Sweet Home

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Japanese: 스위트 홈

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: 12

Chapters: 141

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 12, 2017 to Jul 2, 2020

Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, Suspense

Theme: Gore

Serialization: Naver Webtoon

Authors: Kim, Carnby (Story), Hwang, Young-chan (Art)

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Score: 8.29¹ (scored by 27,570 users)

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Ranked: #290²

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Popularity: #238

Members: 53,477

Favorites: 2,086

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Ranked #290Popularity #238Members 53,477

ManhwaNaver WebtoonKim, Carnby (Story), Hwang, Young-chan (Art)

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Cha Hyun is a reclusive high school student who spends his days holed up in his room playing video games. But when he loses his entire family in a tragic car accident, he is forced to leave his home and carefree lifestyle behind and move into a new apartment all by himself. However, his pesky neighbors and lack of money soon become the least of his worries as people around him suddenly begin turning into horrifying monsters, plunging the world into apocalyptic chaos.

The situation takes a turn for the worse when Hyun realizes that he himself is slowly turning into a monster, while a mysterious voice in his head grows louder and louder. With his time running out, Hyun must work together with his fellow tenants to uncover the cause of the outbreak and find a way to survive in this hopeless new world, all the while fighting to retain his humanity.

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Sweet Home was published digitally in English by LINE Webtoon from January 14, 2018 to August 30, 2020.

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Cha, Hyun

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Yoon, Jisu

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Pyeon, Wook

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Lee, Hyuk

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Hahn, Dusik

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Jayhun

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Jo, Ihyun

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Ahn, Seop

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Byeong-il

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Park, Yuri

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Oct 20, 2020

141 of 141 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

NotCat (All reviews)

60 people found this review helpful

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

In a nutshell
How much does a hikikomori need to be happy? A warm apartment, where everyone should know to shut the fuck up and to never annoy you, and a stable internet connection, because you should always be able to access the internet and tell everyone how much of douchebags they are. At least, that is a definition of Hyun Cha. His parents die in a car accident and even this does not change his take on life. “Worthless parents, they left me 2.000$. How am I supposed to live like that? So to hell with them.” Hyun Cha even sets the “day X” on his phone, the day when he will finally end this nonsense, called the life. However, he moves in a cheap dormitory that makes him change his world view. What exactly did he see?

Story
After an unexpected family tragedy, a high school student Hyun Cha is forced to leave his home and move into an inexpensive dormitory. Realizing how worthless his life is, thinking the whole world sucks and is nothing but a bunch of nonsense, he decides that it is time to end it all. Comically, before the day of the suicide comes, the world is no more: some unknown disease attacks the humanity, turning people into flesh hungry monsters. However, after some time, the humanity finds more details about the disease:
-nosebleed and faints are the first symptoms of the disease;
-you cannot kill monsters;
-before a person becomes a monster, there is a time window, during which monsters can be killed;
-there is no cure;
-there is no escaping;
-this is the fight to the death between the humanity and the virus.

There are, of course, still many important details about the disease that I have not mentioned yet and they make this disease even more interesting. After all, today we are living in very challenging times, when the world suffers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries, including: the US, Russia, China, as well as other countries develop vaccines to cure the virus, including the DNA vaccines. Do you understand what I am trying to say? Precisely! At times like this, this manhwa is just so awesome to read. But this is not what this review is about. Story wise, Sweet Home is perfect. Though, this is one of these manhwa, where the author leaves many things for the reader to interpret, so be ready for a bit of thinking.

Characters
Character wise, this manhwa has many things to offer. Simply because of the fact that there are many characters, they all have their personalities that are also very different and unique and, of course, their development is something you need to see by yourself. What I mean is that how you first see the characters of the manhwa and who they become near the end of it. And this is just awesome. At first, you see some boring and cliché personalities and that makes you underestimate this manhwa. However, the more you read, the more you find out about the story and the characters and, trust me, you will never call them boring. Another thing worth mentioning is that the manhwa does not focus only on the main characters, it also gives more than enough time to shine for the supporting characters: you will read their backstories and find out simply everything you need to know.

Overall
Sweet Home is one of the best horror manhwa, I have read. Sweet Home is just like a puzzle. At first, it looks terrible. Little by little, piece by piece, this puzzle becomes better and better. And after the final piece, after the final chapter, you will see how beautiful it is. As I have already mentioned in my review, in this manhwa, many things are left for the reader to decide, you will need to think about many things. If you are ready for it, welcome to the feels train. If such things are not for your liking and you prefer manhwa that explain every single detail to you, I would suggest you to avoid that manhwa. But it is up to you to decide.

