Manhwa With Controversial Endings

Summary

• The player's ending left fans feeling betrayed as key characters were separated and ignored the obvious ship.

• The anticlimactic ending of Noblesse disappointed fans with loose ends and no meaningful plot closure.

• The Breaker: New Waves lacked closure, which devalued key characters as the plot focused solely on the protagonist.

Manhwa series always end, either with the fall of the ax or the weight of the story eventually moving towards resolution. But some Manhwa the series had controversial ending this left many fans reeling.

Some stories end in absolute mayhem, others have endings so confusing that fans are still picking up the pieces years later. Others may have been great throughout the story, but the endings are so bad that they kick their followers. Be that as it may, this list contains series that have endings that fall into any of these categories.

Warning, this list contains spoilers!

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Player

Half a thousand chapters and a ship that sank

• Genre: Action, Martial Arts, Dystopia, Fantasy, Comedy
• Author: Sung San-young
• Artist: Sang-ah

The Gamer stirs up mixed feelings in his fanbase, many of which have to do with his bad habit of leaving loose ends and causing fans to get false leads about one of the most obvious ships in non-romantic Manhwa history. After going through heaven and hell together, Kwon Shiyeon and Han Jihan seemed destined to be together.

But, alas, the author had other plans and decided to go to the end “walking into the sunset and everything behind”. Since Han Jihan's appetite for knowledge, magic, and power was endless, he only said, 'Hey, I'm going to another universe,' then left his 'better half' behind. It was a punch to the gut for everyone who was shipping these two, and the fandom exploded in angst. So much waiting, all for nothing.

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Noblesse

Too many loose ends

• Genres: Action, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic Horror

• Author: Son of Jeho

• Artist: Lee Kwangsu

Any fans of Mahwa's stylish series about vampires, werewolves and other things living among us will know that it also has one of the worst and most anticlimactic endings in the genre. With so many loose ends that fans thought for a brief moment that it would have a sequel years later.

But no, it was just a curtain call over a series of confusing threads that never really weaved together a good plot. Although many of the arcs were great and the incredible battle scenes left fans asking for more. However, the end with the impending nuclear holocaust was just a shot in the air. Too much gunpowder to say: life went on as it went before the final arc, The End.

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The Breaker: New Waves

Missing closure for key characters

• Genres: Action, Martial Arts, Drama
• Author: Jeon Geuk-jin
• Artist: Park Jin-hwan

A continuation of the incredible and powerful Breaker series was such a disappointment to fans that many barely bothered to read the third iteration of the series (Eternal power). Although the world building and character development in the original were detailed and commendable, New waves it commits the sin of forgetting key characters and devalues ​​them in an almost criminal way.

In the end it's all about giving weight to the MC and the rest of the cast was just there to fill the corners of the picture. Shi-Woon degenerated into a generic shounen protagonist and his performance during the second installment was lackluster compared to the previous series. Finally, the anti-climactic ending shatters everything the MC has learned in the worst written betrayal arc fans will ever see in a martial arts manhwa. It makes no sense at all.

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Sweet Home

The Ending Left Fans Confused and Frustrated

• Genres: Horror, Psychological, Thriller
• Author: Kim Carnby
• Artist: Hwang Young-chan

Horror Manhwa, and especially the Psychological Terror sub-genre, tends to use suspense to pump up the plot and even take the ending to an extreme, so that the survivors really fight for their “get out of here” trope. In case Sweet Homethis resolution comes in such an ambiguous and confusing manner that fans must have had to re-read it countless times before making sure what they were seeing (and reading) was correct.

The author was too focused on providing fanservice and completely forgot to explain how the outbreak started or why Hyun succumbed to it and turned into one of the worst beings in the series. Ultimately, too many loose ends, bad guys getting away with impunity, and pointless character development.

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Bastard

A high-stakes story with a disappointing ending

• Genres: Psychological, Thriller, Drama
• Author: Kim Carnby
• Artist: Hwang Young-chan

It's not every day that fans come across a series that is so well-written and intense that it keeps them glued to their chair (or couch) reading dozens of chapters. in that sense BastardThe story of a son who discovers his father is a serial killer and vows to bring him to justice is perfect.

Sadly, it has a rushed and unsatisfying ending where every character gets what they want without an iota of consequences or common sense leaving readers feeling cheated. Why did it end this way? Neither the fans nor the author have a single clue.

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Magician

One of the longest fantasy manhwa that ended in a lame way

• Genres: Fantasy, Action, Drama
• Author and artist: Kim Sarae

When a Manhwa runs for more than 10 years, one grows fond of its characters. Even more so if the author allows the protagonist to grow as readers devour one chapter after another. Kim Sarae did a great job on this one. Enzo and Iremi's story began as children and ended as adults on a ship that fortunately left in time. But its ending was so strangely unfulfilling and left so many holes that fans thought the author got tired of his work and decided to cut it himself.

After more than a decade of fantasy travel, the mysteries of magic were left unsolved and the rushed ending destroyed a lot of carefully constructed worldbuilding in an attempt to provide some sort of fanservice and false sense of continuity. Iremi and Enzu ended up raising Ethermask's son when most of the story's main conflict was him not being able to start a family because he lost it (he kind of adopted the story's main characters to fill that void). The ending makes no sense at all.

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