Reviews for The World After the Fall

Being a huge fan of the author's previous work, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, I instantly jumped to read this series and have been following its chapters as they are released. I have not read the light novel, so this review will be based on the manhwa only. Think of the tower from SAO, but there's multiple of them and they appear in major cities all around the world, along with giant monsters that wreak havoc on humanity. Select people from each country, known as Tower Walkers, are summoned to complete all 100 floors of the tower in order to save humanity from the monsters. Then things start toget interesting. The story quickly introduces an item called a "Stone of Regression'' that can be found in the tower. These stones allow the user to regress in time and restart from the beginning of the appearance of the towers so that one can fix their past mistakes. The protagonist, Jaehwan, loses comrades either by death or regression, but still chooses to continue his climb, vowing to protect the present timeline no matter what.

I'm having a fun time reading this series so far. The art is jaw droppingly gorgeous and the story is pretty captivating as well. The big twist that is introduced in chapter 5 is pretty unique and makes me excited for the future of the series. So far, the characters haven't had much character development, but they are still enjoyable. If you're looking for a good power fantasy with some interesting plot elements, I would recommend trying at least the first 5 chapters of this series to see if it's something you might enjoy. It isn't on the same level as something like Omniscient Reader, but it is quite a fun read. I'm interested to see how this story develops!

I will keep it short because I can't be bothered with writing a long review. The MC was interesting in the start (early 20 chapters) as he had emotions and internal monologues. The world-building was also interesting as the concept of the tower was unique too. But later it just turned into every average regression manhwa although this manhwa is supposed not to use regression troupe which was a unique point early but is now ignored trivia. Our MC lost any kind of emotions that he might have had in the start and just turned into a generic emotionless exaggeratedly powerful guy. Oh, they also triedto introduce a red-haired main heroine which appeared for some chapters and then disappeared without any trace, not even a single mention of her.

So just read it if you have so much free time but don't expect anything.

Read about 20 chapters in which is close to the amount released at the time of writing, Has interesting ideas that pulled me in initially, but began to really drag on after the first couple of chapters. I can't bring myself to care about the characters, as we're only introduced to the MC at the end of his (initial) journey. They frequently flashback to characters from the MC's past, who we don't know at all and as far as I can tell have no plans to be properly introduced, so there's no emotional impact to any of these scenes. All new characters introduced are sofar below the MC's power level that none of them seem like they'll be relevant for more than a dozen chapters or so, as the MC seems to get exponentially more powerful every scene he's a part of, while the side characters seem to not have any kind of progression so far. This leaves me hesitant to form any emotional connections with these characters.

The story itself seems to be setting up for quite a long haul, as the world explained throughout the earlier chapters seems to be extremely expansive, and to be honest, I don't even know what the main plot is right now beyond "MC is doing things for the sake of doing things because he doesn't want to regress and so I guess he'll just keep killing stuff." He has no clear goal. Just win, I guess.

It's not bad per say, It's just not particularly good either. Definitely has potential to go into good places, it's just not there yet. Right now it's just perfectly generic in every way.

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 thestory

But the newest arc chapter 100~(at this point in time)145, absolute horrible shitshow, completely 360 the series, all the seriousness is gone, all characters previously build up get thrown away almost, new characters get introduced that completely destroy the instensity and make it feel like a comedy goofy manhwa, it is super weird to read, im really close to dropping it. I just hate everything about it, even though there a few reedming moments, I'd rate this arc a 2/10, absolutely abymsall, diabocial, not utilizing a single character build up in the previous 100 chapters, just feels like an entirely new story, that is just disgustingly weird

Overall 6/10

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 mechanicstherein 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.

I am writing this review after reading 199 chapters. I started reading the manhwa because it is by the same authors as one of my favourite titles, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, and I did indeed find similarities in the main character, who strongly resembles Yoo Joonghyuk. The problem, however, is that this type of character is completely uninteresting as a main one. While I perceive ORV as a warm story, The World After The Fall is not. We do not have the character of Kim Dokja, who was a team player with a great love for the story he became a part of. Jaehwan is hisopposite. He is a loner who has a justified grudge against the world. I guess the authors wanted to try something different, and unfortunately, it didn't work out well for the title. Jaehwan's relationships are superficial, the rotation of secondary characters is frequent, which makes it difficult to get attached to anyone, and there is also a lot of exposition and supposedly philosophical reflections, which are unfortunately not very understandable or interesting for people from our civilisation. The action scenes are passable, but there is nothing particularly innovative here. The artwork is decent. Unfortunately, if you want to read this title for similar reasons as me, World After the Fall will disappoint you. It is a bland title that does not particularly stand out, either positively or negatively, in the sea of action comics. If you intend to read it, I advise you to approach it as just one of many action manhwas to pass the time, rather than as something created by the couple responsible for ORV. That way, you will definitely enjoy it more.

