@uyuu Indeed, the new chapter come out some hours ago and the ant king was one shotted like fodder while trying to flee (usual shame on the enemy who seemed invincible some chapters ago who is nothing vs our MC), also the shame that the MC has to do it fast in order to heal the girl.
Anyway yes we had this discussion back in Oro yup.
Honestly I would accept the manhwa (if the story was good) even if the art was average (HxH is one of the best out there and Togashi is almost trolling with his level of art sometimes).
Again what I find irritating is why average stories like this get such an awesome artist to draw them, if the story picked up was up to the artist we could have get another One punch man (the original work has trashy art which was made top notch in the 2nd version aka the one we know more) also how this ant king was meant exactly to be some kind of mirror to Meruem from HxH... just to be played this dirty like every other villain.
i remember the first chapters, when the MC first experienced despair due to the giant statues. That was truly exciting and really gave tension to the readers.
And the moment where i was the most excited in reading this manhwa, was the sequence of battle and struggle against Igris (The Red Knight), how difficult the MC was to win that fight. I'm a fan of the situation where the previously weaker MC finally surpassing the boss in the climax of the fight. I didn't get that in that fight but it was okay. even if the MC was still weaker than Igriz after the fight, it was still exciting since there is the struggle aspect. But, what excited me more about MC vs Igris compared to the statues' situation, because there was still a big pay off for the MC (even if the MC didn't surpass his opponent at that time), which was the revealing of the MC's job/class and the cool moment of summoning for the first time.
I actually hope for similar situation against the Ant King (Beru, its from Meruem right?). After strolling through opponents, the MC finally meet a difficult challenge in Demon King, but then he meets a much stronger and painful hurdle he couldn't reach, The Ant King. A difficult and exhausting, life-and-death futile struggle where the MC knows that the Ant is much stronger, but then after two or three chapters for example, followed by a pay off (power-up or other game mechanics) that the MC capitalizes on to finally surpass the The Ant King.
Imo this is the formula to heighten tension in a saga climax, before finally elevating the MC to a world-wide fame and strength, and again strolling and buldozing through enemies. There should be at least arcs of difficulty even though there would be quite a few leisure arcs, otherwise there's no satisfaction in reaching the payoff if there's no struggle.
But this...what is this? Why did the strongest villain receive the same, even worse treatment compared to the previous arc bosses? Even Baran the Demon King receive much better respect storyline and portrayal-wise. It's just a spoiled wish-fulfillment at this point, the supposed strongest oppponent wasn't even respectable.
I agree with you regarding the imbalance between art and story. This level of art quality should be reserved for a similar level of storyline and characterization. I'd rather see the manhwa artist switch to continue HxH instead with Togashi's guidance, remake Attack on Titan with Isayama's guidance, or continues the manhwa Gosu (highly recommended art-wise and storyline-wise if you haven't read it) if the author falls sick again.
maybe its just like how Murata Yuusuke handle Onepunch Man. I truly think that story doesn't deserve Murata's art.
