Yureka

Greetings readers,

this is my very first review I simply had to write one for "Yureka" since for some reason there was none yet for this exceptional game manga, also bear in mind that english is not my native language so excuse eventual mistakes and flaws.

This is a spoiler-free review.

Before starting with the review i wanna mention that a lot of anime and manga fans are also gamers (like myself), so of course there have been works that implement the "game"-genre...more precisely the MMORPG aspect.

Anime like Sword Art Online, .hack // and Log Horizon (and most recently No Game No Life) have successfully demonstrated the potential that lies in this combination, but without fully exploiting it.
The Problem is that the "game" is often only used for the setting and to catch attention but has its significance decrease over the course of the plot.
Yureka tries a different approach and covers all the aspects people love about online games: leveling, classes, skills, dungeons/raids, ingame events, cheater/hacker/scripter as well as Player vs. Environment (PvE) and Player vs. Player (PvP) combat.
Attached to this is an interesting story, really great characters (likeable as well as despicable ones) and humor that can actually make you laugh out loud at certain points if you get into it.
The art is good and fits the manga adequately.

I generally enjoyed this manga a lot and hope that you guys give it a try, you won't regret it.

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I still cannot believe that nobody reviewed Yureka yet, it is such a good manhwa . Well basically

Yureka takes place in the future of Korea in which the online game called Lost Saga is the most

popular MMORPG at that time. The manga starts slow, but gets really good after a handful of chapters.

Character

. The lead character Jang- gun is one of the better players in Lost Saga. He could be a bit

arrogant, but his quick- thinking and strategic thinking makes him one of the tougher opponent to beat, Yureka is a mysterious girl in which you learn more about her as the story progresses.

The author has introduced a lot of characters into the story, and does a pretty good job in having

the fact that each of the characters play some role in the plot of the story. The characters is really

one of the most strongest aspects of the story. Since it is a MMORPG, each character is a part of

a class or classes. One of the things that the author does is pitting characters against other. The

battles themselves are just who has the strongest spell or items, each character has his or her style

fighting in which these styles clash when they fight. It often leads to some exciting battles, but

I have to say 60% to 70% of the manhwa is filled these kinds of battles. So be prepared, but the

battles are exciting and the character’s themselves have their own beliefs and ego in which they play which adds enrichment to the story.

Art

I am not myself an art critique. The art is really good, but nothing fantastic.

Plot.

Like I said earlier, there is going to be a lot of player(s) vs. player(s) battles, but I feel that each

battle adds some kind of character development to each of the characters which adds to the plot.

Well the plot itself is basically about the mysterious character Yureka and the future of Lost Saga

in which they are going through some big changes. As you read the plot gets bigger and bigger, however there are some darker elements that arrive later in the story that adds some depth overall to the entire story.

In conclusion, I think Yureka is an enjoyable MMORPG which has many interesting things

about the story. Unlike another story like cough..(SAO), I feel that the characters have real

feelings and have real society impact. It is basically a serious and more realistic SAO.

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