#manhwa rpg

[wonderland-hearts]

              SO YOU FELL DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE?

Wonderland is only a place that you heard about in your dreams, in the stories. Yet here you are, in a world that is mad beyond belief. The land is strange, and the world likes to play tricks on your eyes, mind, and heart. But there’s a reason that you were pulled from your own world and brought here.

Do you play along with the games of this new world? Or do you go about your own style? Will you stay hopelessly lost, continuously falling down the rabbit hole? Or will you join the madness that makes Wonderland?

Wonderland Hearts is a 20+ Discord multi-fandom role play group with an emphasis on fating of all kinds where your character is taken from their original world. Here they keep their powers, but they’re strangely altered to keep things fun, to keep the Mirror’s game going. Together they’ll live with other strangers and begin their new life here

:･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧  Welcoming environment! :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧  20+ community! :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧  Accepting characters from anime, comics, video games, and other animated/drawn mediums! :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧  Events every 2/3 months :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧  Self-assignable colors! :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧  IC movie nights every month!

HOME. || PREMISE. || RULES. || MASTERLIST. || INVITE.

ᴺᵒᵗᵉ: ᴰᵘᵉ ᵗᵒ ᴰᶦˢᶜᵒʳᵈ ˡᶦᵐᶦᵗᶦⁿᵍ ˢᵉʳᵛᵉʳ ᶦⁿᵛᶦᵗᵉ ˡᶦⁿᵏˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵒˡˡᵒʷᶦⁿᵍ ˡᶦⁿᵏ ᵐᵃʸ ᵇᵉ ᵉˣᵖᶦʳᵉᵈ: ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᶜʰᵉᶜᵏ ᵒᵘʳ ᵇˡᵒᵍ ᵒʳ ᵒᵘʳ ᵖᶦⁿⁿᵉᵈ ᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉ ᵗᵒ ᶠᶦⁿᵈ ᵃⁿ ᵘᵖ⁻ᵗᵒ⁻ᵈᵃᵗᵉ ˡᶦⁿᵏ

[ultimate-fucked-up-ship-tourney]

Propaganda:

The Sandman: The gist of the game is basically "look at this little freak". The protagonist of the game is tempted to turn to look at you and say "look at this little freak doing his little freak things" (at least it feels that way to me). Lack of sleep will do that to someone. I know he's not well known, but that he be included already means a lot to me.

Ijin Yu: Can kill you, and everyone else, but will probably prefer eating convenience store kimbap. until you threaten anyone he cares about. Also has trauma from being a child mercenary for 5 years and multiple people interested in him since he’s sweet and protective

[0verseer-o9]

“I wish CrispToby was popular…” CrispToby content if they were popular:

[sparx-png]

blog intro! let's be moots!

I've had this blog for a while, but I realized I've never made an introduction and I love doing that. So here we go.

name: sparx

gender & pronouns: bigender/nonbinary, they/[any]

ethnicity: mixed-race latino

languages: english, spanish

age: 22

blog type: multifandom

interests: video games, anime, movies, tv, webcomics/comics, etc.

video games

• genres: RPGs, JRPGs, visual novels, platformers

• favorites: kingdom hearts, the world ends with you, devil may cry, mortal kombat, our life, mystic messenger, rakuen, ori and the blind forest, final fantasy, persona

anime

• blue exorcist, erased, tokyo revengers, jojo's bizarre adventure, attack on titan, ouran high school host club, free!, hell girl, to your eternity, death note, tanaka-kun is always listless, afro samurai, devil may cry (2007), from me to you, etc.

movies

• genres: animation, comedy, romance, romcom, fantasy, action, adventure, horror, martial arts

• favorites: scott pilgrim vs. the world, inception, studio ghibli films, gkids films, lord of the rings, knives out, the mummy, fantastic beasts and where to find them, the matrix, encanto, old 2D disney movies, insidious, old dreamworks movies, fantastic beasts and where to find them, etc.

tv

• genres: animation, fantasy, sci-fi, action, adventure

• favorites: invincible, over the garden wall, the legend of vox machina, avatar: the last airbender, twin peaks, our flag means death, clone high, etc.

