Surprisingly, the manga otaku (not all) have been an eye for webtoons, or webcomic. I was hesitant at first, but I went along as I discover more interesting stories. So I wanna let you ,perhaps, know firstly, what is webcomics or webtoons then show some notable works you guys might wanna check out
Defined by Crunchyroll, A webtoon is a less common term used to
describe an animated comic strip that is distributed via the internet which are often created by amateur creators.
Defined by Wiki, In South Korea, webcomic is not a common term. Instead, Koreans use term 'webtoon' (a portmanteau of “web” and “cartoons”) for webcomics. Webtoons are highly popular in Korea, for several reasons.
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Different types of comics
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There are many online comics in many countries: including the US, France, Korea, and Japan, since the internet has become the most prevalent tool for modern day society. However, where the webcomic is popular the most is South Korea.
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In Japan, the idea of webcomic is online version
of published manga or a four panel comic strip.
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In France, the genre of the webcomic is confined to
a kind of illustrated personal diary.
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The US web comics are mostly three or four-panel
structure like newspaper comics or a comic page.
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For further reading of what is Webtoon, you might check out this essay.
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As I have mentioned, before I was hesitant on reading webtoons for two reasons.
First, I always thought my loyalty for Japanese comics, my fascination towards manga proved through buying materials from legal distributors and if ever the mass will bought Korean comics than Japan comics ,somehow, I feel agitated by the fact that someday it'll return the favor like what happened to Philippine music towards Kpop from Jpop. Second, I dislike their names and I will barely recognize them in name.
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Anyhow, disregarding the second reason I decided to check it out and yeah ~ that's when I kinda look up to it now (I still feel fear for the first reason).
So far, here are the lists you may wanna check out but before that.
Naver Comics is an area that provides Naver users with manhwa comics and original comic pieces. Most significantly, it offers comic book, genre fiction, and free manhwa. Users must pay publishers to use their comic book and genre fiction contents. On the other hand, free manhwa, webtoon, is provided by professional artists weekly for free. Moreover, Naver promotes amateurs to be writers of the comic series through the process of rising in status. Status tends to be raised by being selected as "Top Challenge Manhwa" after posting "Challenge Manhwa" as amateurs.
Lists under Naver Comics
(Famous names)
- Black Haze
- Noblesse
- Tower of God
- The Game
- The God of Highschool
- Orange marmalade
- Dead days
Daum Comics is the first one to open a webtoon portal in 2003
Lists under Daum Webtoons
- Jack the American Ghost
- My Beautiful word
- He is a highschool girl
- Red Storm
- Iskra
- Impulse
- Freezing
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See my post about Webtoons