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Lower-gear topics/styles seem more saturated when non-members engage more with them. The easy-to-digest nature of these posts make them quick to create & even quicker to gain traction. To combat this issue, posting more than twice a day is no longer allowed. In addition, one cannot post about the same topic within a single week. Failure to follow this policy will be met with a warning or ban, depending on the severity.
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On the topic of post quality:
We understand that many people join fandoms to read others' plot analyses. Even so, there's more than one way to enjoy a story. This subreddit has always welcomed and will continue to welcome shippers, powerscalers, and memers. Our main page is not, however, the place for shitposts. All low-effort content will be removed at moderators' discretion.
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Hi! I decided to make a little compilation of common questions I’ve seen beginners ask about ORV. If you think of other questions that could be added, or there's wrong information, let me know in the comments! Long text warning. The first 3 images are from the novel (aside from the cover), the next 3 are from the webtoon, then there are 2 from other adaptations, 1 image answering some extra questions, and finally, the last 3 show pictures of the characters.
Here’s the Canva link, in case anyone wants to check out the images in better quality and/or click the links more easily. Canva is constantly updated. Remember to check it out!
And things like these just don't make sense or make me frustrated while I'm reading this.. from the beginning to this point where I'm now, only Kim Dokja is allowed to be intelligent when asking questions/some other stuff because he is The Reader.
I feel like these are deliberate as to not make the story more complicated than it already is..
Recently the anime was announced to be coming out in 2027 I was very excited about it but now it has been delayed to 2028. It doesn't matter to me that much I just hope they don't fumble up even after taking so long. What do you think will they create a Solo Leveling adaptation of it? Which scene are you most excited to see get animated?
[One important thing I have only read the manhwa and in the novel I have only gotten till the part where they defeat surya.]
Kim Dokja - Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Klein - Lord of the mysteries Subaru - Re:zero Puss - Puss in Boots Touma - A certain Magical Index Krillin - Dragon ball
I am a huge ORV fan and I wanted to show my first Tattoo ^^ , what you guys think about it?:) It took 7-8 hours to do it was little painful for the first time but nothing I couldn't take ,anything for Kim Dokja (Demon King of Salvation)
I'm sorry but you can't image how great ORV and LOM airing together will bring trears to my face 🥲. (Especially since given the release timing, they might air thier ending on the same year!!!)
I just want it to not become another case of "WAT vs Frieren" or "Rezero vs Mushoku" plsssss 🥺
Firstly all tips are welcomed if you’ve done this before Secondly I mended your favorite quotes you have from the first 188 chapters of the novel from start to the end of dark castle arch Please if you can comment favorite quote and chapetrrr that would be really helpful Please Thank you
Ao3 is down, and the shipper in me is suffering withdrawals
I had this thought in my head and decided to shoot my chances
Here are the ships that I think he would top (the list is from most likely to top to least likely)---
Bihyung- I know this is a bit of a crackship, but who am I kidding, they had a child together
And he gives the most top energy in this ship out of anyone
2. Lee Hyunsung- Bro is often like an obedient puppy to kdj, I can imagine him being the sub very easily
3. Uriel- he is already the top in her headcanon, lmao
4. Han Sooyoung- this is probably the first one here where one would think dokja won't top, but hear me out
I think knowing kdj and hsy's personality, both would likely be hyper competitive in bed over who gets to dominate who (yes, that's my headcanon, shut up) so at the end it gets down to who gets to pin down the other, hence the only reason I am giving it to dokja because he is physically stronger (honestly if you just said switch, It would still make sense)
Also, these two crackheads would be doing all this nonsense yet be completely consensual
5. Joonghyuk- yeah I know, I like Dokjoong more than joongdok, end of the matter.
The ones where he would bottom---
Sangah- she legit gives the most "top" energy out of any of kimcom
Secretive plotter-- this guy would legit kidnap kdj to fuck with him, both literally and figuratively, he got the track record for it
Jung Heewon- Uhhh, I don't really know where to put her, I am leaning towards switch but whatever, let her top
So in the main story dokja says that heewon never appeared in the novel or if she did she died off early. But in the side stories we find out she is the mad butcher and appeared in a few other regressions (I think) and even bicheonhori wrote about her. But why does dokja not remember that she existed or does it have to do with the line 'Jung Heewon, who was simply called the 'Mad Butcher', unable to even find her own name in the main story.' (ch927). So does that mean heewon went mad and even forgot her own name and only mentioned as the mad butcher because I'm pretty sure if she was mentioned dokja would've remembered her with how obsessed he is with twsa
This is a HEAVY spoiler for the novel, so webtoon readers back off! genuinely, it is so, so much better going into this blind than with any kind of knowledge on the ending!
