Lookism

Disclaimer: This Review contains some spoilers

To start with if you are reading this review to decide whether you should read "Lookism" or not, the I will answer it in short.

" I have never read a drama as good as "Lookism" and I 100% recommend everyone to read it. "

People will behave around you differently if you are good looking but same people will call you ugly pig and bully you if are on the lower end of the food chain.

This is a story of park Hyung suk who is a poor fat guy who lives alone with this mother who works day and night to support his studies. Hyung Suk gets bullied by the most powerful guy at his school Logan lee, to avoid this decided to run away to a different school so he can stay away from Logan. On his first day in the new city he gets beaten by Zack Lee. His life is changed when he suddenly gets a new body that he can switch to. On his first day in new school he gets picked up by Zack Lee but with his new body he beat him with only one punch. Hyung suk with his new body goes to his new school and make a lot of friends and bit by bit he changes and also becomes good with his original body.

But the story is not this much simple because there are organizations that Hyung suk and his friends must take on to live their peaceful life. These organizations are all controlled by 2 powerful villains who with hook or crook want to make a lot of money.

Some characters who bully as story progresses realizes their mistake and become good while some characters who were bullied because of trauma becomes twisted motherfuckers who want revenge.

If I have to talk about characters then it will start with Vasco, who is the leader of a school crew called burn knuckles. Vasco was also bullied in middle school like MC but he trained and trained that he became a monster that could even take on a bear.

Heck this have an actual story and actual real good side characters with actual good backstories. The main character really deserves to be the main character.

It have a everything in perfect balance, A dark plot full of bullying and fights. A school life that is peaceful sometimes and sad at sometimes. This thing at some point even put "oyasumi punpun" at shame, it went way too dark.

The artwork is very realistic and fights scenes are well drawn. As a reader i could connect with the characters and that is an important thing. If the reader don't want to be one of the characters of the story then there is no way he would enjoy it. The story from time to time goes into the backstories of all the side characters. This is probably the only manhwa where I enjoyed the side characters more than the main character.

But the story is not only about bullying and gang wars. It is a drama after all and from time to time it scares the hell out of the reader. It got maniacs that developed a trauma and stalkers. There are characters who go through major changes in their personality because they couldn't protect people that they love.

To sum it all, it is straight up to the best drama manga/manhwa I ever read. I have only good things to talk about it and there are no flaws. It's a shame that it is not in the top 10, 20 or even 50 manga list of any website and it one of the mangas who most people haven't read yet. I hope more people read and recognize this hidden masterpiece.