SSS-rank Suicide Hunter gets an S tier from me mainly because it touches on darker and more abstract concepts by using the floor bosses and has a much deeper philosophical meaning than Solo Levelling ever did while still having great artwork (both are Redice studio I think). The character development for the MC specifically isn't so one dimensional and his returner power actually comes at a considerable drawback that enhances the world building.
lol not sure if you've commented on the wrong vid, but yeah - Sui Hunter is definitely one of my favorites - the character development, art, and world building is absolutely top tier + bonus points since the art has character
Omniscient reader's viewpoint is an easy S tier for me. Lone necromancer is decent too. It got a unique art unlike others. At first the art made me back up a lil then after few ch. it made me hook up to it and then its a roler coaster of decent and mid so I think its B- for me
You somehow made a gate/levelup/monster hunters video without saying: Single parent Younger sister/brother Poor Government Sees MC as mysterious and strong even when he is low rank. Korean (hunter) superiority, stemming from superiority in games.
lmao it sounds similar to every Hindi programming tutorial video, there are some never changing things: yellow circle around the cursor, kids screaming at the background, "OKAY?" after every sentence, BandiCam logo at the top of the screen, hundreds of millions junk folders on the desktop, 10 fps 720p
"Korean (hunter) superiority, stemming from superiority in games." Also just from their insane nationalism. It's always Korea = the best but always underestimated America = Greedy evil government/hunters Everywhere else barely exists except for maybe 1 character from a single country.
For solo max I was actually pretty happy with the description. I’m reading it rn, have 4 chapters left and I like it more then solo leveling bc the side characters are better imo- the ppl he chooses on his team all kick ass and protect themselves minus one random girl a few times but she’s still strong as hell so I guess I don’t mind her as much as some others- overall rlly interesting read and super exited for future chapters
i think what solo leveling did right despite being quite "generic" (the genre, if not created well, becomes super generic), is that until mid season 2 sung jin woo actually had some difficulties, he still had to use his brain to win, differently from most of these ones, that in 10 chapters the mc becomes completely invincible or something, and not just that, sung jin woo is a very good person as we see (spoilers ahead) during the whole manga that he actually cares a lot for other people and in the end he goes back in time just to make sure that no one was affected from the monsters, and despite being basically a god, he chose to live a slice of life anime with his family, again, different from most edgy mcs, who are basically assholes who dont care about anyone but themselves and are always "oh my god, im So EdGy, I AlWaYs dEfEaT mY eNeMiEs In A seCOnD etc etc"
Ye, I definitely agree that solo leveling 1st half is a high A tier, maybe even S tier, but towards the end it starts to feel like a bunch of cutscenes.
I think only last chapters before the final arc were bad, but this arc is fixing what people got mad so i think 93% of manwha is amazing, but its my opinion
@@SolOliveira2 solo leveling is like a 7/10 to me. It's hype, the artwork is great and the fights are good but everything else is subpar. The character development and worldbuilding are bottom tier and the side characters are so bland and uninteresting. The love interest is there solely for the sake of it and every character that's not jin woos enemy just sucks him off at all times. I want to like Jin woo because of the cool things he does but he's boring in every other aspect of being a main character. Also you can't forget about the stakes, of which there are none. At least in the beginning he was able to struggle, even if it was half-assed.
@@iwillhaveyourorder5174 no doom breaker gets hard carried by it's art, has some cringe romance, story is like a-b tier overall it's like b+ tier for me, there are much better manhwas on asurascans like return of mount hua sect. The guy is literally the typical op main character gets stronger from the bottom destroys every enemy, hates the gods goes back in time to fight the gods. It was enjoyable but genuinely not as good as other manhwa.
Yeah it's kind of gone downhill, hasn't it. I think the original novel it's based off is infamous for ending badly so I guess it can't be helped unfortunately
lone necromancer is an easy S-tier, great differentiantion with his mobs, an interesting world mixed between zombie apocalypse and a gamelike genre, the character are cool and the comic relief doesn't make me cringe. is also still pretty early but is scaling well enough. pls give it a read, and I agree that he has a different artstyle that I personally enjoy
Not sure if I would call these a "rip-off" per say just the same genre.There have certainly been a few rip offs that undoubtedly copied aspects of solo leveling but most of these are just similar settings. I've read all of these and they are about the same but so enjoy the different aspect of them
I agree with you - that's why I put "rip-offs" in the title with quotations - but yeah, they follow a general storyline that's been proved to be a tried and trusted formula, which sometimes gets a lil stale
@@itswoojyea, they've been so repetitive lately that I've started to get bored of action webtoons. I just want people to take a different approach and be more unique, like what sui hunter did.
thanks lol I've got a bit of a love-hate relationship with the lone necromancer - overall the story isn't bad but it suffers quite a bit from "the gamer" syndrome. The main character finds some new buff or reward etc. randomly constantly: pair 4 skeletons? buff! new item? buff! new party member? buff! This gets tiring quickly as there's no build up for the release, and whatever the main character does is the correct answer - very much like the old-school manhwa "the gamer". It has a lot of potential so it's very annoying to see it be so close to being great.
dang honestly you're right but as a professional no life i was hoping a little inside me that frozen player returns and leveling up alone had a high rating frozen player returns just because i like that the mc is an expert for a good reason, like captain america style. I also liked that it had a clear goal (light novel) and progression and the double life actually makes sense leveling up alone because the art style is unique for manhwa and the setting+world building was really unique
I have so many trashy guilty pleasures I should really re-think my life lol Yeah it honestly sucks when manhwa adaptations are kinda lacklustre compared to the LNs - I feel like there's a lot of pacing issues that come up here and there. That's fair on leveling up alone - what tier would it be in your opinion?
