unOrdinary

MonarqueCeleste May 8, 2020

3

I read up until chapter 126 so I think I have a good understanding of how the manwha goes. You know what's really my main pet peeve with this show? the mc. I don't even know where to start. I'm even more shocked at the number of people seemingly loving this but hey you do you people.Storywise I think it's pretty decent. It's in a school setting with kids having superpowers added to the usual bullying and there you have it. Although I must say the bullying here is just way over the top. I know the "strong prey over the weak, survival of the fittest" bull already but that doesn't justify it at all. You just feel like evey interaction is made to establish the fact that it's just a bullying school. Yeah the title of this manwha should be "Bullying : The school" or "The art of bullying". Moving on to the plot I see absolutely nothing here. If there is no clear guidance of where the story is going after a hundred chapter then you've done a really bad job. There will be tons of subplots with supposedly intringuing premises but all of that just for the sake of drama and fake shock factor.Characters... oh boy is there a looot to say. I don't wanna spoil anything so I won't even go into each and every one of them. I'll just focus on what seems to be the main protagonist and probably spoil a little bit so beware. John. Remember this name cause you'll learn to loathe it. At the beginning you feel sympathy for him because he's the victim of constant bullying. He gets beaten up left and right and is so weak that he can't do anything about it. Or can he? He's the epitome of badly written character. The author tried to justify his behavior under the guise of some kind of fake deep psychological thingy but it doesn't work on people with a brain. He's one of the fakest, lamest MC known to history !I simply hate him, I hate his face, his guts his everything. He's so unlikable as a character. And the funny thing is you WILL love him in the beginning, yes you will. This will then slowly turn into pity, disgust and anger. I suspect he's just a sadistic villain pretending to be the mc, there's no other explanation. You'll get those redeemable moment where you're like "finally the mc is acting like he should!" just for the author to make him return to the shi**y person he is 2 chapters later. The art is okay so I'll give it an overal score of 3 for trying to be something and managing to gather that many sheeps fans.If I were to resume this webtoon it's just an emotional roller coaster and obviously people fell prey to it. Read at your own risk.

Joker1911 Jan 30, 2020

6

i dont get all the fan fair about this webton. This story could be some much better if it didnt dwaddle on repetative conversations between characters over the same shit. Becasue of this the stories progression is at a snails pace. it has sooooooooo many long conversations about the same thing over an over again. it also has all these multiple threw stories which they just start, then leave to the wayside which the author hasnt touch back on for 30 chapters or more. It reminds me of a webtoon version of an MTV/ CW supernatural show.

mchensan Mar 3, 2021

3

Unordinary is almost like a relic of an era gone. It has the feel of a pre 2010 webcomic, with the quality of art and writing to back it up. This is a webtoon almost certainly done by an amateur artist (I believe she started this in college) and while I can see some talent in this webtoon, the quality is poor throughout. Everything is mediocre to bad so lets just get straight into the critique. The world building is remarkably bad - While not everything needs explained, the society has been coded to have the strong be high class and the weak be low class. There are so many issues with the world building in this webtoon that the more I think about it, the more it hurts my head. I'll just list a few. If weak people are low class, why are they going to a school where the most gifted people go? Why does power predominate class if society isn't run on people using their power?  Power doesn't appear to be hereditary, so why are weak people coded as being under cyclical poverty? You essentially have to bash your head against the wall so you become illiterate so you don't think of these things as you read the story. The characters are essentially poor soap opera tropes - All the characters are idiots who act like 5 year olds. There is some leniency as these characters are highschoolers, but so much stupidity happens that it's hard to read. The violence is just too much - This is related to the world building but people just beat the shit out of each other for no reason and the teachers just watch and accept it. What the hell kind of highschool allows so much excessive violence? The social commentary is uninspired at best - The social commentary of unordinary is clear as soon as the first chapter. It's really poorly done as it's essentially written as if bystanders to abusers should be given a pass if they sometimes step in to help, despite benefitting from the abuser's actions. It's almost as if the author has "both sides" an unequal abusive relationship. I'm not impressed.  Conclusion Don't read this.