I Am the Sorcerer King
Manthika
Edited Review: Honestly, it’s something to waste some time on if you’re bored, but it’s nothing outstanding and here’s why:
The author has no idea what they’re doing. The first 20 chapters seem like every cliche ‘gate’ and ‘hunter’ manga/manhwa meshed into one, with terrible art to boot. Around chapter 40-ish the art starts to get a little better, though the characters can hardly ever seem to keep their both or even either of their eyes open. Plot-wise, things that were interesting start to be a little more interesting, and you get a hint of some bigger plot.
Then it all goes downhill a bit later. They throw in random tropes, it starts feeling like a bad crossover, there’s a lot I can’t say without spoiling things but at a certain point the author is clearly just throwing in random things to slow down their overly overpowered main character from actually solving the plot, and giving him more issues to need to resolve. If this was an episodic serial, where every ‘episode’ was different, then maybe ‘going on forever’ wouldn’t seem so contrived, but in this it certainly does.
I made it to chapter 103 before I had to drop it but it wasn’t because I was interested, I was just bored and it wasn’t so bad that I couldn’t push through in hopes it would get better. Then in that chapter, something happened, and now it IS that bad, lol. It’s a mess.