@@itswooj for me its about b-a tier, but it gets topped by some that have a more fresh concept or ideas for the stories, and my no.1 so far is survival of a sword king in a fantasy world i recommend it, and second is sss class suicidal hunter just because its more serious and focuses on the affects of regression while not overdoing it also have good pacing for me, and my third is solo leveling
@@meybicantraohmidarsantraohdeel i haven't tried survival of a sword king yet, but so far my number 1 is probably eleceed number 2 is greatest estate developer, and then 3 tyrant of the tower defense game (so far it could be higher when more chapters come out). Other good ones are like Return of Mount Hua Sect, Player (mixed feelings but i guess it's still good?), That heavenly demon thing on flamescans (forgot the name), Lookism (VERY LONG chapters 1-250 are good after that if you enjoy pure action then keep on reading, I just read it because I wanna see everyone react to MC's development), Second Life Ranker because, it's just good, Overpowered Sword (because I like hardworking MC's like Asta from Black Clover utterly annihilate the arrogant people )
Dude you're a really good CC I like smaller high quality channels like you because you always respond and talk in the comment section to us. It's like if a famous musician had conversations in the comments of their music videos, conversing with them and talking about it
uhh second life ranker has a novel and when you read it you go damn that's a lot of characters, overall author was confused about romance and shit but still executed it well so S- for me if we count the novel, current manhwa tho B+ or A- and the art is carrying
second life ranker isnt that bad the story/plot is amazing and me personally i would like it to be ranked up for B- to AT LEAST B tier very solid manga may not be original but its there and very good
I have this interesting idea for a multisekai. One of my more convoluted brainstories. Thinking of calling it Majutsu-shi to mahōtsukai. A demon lord plans to take over the world. A hero spoken of in prophecies, Regalos, is born and trained to slay him. Our hero is able to defeat the demon lord, but before he can be finished off, he casts a dark curse that resets all of Regalos' skills to 1. On top of that, he transformed him into a woman to cut his physical strength. Regalos is unable to swing -his- her holy sword and as such is forced to leave the demon lord behind to recover. The kingdom people are devastated. A large number of them who put their faith in Regalos, now sink into despair. One mage hasn't given up yet and decides to make the risky move of summoning a hero from another world. A man with a blank slate for a personality steps forward through the gate created. The woman begs him to save their world, to which he accepts. The strange man, named Saiko, had powers they had never heard of. He could fly, generate electricity and levitate his surroundings, all with a single chant, magical item or familiar. This man was just the man to finally beat the demon king, but there was one little problem. The demon lord offered his only daughter to Saiko as a wife in exchange for mercy. He didn't return, and when the people found out the so called saviour was mardying the enemy's daughter, they were rightfully furious. They turned their anger towards the mage who summoned him, banishing her through the gate she opened and making her unable to come back the same way. The mage, Lily, was stranded in a world where magic is simply a fairy tale. Initially, she started to accept her new life, but then a poster caught her eye. It was a stage performance. A man named Magnus the Magnificent who could use magic. Lily started looking for him, as a plan to get back to her world formed in her head. Convince this Magnus person to open a portal to the other world, help him to defeat the demon lord, and gain the respect of the kingdom once more. Unfortunately, Magnus wasn't as magificent as she'd hoped. He was retired after an accident took his right arm, and he didn't have enough to pay off his house. Lily was starting to lose hope, but then she remembered something. It is possible to make plants grow lost branches with healing magic, and the plants would producing some magic of their own afterwards, so maybe if she grew this guy's arm back, he'd be able to use magic as well, and then she could train him to open a gate to her world. Lily offers to grow Magnus' arm back and teach him real magic, so he can do his shows like he used to and pay off his debts. Magnus accepts, given he has no other options. The spell takes effect almost immediately, and he feels an odd energy flowing through him. A wave of the hand conjures up flowers from thin air, and a deck of cards floats into place at a mere gesture. Real magic is pretty convenient. With this, Magnus and Lily become partners. She teaches him how to cultivate his magic, he gets to do magic shows better than anything ever before, and he keeps all the profits. All he has to do, is practise dimensional magic until he can perfect a gate. He's not told what it's for, but the benefits are too sweet to question!
I think the only one I disagree with would be Lone/Solo Necromancer which I would put at A+ rank. The art is really unique and good, the enemies are surprisingly uniquely designed, characters are interesting, story is cool and the post apocalyptic/gamey theme actually is done very well. Also its novel came before Solo Levelling so its technically the og
Even putting it at C is a stretch 1) The art is unique not good 2) Enemies are uniquely designed but are extremely poorly written 3) Characters are interesting for first few chapters but then they become just like your typical Manhwa, where side characters don't even know what is going on, the concept is indeed very cool and unique but it is extremely poorly executed and poorly written (It had a lot of potential), sometimes it feels like the only one gaining powers were those Skeletons which his skills are, he doesn't focus on his own strength or rather story doesn't focus on his real strength, and it became so repetitive and boring like how he was getting two skeletons then leveling from quest or shit then again two skeletons and it goes on and on The theme is cool but again it is extremely poorly executed and lastly yes the novel came before solo leveling but putting it as A+ is totally absurd as you are putting it above Solo leveling, I mean even Solo Leveling becomes extremely repetetive and boring but the fighting and action scenes are top tier whereas Lone necromancer fight is very basic where he doesn't engage in the fight whatsoever but his ugly looking skeletons do and their action scenes are not even half as good as Solo Leveling's
oh I just sound dead naturally :) if you really wanna stoop low (if you haven't already) try read "System xianzun in the city" and see how many chapters you can last haha
@@itswooj what's even worse is when the story shows some potential and turns into a complete shit midway, it happens really often to manhuas in particular, like "rise from the rubble"
second life ranker is of suprising quality. although it slightly drops later in quality it takes an interesting turn on the genre and is refreshing, the main characters abilitys arent similar to most other manwhas and is written pretty well
I've actually read most of these, and I have to say, just read the novels; they're far better and have way more character development. An issue I've noticed with the manwhas is that, for some reason, they suck all of the personality out of the characters. In the novel, Jinwoo is actually pretty emotional and tends to silently panic, yet the manwha portrays him how other characters would see him, not his true thoughts. :/
That's what I've heard before actually! Quite a a shame that the adaptations are so... soulless. Feel like the personalities (in the manhwas) are just so homogenous lol. Feel like I'll have to give the novels a read now haha
Solo glitch player didnt feel like a solo leveling rip off to me but rather just a town/kingdom building isekai reincarnation. Also im pretty sure solo leveling wasnt the first to introduce player like status windows and portals and what not, just boost the popularity of them
yeah sl wasn't the first but it's popularity really boosted the genre, hence why some of these feel like variations of them I agree sgp is a slightly looser fit ahah but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to point out the absolute travesty of its late season artwork
NO WAY! Looks like UA-cam's tracking my activity now! I'm re-reading SL and extremely recently passed through the scene of this Video's thumbnail that randomly appeared in my feed fr!