webcomics/webtoons/manhwa/manga

• omniscient reader, blue hearts, surviving romance, let's play, i'm the queen in this life, blue exorcist, death is the only ending for the villainess, i love yoo, my deepest secret, the guy upstairs, kiss him not me, age matters, batman: wayne family adventures, lost and found, comedown machine, etc.

other

• music, hello kitty, books, poetry/lyrics, liminal space, glowwave, backrooms, reality shifting (don't judge my escapism tactics aaa), language learning, stand-up comedy etc.

dni list

• homophobes, xenophobes/racists, transphobes, and any type of bigot I guess lmao

• i'd prefer to interact with 18+ users instead of minors, but I'm not super strict

And that's pretty much it! I'll likely be continuously updating the list of interests over time. By the way, this is my secondary blog. If we become moots, I'll follow you from my primary (@eightb-all) that I don't use much. Tumblr sucks at secondary blog capabilities :,)

Nice to meet you all!

[lindoesntwin]

REALITY QUEST

A bullied highschooler dies due to an unhealthy lifestyle but time travels back a week later where he now has an rpg-like system that helps him to grow stronger and helps him to defeat not just his bullies but full grown gangsters. 

Other titles: Real life quest; IRL quest; Hyeonsil quest

[demiurtch]

[guiscd]

-My Exclusive Tower Guide- [13]

é. dito e feito. definitivamente ela completou aquela missão.

[thelostpretzel]

hello!! i just wanted to pop in and say that i really really love your ocs, their designs are all so fun and creative!!!!! esp the heroes of the city waow :00 also deeply interested in whatever lore they have so if you ever feel like dropping crumbs,,, *hands outstretched*

*cracks knuckles* thank you for asking dear stranger i would love to ramble about my children (the?) Heroes of the City (sorry, I still don't understand how article THE works) is a story in the genre of LitRPG (like literature + RPG or manhwas/novells about rankers) and it's about Players who are trying to save The Sentient (?) City from self-destruction (or help it destroy itself if a Player feels like hating the world) so the main cast is Eki (she/them) aka The Leviathan Slayer aka The Hero she smol she kind she could kill a god if this god is a threat to her found family but only if said god is a physical threat she is a beating pillow for every morally gray/black character in The City and will never win against charismatic-based villain (she's very naive and soft hearted and everybody uses it)

Black Silver (she/her) aka The Witch or The City's Shadow

the hottest and the deadliest villain of The City and i have nothing else to say

Rex (he/them) aka [data deleted]

he is one of The City creators and his main mission is to be a threat to his ex-soulmate - Black Silver who is actively destroying The City

they are the Most Toxic Couple of the project and i feel terror every time i think about them

Little Box (she/her) aka [???]

i don't know what she is and i'm lowkey scared to know so she's just vibin' here and there (i think she's dead)

Coffee Fox (he/him) aka The Keeper aka The Guardian

a barista of a tiny coffee shop and The Retired King of The City

he brings comfort and love to every Hero but can only watch The City fall because he's forever locked in his coffee shop

Magnolia (she\her) and Glitches (they\them) aka The Healer/The Parasite

ah yes a cool badass parasite with no morale compass and an absolutely miserable host with terrible anxiety disorder i love it (Glitches also often flirts with The Bitch i mean with the guy who is hated by the whole City and Magnolia lives in constant fear because of it)

Midas (he/him) aka The Bitch i mean The Cursed King

The Bitch of The City (and he's fucking rich and hot too i hate him so fucking much i don't even draw him consistently WHYYYYYYYYYYY)

anyway

Adam (the fuck/that) aka The Emptiness

the mute horror of the City (he likes Little Box and Magnolia though)

aaaaaand the last one

42 aka Zwai (man/failure)

he's just funny little guy with horrible medicine trauma and a cat

thats it thank you

[paper-mario-wiki]

whats crafting mechanics in the isekai. like the way the world works or like minecraft crafting recipes.

many isekai (most of them nowadays, really) have RPG logic engrained into the universe, the exploitation of which usually ending up to be the pin holding the protagonist up as the Most Powerful Dude.

for example, in the (bland) manhwa i'm currently reading (technically in manhwa it's not called isekai, the genre is called transmigration i think) called "Astral Pet Store" he, essentially, runs a pokemon center/daycare/pokemart. a lot of the stories main goals are like. upgrading incubators and finding rare materials. and i like that stuff! it's enjoyable to see Guy Get Stronger Like Video Game.

in other stories there are different kinds of progression and crafting systems. like in Slime Reincarnation, theres a lot of time in the early story dedicated to what is basically RPG settlement building.

