Don’t drop This Manhwa in The Start
Lookism is among the best manhwa I have read thus far, it was my third manhwa that I read, and this was one of the reasons that I started my journey to read manhwas. As I realize that there are more masterpieces hidden in this vast net.
Lookism is a South Korean manhwa written and illustrated by Taejun Park. It is been serialized on Naver Webtoon since 2014 and has collected 447 chapters and it is still in the publishing state because the main event isn’t started yet (i will keep this boring intro short so let’s start with its review).
It follows the story of Daniel Park, who is very unattractive (and seriously he is like a pig), and because of his looks, he is discriminated against by society and bullied. As he shifts to a new school (because he is bullied so much) he discovers that he has two bodies, one that is handsome and popular (new one), and the other that is ugly and bullied (old one). He uses his two bodies to explore the different ways that people treat him based on his appearance.
The theme of this masterpiece explores, how people who are considered to be attractive are treated differently than those who are not. It also explores the ways that people can use their appearance to their advantage (my personal favorite theme)
For some people, this theme or idea is a type of boring so they drop the series on the first 30 or some keep it 100 but they drop out, my recommendation is that you at least try to read it till 200 or 300 chapters because after that but slowly they change this lovely, motivation or something like that to turn it into some type of war (not a war against a high school student but a war like generations vs generations, or organizations vs gangs or crews), and to think of that point of view, Taejun Park has so many big plans for the future.
It has some seriously badass characters that ignite fire all over the series, like Gun, Vasco, Daniel Park, Jay Hong, and many more characters like Manager Kim (who has his own series) and many more.
I recommend this is the must-watch series, (no must-read manhwa) which truly worth your time (only one thing that I hate, and that is girls, especially Zoe. I truly hate her from the bottom of my heart, but she played a main role in Daniel’s character development).
This is all for the blog (btw, lookism has such a big topic that I will probably die if I write a detailed review of it, and that not gonna happen so) thanks for reading and if I miss something, tell me in the comments.