Yoooo Max Level Newbie literally had the same panels as Solo Leveling sometimes. He even did the same, sort of iconic, pause that Sung Jin Woo did where he held his dagger over his shoulder. That was wild to just randomly see in the manhwa.😂😂😂
personally My favorites here are player who can't level up and kill the hero. Albeit Solo leveling got me skyrocketing to find and read more manga manhua manhwa. Because I began to realize with solo leveling and the others have literally no soul. I literally could not care less what happens to them because they don't have any character in them. I think the main part as to why is that they just don't lose. The reason why I like these two is because the mc is a killer sociopath trying to set the world back to normal and actually has to go against a technically stronger sociopath who basically made his organization through wicked means. And player who can't level up is carried by the personalities of his ego's being very entertaining and generally the world build up for climbing the tower hasn't even started yet for him. He's mostly just in politics rn which makes me optimistic for the future.
Honestly I’m glad that level up with the gods is high up, I love it, but I don’t think the art work is “okay,” I love the artwork and I think it looks phenomenal, I personally would have put it at S, it’s one of my absolute favorites
FFF-Trash Hero is A+, especially good after the 5th and 11th resets where the plots significantly change and you see that the story’s overarching plot was always more cunning than you expected.
Frozen Player is a definite S from me. I value it's consistency and his end goal being just waking his friends up from the frozen curse. Outside of battles he just goes back to the museum and sit down near his frozen friends and have a drink. It's very, human. And I like that. Lots of personality in that story imo. And the whole system of world levels is really fkn great imo. First level is earth 2nd level is like a fantasy world with guilds, adventurers and shit, it's actually really good. So much potential
“Return of the frozen player” is really good A-S tier for sure. No bullshit “I know the future” or time travel. Characters are very compelling, For example 5 heroes who MC was a part of and tries to de-frieze are no bullshit professionals.
Out of all the "rip-offs", I started reading a lot of them, for like first 10 ch or so, some 30-40 or so. I liked most of them at the start, then most fell off. I just like solo leveling and max level newbie now. Solo leveling for obvious reasons, and max level newbie for artwork, and that the story still feels like it has a red line that goes in a straight line. And not up and down or go up high and then slowly fall off.
That's the thing - they all usually start with neat premises and twists to the genre/trope but then they fall short when the world building/characterisation actually has to come into play, which is quite upsetting.
I know this is off topic but TBATE is honestly and I will confidently say, is the BEST manwha novel adaptation series. The novel is godly the comic is basically that godly novel but adapted into a comic version and the art for it is insanely good
Second life ranker actually came before but was on hault for while as this genre was not having traction. But yeah solo levelling helped this author to arise from the slumber as now they do are releasing chapters continuously. Lol
i'm ngl i actually enjoyed reading kill the hero. the storyline wasn't all too mind numbing like much of the other isekai reborn-in-games that i've read. plus i like the authornim's artstyle. chef's kiss xx and level up with the gods is good too, but i'm biased because i love mythology but my brain was reduced to mush while reading it and all i could think was "haha hercules hottie"
I can remember what happened when in Kill the Hero and I feel like it’s actually going somewhere, which is more than I could say for Second Life Ranker when I dropped it last year. Kill the Hero’s scope and focus has been well defined and it’s stuck to it which makes it a lot easier to hang with than Second Life Ranker introducing some new way to make MC stronger every single arc and the constant setting up without payoff.
I love your smooth voice fits well with how you do your videos, it sounds relaxing. I like your videos too, just found them yesterday, new sub! Also, what are the titles of the manhwas at 0:19? Please?
@@DOYLR3 thanks, I'm still looking for the top left one lol. They all have the same publisher right? Do you know the name of the publisher? I'll just look it up to trace the Manhwa on the top left.
@@Random_Dude4486 If you find it please reply me the name because Omniscient reader's Viewpoint and SSS Class Suicide Hunter are one of the Best if not the best returnee manhwa I have ever read, with Suicide Hunter being my favorite manhwa. If the top left one is of a similar quality I want to read it.
Oops I'm a lil late - Yup - FFF-trashero, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, SSS-class suicide hunter. All of them are pretty good reads but gotta say that FFF-trashero is nowhere near the quality of the other two.
Lone necromancer is cool but after the mc starts to get really strong you start to realize the story is kind of aimless. Like the apocalypse setting is cool for a while but watching him and his 2 friends walking through the same backdrop for 90+ chapters starts to get to your head after a while. They don’t even bother to think of “ when is this going to end? “ “ or how can we turn the world back to some sense of normal? “ they just sort of, power level…forever
i read the novel and that one is good so i'm happy to not know your pain... btw it does have an end in the novel opposed to some of the other mentions in this vid
The way I read some of them and dropped it bc the plots were so generic and I kept forgetting events and confusing characters with other similar stories.
Second Life ranker is not a rip-off, novel was released less than a year after Solo leveling was. Also the "MC knowing where everything is" has a very good explanation if you get to chapter 300+ and the knowledge isn't offering real omniscience, so hard disagree on that one. The story and world building is also tiers above Solo leveling, but I guess the manhwa wasn't able to encapsulate that, alas. Other than that, the other ones were pretty much on the money.
