The World is Money and Power - Reviews

Alt titles: Sesangeun Dongwa Gwollyeok, This World is Money and Power

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upsidepenguin's avatar
Apr 25, 2021

The webtoon has similar vibes to "Weak Hero", but the main character is more morally grey (more grey than Grey? unintentional pun). I can smell some OP cliches coming up, but the webtoon has caught my interest with 4 chapters, so why not read it?

He's smart and extremely good at fighting. His goal is quite righteous too. His short-term goal, at least. Because I don't know why he transferred to the school yet, and the shady executives of the school don't either. Oh, good old shounen suspense. Well, I'll enjoy watching him end gambling in his class. Then, in the school.

His deskmate is an ultra-upright person, and Gunwoo wants to support and be friends with him (yay friendship!) so even though he's morally grey-ish, like vigilante kind (I'll kill the murderers myself! kind), he's on the light side. 

The art is good. Gunwoo is hot, not gonna lie. I can't comment much on the fight scenes because the only fight scene that happened mostly showed the beginning, some short actions, and then the aftermath. So I don't know how well the action scenes are. But I can see from a whacking scene that the artist draws impact well.

Yeah, that's it for now. It's only been 4 chapters (for the official English translated one, at least) I recommend you read this if you like shounen. It's probably going to have some OP shounen tropes, but it's enjoyable.

8/10 story
10/10 art
8/10 characters
8/10 overall
SenseiMedo's avatar
Aug 25, 2023

Do yourself a favour and avoid reading anything produced by YLAB. "They will make certain to mass manufacture stories with long milked chapters with just one vallain to be fought, but no matter how often mc battles it out, he will only win and lose tiny battles until the conclusion when he finally gets to face the huge valain that was mentioned at the beginning."

This is the same theme that appears in the majority of YLAB's works, and it is beyond annoying. Why would I be thrilled to see Mc battle the same villain throughout the story? It's like watching the same match on repeat indefinitely.

MC is cringe and the whole manhwa is a big plothole since mc has no power whatsoever to change anything especially to the villain who has everything including, police, judges etc in his hand. I see no way for mc to find after the long milekd series aside from a complete bullshit way that wont make sense at all. 

Read "Get Schooled" instead, a much better concept with a very good selection of cast and middle age man mc. 

1/10 story
6/10 art
2/10 characters
2/10 overall
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