The World After the Fall

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Synonyms: Myeolmang Ihu-ui Segye, The World After the End

Japanese: 멸망 이후의 세계

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Feb 7, 2022 to ?

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Serialization: Naver Webtoon

Authors: sing N song (Story), Undead Gamja (Art)

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Score: 7.55¹ (scored by 8,605 users)

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Ranked: #2643²

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Faced with imminent defeat and certain death, would you choose to run—or continue to fight for a doomed world? When mysterious towers appear across the world, summoning monsters that prey on mankind, this is the choice presented to the Tower Walkers—adventurers with special powers to fight the monsters. On the brink of death, they can choose to use a "regression stone" to return to the past for a second chance, though this decision places them in a separate timeline forever. Stubborn Tower Walker Jaehwan rejects this choice, choosing to fight for the original timeline, and learning shocking secrets about the Tower along the way.

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The World After the Fall has been published digitally in English, French, German, Indonesian, and Thai by Webtoon Entertainment, and has been published in print by Yen Press under the Ize Press imprint since November 1, 2022.

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Jaehwan

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Han, Mino

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Sameng, Garam

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Jan 2, 2025

ninja3212

Recommended

Preliminary (247/? eps)

As someone who has read the entire light novel, and who has Reading Power on a scale untold, this series is an absolute masterpiece. The premise is a red herring; the climb of the towers called Nightmare Towers in the beginning is effectively inconsequential, merely serving as a backdrop for the characters in the world. This story is more about finding out and understanding the reason for the existence of the Nightmare Towers, and the nature of the world they live in: The Tree of Imagery.

There are two main power systems: Adapters and Awakeners. An Adapter is someone who uses the System and the mechanics ... therein to gain power; think of this as someone using isekai-type game interfaces to use special skills. Awakeners instead gain power by unlocking knowledge of how the world works through some repetitive action. Effectively, they gain understanding of and reject the System, gaining the power to enforce their own will upon the world itself; though this also comes with the trauma of becoming disillusioned with reality. Many of the mechanics within the world are left largely unexplained, relying on the Reader's intrinsic knowledge of similar concepts (assuming they've read texts that are similar), or on subtext that was delivered throughout the story.

Jaehwan, someone who has become an Awakener while trying to climb Earth's Nightmare Tower, seeks to destroy Big Brother, the nebulously extant being who watches everyone from the top of the Tree of Imagery. Any successes he reaps, any accolades he collects, are all stepping stones on his climb to Big Brother. He exists to bring the world to its fall.

Detractors and fools who are incapable of reading into subtext will reject my claims; they'll call the story convoluted and lame. To them I say that they must simply read closer, or to read other books and come back once they've brushed up on their literacy skills. Morons will insinuate that the main character is boring, emotionless, or uninteresting. I ask them how they'd process losing everyone they've ever cared about because someone viewed you as nothing but a Product to increase their own wealth, if they've ever had a goal that they felt single-mindedly driven to achieve. Others yet will lament that characters are introduced, and then after a time you no longer really see them; isn't that a waste of character development? To them, I ask if they've ever lived in the real world, where human connection comes and goes with the seasons, as people with different goals say goodbye, their journeys leading them down different roads.

This is a deeply philosophical work, a testament to how web novels can serve as a vehicle for commentary. As someone who loves this work so much, I'm inclined to even call it a new age epic. The work serves to subvert, reflect upon, and deconstruct fiction as a genre, and it does so in a way that can go completely over your head if you don't know what you're looking for. Read the manhwa, read the light novel, go over to Omniscient Reader and read that too.

Ouroboros.

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Sep 27, 2024

Kaito420

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (143/? eps)

To start off, the first 50 chapters for me were a solid 8. The start was quite something giving you a ton of information with very interesting world building, it is a bit much but really fine and from there on out it looks really promising

Chapter 50~100 aprox is the real first arc, for me it is 9.5/10, absolute astonishing fights, very interesting power system, really good side characters and really superb villains. From here on out the story starts getting intense and serious, reading that arc made me fall in love with the manhwa, as it looks to close on some questions contiuning the ...

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May 2, 2024

Ant3331000

Not Recommended

Preliminary (55/? eps)

Okay, the TLDR is do not read this Manhwa if you value your time. It is quite literally, all over the place in terms of story and plot. I was recommended this after reading a different Manhwa called Omniscient Readers Viewpoint claiming that both stories took place in the same world. Clarification, 55 chapters in and they are NOT. That doesn’t ruin the score I just figured people should know. But let’s get into a breakdown to better clarify my thoughts. Spoilers ahead!

Story 1/10
You’re going to hear me say this a lot, but the premise of this whole manhwa starts out pretty interesting. The ... idea of towers sprouting up around the world that need to be beaten RPG style was a cool premise that had a lot of potential. If the entire story took place inside the tower and explored the worldbuilding, consequences, and characters inside I think the score would be a lot higher. Instead, we get a brief introduction to our characters “trauma” which lasts maybe 1 chapter and then he breaks “out” of the tower into basically a fantasy world. And since he technically cleared the tower and faced an unbeatable foe, he is just super OP. This takes place like 5 chapters in or so, and after that the story just focuses on this new world and is a mid-tier world building that gets retconned every 10 chapters or so.

Characters 3/10
What can I say, 1-dimensional and bloated cast. It’s a real shame, again I feel like if they just spent even a fraction of a second exploring the main characters literally MILLIONS of years of trauma in the tower it would be more interesting. And we kind of get a glimpse of that when he faces the 99th floor boss and even less of a taste when he interacts with the female heroine, after realizing she too is human. HOWEVER, THEY LITERALLY JUST WRITE HER OUT OF THE STORY. The best character and arguably the perfect foil to our MC’s stoic, broody nature, and she just POOF, disappears after she is cured of ghoulism. She is instead replaced with an old man who kind of serves as comic relief. Then they start adding other characters who I can literally only describe by their powers. Fire-Guy, water-guy, smart-guy, lighting-guy, ect. And out of ALL these characters lighting-guy is like the only one to have a “backstory” if you can even call it that.

Worldbuilding 4/10
I’m going to skip the parts I touched on in the Story section about the tower and just focus on the world of “Chaos”. This Iseki land is, at first, meant to be the afterlife. Souls come here to live for eternity. They set a bunch of rules in place about how higher beings can’t interact with Chaos, but they retcon this pretty quickly. They also add a place called the “abyss” which holds some life fruit that can return someone to life and that is the ONLY goal of our MC for no reason. The sort of personal reality of “ascenders” or whatever the MC and old man are, is kind of interesting. Seeing the world through your own eyes but it only serves to make our MC look more badass.

Art 8/10
Good art, good on some scenes, wasted on others. In the typical Manhwa art style so nothing to write home about.

Power System 4/10
The power system starts off as an RPG style, video game thing. Characters get XP from killing tower monsters and level up skills and all that. It’s not really explained in depth and is instead exchanged for “Adapters” and “Ascenders” which are basically people who exceed the limits of the RPG leveling system supposedly. However, after clearing the tower you never see this system again and all power relies on basically “magic” or practicing 1 thing for like a million years. Lazy and forgettable.

Alright rant session over if you read this far thanks and good luck. Just don’t want to see anyone waste their time. I mean it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever read so if you have time to waste give it a shot otherwise go read literally anything else!

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