I think its safe to say half of these aren't even rip offs, just following common tropes in korea the same way isekai is a trope in japan, Dungeons, towers, and regression have and probably always will be popular (though some are clearly copied like max level newbie) things like SSS-class suicide hunter is in no way a rip off, its honestly even safe to say if its art was better, it would just be better completely, the story is deeper, the characters have more depth, and the world seems a lot larger in both the sense of the tower compared to dungeons and how the different settings and events take place in korea as well, It's just that solo leveling was so good at a time where the trope was falling off that now we're seeing more and more because of the light solo leveling shined on the common trope
i feel the need to point out solo necromancer while i personally don't enjoy that one as a story it's not the same concept, like everyone levels up there it's just this dude is unreasonably lucky which in this case leads to the story being kinda unenjoyable for some like one is a "the one who levels" and then "this dude is getting plot armor conceptually" that's not the same flavor of story
Hey where can I read solo leveling? I dont trust anything that aint asura scans and last time I went on smthn else it tried to put a virus on my pc lol
My tier: Solo leveling: S tier Solo glitch player / bug player - FFFFFFF tier Second life ranker - A tier (however the translation sucks) The player who can’t level up - A- tier Kill the hero - B+ tier Leveling with the gods - S tier (biased) Frozen player - A tier Max level returner - D tier Solo max level newbie - A+ tier Solo auto hunting - F tier Solo spell caster - F tier The lone necromancer - A tier Leveling up alone - FF tier
It's funny because I couldn't cope with the SL copies because their artstyle usually mirrors Solo Leveling's, and Lone Necromancer stood out of the rest because of it to me and it's the only one in this list I didn't drop
I guess for solo glitch player, the good point is the world building, the art is incosistent, character is somekind unique i guess, battle is depend on the art, story is pretty good because of world building.
I didn’t think second life ranker was a rip off, it’s more in the tower genre and the MC’s goal lines more with revenge. Similar with leveling with the gods. I would classify them under the tower genre similar to SSS class revival hunter.
Me: Santa Claus can i please have a dragon? Santa Claus: Think of something more releastic. Me: Ok can i get a 3d season of Solo Leveling? Santa Claus: Uhmm ill get you that dragon. Me: Ok😢
SSS-rank Suicide Hunter gets an S tier from me mainly because it touches on darker and more abstract concepts by using the floor bosses and has a much deeper philosophical meaning than Solo Levelling ever did while still having great artwork (both are Redice studio I think). The character development for the MC specifically isn't so one dimensional and his returner power actually comes at a considerable drawback that enhances the world building.
I don't think it's considered as solo leveling "rip offs" and I'm sure it's not mentioned in this video
lol not sure if you've commented on the wrong vid, but yeah - Sui Hunter is definitely one of my favorites - the character development, art, and world building is absolutely top tier + bonus points since the art has character
I like how the series spent an entire season on just one floor and it actually worked
@@itswooj I think he mentioned it because it appears at 0:17 but still, great video.
Suicide hunter is everything but a solo leveling ripoff
Omniscient reader's viewpoint is an easy S tier for me. Lone necromancer is decent too. It got a unique art unlike others. At first the art made me back up a lil then after few ch. it made me hook up to it and then its a roler coaster of decent and mid so I think its B- for me
The max lvl newbie seems similar to Omniscient readers viewpoint.
@@justno8195 Ya, Solo Max-Level Newbiw is kinda a mixer of Omniscient and Solo Leveling lmao.
@@SoraTempestOG is it good cause I'm running low on things to read
@@SoraTempestOG alr ty
@@justno8195 np
You somehow made a gate/levelup/monster hunters video without saying:
Single parent
Younger sister/brother
Poor
Government Sees MC as mysterious and strong even when he is low rank.
Korean (hunter) superiority, stemming from superiority in games.
ah shit how did I miss those lmao
Yea, somehow literally every single one of gate manhwas has those. It's like it wouldn't be one without them.
lmao it sounds similar to every Hindi programming tutorial video, there are some never changing things: yellow circle around the cursor, kids screaming at the background, "OKAY?" after every sentence, BandiCam logo at the top of the screen, hundreds of millions junk folders on the desktop, 10 fps 720p
That's why SSS-Class Suicide Hero is a top tier version haha
"Korean (hunter) superiority, stemming from superiority in games." Also just from their insane nationalism.
It's always Korea = the best but always underestimated
America = Greedy evil government/hunters
Everywhere else barely exists except for maybe 1 character from a single country.
For solo max I was actually pretty happy with the description. I’m reading it rn, have 4 chapters left and I like it more then solo leveling bc the side characters are better imo- the ppl he chooses on his team all kick ass and protect themselves minus one random girl a few times but she’s still strong as hell so I guess I don’t mind her as much as some others- overall rlly interesting read and super exited for future chapters
Yeah it's definitely a guilty pleasure of mine ahah
reading for Alice at this point tbh
@@itswooj frfr- Alice in the chapter when she cut her hair I just kept getting Sakura (from Naruto) reference but hers grew back lmao
@@Yukki._. i think you're talking about teresa, alice is the vampire (i think, i forgor)
@@boithanos5450 OH YEA- MY BAD 😭 I did mean Teresa (I always think of Alice as blond haired girls maybe cuz I watched SAO)
You guys are simp🤣
i think what solo leveling did right despite being quite "generic" (the genre, if not created well, becomes super generic), is that until mid season 2 sung jin woo actually had some difficulties, he still had to use his brain to win, differently from most of these ones, that in 10 chapters the mc becomes completely invincible or something, and not just that, sung jin woo is a very good person as we see (spoilers ahead) during the whole manga that he actually cares a lot for other people and in the end he goes back in time just to make sure that no one was affected from the monsters, and despite being basically a god, he chose to live a slice of life anime with his family, again, different from most edgy mcs, who are basically assholes who dont care about anyone but themselves and are always "oh my god, im So EdGy, I AlWaYs dEfEaT mY eNeMiEs In A seCOnD etc etc"
Ye, I definitely agree that solo leveling 1st half is a high A tier, maybe even S tier, but towards the end it starts to feel like a bunch of cutscenes.
I think only last chapters before the final arc were bad, but this arc is fixing what people got mad so i think 93% of manwha is amazing, but its my opinion
@@SolOliveira2 solo leveling is like a 7/10 to me. It's hype, the artwork is great and the fights are good but everything else is subpar. The character development and worldbuilding are bottom tier and the side characters are so bland and uninteresting. The love interest is there solely for the sake of it and every character that's not jin woos enemy just sucks him off at all times. I want to like Jin woo because of the cool things he does but he's boring in every other aspect of being a main character. Also you can't forget about the stakes, of which there are none. At least in the beginning he was able to struggle, even if it was half-assed.
