part, well keeps the plot going on, the comedy in it is fairly well handled, most of the jokes and funny moments do land and occasionally make me chuckle and it isn't really overdone or anything like that.
ART 9/10 - During the beginning of the story, for at least 20-40 chapters the art was really just okay, it wasn't that good if I'm being honest, it wasn't terrible or anything. But man, does the Art improve SO much throughout the story, it really gets so much more beautiful later on that there is probably panels that are wallpaper worthy which are amazingly well done. The art might have been a little weak at the beginning but it sure gets outstandingly great later on.
CHARACTERS 9/10 - Now the characters in this story might be a little controversial. First we have Jay, the protagonist of the story, I've seen there is a few people who dislike him and say that he is a pretty weak overall character. Jay is super smart, he has top grades in school and has one especially strict mom, and he also loves cycling. As the story goes on he'll have to make choices and decide what he really wants to do in life, and he really doesn't want to end up regretting the decisions he makes in the present, which is understandable since regret is a scary thing, you can see that he changes a lot, he goes from being someone who pretty much isolates himself from everyone else, doesn't really care to make friends and only focuses on his studies. But after going through several challenges he pretty much changed all that and develops into a new person, he finds people who he likes, he finds something he wants to focus on, which is cycling. I think chapters like the one where he says that the last thing he would do if he only had one week to live would be cycling with his friends. I don't think the Jay at the beginning of the story would say something like that. So I do think that Jay is an overall solid protagonist.
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Vinny is probably one character which is probably way more well done than even Jay, he gets introduced as your usual generic bully evil guy who'll probably get beaten up soon and never show up in the story again, but he's not anywhere near to that, he's much more different. He has had to live an awfully tough life since the beginning of his childhood. The world and everyone around his has pretty much been unfair. He does handle some of these things poorly and doesn't necessarily make the best decisions. It's fascinating to see how much of a long way Vinny has made, he's been accepted into a group of friends, his attitude has changed so much for the better, he's giving his best effort to win the tournament for his mom, he's even developed a love interest. Seeing him going through countless hardships one by one to the point where he is now is one of my favorite parts of this story.
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You also got Minu and Dom, who both initially were Jay's first friends. Both of them have also had their fair share of their own troubles, Dom's motivation and mentality to always go on and train more and more is to a certain degree inspiring. Minu is one of the few characters on the story which gets into a whole lot of drama. Not to spoil anything but he sure is important to the overall story.
ENJOYMENT 10/10 - Judging from my own pure subjective enjoyment on the story I can say I simply loved this, I really did enjoy it a lot. I usually hate most Korean manhwas or webtoons which a whole lot of times are just really repetitive or generic. This did not feel like that. I'm glad it got my interest and I checked it out.
OVERALL 9/10 - It's not perfect, but it's certainly pretty great. It does have it's flaws, that's for sure. But I'd still say it's definitely worth checking out. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested on the sports genre, or cycling, really. I'm surprised it isn't relatively a bit more popular.
Feb 21, 2022
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As someone who isn't really a big fan of Korean manhwas or webtoons I was really surprised by how much I actually enjoyed reading through this.
I'd say it's a crime so many people don't give this a chance, I really feel like this deserves even more popularity. STORY 8/10 - Seeing that this is a sports/cycling manga at the end of the day you can't exactly expect it to have some outstanding story, but, for what it's worth I do think the story and the overall plot is handled well enough, the premise of the story is also interesting. Safe to say I did not ... |
