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Hello, Im so sorry if you've already been asked this before, but should I read the ORV webnovel or will reading the webtoon be sufficient enough to understand the story?

No problem! It’s an important question and deserves it’s own post 💕

The short answer is yes, absolutely read the webnovel! ORV is the type of metafiction that does backflips off your expectations for it until the bitter end. Every medium for storytelling has some unique aspects about it, ORV was written with a novel format specifically in mind.

I think the most important reason, though, is that Kim Dokja is a supremely unreliable narrator whose omitted information or reinterpretations of things make up a large part of ORV’s thematic ground, and the webtoon struggles with showing that. Mr. Dokja Kim is a bit too “cool” and infallible seeming, and its harder to wrap your head around the fact that he’s untrustworthy and his perception of events is rarely what’s actually happening

Here’s something I drew recently as an example. The manhwa has to follow KDJ’s POV so the scene is hard set as comedic, whereas in the novel, it’s easy to reframe the scene in your head once you know and see KDJ is being mean to yjh 😔

This is already a long ass post for what is a yes or no question, but if you’re interested, below the cut are my thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of the webtoon as an adaptation!

I kinda cooked with this on IG so it’s coming here too

just finished orv(minus the side story) and i can finally make lore accurate memes

first date idea i promise to kill you and you distance yourself from all your friends so i can have them instead while collecting all the swords to lock the world in an eternal slumber but some random fuck interrupts and reminds you why you wanted to live in the first place so you schism in half and regress to another world line leaving me completely alone. and we're both girls.

drawing kdj and yjh next to each other to emphasize kdj’s normal guy charms 🤲😭🥹

ah, but….

(isn’t it a bit a pathetic for him to be so normal? maybe it would be cooler if he had…)

annoying theme park couple doksoo poke the bear for funsies <3

maybe the world’s most apocalyptic tragedy is a child’s inability to believe in happiness o(-<

idk man this is what happens when you play too hard to get 😭

It really was a great story 📚🖋️