*during the whole manhwa
Leveling with the gods is extremely underrated, the story gets really good later on in the web novel
Yup it's my second fave manwha my fave suicide hunter it's s class or sss class
@a person should check out reincarnation of the suicidal battle God
Fun fact I just finished reading the MANWA and Is excited for mote
Fun fact I just finished reading the MANWA and Is excited for mote
@@iwillhaveyourorder5174 no doom breaker gets hard carried by it's art, has some cringe romance, story is like a-b tier overall it's like b+ tier for me, there are much better manhwas on asurascans like return of mount hua sect. The guy is literally the typical op main character gets stronger from the bottom destroys every enemy, hates the gods goes back in time to fight the gods. It was enjoyable but genuinely not as good as other manhwa.
Unfortunately I feel like "Kill the Hero" series has become a bit weird and repetetive in the last few months. So dor me it has dropped to C- level
Yeah it's kind of gone downhill, hasn't it. I think the original novel it's based off is infamous for ending badly so I guess it can't be helped unfortunately
bruh the lastest chapters are god tier except for the backstory
@@itswooj wht website do u use?
@@itswooj That makes me really upset to hear because the entire reason I’m reading is to see the guy finally get his Shield Hero style revenge
@@itswooj idk i like the ending, it wasn't that bad but it might just be me
I'd say player who cant level up is B or A tier by now. Story got interesting.
lone necromancer is an easy S-tier, great differentiantion with his mobs, an interesting world mixed between zombie apocalypse and a gamelike genre, the character are cool and the comic relief doesn't make me cringe.
is also still pretty early but is scaling well enough.
pls give it a read, and I agree that he has a different artstyle that I personally enjoy
I love the unique artwork compared to other necromancer manhwas
My favorite part about this series is easily the art. The green flames for all the summons is sick as hell!
I enjoyed the webnovel but I just couldnt get into the manhwa
and the skeletons are cute
@@rgs_goat-xb7wp RIGHTY ROCKS!
Not sure if I would call these a "rip-off" per say just the same genre.There have certainly been a few rip offs that undoubtedly copied aspects of solo leveling but most of these are just similar settings. I've read all of these and they are about the same but so enjoy the different aspect of them
I agree with you - that's why I put "rip-offs" in the title with quotations - but yeah, they follow a general storyline that's been proved to be a tried and trusted formula, which sometimes gets a lil stale
@@itswoojyea, they've been so repetitive lately that I've started to get bored of action webtoons. I just want people to take a different approach and be more unique, like what sui hunter did.
@@Supadurpi dont read these type of manhea anymore
Although manhwas like lookism, questism, v hit, are quite edgy
Better than these generic manhwaa
it's funny how "Player that can't level up" tier is lower than most of "rip-offs" but it's all-time top 3 in asurascans with 9.9 overall rating
would put the lone necromancer a bit higher but other than that cool video
thanks lol
I've got a bit of a love-hate relationship with the lone necromancer - overall the story isn't bad but it suffers quite a bit from "the gamer" syndrome.
The main character finds some new buff or reward etc. randomly constantly: pair 4 skeletons? buff! new item? buff! new party member? buff! This gets tiring quickly as there's no build up for the release, and whatever the main character does is the correct answer - very much like the old-school manhwa "the gamer". It has a lot of potential so it's very annoying to see it be so close to being great.
Can you make a video for manwhas that you consider s tier?
@@benjamincheng7341 Yeah I defo can, any specific genres you're thinking of or just generally?
@@itswooj I would love to see a general s-tier list.
@@spikez7963 Sure - I'll put that on my videos to-do list :)
The whole paint bit was so funny lol
thanks hehe
dang honestly you're right but as a professional no life
i was hoping a little inside me that frozen player returns and leveling up alone had a high rating
frozen player returns just because i like that the mc is an expert for a good reason, like captain america style.
I also liked that it had a clear goal (light novel) and progression and the double life actually makes sense
leveling up alone because the art style is unique for manhwa and the setting+world building was really unique
I have so many trashy guilty pleasures I should really re-think my life lol
Yeah it honestly sucks when manhwa adaptations are kinda lacklustre compared to the LNs - I feel like there's a lot of pacing issues that come up here and there.
That's fair on leveling up alone - what tier would it be in your opinion?
@@itswooj for me its about b-a tier, but it gets topped by some that have a more fresh concept or ideas for the stories, and my no.1 so far is survival of a sword king in a fantasy world i recommend it, and second is sss class suicidal hunter just because its more serious and focuses on the affects of regression while not overdoing it also have good pacing for me, and my third is solo leveling
@@meybicantraohmidarsantraohdeel i haven't tried survival of a sword king yet, but so far my number 1 is probably eleceed number 2 is greatest estate developer, and then 3 tyrant of the tower defense game (so far it could be higher when more chapters come out). Other good ones are like Return of Mount Hua Sect, Player (mixed feelings but i guess it's still good?), That heavenly demon thing on flamescans (forgot the name), Lookism (VERY LONG chapters 1-250 are good after that if you enjoy pure action then keep on reading, I just read it because I wanna see everyone react to MC's development), Second Life Ranker because, it's just good, Overpowered Sword (because I like hardworking MC's like Asta from Black Clover utterly annihilate the arrogant people )
75% of Manhwa is Solo Leveling Ripoffs lol
The player who can't level up is an easy S for me
Dude you're a really good CC I like smaller high quality channels like you because you always respond and talk in the comment section to us. It's like if a famous musician had conversations in the comments of their music videos, conversing with them and talking about it
Thanks
I’m waiting for SSS-rank suicide hunter. Cause i’m ready to throw hands if it gets a low rating.
you'd be happy to know that's one of my top picks ahah
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That video game one was literally just Omniscient readers view point
If SSS class suicide hunter was on this list I would personaly put it in s or s+ tier but that is just my personal prefrence
uhh second life ranker has a novel and when you read it you go damn that's a lot of characters, overall author was confused about romance and shit but still executed it well so S- for me if we count the novel, current manhwa tho B+ or A- and the art is carrying
Literally my thougths
True,novels lit,but many mistakes in it
Doom breaker is really good. Arguably better than solo leveling frankly even including art
Can’t wait for it to come back on the 25th
@@evanisdailytophoney wait wait 25? as in 25th of this month?
