Please read the original webtoon

i don’t know if anyone will ever read this, but i just wanna say, please read the original webtoon.

i’m a big fan of Ha Il Kwon, all of his webtoons have a special place in my heart, especially annarasumanara and duty after school. Seriously, duty after school is one of his later works and it was one of his best. Although I might not able to say objectively that it’s the best webtoon(or story) i’ve ever read, it’s definitely gave a deep impression to me which I can still remember to this day, even after so many years have past. While other stories might be forgotten after several years, I can still remember and regard this story as one of the best i’ve ever read. It was this type of webtoon for me. and the drama RUINED IT.

The 1st part still followed the main idea of the original webtoon and (although it’s not the best adaptation) it’s still fun to watch. For the 2nd part, they made a different storyline (which doesn’t really make sense), added unnecessary plot, and created a whole different vibe. Also, the development of relationship between bora and aesol in the webtoon is more natural and better in general imo.

For those of you who are dissapointed because it doesn’t give you the horror of a war with the purple things that you expected, the webtoon gives you just THAT for almost the entire webtoon. For you who feels it’s ridiculous that they just magically wipe out the purple things in the end, the webtoon DID NOT do that. For you who are enraged by the endings for the character, the webtoon have better endings for them. Though I must say, the concept of the ending is still the same, but it was executed WAAAAYYYY better. In the drama, it felt so rush and like the author just suddenly went crazy and unncessarily shift the tone. While in the webtoon, the built up was really great and makes sense, and not everyone die in the end. The conclusion that wraps up the whole thing was so much better too. While the drama feels like it uses the CSAT plot way too much to the point that it becomes ridiculous (which i kinda get the purpose but i feels it was done so poorly), from what i remember it wasn’t the case for the webtoon (although it still a main element of the story). It wrapped up in a sense that reminds us that war is horrifying and it will changes you forever eventhough you survived it (at least for me, webtoon reader please feel free to give different opinion about this cause I read this a long time ago, so might not be accurate too).

Overall, i just believe that the webtoon was brilliantly done, and you should read it even if you normally doesn’t read webtoon. Trust me, it’s worth it.

I originally write this to just recommend the webtoon and give a small rant about how i’m dissapointed that they ruined the drama (they also ruined annarasumanara in the drama imo), but turns out it got longer than what I planned. Anyways, please read the webtoon.

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