[sesanghe-myah]

Expectations ⤴️

Reality ⤵️

Okokok, but wait! jamkkan! jamkkan!

Is that actually commissioned fanart or is it from an RPG?! Because if it’s for a game or manhwa or a web novel or something, whhhyyyyy does it really look like what TT and DD would look like in some fantasy AU?

Down to how stupidly pretty they are and everything?! 😭😂😭😂

[pink-tk-a-latte]

hello hello hello!

𓇼 Call me Py! (As in Cleffa’s Japanese name) Any C-name is acceptable too

𓇼 If the content on this blog is not your vibe, no worries!! I implore you to visit @comfied-chriterature instead <33

𓇼 I write, simp, and am generally incoherent and occasionally poetic! And I may draw... sometimes...

𓇼 My interest in tickling is solely innocent. I love the fun and intimacy and bonding and kicking feet giggling of it all. // //

𓇼 Anyone is welcome! Engagement is always appreciated; just don't be creepy or hateful. Apologies if I struggle to communicate, I may have social anxiety. I tend to lurk and am always late to the party, but I really wanted to partake in this community bc it seems wholesome!

𓇼 Open for asks, requests, and tag games!! Check if your asks/requests have been replied to at this tag ➸ (farmboy wesley voice) as you wish 💌 and check here for a few of my favorite things~ /ref

𓇼 I enjoy musicals, vocaloid (hmu if you wanna talk about HarumakiGohan), cartoons/anime and manga/manhwa, pixel art games, rpg horror, books, emoticons, indie everything!!

𓇼 PINK PINK PINK 💞

𓇼 I also love hamsters and cookies and oceans and hearts <3

𓇼 Multishipping fanatic! I’m mostly open-minded but there are some ships (and characters) I dislike passionately and irrationally LOL

𓇼 Big fan of infp characters bc I am an infp and they're always such disasters lol!! ...What does that say about me

𓇼 Fandom list time!!

bocchi the rock, lycoris recoil, skip and loafer, toilet-bound hanako-kun, shy, nana, bungo stray dogs, buddy daddies, genshin impact, project sekai, six of crows, the disastrous life of saiki k

others: kimetsu no yaiba, pokémon, alien stage, tgcf and svsss, avatar the last airbender, the owl house, she-ra princesses of power, mascot horror, spider-man + mcu

𓇼 My tags જ⁀♡➴

py is turning pink 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 my writing tag

py plates shortcakes 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 my hcs, future ideas, and wips tag

py’s snack stash 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 my tk reblogs tag

a+ for art I liek :)) 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 my non-tk art/other reblog tag

[bowloflentils]

These are various magazine ads for Ys II Special, a Korean developed remake of Ys II that was released in 1994. The first ad features artwork by Lee Myung-jin, the artist famous for creating Ragnarok (the manhwa that would serve as the basis for the MMO RPG, Ragnarok Online).

These ads were taken from a few different issues of Game Champ, a Korean gaming magazine published in the 90s. Scans of the magazine can be viewed on this website.

[arsonmurderandjaywalking]