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. Theidea 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!

Basically, this story revolves around the mc, Unfortunately, this story is not like other stories where the mc embarks on adventures with his friends or team members, gathers an elite party, or does other popular stuff (It's not like that mc don't have friends but not like other stories.) But the most distinguished point is that MC doesn't buy the temptation of time reversal/reincarnation/returner stuff. The world where he comes from the Earth has fallen after that he is on a journey long and hard on his way he's trying to save different worlds (saving people precious to him) at the same time nurturing hisown unique one. Obviously, he made new friends and enemies but even after being alone many times at the end of his adventures, he doesn't fall into despair. It is a story that tells you to take a lesson from your past and move forward with a positive mindset, this is a story with various types of worlds/beings/concepts/dilemmas. I'm only reading Manhwa 90s (chapters till now). It tells even the so-called end of the story is not the true end of a story, it keeps going on and on (continued lol xD

That's why it doesn't seem like something that everyone wants to spend time at but it's not bad either depends on person to person but I'd like to recommend it to those who like Omniscient Reader (you will be able to read about Kim Dokja and other stuff like star stream events in the chapters after 90s) or at least wanna try something new xD

I just gave some hints it doesn't count in spoilers, right ??? 🤣🤣

For context, I dropped the story at 38 chapters which is about twice as many as most other reviews around here. As for why I dropped it, well, half of the manhwa is just tropes that are quite overused nowadays, ie. for some mysterious reason towers/dungeons/portals appear on Earth and people start raiding them using a computer-style interface, the protagonist is just a random person among these but he becomes really powerful thanks to one specific catch, and even though he's quite lacking in all other aspects that one thing practically makes him God, etc. That's the story of half the shonen-style manhwas out there andmany of those do it better than this one.

The other half of the story is mostly random unexplained bullcrap, and even when it's explained it's left ambiguous if the explanation is actually true or not. The Earth is destroyed but it isn't, the tower walkers are dead / sent to the past / in a coma / whatever, the protagonist is the only human in the game except he isn't, he gets random powers that don't logically follow from his abilities and how they work or what they specifically do is not explained, etc. The story is not driven by the protagonist, he's kind of a passenger in it, he just goes along with whatever it is that seems to be happening at the moment, and when he rarely does something of his own volition it's also totally random and unexplained. Eg. he wants to do an expedition to the 'abyss', and we don't know what it is, where it is, what's in it, or what the protagonist hopes to achieve by going there, because these things were never explained to him either. But it's very dangerous so it's cool! Or at least it feels like that's what the writer wants to suggest. It's like the entire story is held together by the "rule of cool", the protagonist is OP and murders everyone in his way and there are always some new people to murder, so it's all cool. Too bad things don't make sense and everything just happens randomly. This is basically how a 12 year old would write a self-insert Gary Stu story. Not that this necessarily makes it worthless, but this dooms it to be just another generic fanfic in a sea of generic fanfic that people usually like for superficial reasons, for example how the protagonist is "mysterious" and cool, or the drawing style is to their liking. There's nothing in the story or the way its told that would elevate it above the rest. Even the "catch" that makes the protagonist OP is kinda' lame, he just thrusts his sword literally billions of times because he can't do anything else, and voila, he magically becomes the messiah (even though the system was not set up to facilitate this).

I would only recommend it to readers who like stories purely driven by the rule of cool, but even then it's nothing special. For people who like 'proper' storytelling it's a solid nope.

honestly wasn't a huge fan of this... the author did a great job with writing it which is to be expected since he did orv to and the art is wonderful... the story has a lot of potential to but there's just something about it that just didn't sit right with me even after 192 chaps. The mc is kind of lackluster and the side characters aren't that enjoyable. Also the story is very confusing even after i caught up i was still getting corrected on things i thought i knew from the beginning but didn't. Art 8.5/10: Art is majestic even though its basic manhwaart its just beautiful.

Plot 6.5/10: kind of boring and unnecessary long arcs. Mc always seems to be lacking and i honestly don't like the power system in here, at times its confusing and other times the power scaling is way off also mc power ups are kind of weird.