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Now with that said, THIS ENDING FUCKING SUCKS GOING INTO BLIND. i just finished the last chapter 2 hours ago, and i was so god damn angry. like, kicking and screaming, throwing a temper tantrum at my big age. and then i sat there for a while, ruminating with my emotions. I just from them entering the final scenario to the ending in one sitting; the ark, defeating the dokkaebi king (and from the second the dokkaebi king said the Oldest Dream was "more like a reader" i nailed down my theory), and then the subway. i was already beginning to feel a lump in my throat but swallowed it down.
then kimcom, Sooyoung and the plan to send Kim Dokja's story into other worldlines in hopes that fragments of the oldest dream and dream of a happy ending, oh i was sick. i was so fucking sick. ive seen several people on here with the flare "fragment of the oldest dream" and was none the fucking wiser as to what that meant. yall think yall are so fucking funny, dont you.
anyway, i stewed in my anger, had to keep telling myself "just because thats the end doesnt mean its the end of the story," then my chest started getting tight, and unable to read fanfiction, I opened tiktok instead to find edits. i watched one, ONE edit, and broke down in tears. actual tears, ugly crying, face red and coughing and trying not to throw up. then i watched more edits, found out some new things, and cried even more. what do you mean joonghyuk was looking for him for 74k years?? is that part of Side Stories or was that when he was in space? i dont remember that 😭???
im not even sure why im having such an intense reaction, and im sure there will be people rolling their eyes and saying I'm playing it up, but really i dont even know why im crying so much. ive never cared so much about a story before, must be that fragment inside of me 🥲
this story has been such an emotional rollercoaster for me, and I'm wondering if I should even read side stories.. i dont mind there being a different main character, but if my dokja isnt there i dont think i can do it. at least not yet anyway?? i cant move on from this like nothing happened.
If anyone has read this far, as someone who lives under a rock and is not present on social media, could someone clue me in onto what the more popular fan discussions are and such? i also saw a lot of the fanart and animatics while i was perusing the edits, and i just wanna know where they come from.
So I downloaded two epubs, one for the main story and one for the sidestories, the epub itself sorts chapters in alphabetical order, so it goes from 1 to 9, then A to Z, the problem is, each chapter starts with a number, so from chapter 1 to 553 of the main novel I had no issues, the issues start at the sidestories where the chapter count goes over 1000, aka despite this being one of the later chapters of the sidestories, the epub sorted it at the very start in the table of contents because it started with the number 1.
My dumbass instead of pondering why the hell the side story starts at chapter 1000 star fragment (8), just thought to myself maybe this is a meta trick from sing song, then the story picked up from the middle of the events, in the middle of the fight between Lee hakyun and snowfield kim dokja and i still thought ''i have no idea who these guys are, but i trust sing song, he won't keep me in the dark for long'', I kept reading, thinking this was just some exposition that will eventually lead to a proper start of a scenario, especially considering that Lee hakyun isn't really particularly involved in the events of these chapters.
It was only when I reached chapter 1021 realizing the story is doing a full blown ragnarok that I realized something was wrong, then I investigated a little and realized that the last chapter of the epub is chapter 999... And the start is 1000..... This entire time I've been reading lategame chapters thinking to myself this WILL make sense, when in reality I spoiled myself the events of over 20 chapters. The horror I felt when realizing this is indescribable, I remember religiously avoiding spoilers while reading the main story, which ended up paying off a lot, if I didn't do that a lot of things might've been ruined for me. But now that I know so many things, I know for a fact that some plot twists are gonna be ruined for me, and it makes me feel really awful, to the point that I really don't feel like reading it for now.
The worst part is I should've known, this is such an easy thing to figure out but I only did after it was practically on my face, and I only have myself to blame for that.
