DISTANT SKY

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Des alternatives: Simyeonui Hanuel; 심연의 하늘
Auteur: Youn In-wan
Artiste: Sunhee Kim
Taper: Manga
Statut: YES
Publier: 2014-01-01 to ?

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Des alternatives: Simyeonui Hanuel; 심연의 하늘
Auteur: Youn In-wan
Artiste: Sunhee Kim
Taper: Manga
Statut: YES
Publier: 2014-01-01 to ?
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Gangnam in complete darkness…
"Am I the only one alive? What’s going on?"
… A boy wakes up to find himself in a building full of dead people. No cars, no electricity and no stars in the sky… Not only Gangnam, but the entire city seems deserted.

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DISTANT SKY review
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mythicamagic8
Apr 03, 2021
---------- Distant Sky compete review (until season 5) --------

The two other reviews on this manhwa only went up to chapter 3. It wasn't easy to find but I managed to get my hands on chapter 4 and 5, reading Distant Sky in it's entirety.
Before I start to review the content, I should mention the last remaining chapters are not officially released in English so it was fan translated from some Chinese versions.

Story :
4/10
I did not enjoy it much to be honest. Many korean manhwas suffer from this extreme nihilistic misery porn kind of setting. I'm no happy hippie, but I had to literally ENDURE the story and push through. My main problem was the story telling followed a repetitive pattern : the author relies on flashbacks so much it's become redundant. He skips a few mins or hours forward, so the reader doesn't understand what's happening. Then the author goes back to reveal the plot in the flashback.

It's ok once ot twice, but he does it all the time. There are some massive time jumps, making the plot extremely convoluted. Some time jumps are several months ahead. Then the story goes back in the past, then back to the present, skips a few hours forward, then present. It's unbelievably frustrating.

Used intelligently it could work, but not continually over 100 chapters!! It seems like he used this pattern to cover some unexplained plot holes.

Characters:
4/10
Save for a few characters, everyone is unbearably negative, aggressive, murderous. I understand the post apocalyptic setting but it's hard to have chapter after chapter of cannibals, murderers, crazy animals, etc without any positivity. Everyone screws everyone.

Also some characters later come to act in the main story line. We know NOTHING about them and will learn nothing. Why? Because they are from other manhwas! Just go read the other manhwas bro!! It really feels cheap, like the author didn't know how to sort the plot so he just ass-pulls some characters from other places without ever explain a damn thing!!

Art :
3/10, ugly. You can disagree, but compared to other works, it's just ugly.
Rough lines scribbled by a marker that's about it. The last chapters have a change of setting and the drawings become suddenly better. Too bad you have that at the very end only.

Enjoyment :
4/10.

I would NOT recommend it. Not only because of all that I've mentioned above, but also because there's no official translation so it's quite hard to find. It's very nihilistic and full of plot holes.
The ending is mildly satisfying but again with a lot of unexplained parts.