The World After the Fall

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Synonyms: Myeolmang Ihu-ui Segye, The World After the End

Japanese: 멸망 이후의 세계

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Feb 7, 2022 to ?

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Serialization: Naver Webtoon

Authors: sing N song (Story), Undead Gamja (Art)

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Ranked: #2977²

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Faced with imminent defeat and certain death, would you choose to run—or continue to fight for a doomed world? When mysterious towers appear across the world, summoning monsters that prey on mankind, this is the choice presented to the Tower Walkers—adventurers with special powers to fight the monsters. On the brink of death, they can choose to use a "regression stone" to return to the past for a second chance, though this decision places them in a separate timeline forever. Stubborn Tower Walker Jaehwan rejects this choice, choosing to fight for the original timeline, and learning shocking secrets about the Tower along the way.

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BackgroundThe World After the Fall has been published digitally in English, French, German, Indonesian, and Thai by Webtoon Entertainment, and has been published in print by Yen Press under the Ize Press imprint since November 1, 2022.

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Jaehwan

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Yu, Seolha

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Han, Mino

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Sameng, Garam

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Jan 2, 2025

ninja3212

Recommended

Preliminary (247/? eps)

As someone who has read the entire light novel, and who has Reading Power on a scale untold, this series is an absolute masterpiece. The premise is a red herring; the climb of the towers called Nightmare Towers in the beginning is effectively inconsequential, merely serving as a backdrop for the characters in the world. This story is more about finding out and understanding the reason for the existence of the Nightmare Towers, and the nature of the world they live in: The Tree of Imagery.

There are two main power systems: Adapters and Awakeners. An Adapter is someone who uses the System and the mechanics ... therein to gain power; think of this as someone using isekai-type game interfaces to use special skills. Awakeners instead gain power by unlocking knowledge of how the world works through some repetitive action. Effectively, they gain understanding of and reject the System, gaining the power to enforce their own will upon the world itself; though this also comes with the trauma of becoming disillusioned with reality. Many of the mechanics within the world are left largely unexplained, relying on the Reader's intrinsic knowledge of similar concepts (assuming they've read texts that are similar), or on subtext that was delivered throughout the story.

Jaehwan, someone who has become an Awakener while trying to climb Earth's Nightmare Tower, seeks to destroy Big Brother, the nebulously extant being who watches everyone from the top of the Tree of Imagery. Any successes he reaps, any accolades he collects, are all stepping stones on his climb to Big Brother. He exists to bring the world to its fall.

Detractors and fools who are incapable of reading into subtext will reject my claims; they'll call the story convoluted and lame. To them I say that they must simply read closer, or to read other books and come back once they've brushed up on their literacy skills. Morons will insinuate that the main character is boring, emotionless, or uninteresting. I ask them how they'd process losing everyone they've ever cared about because someone viewed you as nothing but a Product to increase their own wealth, if they've ever had a goal that they felt single-mindedly driven to achieve. Others yet will lament that characters are introduced, and then after a time you no longer really see them; isn't that a waste of character development? To them, I ask if they've ever lived in the real world, where human connection comes and goes with the seasons, as people with different goals say goodbye, their journeys leading them down different roads.

This is a deeply philosophical work, a testament to how web novels can serve as a vehicle for commentary. As someone who loves this work so much, I'm inclined to even call it a new age epic. The work serves to subvert, reflect upon, and deconstruct fiction as a genre, and it does so in a way that can go completely over your head if you don't know what you're looking for. Read the manhwa, read the light novel, go over to Omniscient Reader and read that too.

Ouroboros.

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Nov 18, 2025

Jowiszowa

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (203/? eps)

I am writing this review after reading 199 chapters. I started reading the manhwa because it is by the same authors as one of my favourite titles, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, and I did indeed find similarities in the main character, who strongly resembles Yoo Joonghyuk. The problem, however, is that this type of character is completely uninteresting as a main one. While I perceive ORV as a warm story, The World After The Fall is not. We do not have the character of Kim Dokja, who was a team player with a great love for the story he became a part of. Jaehwan is his ...

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Jun 23, 2025

Deansdale

Not Recommended

Preliminary (38/? eps)

For context, I dropped the story at 38 chapters which is about twice as many as most other reviews around here.

As for why I dropped it, well, half of the manhwa is just tropes that are quite overused nowadays, ie. for some mysterious reason towers/dungeons/portals appear on Earth and people start raiding them using a computer-style interface, the protagonist is just a random person among these but he becomes really powerful thanks to one specific catch, and even though he's quite lacking in all other aspects that one thing practically makes him God, etc. That's the story of half the shonen-style manhwas out there and ... many of those do it better than this one.

The other half of the story is mostly random unexplained bullcrap, and even when it's explained it's left ambiguous if the explanation is actually true or not. The Earth is destroyed but it isn't, the tower walkers are dead / sent to the past / in a coma / whatever, the protagonist is the only human in the game except he isn't, he gets random powers that don't logically follow from his abilities and how they work or what they specifically do is not explained, etc. The story is not driven by the protagonist, he's kind of a passenger in it, he just goes along with whatever it is that seems to be happening at the moment, and when he rarely does something of his own volition it's also totally random and unexplained. Eg. he wants to do an expedition to the 'abyss', and we don't know what it is, where it is, what's in it, or what the protagonist hopes to achieve by going there, because these things were never explained to him either. But it's very dangerous so it's cool! Or at least it feels like that's what the writer wants to suggest. It's like the entire story is held together by the "rule of cool", the protagonist is OP and murders everyone in his way and there are always some new people to murder, so it's all cool. Too bad things don't make sense and everything just happens randomly. This is basically how a 12 year old would write a self-insert Gary Stu story. Not that this necessarily makes it worthless, but this dooms it to be just another generic fanfic in a sea of generic fanfic that people usually like for superficial reasons, for example how the protagonist is "mysterious" and cool, or the drawing style is to their liking. There's nothing in the story or the way its told that would elevate it above the rest. Even the "catch" that makes the protagonist OP is kinda' lame, he just thrusts his sword literally billions of times because he can't do anything else, and voila, he magically becomes the messiah (even though the system was not set up to facilitate this).

I would only recommend it to readers who like stories purely driven by the rule of cool, but even then it's nothing special. For people who like 'proper' storytelling it's a solid nope.

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