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Jan 23, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (200/267 chp)
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Weak Hero is honestly all over the place quality-wise, and even that I go back and forth on. Weak Hero's greatest strength is its characters, and despite all I'm about to say on the plot, I fully stand-by that the random goofy side chapters are some of the best in any Manwha I've ever read

The first few arcs of WH are really good IMO, the cast is small and the stakes are low but the fights are entertaining and the novel way Gray fights really reminds me of the MC from early Holy Land. The problem lies not in the premise of Gray, but just how stagnate he becomes. The first half or so of WH is actually fairly decent the whole way through, of course it has dips in quality, but it slowly increases the cast and develops Gray from this hyper edgelord anti-social freak to a normal kid.

Then inevitably, like so many popular manwha and manga, it doesn't end. Gray's big final moment of character growth in my mind is the rooftop scene, where he faces his past trauma and overcomes it. From here I'd expect the rest of the major characters development to end, then for a final big battle to happen, and for a while that does seem like its gonna be the case. The Union has a big war, it feels like most of the villains are on the verge of turning against each other, at this point the plot-lines should cascade into each other and the story should end.

It does not end.

We actually now have to sit through like 50 more chapters of boring nothing, in where every character stagnates and the only focus is on vapid fights where the MC's just fucking trash the villains. This isn't an uncommon problem with Manwha, its just a shame when it happens with one that's decent.

The story and characters get thrown to the way-side while fights and powerscaling become top priority. Each MC fights some guy who's super tough, jobbers the guy, and that's it. This is all that happens for like 1/6 the manwha. At this point I'd just skim most the chapters, none of the villains were interesting cause it was obvious the author had no plans for them to be anything other than essentially video-game bosses, and every fight just goes through the same motions with zero stakes.

Overall, if WH was just the first 2/3's (up the the Union v Cheongang arc) and then just immediately transitioned into a big final arc, I'd give this a solid 5-6/10, nothing amazing or special, but a good 1 - 2 week read. But including the boring ass chapters you have to sit through for like 1/6 of this manwha, I really feel like its not worth it. Just wait for it to finish and then read until the end of the UvC arc and just skip to the final arc.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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