With that being said, do read it! It does have a slow start, those who are patient, however, will be rewarded with an amazing story, they will not forget for a long while.

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Apr 16, 2021

5 of 141 chapters read

Overall Rating: 2

EvanEssence (All reviews)

34 people found this review helpful

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Makoto Naegi from the first DongoBongo loses his family and begins to live on his own, but then everything changed when a slightly creative but poorly executed horror premise attacked. (this is an alternate universe where his talent is the inverse.)

Memes aside, I can see why people like this, it's a fun concept and its not like it's bad to like it, because opinions and whatnot.

Story: 1
I wasn't a fan of how the first few chapters were set up, I found faults in the logistics of the financial aspect, coming from a similar situation myself. (I fact checked US-South Korea currency, apartment rent, utilities read more

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Nov 11, 2020

141 of 141 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

A-Weeb-Lord (All reviews)

31 people found this review helpful

*Spoiler Free Review*
I just finished reading the manwha and immediately went to write this review, I will mention my opinion on the different segments of both good and bad. This is my first review btw, so I'm probably gonna suck but whatever.

"Insert random philosophical quote"

Story: 9/10
The story is simple at the beginning but told in a very effective way. The horror is really well implemented and does not resort to using cheap screamers to create "fear". A big portion of the story focuses on the development of the protagonist (Hyun Cha) as he changes his way of being due to the state the world is going through. The climax moments are well constructed and the calm sections give moments to think about the situation that the characters are going through and allows to empathize with them in a better way. But it is not perfect since it has its problems, there are a couple of chapters in which nothing that truly mattered for the plot was done and gave me an insufferable boredom to read through, although it did compensate with the suspenseful moments that followed. For me the biggest problem with the the story is at the very end, as it feels quite rushed and some of the things that were hyped up half way through the story ended up being executed way too hastily and without much explanation, although its final moments do fullfil the task of delivering a somewhat satisfying conclusion which caused me to have a mixture of emotions between joy and sadness.

Art: 10/10
The art is by far the best aspect of the manwha as almost all suspense scenes are well done thanks in large part to the accompanying art, the settings are simple but done in dark themes that somehow makes them look flashy and creates a good atmosphere for the moment and the characters' reactions to the diverse scenarios that they encounter makes them feel more human but still remaining that fantasy aspect of the manwha, not only that but as well as their designs which are very well done. The artist really achieves the best of his artstyle with this section.

Characters: 8/10
The characters are interesting but few are really explored in depth. Hyun Cha is by far the best character of the manwha due to his amazing development which is carried in a very well done pace and manages to empathize with him more and more throughout the progression of the story. Other characters didn't run the same luck as I came to completely hate them due to how they showed the most inhuman and yet realistic side of a character in the worst kind of situations which is a good thing as it represents that not everyone in real life has a sense of heroism or the courage to do selfless acts. Other characters were interesting but weren' explored as much as expected, although they did had their moments that defined them as solid additions to the overall story; while others were very forgetable as they had no interesting aspects or moments whatsoever. As an overall, the main cast was awesome, the supportings were for the most part solid. So I give it an 8 as I would've preferred that the supportings had a much more background as well as development.

Enjoyment: 9/10
My enjoyment was present from beggining to end, sure there were some segments in which the characters did nothing and got me bored and decide to stop reading, but for the most part it was great and the suspense accompanied with the amazing artstyle made for an incredible experience I really enjoyed.

Overall: 9/10
Overall it's a pretty solid manwha, not as good as Bastard (another manwha created by the same author and artist), but a very solid work that does make it in my approved (and favorites) list and I would definetly recommend it to anyone who wants to read a good horror story along with some great character development.

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Nov 12, 2020

140 of 141 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

BrokenOutlet (All reviews)

28 people found this review helpful

Sweet Home might seem "scary" or "bloody," but Sweet Home is more than a monster webtoon. The story is very interesting, which instantly brought me in. The characters are great, with me actually being attached to most of them! The art is spectacular, and its plot "twists" made me squirm in my chair. I was very sad when some characters had their stories cut short, with me being disappointed with two specific characters. The ending felt "rushed," but it was still satisfying. The beginning was enticing, then it spiraled into a story where I was hooked and reading every chapter. This webtoon is a great read more

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