Hellper a manhwa about a man that dies and goes to hell sounds like a very generic concept but is much deeper when you look below the surface. The story follows Jang Gwangnam a tribe leader that died after getting hit by a truck after that he appears in hell where before him appears a reaper who tells him that there are two types of tickets white ones meaning you go to heaven and black ones well to hell. Jang promptly sucker punches steals all of his stuff and runs away. This is as much as I can say about the story before I get into spoilery territory so Ill just move onto the other things about the manhwa both good and bad. Ill start off with what I think is the best part about it which is the structure of the story at the start we follow only two sides of the story Jang and his shenanigans in hell and the world of the living with the Killberos tribe trying to cope with the loss of their leader. However later on the story branches off into 5 different other stories about completely different characters and it does it perfectly it makes you care for certain characters and makes you hate other ones it makes you care about whats gonna happen to the characters are they gonna die? Are they gonna live? Is everything going to turn out alright? Usually when mangas/manhwas hop around between many different stories at once it makes it all feel too cluttered and complicated but I feel like Hellper does this exceptionally well doing it often enough to make the side characters feel important even the ones that appear for a single part of the story while also not sticking to those substories too long so the main story doesnt progress too slowly. The artwork too is just incredible the artstyle is simple yet very expressionate the action scenes really pack a punch i mean for gods sake in certain panels the creator literally tells you to scroll really fast how awesome is that? The colors as well are really important to both the art itself but to the story too with hell being a dark empty black and white landscape with only different souls and reapers having any form of color on them each color depicting their status while the world of the living is filled with bright colors. Hellpers artstyle is a perfect mix of detailed and simple being detailed enough so you know what is what and simple enough for the movement to be extremely exaggerated. The manhwa is really well written being able to switch between comedy and serious moments on the fly and still fit the story/setting every character is special and makes them feel like they really exist in the world theyre so well written that the main character isnt even really my favorite character because of how many cool side characters there are in the story. Now so far all Ive been doing is singing praises so what do I dislike? Well theres not alot in fact theres only one thing. I guess this part could be considered a spoiler since it talks a tiny bit about the ending but it doesnt tell you what happens during it only my thoughts about it so watch out if you care about that. However even if theres no real ending so far I would still really recommend this manhwa to everyone its genuinely one of the best things Ive read the only thing holding it back is the fact that its not finished yet but I do believe the story has alot of potential and hopefully we wont need to wait long for said sequel to come.
95 /100
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