Reviews for Villain to Kill

Villain to Kill poses the question, what happens when your motivations are genetic and not necessarily your choice, combined with superpowers? The answer is apparently, you just get your own entire section of town to yourself, no-one really bothers you unless you cause trouble and it gives you the emotional range of a brick. Can't say that's predictable but it's not exactly compelling either. The story starts off with a semi interesting premise, pitting a story of revenge in a villainous backdrop with conspiracies over motivations and the nature of choice. But within the first few chapters, the revenge plot takes a backseat, the main characteris on an entirely different continent to those he wants revenge on and the story becomes more about internal villain politics, boring fight scenes with no stakes and almost every line of dialogue seems to be talking about the main character. There isn't a whole lot of things actually happening and most of it is just giving food for theory crafters to try and figure things out before they happen. In 54 chapters nothing moves forward, there's little in the ways of developing characters and most ongoing plot threads are pretty common and cliched, nothing to write home about.

The weakest link of Villain to Kill is its characters. The main character is very boring and emotionally stunted, often not caring about situations he's in, walking away from conversations and keeping a consistent low lidded expression that I found myself mirroring the more I had to follow him. Their trigger of 'anger' for their superpowers very rarely affects them and they meld into a lot of stock dark haired cool boy protagonists you'll see in the industry. Most other characters are fairly flat, mostly there to be knocked over like bowling pins in fights to make our protagonist look strong and cool and their motivations are either vague or just shrouded in mystery, with plenty of manic, evil smiling villainous characters who can be punched in the face. The main Psyker character is the only one who has any kind of arc of slight growth, and even then? He's not the focus and barely shows any more emotional depth than our lead.

The action has very little bite to it. There's never any sense our protagonist is ever in danger as he can perfectly dodge anything thrown at him and knock down 'strong villains' in single hits. Even the final big fight of the first chapter which seems like it may be a challenge, literally ends with our protagonist saying "actually this fight was bad and easy and I wasn't even trying." You’d think with a setup of being reincarnated into a new body, the protagonist would be very weak but have his experience to fall back on, but instead he’s just overpowered from the get-go and nothing poses a challenge, it’s not compelling.

The art is fine, mostly? I wouldn’t think twice about it besides some terrible ‘wcdonalds’ logo nonsense in the background, and fights being difficult to distinguish. It’s a lot of very bright colours and effects without any sense of weight or space to them that makes it hard to map out fights mentally. It certainly looks flashy but it’s hard to recall anything specific about any fight scene.

Ultimately, it comes across very basic and going for commonly tread themes of, light is not good and dark is not evil, with occasionally interesting power sets that are still a little vague and generic. I mean, come on, the main characters powers are fire and darkness, It doesn’t get much more trite than that. Exploring the genetic side of things would have been interesting had the narrative not manufactured ways for villains to just ignore the genetic side of things and never have them be a problem for the lead, rendering it all pretty moot. I would describe this as flashy but shallow and there are better things out there to read.

This is a really really good read. Story 8/10 - There are two types of people who possess strange powers in this world: villians, who are children of the night and psykers, who are children of the day. Cassian, our protagonist, is a top class psyker who gets killed off and reincarnates as a villain. He seeks revenge on his killers, while trying to navigate life as a villain to society. The plot starts off very strong, with an interesting twist to the hero/villian set up you would see in something like MHA. The story continues to be very entertaining and engaging throughout the story's progression.The cool thing is that we get to experience the story from both the point of view of a hero/psyker and from the point of view of a villian. Cassian tries his best to live as a villain, but still retains his sense of justice and wants to help people which is confusing for the other characters in the story, but very entertaining to view as a reader. As the story progresses, we get to meet many other psykers as well as villians and we realize that the lines between good and evil are much grayer than they seem. Just because a character's a villian, doesn't necessarily make them evil, and just because a character's a psyker doesn't necessarily make them righteous.

Art 9/10 -

The character designs are so slick and awesome looking, especially our main character's villian form and also Driver's villain form. The fight scenes are immersive and the color is very vibrant and well placed. Overall the artwork is very pleasing to the eye and is actually one of the first things that drew me into reading this manhwa.

Characters 8/10 -

I am a huge sucker for anti-hero stories, but the protagonist of this manhwa, Cassian, is a little different. He is sort of an anti-hero, but leans more on the side of good. The only problem is that society has labeled all villains as evil criminals, so no matter what Cassian does, he's always vilified (literally). Cassian as a character is level headed and smart and overall a solid character. The rest of the cast are also interesting and have their own goals and ideals. My only gripe about the characters would be that there aren't that many strong female characters besides Crow, but it's not necessary for every story to have strong female characters as long as the story can continue to be engaging.

