Shotgun Boy

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I've started reading Shotgun Boy long ago while it was still on going and i totally forgot to keep going. But now I finally ended it and decided i should do a quick review about my opinion on it.

It had a huge expectation break for me, I started reading knowing absolutely nothing about it and got surprised about how things turned into. Not that I'm exactly complaining about, but i really kinda wanted it to be different.

The plot ends up being about monsters and it's totally connected with another work by the same authot Sweet home, which i currently didn't read, and I've seen people ... saying It's amazing and it's much better reading it first, unfortunately that didn't happen to me, but we gotta keep going.

Seeing Shotgun Boy as a whole, I liked it. It was pretty enjoyable, entertaining enough for making me go through all chapters and look forward to read Sweet home that is it's sequel.

Art: 9
There is nothing to complain about, it's clean, well made, and i simply love the facial expressions. A good art behind any story makes it more satisfying to witness.

Characters: 7
There wasn't really any character depth, they were all OK and stuff but there was nothing to make me really feel enough attached to any of them, but as the sensitive and humble person I am I could still sympathize to them and feel bad if they died, but about deepness there isn't that much, the mc was OK, the antagonist was kinda boring and annoying to watch (the bully guy i forgot the name), Zero was nice, I liked the image he passed to us, so he's quite a good character to me, and all the others in my mind were like "OK, they're characters", nothing really that special. It's nothing that surprising coming from like, a side story for Sweet home that has only 69 chapters, so I'm not really disappointed, because even tho there wasn't THE character development the manhwa was still enjoyable.

Story: 8
It was nice, I liked the plot, the dialogues were great, the message was reflexive, it scaled really fast and unexpectedly from what was the start until the end that doesnt even seem the same story, a thing here and there that were kinda "???" But nothing that would ruin my experience.

Overall: 8.
I'm not the type to judge things very deeply, as it isn't that hard to satisfy me with an OK story, Shotgun Boy is a rather short and good experience, and I wouldn't really complain about anything in it, u should go for it, mainly if u already read the sequel, or if ou plan to.

Just wanted to make a review as I see nobody as done one for the moment (first time).

I was new to Manhwas, and I readed Sweet Home. Clearly my best experience on mobile reading so far. So when I found that Shotgun Boy was a prequel to SH, I couldn't wait to take the train.

I am at chapter 50 and here is my opinion :

- Characters have pretty much the same system as SH, antisocial boy, his girl crush, some teacher, coward students etc... Maybe you will find it boring, or not just as me.

- Drawings are below SH, it's always dark ... and you don't see a lot of things especially if you are reading outside. And monsters are less originals.

- Lots of correlations to SH. You will find some protagonist you already know, finding links between the two stories and mostly big revelations. Love it as a fan.

Conclusion :

Will you like it as a Sweet Home non-reader ? Maybe but probably less. Would I recommend SH before ? Absolutely. Shotgun Boy is a good experience, not fantastic. But my personal enjoyment is great since the start, always fun to read.

Shotgun Boy really had me invested throughout. I was pretty curious about the universe Carnby Kim was adding on to from Sweet Home, so I was attached to this manhwa from the start. But then the last ten or so chapters were rolling by... and then by the end, instead of "wow", or "incredible", it was more like "uh ok".
MC Gyuhwan starts off as an incredibly troubled kid, in fact, hes ready to shoot up his whole class. So in a situation where he is trapped at a camp with his classmates and a ton of monsters, he and his shotgun don't really see ... them all as any different. But, he slowly becomes more of a heroic character as the story moves along... dare I say, maybe even generically heroic. Like a shounen protagonist.
The supporting characters are all really boring (save for maybe Zero). None of them really go anywhere, and some just killed off just to kill them off. Most of all, everyone does what you expect them to do. No one has any compelling development. Sweet Home and Bastard's characters often fell morally gray, which kept things a lot more interesting. In Shotgun Boy characters that are good do good things, and then there are characters that are evil and try to kill people. Shin-Yeong is boring, she is just Gyuhwan's sidekick. Seong-Bin is a disaster. His character was the last I expected, by being everything that you'd expect of the excessive, korean comic bully.
Shotgun Boy worked pretty well to give context about how Sweet Home came to be, and the art was also very good, definitely on par with Sweet Home, despite having a new artist. On its own, I read on and it felt basic; formulaic. This is one of the stories I finish and gives me the thought: why? Why was this made? The characters and plot felt like tools to set up lore for the more interesting characters in Sweet Home. Shotgun Boy doesn't stand well on it's own. I've considered Carnby Kim to be the top of the webtoon thriller authors, but this one just felt like one of the rest.

Overall a High 5 / 10