I am in desperate need of recommendations but I keep running into the same problem...

I dont mind genre. Romance, drama, action. But why is it so hard to find female characters that feel real?? I'm tired of the doe-eyed, naive girl who thinks like a 10 year old and whose only personality trait is bashful. And who the artist won't give anything but a puppy eyed or slightly surprised expression.

I want characters that I can think about, multi dimensional, and imperfect. I want her to be a regular person. I want her to have friends, to think for herself, to have an internal monologue based on morals or goals. I also chose the examples in the images to show the kind of facial expressions and body language I look for. These make the characters feel like an actual person, even if the art style is a bit cartoony. It shows their thoughts or feelings and makes them feel 3D. I think all of these webtoons do a great job of fleshing out these characters.

Please give me recommendations that have one or more female characters like this... I'm so tired of digging through the slop being churned out...

(Images in order: Ilmi from The Fox Club, Yeong from Prize of Youth, Jieun from Girl Friend, Seol from Cheese In The Trap, and Myeong from Muse on Fame.)

Edit: other webtoons I've read that do this properly are: Odd Girl Out, Self Immolation, Purple Hyacinth, The Makeup Remover, I Love Yoo, Four Options, Knife In Her Heart, Gourmet Hound, and possibly more i can't remember...

Edit 2: I appreciate you all so much but I dont mean like clinically insane! Or traumatized to the point of harm! I meant regular degular people! I meant real as in real people you might actually meet

sauce:

1. Do you want me to lend you a lighter?
2. Selfish Romance

3&4: Operation: True love

1. Semantic Error

2. Greatest estate developer

3. Nerd Project

4. Painter of the night

5. How to win my husband over

6. Ogalmi

7. Dreaming Freedom

Name: 末日保护者 Eng name maybe Doomsday protector It’s very new, idk if any Eng translation available yet

Have been working on this for a long while, wanted to show people that there's quite a bit of variety in webtoons if you look around!

Vampire who's absolutely smitten with his unaware and lowkey stupid (lololol) huntress. This made me chuckle quite a few times. The art speaks for itself. Absolutely gorgeous!

It's ongoing and there are 40+ episodes available.

Title: Vampire Meets Huntress

I'm making this post because I'm currently reading Non Tua and it's so amazing. I thought I wouldn't like the male lead (assumption based on the cover arts) and would root for the second male lead, but I've caught up with the fast pass and I cannot get enough of this series. The Male lead is so well written he feels like a real person to me.

Like a story with potential romance is more fun when the male leads exist beyond being a love interest and have their own life. Like all the guys here have iconic unique personalities, which only adds chemistry with the female leads more. It makes it fun to ship them. And in the case of Non Tua, its giving tragedy 💅 so I cannot WAIT to see how the leads fall in forbidden love 😫. And ofc it helps they are good looking lol. I hope i could express my rambles and thoughts ell enough. I have a lot of other favorite male leads but I'm picking from webtoon and what I remember currently.

Giving recommendations and hoping to fangirl together over how well they are written, maybe share recommendations!

Sources are given in the captions but here: 

Jung Yu (Cheese in the trap)

Leonides (Non Tua)

Therdeo (My in-laws are obsessed with me)

Erkin (The Spark in your eyes)

Cain (Phantom Whispers)

Need actual peak romance recommendations. Something emotional, memorable, painful, wholesome, tragic — anything as long as it’s PEAK.

Hey! I just started making a webtoon, and this is the first panel I made. I used a real image I found on Pinterest for the background, traced it, and made my own modifications. I'm feeling a bit confused about whether this is considered cheating. Should I proceed like this, or is it better to stop? Would love to hear your thoughts

Meet Gabriele Angelini, from The Mafia Nanny.

Which webtoon can be called 10/10?

Like I quit reading because a lot of these men just straight up look the same😭😭😭 I need someone that looks more mature and realer

I made a tier list ranking a lot of the webtoons I’ve read, hoping to see if anyone has recommendations based on what I like or don’t like.

Thanks!

these are some of my favourites :-

• Yumi’s Cells
• Cheese in the Trap
• Winter Woods
• Seasons of Blossom
• Romance 101
• Purple Hyacinth
• Trapped
• Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell
• Act Like You Love Me!
• Surviving Romance
• The Crown Princess Scandal
• Maybe Meant to Be
• I Love Yoo
• Spirit Fingers
• My Life as a Loser

Any genre appreciated , would very much like it if it has a tinge of humour tho.thankoo

I built webtoonboxd

A free tool where you pick exactly 9 webtoons and share your shelf as a 3x3 grid. No signup, No ads, takes 30 seconds.

The idea was simple: if you could only keep 9 webtoons to define your taste, which ones make the cut?

- Search for any webtoon on the site (or paste a Webtoons link)

- Fill all 9 slots in a 3x3 grid

- Hit publish and you get a shareable link + save as image

It also gives you a Hipster Score based on how mainstream or underground your picks are, which has been... humbling for some people lol

This way you can just drop your shelf link and people instantly get your vibe.