Mc 6/10: honestly he's boring, always seems to be a tad to weak and emotionless, like we finally saw a hint of emotion after someone important dies and dudes literally back to normal next chapter his character growth is non existent.

Sc's 6/10: they come they go. No one really has a back story and none of them are really rememberable.

Overall id have given it a 6 if not for the art. Don't get me wrong its an enjoyable read and id recommend it to someone who has nothing else to read or wants something decent but this is nothing special imo.

6.9/10 Every manwha can be good in the moment, but it’s trivial in the manwha’s longevity and reader engagement if the manwha doesn’t add anything new or engaging to the usual formula or plotline; as for this, it was somewhat promising in the initial to mid chapters of the story by introducing relatively unique concepts and ideas, but as the chapters progressed, its true colors of a power creep were revealed. Power creeps are not inherently bad to any story’s existence, however, they usually do not leave a positive influence to the story’s entirety due to the rinse-and-repeat nature or the same old plot events andconflict, leading to a rather boring read. As you can probably tell, this manwha doesn’t do much of anything different from the usual power creep, as the only promising chapters were the introduction and “foundation.”

Characters from a power creep story can vary, however, they all fall under one term: disposable. Whether it be side characters or villains, each one of them are disposable according to the author’s whims, and this is no different. Throughout the course of this manwha, numerous of “essential” characters were introduced, but they were ultimately put to the side and forgotten once their small impact onto the story was done and dealt. Each character are heliocentric around the main character, and there’s not much of potential for them to be separate entities from the mc, as they serve one purpose until the mc intervenes, saving the day.

Though the plot follows the same formula of “bearing bad guys until more badder guys show up,” there have been some rather interesting events and turns the manwha takes to explore some conflicts and events. However, these same turns aren’t substantial to the story’s entirety, as they are incorporated awkwardly and seem like filler until the plot truly progresses.

Due to the stunning and mesmerizing battle scenes and art, a manwha can easily attract the commons’ attention, however, if the story is nothing but the same old concept in each chapter, then it can easily lose the interest of readers — this is that manwha. There are instances where I have picked this manwha up again to waste some time, since the art is stunning, and the story is relatively simple, so even if you vaguely remembered the chain of events, it’s still enjoyable, however, it is nothing more than a beautiful time waster, since the storytelling is lackluster.

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)

10 - God’s penmanship

9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.

8 - Instant bookmark

7 - Entertaining

6 - Good to pass time

5 - Why are you reading this?

4 - Bad.

3 - Typical garbage.

2 - My head hurts.

1 - Retirement is a thought.

0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

Serei o primeiro brasileiro a comentar na minha primeira breve revisão, então me critiquem com coerência. Sobre o principal, a história: li 61 capítulos até o momento e sinceramente, o início estava em um ritmo muito bom, até o capítulo 20 e pouquinhos, a história estava se desenvolvendo e indo pra um caminho legal, mas após isso, tudo começou a se transformar em algo corrido e confuso, a história é muito apressada e você não tem tempo de se apegar aos personagens direito, vão aparecendo personagens com designs interessantes mas é tudo tão apressado que você não consegue se importar com eles, o desenvolvimento deles équase que nulo, as lutas são corridas, os "mini arcos" são muito apresados, como por exemplo, algo grande é preparado pra acontecer no futuro, já começa a luta no capítulo seguinte, e no próximo capítulo tudo acaba, sinto que o ritmo acelerado da história torna tudo desinteressante, os objetivos dos personagens são todos confusos e uma bagunça, pra onde eles vão você não entende direito, o que eles querem você não entende direito, como eles chegam em tal lugar você não entende direito, como tudo o autor tenta fazer parecer distante e ao mesmo tempo está tão próximo, sério é uma bagunça esse universo, fora o que falarei a seguir.

O protagonista: extremamente overpower, mas completamente genérico, a história mesmo sem querer faz com que pareça ser um personagem perfeito, os outros personagens são fortes, mas não se preocupe, o protagonista é mais forte ainda, como dito antes, as lutas são muito apressadas, então tudo acaba rápido, mas quando ele está lutando os oponentes parecem ter zero chances de vencer, além disso ele é de início interessante, mas até onde li, se tornou totalmente desinteressante, os objetivos dele são confusos, como ele evoluí faz sentido mas sentido mas é estranho, como ele faz as coisas não é explicado direito, mas ele vai lá e faz como se fosse mágica, como por exemplo aquela poha daquela torre de treinamento que ele conseguiu do nada, enfim, espero que ele melhore.

