Manga 147217 The World After The Fall Suggestion

Being a huge fan of the author's previous work, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, I instantly jumped to read this series and have been following its chapters as they are released. I have not read the light novel, so this review will be based on the manhwa only.

Think of the tower from SAO, but there's multiple of them and they appear in major cities all around the world, along with giant monsters that wreak havoc on humanity. Select people from each country, known as Tower Walkers, are summoned to complete all 100 floors of the tower in order to save humanity from the monsters.

Then things start to ... get interesting. The story quickly introduces an item called a "Stone of Regression'' that can be found in the tower. These stones allow the user to regress in time and restart from the beginning of the appearance of the towers so that one can fix their past mistakes. The protagonist, Jaehwan, loses comrades either by death or regression, but still chooses to continue his climb, vowing to protect the present timeline no matter what.

I'm having a fun time reading this series so far. The art is jaw droppingly gorgeous and the story is pretty captivating as well. The big twist that is introduced in chapter 5 is pretty unique and makes me excited for the future of the series. So far, the characters haven't had much character development, but they are still enjoyable. If you're looking for a good power fantasy with some interesting plot elements, I would recommend trying at least the first 5 chapters of this series to see if it's something you might enjoy. It isn't on the same level as something like Omniscient Reader, but it is quite a fun read. I'm interested to see how this story develops!

Read about 20 chapters in which is close to the amount released at the time of writing, Has interesting ideas that pulled me in initially, but began to really drag on after the first couple of chapters. I can't bring myself to care about the characters, as we're only introduced to the MC at the end of his (initial) journey. They frequently flashback to characters from the MC's past, who we don't know at all and as far as I can tell have no plans to be properly introduced, so there's no emotional impact to any of these scenes. All new characters introduced are so ... far below the MC's power level that none of them seem like they'll be relevant for more than a dozen chapters or so, as the MC seems to get exponentially more powerful every scene he's a part of, while the side characters seem to not have any kind of progression so far. This leaves me hesitant to form any emotional connections with these characters.

The story itself seems to be setting up for quite a long haul, as the world explained throughout the earlier chapters seems to be extremely expansive, and to be honest, I don't even know what the main plot is right now beyond "MC is doing things for the sake of doing things because he doesn't want to regress and so I guess he'll just keep killing stuff." He has no clear goal. Just win, I guess.

It's not bad per say, It's just not particularly good either. Definitely has potential to go into good places, it's just not there yet. Right now it's just perfectly generic in every way.

I will keep it short because I can't be bothered with writing a long review.

The MC was interesting in the start (early 20 chapters) as he had emotions and internal monologues. The world-building was also interesting as the concept of the tower was unique too. But later it just turned into every average regression manhwa although this manhwa is supposed not to use regression troupe which was a unique point early but is now ignored trivia. Our MC lost any kind of emotions that he might have had in the start and just turned into a generic emotionless exaggeratedly powerful guy. Oh, they also tried ... to introduce a red-haired main heroine which appeared for some chapters and then disappeared without any trace, not even a single mention of her.

So just read it if you have so much free time but don't expect anything.