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Helmed by director Lee Eung-bok, the series was released on December 18, 2020, to mixed reviews. All in all, this was an amazing story and is definitely worth reading. I was skeptical about adding my webtoons to read shelves but they're stories too and take a lot of time!
The character is named Seop Ahn in the official English translation. The character is named Wook Pyeon in the official English translation. The character is named Seok Kim in the official English translation. The character is named Eun Lee in the official English translation. The character is named Myeong-ja in the official English translation.
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Pretty sure I added it already, not sure what happened there. There are multiple listings of the same webtoon and that's making me pissed. I finished it a few moments ago and it was a RIDE!
If one desires to become a body builder, they become a disfigured force of pure muscle and raw strength. If someone desires to become a model, they will become a disturbing mockery of traditional beauty standards. So the story ends with some characters alive, and others dead, but with none of the big-picture stuff resolved.
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Hyun-soo extracts two bereaved children, 9-year-old Kim Soo-young and 6-year-old Kim Young-soo, in Room 1210. His return to Room 1408 is impeded by his inner monster's attempt to fully monsterize him and another monster attack, which separates him from the kids. Room 1510's Yoon Ji-soo and Room 1506's Jung Jae-heon rescue him.
The whole story from start to finish takes place inside a single apartment complex, which I found particularly intriguing. I loved almost all the characters, but the MC in particular was quite realistic and very likeable - which let's be honest is kind of rare when it comes to this kind of stories. Set in the present day, a mysterious illness plagues the world. Everyone is turning into monsters and the only way to defeat them is to be as quiet and as violent as possible. Beginning with a reluctant protagonist, the apartment building this battle takes place in is filled with every kind of fear, hate, and love someone can feel in the midst of an apocalypse. Orated through as diverse of characters as you'd expect across tenants, anything revealed to the reader has to first be figured out within the story.
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While in hiding, he witnesses to his shock a naked human being emerge from one of the cocoons. Really knows how to keep your tension up the entire duration you're reading. Has a diverse cast of likeable characters with some nice depth. Now that it's complete you won't have to wait for any cliffhangers. I personally just spent 8 hours reading this right from chapter 1 and am now writing this.
Hyun-soo and Yi-hyun goes to Room 1408 to check on the monster and, to Hyun-soo's shock, discovers in its place a human-sized cocoon-like structure. Hyun-soo deduces that the thing is alive when he hears its heartbeat. Fearing it could be a threat, Yi-hyun tries to destroy the cocoon but his half-monsterization abilities strangely fights back and knocks him out. One of the major problems with webcomics is that they keep dragging on and on, and most of the time the plot seems to lose their momentum after a while. But Youngchan Hwang seemed to know what he was doing with the pacing his story.
Chapters 86-111
The character is named Jayhun in the official English translation. The character is named Yeong in the official English translation. The character is named Sook in the official English translation. The character is named Hyuk Lee in the official English translation.
This narrow viewpoint makes for a gripping thriller as a lot of what's going on outside their experiences is kept in the dark and makes for a very intimate feeling horror. Hyun is a reclusive high schooler struggling with trauma and suicidal tendencies. He spends each day just barely clinging on to life, hating his family for turning a blind eye to everything he's suffered through and escaping from reality by spending all his time on the internet. Completely devoid of hope, he schedules his own suicide only to wake up the next day to find out that the entire world has ended and been taken over by monsters. After the plan to end his own life is interrupted, Hyun begins to wonder if the apocalypse is truly the end of the world or a chance to begin life anew. The women and children zipline to the hill first using all available pulleys.
This is evident by its introduction of the idea of human beings turning into monsters not through external factors (e.g. virus, curse) but through the expression of their desires. On Joong-seop's orders, Hyun-soo and Yi-hyun search the upper levels of Green Home for other monsters. By letting his inner monster communicate with Hyun-soo's, Yi-hyun discovers the harmless giant fetus monster in the Room 1408 bathroom and, controlled by his inner monster, intends to kill it. Hyun-soo battles against Yi-hyun to defend the fetus monster and manages to knock Yi-hyun back to his normal self.
Sweet Home marks the second collaborative work between webtoon writer Kim Carnby and webtoon artist Hwang Young-chan. The first work by Kim and Hwang is Bastard (2014–16), a thriller story about son who lives with his father, a serial killer. Honestly this just got me so into it that I read it all under 24 hrs, it is an amazing story, it never bored me and it has a really interesting character development. You never know what's coming and that's what keeps you into the story because anything can happen at any moment. Everyone is under the threat of becoming a monster in the shape of their deepest desires, and this adds extra layers of psychological depth to the apocalypse genre.
The character development, the plot lines and the characters themselves are nothing less than perfect. The conclusion was highly satisfying and I cannot wait for the netflix adaptation to come out. Web sweet home was published digitally in english by line webtoon from january 14, 2018 to august 30, 2020. I have read my fair share of webcomics dealing with 'end of the world' scenarios, and I have to say this was definitely one of the best of this genre. Suicidal teen finds himself in a world where people all around him are turning into monsters, and decides that maybe he does want to live afterall.
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