Sistema de poder e universo: faz parte da história mas quis separar pra comentar à parte.

Bem, o sistema de poder é uma bagunça completa, os poderes são amplos, como tudo é tão apressado vc não entende quase nada, poucas explicações e ainda por cima confusas e apressadas, os personagens tem níveis de poderes com base nos anos de treinamento, mas tudo parece perdido e desbalanceado como se não valesse de nada, por mais que o autor tente explicar, é como se não valesse de nada, do que adianta um monarca ser tão poderoso e ser tratado como tal se ele é derrotado como se não fosse nada, os líderes dos clãs com estágio do nível 7, outro no 9, a história cita que existe um abismo de poder entre os estágios, mas no final de tudo nada é o que parece, os despertados, regressões, pesadelos, é sério, não dá pra entender direito, eles só são, despertam quando abandonam tudo, tem os de sangue puro, e você só aceita porque se tentar entender como é pior,fora você não entender como o protagonista sabe de tantas coisas que você não entende porque a história não explica e quando explica, explica mal, como ele sabe de tantas coisas sem fazer sentido nenhum, sem explicação nenhuma e por aí vai, você só começa aceitar muita coisa pra seguir na história.

Sinceramente comecei animado a história, e no momento estou me arrastando pra continuar, a arte é linda, mas é tão bagunçado e apressado que me faz ter vontade de só deixar de lado pra ler outra coisa mais interessante, não consigo me apegar aos personagens porque eles tem pouquíssimo tempo de trabalho por parte do autor, a ruivinha que achei que seria o interesse romântico do protagonista, chamada Mino, simplesmente desapareceu do nada sem explicação nenhuma, cara é inacreditável, e ela estava sendo muito bem trabalhada no início, e não sei se ela vai voltar do jeito que a história corre. O protagonista pretende destruir e enfrentar todos esses monarcas que dizem serem muito fortes, mas do jeito que está ele vai derrotar eles com um golpe porque pelo amor de Deus, muito roubado.

No geral

História: 4/10 pela confusão e correria

Designs: 8/10

Personagens: 5/10 pela falta de trabalho neles

Mino 10/10

Se você gostar de algo completamente corrido igual ver vídeos no Tik Tok, essa história é pra você, se não fique longe pra não se decepcionar.

E se você leu até aqui obrigado, e se quiser conversar sobre o que achou só entrar no meu perfil.

Minha nota continua 8/10 no meu perfil mas se continuar assim provavelmente vai cair pra um 6/10, 5/10, eu gosto dela mas reconheço meus maus gostos.

Doesn't deserve a proper review tbh. This is your average power fantasy centered on an OP MC who keeps getting stronger and stronger. There are two things that make this manga eventually become lifeless: 1. Plot: The plot starts simple with a survival tower game and such. It takes a while to setup MC. But once you finish the tower arc, it sets up a whole different dimension where MC is transported to. The world just keeps on expanding. There are also a ton of characters introduced and i can hardly understand the motivations of all these different sides. The plot moves at such a rapid pace,that it feels like you are fast forwarding it. Finally, all these lead to a completely convoluted mess and you are just reading the manga hoping that you will eventually understand it smh.

2. MC

This MC starts weak, but he keeps getting stronger. The problem is the absolutely ridiculous rate at which he grows. Technically, the MC is supposed to be practicing for hundreds of years, but it will just be a few panels for us, and suddenly he is 10 times stronger. AND YET, even after 68 chapters of continuous growth, there are still a lot of enemies up the hierarchy. All this power scaling kinda makes you numb after a while. You more or less know that MC will have a sudden realization, and smh modify his attacks to become stronger than 10 times. I am not even hyped anymore when i see stronger attacks, it just feels normal.

There are also issues like a nonsensical magic/power system and i am like almost sure that the author is just making this shit up as he goes.

With that said, atleast the characters are fun. The old man you meet in the another dimension is hilarious and becomes your first fighting partner. and the blue greatsword guy is a hard worker and i can't help but root for him. Basically, anyone partnered with MC during a fight is a decent character, most of the other characters are just noise who exist to be shocked by MC or praise MC etc..

I will recommend read skimming this instead of spending too much time. But if your time is valuable, skip this and you won't miss anything great.