not to be a hater on main but good god is the sweet home drama bad. I'm probably not even going to be able to finish season 2 because it's just been so fucking boring and just nothing. an hour per episode and they've somehow managed to make it feel like absolutely nothing and far too much happens in each of them. and I just hate so many of the changes they made to the manhwa in season 1. I just don't like yi-kyung as a character; eun-yu and sang-wook function as just entirely separate characters— the thing is, I think eun-yu getting more focus and being more of a foil to hyun-su could've been a really good decision if they hadn't dropped the ball so hard. changing sang-wook how they did was such a boring and obvious decision, though, and I will stand by that; they completely gutted ji-su and hyun-su's relationship which undeniably made the show worse, thematically; they removed maria from the sky, which seems like a minor nitpick but that in turn hurts both hyun-su and eun-hyeok's relationship and their individual characterization. they're loser nerds. please for the love of god let them be loser nerds; they removed hyun-su's snark. he could be fucking MEAN sometimes, and just had a base level of pricklyness throughout the whole thing. it was endearing; they completely changed eun-hyeok's personality. I didn't put him with eun-yu and sang-wook because he still fulfills a lot of the same roles in the narrative in the drama as he did in the manhwa, unlike them, but I still feel like it hurts his character. where's his snark. where's his loser nerd interests. where's his rpg references while explaining his battle strategies. he was a troll and a cheerfully enigmatic bastard. he was like half of the comic relief (which feels a lot like it was a conscious decision he made, in-universe) he's so serious now. it's boring. also they made him older, which also seems like a minor nitpick, but him being a literal high schooler adds such a level to him choosing to step up as the leader, as the person who makes the hard decisions no one else wants to make, and these grown adults just letting him; I don't like that they added more romance to the drama. this is actually a problem I also have with the manhwa, though to a much lesser extent. I really, really liked the fact that ji-su and hyun-su's relationship was platonic, I felt (and still do) that it was much more meaningful than them being romantic, and the romance also felt really shoehorned in at the last minute besides. but the drama was shoving it in your face from their first meeting that hyun-su and eun-yu were romantic and they just really did not sell me on it; THEY CHANGED HYUN-SU'S MONSTER FORM. still so pissed about this. he was a knight!! because he was hanging onto just enough of his consciousness to be able to protect ji-su!!! they care about each other the most out of all of what remains of this unfair world!!!! the knife arm, one-winged angel-imagery bullshit in the drama was so boring and had no symbolic significance. objectively a downgrade. literally one of the only changes that I liked was what they did with jae-heon's backstory, that actually added so much to his character

[a-wild-julibean]

Blue Lock Is Well Written, Actually (Part 1)

All Blue Lock fans know that this series is over the top, ridiculous, and completely unrealistic--we don't need to be told that. In fact, for me at least, the stupidly cringy dialogue, the extreme situations, the over exaggeration of it all is what makes this silly little series so enjoyable and fun. But I'm here to tell you that yeah, BLLK is good because it's cringe and dramatic, but it's also a well written series in multiple key aspects, the most important of which are its pacing/story structure, theming, and of course, character writing.

Warning: This is going to be long and is also text heavy. This is part one, covering pacing/story structure. Also, this is my opinion haha so you don't have to 100% agree. Spoilers ahead!

Let's begin with the pacing of the story! One thing I admire writers of all good stories for, from "trashy" isekai to million word philosophical novels, is the ability to identify the goal of the story and pace it accordingly.

Take Solo Leveling vs. Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, two action manhwa that both use an RPG-themed setting and have a very strong main character:

Solo Leveling's goal is the be an exciting and hype action power fantasy about an underdog who grows to become grossly overpowered.

Knowing this, the story is extremely fast paced, going from one major battle and victory to the next with little to no downtime. This helps to deliver the energy needed for a series that lives and dies on its hype. 

In contrast, ORV looks more to tell a thematically potent story through complex characters. To do so, it chooses a slow burn pace and gives plenty of time for less frantic moments to aid development. Switch these two paces around and both stories would be far worse off.

Let’s bring this point back to BLLK. Its goal is an exciting story full of hype, but also one that provides some thematic lessons and builds strong characters, a sort of middle ground between the two previously mentioned series. Thus, it’s face paced, yet also has much down time–a choice that is vital to its enjoyment.

Down time provides two key things to the series:

A break from the action. Too much action can lead to almost a feeling of burnout in the reader, where they feel overwhelmed by the constant high stakes and tension. I personally have had to drop multiple series for long periods of time due to this type of stress/exhaustion. The break helps to build excitement between high points, the rising action after the fall. A recent example in BLLK would be the couple of chapters in between the end of the Manshine City vs. Bastard Munchen match and the beginning of the one against Ubers.

Exploration of characters. Exploring how characters act in more mundane situations helps build who they are and adds to their humanity. Small choices like their choice of dress, what they like to do in their free time, and other such details are imperative to creating compelling characters. Down time is also the perfect time for flashbacks, as seen often in BLLK (ex. Rin and Sae’s backstory in the middle of the U20 game, Hiyori’s right before the Ubers game). 