@@person2795 yes. Asura scans released the announcement on they’re discord
@@evanisdailytophoney i should join it lol, I usually just go on the site and just reload the page
"Even including art"
Cap 🧢
second life ranker isnt that bad the story/plot is amazing and me personally i would like it to be ranked up for B- to AT LEAST B tier very solid manga may not be original but its there and very good
I have this interesting idea for a multisekai. One of my more convoluted brainstories. Thinking of calling it Majutsu-shi to mahōtsukai.
A demon lord plans to take over the world. A hero spoken of in prophecies, Regalos, is born and trained to slay him. Our hero is able to defeat the demon lord, but before he can be finished off, he casts a dark curse that resets all of Regalos' skills to 1. On top of that, he transformed him into a woman to cut his physical strength. Regalos is unable to swing -his- her holy sword and as such is forced to leave the demon lord behind to recover. The kingdom people are devastated. A large number of them who put their faith in Regalos, now sink into despair. One mage hasn't given up yet and decides to make the risky move of summoning a hero from another world. A man with a blank slate for a personality steps forward through the gate created. The woman begs him to save their world, to which he accepts. The strange man, named Saiko, had powers they had never heard of. He could fly, generate electricity and levitate his surroundings, all with a single chant, magical item or familiar. This man was just the man to finally beat the demon king, but there was one little problem. The demon lord offered his only daughter to Saiko as a wife in exchange for mercy. He didn't return, and when the people found out the so called saviour was mardying the enemy's daughter, they were rightfully furious. They turned their anger towards the mage who summoned him, banishing her through the gate she opened and making her unable to come back the same way. The mage, Lily, was stranded in a world where magic is simply a fairy tale. Initially, she started to accept her new life, but then a poster caught her eye. It was a stage performance. A man named Magnus the Magnificent who could use magic. Lily started looking for him, as a plan to get back to her world formed in her head. Convince this Magnus person to open a portal to the other world, help him to defeat the demon lord, and gain the respect of the kingdom once more. Unfortunately, Magnus wasn't as magificent as she'd hoped. He was retired after an accident took his right arm, and he didn't have enough to pay off his house. Lily was starting to lose hope, but then she remembered something. It is possible to make plants grow lost branches with healing magic, and the plants would producing some magic of their own afterwards, so maybe if she grew this guy's arm back, he'd be able to use magic as well, and then she could train him to open a gate to her world. Lily offers to grow Magnus' arm back and teach him real magic, so he can do his shows like he used to and pay off his debts. Magnus accepts, given he has no other options. The spell takes effect almost immediately, and he feels an odd energy flowing through him. A wave of the hand conjures up flowers from thin air, and a deck of cards floats into place at a mere gesture. Real magic is pretty convenient. With this, Magnus and Lily become partners. She teaches him how to cultivate his magic, he gets to do magic shows better than anything ever before, and he keeps all the profits. All he has to do, is practise dimensional magic until he can perfect a gate. He's not told what it's for, but the benefits are too sweet to question!
I think the only one I disagree with would be Lone/Solo Necromancer which I would put at A+ rank. The art is really unique and good, the enemies are surprisingly uniquely designed, characters are interesting, story is cool and the post apocalyptic/gamey theme actually is done very well.
Also its novel came before Solo Levelling so its technically the og
Even putting it at C is a stretch
1) The art is unique not good
2) Enemies are uniquely designed but are extremely poorly written
3) Characters are interesting for first few chapters but then they become just like your typical Manhwa, where side characters don't even know what is going on, the concept is indeed very cool and unique but it is extremely poorly executed and poorly written (It had a lot of potential), sometimes it feels like the only one gaining powers were those Skeletons which his skills are, he doesn't focus on
his own strength or rather story doesn't focus on his real strength, and it became so repetitive and boring like how he was getting two skeletons then leveling from quest or shit then again two skeletons and it goes on and on
The theme is cool but again it is extremely poorly executed
and lastly yes the novel came before solo leveling but putting it as A+ is totally absurd as you are putting it above Solo leveling, I mean even Solo Leveling becomes extremely repetetive and boring but the fighting and action scenes are top tier whereas Lone necromancer fight is very basic where he doesn't engage in the fight whatsoever but his ugly looking skeletons do and their action scenes are not even half as good as Solo Leveling's
I hate how solo leveling exploded the market with "The world is full of gates now, woo, literally the same shit you've read 20 times woooo"
You know it's bad when you know everyone of these.
Suicide hunter is easily one of the best manhwas of all time imo
Yeah you're right. I also liked Mercenary Enrollment because well, the MC becomes more and more human as the story goes on..
The veritable records of the Heavenly Demon arc was such a delightful read.
How come solo leveling gets an anime but gems like these gets ignored.
After traversing void for countless hours I have finnaly found someone that talks about webtoons and puts some effort in videos.
Nice video.
I’d say lone Necromancer has the potential for an A tier, for me second life ranker fell off a little but it’s still good, solid B- to B+ their for me
No wonder you sounded so depressed, you're new youtubers.