Enjoyment 9/10 -

I had a blast reading this series and waited at the edge of my seat for every episode to release. This story is such an entertaining read and hits all the right points that kept me hungry for more chapters. Season 1 is currently completed and left off after a very interesting arc so I'm very excited to see where the story will go from there. Once this series returns, I'll be the first to jump into season two with two bowls of popcorn ready.

A somewhat unique premise in the cliched antihero power fantasy manhwa world. Story: 8/10 Even though it is an 'MC dies but is reborn as someone else' story, it differentiates itself by letting MC be reborn as the opposite of himself and someone he never wants to become. Even though stories like these exist in the murim-themed manhwa world, there are few like this on the superhero side. Art: 9/10 The art is exceptional, especially during powerups. The dark blue/purplish colors are my favorite gradient used in this. The character designs are unique, especially with the side characters. Character: 7/10 I don't really have anything negative to say about the characterwriting. It is satisfactory, albeit sometimes our MC gets too annoying to read through. The side characters are great though.

Enjoyment: 8/10

I thoroughly enjoyed this webtoon, and recommend this to anyone who wants a unique twist on the superhero or 'being reborn' genre. There aren't any big antagonists as of yet, that is why my score is 8. It might increase/decrease based on how they're tackled in the future.

This story paint characters as black and white based on their power. But as we all know, nothing is purely black and white which we will follow with Cassian who was on the justice side and got his memories transferred to another person upon dying. Currently, so far villains are not the greatest in terms of world building and plot. As unlike the title of the work there is no real killing happening. Everything is quite family friendly in essence as the violence is tone down with the plot and stakes being very low. The first chapter give us a hint of the story and how it shoulddevelop with something bigger in the whole picture but as of chapter 135 we have yet to touch that plot again. Following the typical training arc, tournament/competition and character acting arrogant with little backing to their arrogance. Like a chinese work: You dare?! and get steam-rolled.

We have yet to to get to the meat of the subject and the author is constantly side stepping the main plot with side event, I honestly feel like at chapter 200 we might get to start the story at the current pace we are going at.

The power scaling and growth is slow as there is no power trip fantasy. Which is good in a way, since it prevent characters from being excessively strong without good justification.

Romance? No, typical dense and not interested character.

Side character? They don't really contribute to the story or the MC. They don't feel crucial to the plot.

Plot? What plot, get side event. Forgettable at best.

Art? Solid good art, with nice sequence of action that feel impactful and with good tension.

Overall, if you want a story with no real sense of direction but decent side characters and will keep you entertained weekly, this one is a decent read but nothing stunning. As of now, I am bored of the plot and wonder when things are actually going to start moving.

It's like eating your favorite food daily to the point it now taste bland and nothing is changing.

One of the "Good" power fantasy webtoons out there. The story takes place in a place where people are categorized as heroes and villains according to their powers. Our MC used to be one of the strongest heroes who was betrayed by his comrades and hence was reincarnated after dying. Now he reincarnated with the powers of one of the most evil villains. The story follows our MC on the path to get revenge and following his destiny on becoming the greatest villain that would bring upon apocalypse. If you're into action or the hero genre, this manhwa is quite a good read. The only thingthat is bad about it is the lack of chapters, and weekly release of chapters...

Let's talk. Villain to Kill has a quick to understand world building wich consists in firstly four types of people: Villains, Psykers, Outers and Civilians. - Villains are known to be children of night and they are inherently "evil" and are naturally driven by their urges and own satisfactions, wich is something they struggle to control. - Psykers are the children of day and are your average story heroes with a different name. They're born with a dream to be heroes followed by cool quirks and- oh wait wrong story heh. Outers, who are children of day too, thing is they dont want to be heroes and choose toeither live their day to day normally or decide they are deadpool. wich they are not.

Civilians. Pretty self explanatory. Your usual background character or the classic cannon fodder.

• Now, our little fairytale follows Cassian Lee! A powerfull psyker(hero) with a good heart-

(wich is only mentioned because of his personality being a powerpuff girl mix of angry pomerian and nonchalance.)