All in all, though readers might think getting straight back into the action would be their preferred structure, down time is a kinda “you’ll thank me later” type addition that enhances the action by both preparing readers for more excitement and helping to make readers more invested through character development.

It’s a bit of an obvious addition, but one that BLLK actually uses very well. None of the down time ever feels wasted or out of nowhere. Every flashback is implied to be needed based on previous moments. Rin and Sae’s isn’t dropped right after Rin is introduced or even after Isagi gets closer to Rin. Instead, it’s inserted when it's most important to the story so its existence can be justified. Hiyori’s flashback has much less leading up to its reveal, but Hiyori’s commentary on Isagi reveals some of his character that gets followed up on in his flashback; the flashback also gives some excitement for what Hiyori might do in the future. 

Again, this feels like an obvious requirement for writing flashbacks but oh boy is it sometimes completely disregarded (and in two very popular series that I shall not name but both essentially contain a long flashback about a side character’s history that is not set up very clearly beforehand, leaving them feeling awkwardly placed and accidentally pointing out the author’s hand).

The other way BLLK uses down time is character exploration, the clearest example of which are the day out chapters following the U20 match. Did we absolutely need to see the cast’s shenanigans at karaoke and bowling? No. Did it add much to the story to love? Absolutely. 

This was actually a very vital time to place some silly team bonding, as a ton of new characters were introduced in the arc, but only through their playstyles. Giving them time out in the city as regular teenagers helps to cement their characters and add some quirky habits and traits that are more relatable or down to earth. Karasu, for example, is now characterized as the mature and responsible one in the group and not just “the assassin one I guess.”

On top of the fun stuff, we also do get some character introspection during the days out for Isagi and Rin. Isagi meets up with Tada and reflects on what’s happened so far plus goes into a bit of theming while Rin contemplates the U20 match, and narratively, his further growth in the story is set up. Clearly, the author knows that down time is not exclusively for sweet fluff. 

That’s basically all I got on down time writing. Finally, to wrap up this post on pacing and structure, let’s talk about stakes and promises for the future. 

Stakes in stories need to keep increasing or at least remain generally equivalent to the previous situation’s stakes in order to keep interest. In BLLK, the stakes in stages 1, 2, and 3 were essentially equivalent as they were all just normal tests; however, the U20 match is a large jump in stakes as a loss means the total dissolution of the facility, but a win would give them the U20 spots. 

If the series had returned to regular tests after the match, it would not have felt as interesting as before the match because now the readers have been encouraged to dream beyond the facility. However, the author knows this and chooses to go with the Neo Egoist league, bringing out world class strikers and foreign players. Sure, losing a match won’t cause the entire story to end now, but the difficulty and excitement of the current arc is about the same as the U20 arc.  

On top of the current arc, the author also makes sure to state what the future plans of the story are: the world U20 tournament. By showing the audience what the path to something vague is, the plot is tightened and you can feel comforted by the fact that the series knows where it's going. “Becoming the best striker in the world” seems unrealistic at first, but now the steps to reach that position have been revealed. Together, this retains audience investment.

To summarize, Blue Lock keeps a fast pace, strategically interspersed by points of down time that prevent tension burnout and add more character details. Additionally, the stakes and future plan of the series are consistently building and clear to help ground its vague goal. Though these aspects may seem obvious or simple, the difficulty of their execution is not so. It requires planning and effort to keep a series on a smooth ramp up and going at a quick but not blazing speed. Many, many, many series can only dream of the quality of Blue Lock’s steady pacing that almost never feels too slow or too fast, especially when read all at once rather than week to week. 

Pacing and structure are some of the aspects of writing that are at their best when you can barely notice their presence at all: only a series that struggles with them will remind readers of their existence and importance. Blue Lock succeeds at keeping both under the radar.

[demiurtch]

AJR – 100 Bad Days 

I also made a short animatic with this little comic.

[guiscd]

-My Exclusive Tower Guide- [13]

pra essa mina ter uma arma que parece tão poderosa assim, mesmo estando no 3° andar, ela definitivamente concluiu aquela missão de 'assassino de constelações'