Also i'm sad cause i've already read those.
oh I just sound dead naturally :)
if you really wanna stoop low (if you haven't already) try read "System xianzun in the city" and see how many chapters you can last haha
@@itswooj what's even worse is when the story shows some potential and turns into a complete shit midway, it happens really often to manhuas in particular, like "rise from the rubble"
@@johnmarry5976 Yeah manhuas in general have lower quality unfortunately so I tend to avoid them :l
@@itswooj did you read im the fated villain, i say its enjoyable for a manhua
@@asctra3199 I haven't actually. Would you say it's worth a read?
second life ranker is of suprising quality. although it slightly drops later in quality it takes an interesting turn on the genre and is refreshing, the main characters abilitys arent similar to most other manwhas and is written pretty well
I like the implementations of the demons and Gods, im very excited to see how he’ll grow and i sear if he doesn’t get with Edora
I've actually read most of these, and I have to say, just read the novels; they're far better and have way more character development. An issue I've noticed with the manwhas is that, for some reason, they suck all of the personality out of the characters. In the novel, Jinwoo is actually pretty emotional and tends to silently panic, yet the manwha portrays him how other characters would see him, not his true thoughts. :/
That's what I've heard before actually! Quite a a shame that the adaptations are so... soulless. Feel like the personalities (in the manhwas) are just so homogenous lol. Feel like I'll have to give the novels a read now haha
Solo glitch player didnt feel like a solo leveling rip off to me but rather just a town/kingdom building isekai reincarnation. Also im pretty sure solo leveling wasnt the first to introduce player like status windows and portals and what not, just boost the popularity of them
yeah sl wasn't the first but it's popularity really boosted the genre, hence why some of these feel like variations of them
I agree sgp is a slightly looser fit ahah but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to point out the absolute travesty of its late season artwork
0:17 top left name please?
I would put Solo Leveling a little higher because of the new chapters.
I completely forgot those were out - probably going to go have a read sometime this week, thanks for the reminder lol
Instant dislike for placing Solo leveling on A tier.
NO WAY! Looks like UA-cam's tracking my activity now! I'm re-reading SL and extremely recently passed through the scene of this Video's thumbnail that randomly appeared in my feed fr!
What's the title of the manhwa to the left of ORV in 0:20 ???
"I'm the max level newbie" I think is more like "Omniscient readers viewpoint".
This is why i love Manhwa, you always know what your gonna get sometimes with surprising twists. all of these series mentioned ive read and loved.
Yoooo Max Level Newbie literally had the same panels as Solo Leveling sometimes. He even did the same, sort of iconic, pause that Sung Jin Woo did where he held his dagger over his shoulder. That was wild to just randomly see in the manhwa.😂😂😂
Solo max lvl newbie and solo leveling are my favorites so far
personally My favorites here are player who can't level up and kill the hero. Albeit Solo leveling got me skyrocketing to find and read more manga manhua manhwa. Because I began to realize with solo leveling and the others have literally no soul. I literally could not care less what happens to them because they don't have any character in them. I think the main part as to why is that they just don't lose. The reason why I like these two is because the mc is a killer sociopath trying to set the world back to normal and actually has to go against a technically stronger sociopath who basically made his organization through wicked means. And player who can't level up is carried by the personalities of his ego's being very entertaining and generally the world build up for climbing the tower hasn't even started yet for him. He's mostly just in politics rn which makes me optimistic for the future.
Kill the hero is just so basic and repetitive
How are people still reading that shit
Honestly I’m glad that level up with the gods is high up, I love it, but I don’t think the art work is “okay,” I love the artwork and I think it looks phenomenal, I personally would have put it at S, it’s one of my absolute favorites
Same
Does the return of the SSS-ranker count? I love the art style, and so far, while more of the same, the story isn't terrible
I love SSS-hunter its my fav lol
Similar vibes ig but it takes a nice spin on the tower genre
Can't believe you have 2k subs your vids are pretty good imo
FFF-Trash Hero is A+, especially good after the 5th and 11th resets where the plots significantly change and you see that the story’s overarching plot was always more cunning than you expected.
LEVELING UP WITH GODS
Frozen Player is a definite S from me. I value it's consistency and his end goal being just waking his friends up from the frozen curse. Outside of battles he just goes back to the museum and sit down near his frozen friends and have a drink. It's very, human. And I like that. Lots of personality in that story imo. And the whole system of world levels is really fkn great imo. First level is earth 2nd level is like a fantasy world with guilds, adventurers and shit, it's actually really good. So much potential
bro i couldn’t agree more on the tier list
“Return of the frozen player” is really good A-S tier for sure.
No bullshit “I know the future” or time travel.
Characters are very compelling, For example 5 heroes who MC was a part of and tries to de-frieze are no bullshit professionals.
Necromancer one is really good and the style really works with it
The realest tier list I have ever seen
Some of these have already been made before solo leveling like frozen player was released before solo leveling came out I think
00:17, mark those are SL, SSS-CLASS Sui. Hunter, Omniscient Reader, and...?
I dint recognize the left one. Name? Has manhwa?
Out of all the "rip-offs", I started reading a lot of them, for like first 10 ch or so, some 30-40 or so. I liked most of them at the start, then most fell off. I just like solo leveling and max level newbie now. Solo leveling for obvious reasons, and max level newbie for artwork, and that the story still feels like it has a red line that goes in a straight line. And not up and down or go up high and then slowly fall off.
That's the thing - they all usually start with neat premises and twists to the genre/trope but then they fall short when the world building/characterisation actually has to come into play, which is quite upsetting.
player that can't level up is easily A tier man is so realistic and interesting world.
Fax.
And the max level returner has a completely different premises
I know this is off topic but TBATE is honestly and I will confidently say, is the BEST manwha novel adaptation series. The novel is godly the comic is basically that godly novel but adapted into a comic version and the art for it is insanely good
You made me laugh in the first 2m lmao..
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Second life ranker actually came before but was on hault for while as this genre was not having traction. But yeah solo levelling helped this author to arise from the slumber as now they do are releasing chapters continuously. Lol
Leveling with the gods and Kill the Hero have are pretty good. Kill the Hero in Plot Leveling with the Gods in worlds building and lore.
Have you read Taming Master, It has pretty decent art and seems enjoyable to read
Ooh I haven't - I'll go give it a shot :)
Second life ranker is more like Tower of God than Solo leveling.
