"Ultimately, every human is their own writer." - Han Sooyoung”
As just your average animanga enjoyer with poor written English ability and below average communication skills, I really don't like writing reviews(it's my first time) but because Kim Dokja reminds me of how depressing it is to be a reader, I'll will doing it.
- SYNOPSIS - For Starters, this story is of a reader who's name is Kim Dok-ja(which also means "Reader" in Korean) who is your typical contract worker who likes to read Webnovels in subway trains while returning home, but one day his favorite webnovel TWSA becomes reality and he's the only person who read till the end(that's an omniscient for ya!) but he wants to write......he wants to add few more pages to this story's epilogue but in the process of doing it he changes the story some extend (which isn't bothering him much for now)
- STORY - Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint(ORV in short)"s plot initially starts off as a sort of reverse-isekai/dungeon crawl webtoon/novel, a genre which has grown very popular in east Asian media in the past few years. For the first few arcs, there’s a lot of worldbuilding, game mechanics, and a protagonist who gets overpowered skills as a result of his epic ~~gamer~~ reader skills. If you start ORV and specifically enjoy the First Sixty
which is the First arc of ORV. However, past the first few arcs, ORV takes a hard turn into more complex themes and narratives, delving into more meta elements and grappling with so many plot threads that it would honestly make this story the most interesting one you have ever read. Suffice to say, while the first few arcs are fun and in-line with other works of this genre, it becomes more of a interrogation of its own genre and the act of creating media in general as it goes on. If deconstructing tropes, metanarratives up to your nose, and 4D chess-style time and multiverse shenanigans are your thing, ORV is the first thing you should read!
- Characters - ORV has one of the most richly filled and developed casts I've seen in media in a while, and nearly every character (of which there are a LOT) has some kind of arc. There are some characters that are done with less justice than others, an inevitability of having a cast that large in a story, but even they usually have some sort of development. There is literally no character in ORV who are one-note characters(other than Flying Fox ofc). Even the least interesting ones are written better than many great characters , another note that I want to make on this is that, there are A LOT OF COOL GIRLS in this story, and pretty much all of them get their arcs in unique and interesting ways! ORV tends to introduce characters in terms of tropes or stereotypes (the nice girl, the innocent child, the hardened warrior, the foul girl) and then slowly builds onto those foundations in ways that make them immensely interesting and complex. It's so sad that i can't go into spoilers..... moving on.
- ART - As per me ORV have better art than SL(and I am not joking at all) while SL have flashy animation ORV have detailing in every panel(i usually read on laptop that's why it's easier to realize the difference in art) I literally mean it lol
they are BEAUTIFUL
- MISCONCEPTION - The main misconception about this manhwa is whether it's gey or not(the reason why many avoid it) and the answer is NO, it's not a yaoi. Kim Dokja don't have a love interest that's why the fandom ships him with everyone which is in sight.
- CONCLUSION - What are you waiting for? Just go and start reading it!!! It's probably the most interesting one you will ever read, even the MC promises you
just where will you see something like this?
- PS - Try reading every constellation message and usual words since there are many foreshadowing in it, this story have too much information for many readers to handle(which is also one of the main reason why they drop ORV)
FOR NOW I WILL GIVE IT A 97/100 which will change after the Season 1 ends (probably around 185 ch).
And thanks again for reading my first Review.