What the hell are they doing in the manwha? LMAAOOO

Yo! Been a while. Haven't posted here since I finished the novel. I've been letting the manwha chapters stack for some months so I could binge read and I finally caught up today. So, all I can say is, what the actual fuck are they doing? LMAOOO. Like, what are they genuinely doing? There's so much shit that got cut and that's not even the worst part, they're changing shit but not the good kind of change, the shitty kind of change that is making the story significantly worse.

Why in the absolute fuck is Yun Seung Ah the leader of Essence of the Strait? I gave them the benefit of the doubt at first with it being a translation error but they actually doubled down on it twice. Going off what I remember, there's way too many moments with Creator's Sacred Grace and Essence of the Strait for them to make such an important change. If this is the first sign of their intention to change the ending from what he made in the novel, then it's looking like we're in a for a real shitshow.

Then next up, they just canned the Fenrir title that Hajin took when he joined Jeronimo. They had better bring it up in the next chapter because this is something that absolutely cannot be changed. There's WAAAAY too many important plot points that hinge on the fact that Hajin uses 2 different identities for mercenary work and Chameleon Troupe activities.

Eileen's design is alright. Wasn't how I pictured her but this design can definitely grow on me. They nailed the childish look and her immature tantrums but also gave her enough of an adult maturity in the moments that mattered. Overall good depiction of her character so far.

The end of the Cube arc and timeskip got me a tiny bit emotional but just a little bit because of how much stuff they left out and just condensed into a slideshow, there wasn't much room for sentiment. Also, they need to give Hajin his fucking beard and I'm so serious. 3 years later and he doesn't look a day older than when he left. At least Rachel and Yeonha had a more mature look but that's easy to do with female characters cause all you have to do is give them a new hairstyle. Nayun's declaration was alright, nothing noteworthy. Seeing how long the latest chapter was I thought we were about to go into another year long hiatus again but thankfully that's not the case. Since they have a second chance, they should definitely expand on more personal moments like Nayun's thought process and mental state as she trains and how she slowly becomes more psychologically corroded, torn between her love and hate for Hajin. I want to see her slowly sink into numbness and develop some toxic coping habits, like how she copied Hajin's smoking habit. Little things like this help to really cement the impact of what Hajin did to her and it gives us more of a personal attatchment to Nayun.

Also, as I'm typing I just remembered another moment that pissed me off. The way they butchered and changed Hajin's confession to Yeonha about Jinyoon PISSED ME ALL THE WAY OFF. We didn't get any of the cute Yeonha moments with her dressing up in a mature yet seductive dress, her trying alcohol and choking, or even the suggestive sexual energy overlaying the dark and dreary filled atmosphere as the two conversed about the truth of Jinyoon's death.

Being completely honest, nostalgia for the novel is really all that's keeping me licked in with this manwha. I so desperately want to see my favorite moments from the novel like many of the moments in the Tower, Hajin pummeling Sahyuk, Hajin going to Sayuk's homeland, the Reunion with Tomer and SOOOO MANY MORE MOMENTS. But holy shit, the way this is going, I might not even see half of these moments and when I do I might be more underwhelmed that overhwlmed lol. I'll just keep watching for now and hopefully if they plan to keep making changes, at least make a good fucking change in the manwha instead of something that degrades the story's quality. I only just started and finished the novel this year but good lord, it might be time for a reread soon to remind myself how peak this series is and why I love it so much. Even the manwha only readers have been leaving comments about the story feeling hollow and stagnant and it's very much because of how they've been butchering the story like fresh produce.