Wow. Such a great video. Good channel 👍
Only thing I like about Max Level Newbie is that GODDAMN VAMPIRE WAIFU
I like how half of these are mostly original really good stories some even being just as good as solo leveling
i'm ngl i actually enjoyed reading kill the hero. the storyline wasn't all too mind numbing like much of the other isekai reborn-in-games that i've read. plus i like the authornim's artstyle. chef's kiss xx
and level up with the gods is good too, but i'm biased because i love mythology but my brain was reduced to mush while reading it and all i could think was "haha hercules hottie"
yeh ngl been a mythology simp circa Percy Jackson haha
I can remember what happened when in Kill the Hero and I feel like it’s actually going somewhere, which is more than I could say for Second Life Ranker when I dropped it last year. Kill the Hero’s scope and focus has been well defined and it’s stuck to it which makes it a lot easier to hang with than Second Life Ranker introducing some new way to make MC stronger every single arc and the constant setting up without payoff.
deserved A and B tiers but solo leveling art is something else
Player who can't level up is decent for me , a man who has a brain as a toddler that hungers for more action manwha
I love your smooth voice fits well with how you do your videos, it sounds relaxing. I like your videos too, just found them yesterday, new sub! Also, what are the titles of the manhwas at 0:19? Please?
I only know two of them and it is "Omniscient reader's pov(or something)" and "SSS-class suicide hunter"
@@DOYLR3 thanks, I'm still looking for the top left one lol. They all have the same publisher right? Do you know the name of the publisher? I'll just look it up to trace the Manhwa on the top left.
@@Random_Dude4486 If you find it please reply me the name because Omniscient reader's Viewpoint and SSS Class Suicide Hunter are one of the Best if not the best returnee manhwa I have ever read, with Suicide Hunter being my favorite manhwa. If the top left one is of a similar quality I want to read it.
@@drakesacrum8445 I found it, its called FFF trash hero, the one in the vid is the LN art.
Oops I'm a lil late - Yup - FFF-trashero, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, SSS-class suicide hunter. All of them are pretty good reads but gotta say that FFF-trashero is nowhere near the quality of the other two.
Lone necromancer is cool but after the mc starts to get really strong you start to realize the story is kind of aimless. Like the apocalypse setting is cool for a while but watching him and his 2 friends walking through the same backdrop for 90+ chapters starts to get to your head after a while. They don’t even bother to think of “ when is this going to end? “ “ or how can we turn the world back to some sense of normal? “ they just sort of, power level…forever
swear it only has like 70 chapters on flame scans
i read the novel and that one is good so i'm happy to not know your pain... btw it does have an end in the novel opposed to some of the other mentions in this vid
Damn I started reading lone necromancer and lone spell caster at the same time. 10 episodes in lone spellcaster dumped Last read like 7 months ago
Reincarnation of suicidal battle god is a solid A tier with decent storyline and almost "solo leveling" tier artstyle
The way I read some of them and dropped it bc the plots were so generic and I kept forgetting events and confusing characters with other similar stories.
omniscient reader is so amazing for anyone in the comments who hasnt read or seen the webtoon you really should its really good
Second Life ranker is not a rip-off, novel was released less than a year after Solo leveling was. Also the "MC knowing where everything is" has a very good explanation if you get to chapter 300+ and the knowledge isn't offering real omniscience, so hard disagree on that one. The story and world building is also tiers above Solo leveling, but I guess the manhwa wasn't able to encapsulate that, alas.
Other than that, the other ones were pretty much on the money.
HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO THE LAST MANHWAAA
About Second Life Ranker, it just gets better and better. In about a hundred chapters there is no way it could be ranked lower than S-tier
the max lvl returner was good at the beginning and enjoyable but then for me it got boring and the fights did not make me excited
anymore
Solo max level newbie is my favorite manhwa
I think its safe to say half of these aren't even rip offs, just following common tropes in korea the same way isekai is a trope in japan, Dungeons, towers, and regression have and probably always will be popular (though some are clearly copied like max level newbie) things like SSS-class suicide hunter is in no way a rip off, its honestly even safe to say if its art was better, it would just be better completely, the story is deeper, the characters have more depth, and the world seems a lot larger in both the sense of the tower compared to dungeons and how the different settings and events take place in korea as well, It's just that solo leveling was so good at a time where the trope was falling off that now we're seeing more and more because of the light solo leveling shined on the common trope
i like this channel
i feel the need to point out solo necromancer while i personally don't enjoy that one as a story it's not the same concept, like everyone levels up there it's just this dude is unreasonably lucky which in this case leads to the story being kinda unenjoyable for some
like one is a "the one who levels" and then "this dude is getting plot armor conceptually" that's not the same flavor of story
I'd never put Max Level newbie above Solo necromancer 😭
do you think anything with any similarity to solo leveling is a solo leveling rip off???
Hey where can I read solo leveling? I dont trust anything that aint asura scans and last time I went on smthn else it tried to put a virus on my pc lol
Man, the player who can't level up has easily one of the best plots out of those Manwhas.. please try to read it all, is really worth
god this is great man very enjoyable
My tier:
Solo leveling: S tier
Solo glitch player / bug player - FFFFFFF tier
Second life ranker - A tier (however the translation sucks)
The player who can’t level up - A- tier
Kill the hero - B+ tier
Leveling with the gods - S tier (biased)
Frozen player - A tier
Max level returner - D tier
Solo max level newbie - A+ tier
Solo auto hunting - F tier
Solo spell caster - F tier
The lone necromancer - A tier
Leveling up alone - FF tier
When he added Hans Solo I died laughing lol😂
Good humor honestly, you have that shitpost anituber vibe but with manhwas, keep it up!
cheers man :)
It's funny because I couldn't cope with the SL copies because their artstyle usually mirrors Solo Leveling's, and Lone Necromancer stood out of the rest because of it to me and it's the only one in this list I didn't drop
I guess for solo glitch player, the good point is the world building, the art is incosistent, character is somekind unique i guess, battle is depend on the art, story is pretty good because of world building.
I didn’t think second life ranker was a rip off, it’s more in the tower genre and the MC’s goal lines more with revenge. Similar with leveling with the gods. I would classify them under the tower genre similar to SSS class revival hunter.
Not me using this as to find out what to read
You guys know max level and solo leveling from same people?
Me: Santa Claus can i please have a dragon?
Santa Claus: Think of something more releastic.
Me: Ok can i get a 3d season of Solo Leveling?
Santa Claus: Uhmm ill get you that dragon.
Me: Ok😢
Second life ranker the novel was made before solo leveling but I agree