Friday, April 12, 2013

The Breaker New Waves: Shiwoon is Back!!!

Ever since the Breaker New Waves began I have always felt like something was lacking, like it was missing something that the original had. And after this chapter, chapter 112, I finally understand what that thing was. It lacked Shiwoon being Bad Ass!!! In The Breaker Shiwoon went to being less than average to fighting with higher level Murim people in about a span of a month. Which was awesome, it had all of the aspects of a great growth and development story, but without the long "leveling up" period that manga of the same type suffer from, such as Kenichi. While it was awesome and at the time it worked, looking back it was rather rushed. So a rushed growth doesn't bode well for a long and in depth story, which is what the author seems to be going for. So it makes since that the author would create a situation where Shiwoon stalled in his growth so that the author can emphasize the strength of other characters as well as progressing the story without having a cliche overpowered main character. Sure it got annoying when we saw Shiwoon doing stupid things, trying to use his head instead of his fists, but that just makes it more exciting and Bad Ass when Shiwoon recovered and finally became the overpowered Bad Ass we want him to be. If you haven't read ether this chapter, The Breaker, or (to a lesser extent) The Breaker New Waves, than this is what you've been missing:

 

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