This man experienced his friend and caretaker at the orphanage he was at(yes, an orphan! omg) die infront of him by the hands of his so called colleagues,*heroes*! Culprit was a influential organisation called Lampas. Cassian, feeling betrayed and enraged tried to kill the two apparent enemies from Lampas but ends up getting shot as he made his escape from using his signature fire power to burn the whole house down! (yes, that was a song ref)

Mc wakes up with his head on the cookie jar for lack of better term. He had just possesed the body of a student in korea who had been murdered by his bullies as they had dumped his head on the toilet for too long, this now "reincarnated" body had a black flying thing that revealed itself as Moros, Our cute emotional support and suspicious companion wich is involved with the mc's dead friend, Jeff-y chan.

This spirit companion thing tells him that the body wich currently posseses has the potential (not power just capability) to bring the apocalipse as.... A VILLAIN!

So yes, It sounds very interesting as a nice twist to the usual dinamics in hero-villain storys. It's interesting to see a strong hero who hates and despises villains actually live to see the day he's a villain and HOW will he react? how will he act?? will he continue with the same world views???

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If You're wondering about the MC being too overpowered, well let us have a conversation.

Cassian was already a very skilled fighter and a trained hero from the start, now as he is in a new body obviously we have him adjusting and training day to night in order to become stronger. This guy we can ACTUALLY see how much work he's giving and the own story aknowledges that as he is said to train all day and that's confirmed many times. Cassian himself has admitted too how at his level he cant defeat certain big guys and we can see his clear progress trought the chapters.

One thing I will admit tho is how i'd like a more "Oh no is he gonna win!?" and not a "he's totally winning but how will he?" I mean it's interesting to see him fight but sometimes it can be annoying, especially with his self heal skill and how it seems the enemies can never toutch an hair on his little spiky head.

More, more.. I've heard it said that there's not enough female characters compared to male. According to that, firstly the artist has said they'll introduce more in the second season (wich they are doing in fact) as the two seasons have been basically:

1- Cassian getting used to his situation and a basic opening to the characters and the situation like him becoming vilzone (a dense area of villains kinda like your average gangs) boss and meeting our important characters like the red haired guy, our villain friends and other world build crap

2- More of Cassian's development and his way to revenge against Lampas (Hero organisation that killed his friend Jeff), finding the stupid sword and rings that will link him to jeff's death somehow and all that crap.

Honestly, The characters dont feel one dimensional and boring and a good slow paced story is much better than for exemple our overrated and loved Solo Leveling wich cannot compare to this story as Solo Leveling has an OP mc that clearly got a six pack from the tooth fairy and genuinely has no personality apart from aura maxing every second of the manhwa and now anime. And let's not talk about the characters all being completely useless and having no meaning apart from showcasing strong daddy Sung Jinwoo (MC).

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Anyhow, this comparison was made to highlight the good aspects in Villain To Kill even more.. Now, let us un-dive from this rant and get to simple business.

1- Story

Interesting, not yet finished and has high potential

2- Art

Pretty, enjoyable, anatomically correct from what is released and good at demonstrating fight scenes

3- Characters

High potential and SLOWLY showing more of themselves and their motives, toughts and backgrounds.

4- Pacing

slow, interesting, not too quick on the MC's growth and realistic (as much as a fairytale power trip action webtoon can be)

TLDR: The worst offense for a Korean: this shit is SO BAD that I thought it was Chinese. It truly looks and feels like a trashua. Long version: If you like villains SKIP THIS TRASH. The MC isn't even remotely a villain and the WHOLE story is 100% ONLY rage bait of CONSTANT tease and denial of odious opponents coming against him and he NEVER really exacts any even remotely ruthless revenge. Just punches and shit like that. No killings, no gore, no Nanomachine-like chopped limbs, no physical or psychological torture or humiliation. NO enemy ever dies, they are either let go with some punishment, or imprisoned, or they escape. So that it'sa CONSTANT struggle with the same fucking idiots and/or their allies or superiors, and it just pisses me off, this is not storytelling, this is a fucking SCAM.

It's a story made for the only purpose of constantly pissing the readers off big time. Life is already shitty enough, who the fuck wants to be pissed off also from one's entertainment?

It is also all VERY teenage, with all those different ridiculous powers and costumes, HUNDREDS of characters and 99% of them are completely unlikeable, and completely irrelevant.

It's just noise, most probably written by an emo teenager with 8th grade syndrome, it has no narrative cohesion, no finesse of any kind, the plot and the writing are unpolished and confused, and if the other reviewer is right (when he said that in 200+ chapters there's still no trace of the main revenge and the main plot has been completely abandoned in favor of thousand insignificant side plots) I see no reason to keep reading a sort of pubescent delusional wannabe MHA.