Would love to see your 9. Drop your shelf links and images! I'll check every single one.

webtoonboxd.com

Title:

Trapped/OLGAMI

The hand that once fed

Merry Psycho

Please recommend more love/hate & enemies to lovers tropes 🥹 I just want to suffer

so i finally compiled every webtoon i could remember reading over the past 7 years (from age 14 to 21) into a tier list

fyi this is just based on what i personally enjoyed, not what i think is objectively the best

the second slide is my current reading wishlist/ TBR (not an extension of the F tier omg im tired of the misunderstandings), arranged by how much i want to read each one, with the upper half being the ones i’m the most excited to start right now

here’s what each of my tiers mean:

s — peakest, most memorable, i could cry just thinking about them, complete whirlwind of emotions, my absolute favorites, basically the pinnacle of my taste

a — amazing plots, super enjoyable, had me completely hooked, probably the tier that represents my taste the most

b — loved them SO much, even if they aren’t really “my type” of story, i enjoyed them enough that it didn’t matter

c — had me hooked enough to really enjoy the ride, great reads overall

d — decent reads, enjoyable but not as much as c, some started really strong but got progressively less interesting

e — expected them to be better than they were, still gave them a fair chance, had moments where i got invested

f — didn’t enjoy them at all, basically the kind of stories i’d avoid, most have been dropped early (like within 5 eps or so) cuz i wasn’t hooked enough

i’ve definitely read way more than this, probably another 100+ that i’ve completely forgotten about, but these are the ones i remembered well enough to actually judge based on the plot

while i do appreciate pretty and comfortable art (i generally prefer manhwa/manga/manhua art over the american comic style), i ranked these almost entirely based on the story and how much i genuinely enjoyed reading them
i tried my best to remember everything i’ve read, but this is just what came to mind for now. i might update the list later as i remember more

i ranked them based on how much i remember enjoying them at the time i read them, while also taking into account how my taste has changed over the years
my overall favorite genres have always stayed pretty much the same (romance, drama, and thriller), but what i enjoy within those genres has definitely changed

because of that, i placed some webtoons lower even if i absolutely loved them back then, simply because i know i probably wouldn’t enjoy them as much if i were reading them for the first time now

for example, true beauty was my very first webtoon that i followed dedicatedly, and i LOVED it when i was 14, but if i discovered it today at 21, i know it probably wouldn’t hit the same

on the other hand, there were some series that aren’t exactly my current taste anymore, but i remember loving them SO much back then that i still ranked them highly because i wanted this list to reflect both my experience then and now

my MAIN tastes right now are: psychological, heavier romance, thriller, YEARNING, yandere (sometimes), ANGST, emotional emphasis, forced cohabitation, longing, fresh original plots

yes i’m VERY picky when it comes to what i read 😭

that said, i’m still pretty open-minded outside of my main tastes
> if the romance makes me ship the characters hard enough, i’ll probably enjoy it regardless
> if the thriller is actually thrilling and keeps me hooked, i’m in

This is so hilarious lmao🤣

I’m kinda bored that number one
Two…it’s to show how glad I’m to have discovered the good ones
Three I want to challenge myself to see how long I will continue reading, so GIVE ME YOUR WORST

P.S I may update that’s if you want one.

Hey guys!

I just finished Devil Number 4, and I absolutely loved Hanna and Number 4 (Saho)’s dynamic. 🤗

Do you guys know any manhwas with a good plot that have a similar relationship dynamic, or an ML who’s like Number 4?

I’m looking for an ML that has any of this traits:
-Expressive
-Quick-tempered
-Childish/playful
-Cute
-Teasing
-Big Ego
-Mischievous
-Has great chemistry with the FL

Romance with a good plot (fantasy, supernatural, etc.)

I’d appreciate any recommendations 🤗. Thank tou

+it’s fine if I cant find it on Webtoon.
Also, I’m not sure which subreddit this would fit best, so if you know a better place to ask, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

Guys can somebody recommend me some really good childhood friends to lovers manhwas where they are actually friends (not secret crushes and all) and know each other from childhood (If not that, then really long time friends or families are friends and they are rivals typa thing works too) Well written Slow burns with irresistible tension is my thing. I'm fine with any setting be it historical or modern or it having any other sub plots OR the friends' romance being the subplot. Any genre is fine too. All is fine by me until and unless there's just WAY too much misunderstandings, manipulation or toxicity.

I can't do yandere stuff so that's out too.

I kind of liked but couldn't continue because it just got way too much for my taste and dropped:-

"in between" (too much manipulation and red flags),

"degree of love" (very obsessive and idk the vibes didn't sit right with me...looked quote yanderish) and

"my fake crush" (seemed very obsessive and controlling. Dropped after starting 15 eps).

Manhwas in title:-

1. Our secret alliance

2. Maybe meant to be (I liked it till S1)

3. No office romance

4. Imperfect cinderella story

5. After school lessons for unripe apples

6. Childhood friend complex