The Warrior Returns

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Some people have probably only read the beginning few chapters of this manhwa and decided to slap it with a one star rating. This manhwa is far from being a Masterpiece but I have thoroughly enjoyed it and decided to rate it with a at least a 9. Still if this is not a great story then I don't know what is, considering I binged it all in 2 days.

It is understandable why people rate it poorly since at the beginning a lot of things happen and shift. People who join in wishing for the edgy MC we get in the first few chapters will ... be disappointed as the story is not just about him. This manhwa definitely plays with your emotions and leaves everything in a gray area. Points of view constantly shift and you don't even know who the main character is. Still the story retains it's coherency and it reads really smoothly. No one is really the hero and you will be able to find a reason to like or dislike pretty much any character that isn't a side character (thinking of you trident bro XD).

The art is more than acceptable. I would say that it is even very good. The really cool scenes also usually get some special care. It is not comparable to the scenes you see in Berserk, but you can't really compare since the two are different mediums.

I could ramble on about more things but this is my first review so I got no clue what else to put in... and well in general I don't want to enter the spoiler zone. I would recommend this story if you really want to feel a "wtf... why the fk would you write this author?" at the end of the first season XD

The season 1 was fine, the pace is good without dragging too much of the back stories of each heroes. Sometime you also feel sad about their back stories. As mention, the pace is good and the back stories isn't too long.

However, when the season 2 starts, you are like getting a dejavu feeling. You will thought that the Spear hero will finally fight the Sword hero, but NO NO NO. The plot stopped, no longer advancing.

Season 2 bring you back to the beginning of season 1, then started to slowly to introduce the back stories of each heroes, and it took 5+ chapters to ... complete one hero back stories. Pacing become very slow unlike season 1, most of the back stories of the characters doesn't really matter to the plot.

I totally not recommending season 2 as of now, they feel like a filler to drag the manhwa longer.
I advised you stop after season 1 and wait for few years until it finally back to Spear vs Sword.

Doesn't get much worse than this. Incredibly amateurish story with zero substance. Every page is just random nonsense battles made with what looks like a free Photoshop plugin. This is probably the most bored I've ever been reading manhwa. And for those believing there is some great twist in the story, no there is not. From chapter 1 to 90 this is the most shallow, juvenile depiction of people ever put to page. And why so many characters? It feels like every chapter has hundreds of cartoony heroes and villains battling it out in random time periods. Are we supposed to care about anything that ... happens after the first hundred heroes show up? Honestly, this is the type of cartoon story you would find on the back of a box of cereal.