Best Isekai Manhwa in Color

Full-color isekai manhwa often gets the highest scores and is a reader’s favorite, regardless of genre. With that in mind, the following examples represent a selection of great stories to read, sorted by their worldbuilding, general reader opinion, story, and character development.

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From a feisty former soldier who is reborn in a new world and must survive using only his skills, to the story of an ancient king from another world who was tasked by the gods with cleansing the corrupted earth of demonic influences.

5 Reincarnation of the experienced soldier

A story of survival in another world

• Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Isekai, Comedy, Action
• Authors: Hooding (history), Sinmani (art)
• status: Ongoing

Park Byung-Jang was about to be discharged from the Korean Army’s reserve corps when an exercise went wrong and he was isekai’d. He met the goddess Parlia, who praised him for being a “brave warrior” and living a life of hardship. From that moment on, Byung-Jang’s adventure in another world begins, as the goddess orders him to be a hero in another world. However, the experienced soldier refuses this mission and angers the deity, sending him to a dangerous forest without anything except his memories of his past life.

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From this point on, Byung-Jang must learn how to survive in this unforgiving new land, using all of his military training. Whether it’s wild animals, spies of the evil and vengeful goddess, or crazy elves, he’ll survive it all. This is a story about survival, but more of a satire than a comedy isekai. So, a good read for fans who like a slightly offbeat sense of humor. Artistically, this manga has some soft pastel tones with detailed and colorful backgrounds, ideal for those who enjoy the scenery.

4 Viewpoint of the omniscient reader

Trapped in the novel he loves, he must use his wits to survive

• Genres: Action, Isekai, Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
• Authors: Sing N Song (story), Sleepy-C (art)
• status: Ongoing

Kim Dok Ja, an ordinary office worker, is sent to the world of the novel he is reading: “Three Ways to Survive in the Apocalyptic World.” As a reader, he has all the knowledge from the so-called scenarios ruled by the Dokkaebi (deities similar to goblins and jinns, part of Korean folklore), and so he will try his best to rule this new world with his forbidden knowledge.

What he doesn’t know, however, is that many plot twists await him and that even finding the “perfect” ending will be difficult when he only has one life. Although he will be accompanied by some of the novel’s most broken characters, his journey to survive in the novel’s world will be filled to the brim with plenty of adventures. Overall, a decent story with great character development and narrative. The art has that typical gritty dark fantasy tone that fits the plot well.

3 The skeleton soldier failed to defend the dungeon

A tragic story about love, loss and reincarnation

• Genres: Dark Fantasy, Drama, Isekai, Action, Adventure
• Authors: Sosori (story), Ant Studio (art)
• status: Ongoing

He has no memory of his life as a human, but his demon mistress summoned him as a skeleton to defend a dungeon. He failed, however, and had to watch as a group of adventurers murdered her and trampled on his skull. Instead of being forgotten, he was resurrected once again, and this time he will do anything to complete his mission.

It’s a cool story with excellent worldbuilding and one of the best isekai tropes ever designed, where the protagonist doesn’t know who he was in his past life but also gets reincarnated as a strange dungeon creature. Fans who like anime/manga may like I’m a spider, so what? And I was reborn as slime will surely find some similarities with this series. Of course, the art in this manhwa is not as colorful. Instead, it has a dark and shadowy design, much more like grimdark than regular fantasy.

2 The beginning after the end

Tragic, heartbreaking and an absolute blast

• Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Isekai
• author: Turtle ME
• status: Interruption (until September 2024)

King Gray, the most powerful warrior of an unnamed science fiction world, was victorious after hundreds of battles and ruled over all other beings in his reality. He suddenly realized: his life was meaningless and empty after he had completed his mission. He was severely depressed and didn’t even care when the people he trusted most betrayed him and allowed themselves to be killed to make the world a better place. He even sacrificed his soul to the bitter end. It was saved from dissolution by a mysterious deity who sent him on a new mission – to save another dying world.

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This time, King Gray has been reborn as Arthur Leywyn, the beloved child of a middle-class family of retired adventurers. Although he has all the memories of his previous life and has begun an education in the ways of this new world, Arthur is somehow a little detached from the people around him. Slowly, he begins to care for them and eventually learns to love his new family. But good things are not meant to last, and when danger seems to rob him of his new, precious family, he shows abilities far beyond those of a normal child his age.

This is the catalyst for a change in his life where Arthur will embrace his new role not only in the Leywyn family, but also as a Dikathian mage ready to defend his homeland from any dangers. This is a story with great character development, although it is a little bumpy at the beginning and can be a little overwhelming for those who aren’t fans of sword and sorcery. The art is masterfully designed and really reflects all the stages of Arthur’s life and the development of his character as he learns magic.

1 The Knight King Who Returned with a God

What happens when the most powerful paladin is sent to Earth to cleanse it of corruption?

• Genres: Dark Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Reverse Isekai
• Authors: Salam Sallyeo (story) Jeoncheon Huma Geomsa (art)
• status: Ongoing

The Grail King is the ruler chosen by the gods to carry on the divine mission of removing all demonic influences from the Eternal Realms. And although Leon Dragonia Leonhart has fought for eons to eliminate the demons, orcs, and other dark creatures, he is given one more task before entering paradise: to rid the Earth of the demonic influence that threatens the planet. And so a brutal and powerful monarch descends upon Earth and demands to be brought to their leaders (no joke), while the Association of Korean Awakeners (also known as Hunters) stare in disbelief as this figure cloaked in divine light orders them to give up their rule over the land.

The Korean Association quickly acceded to his demands upon seeing his immense power and allowed him to form a guild called The Pantheon. The king is assigned an assistant named Han Hari (the poor little girl who eventually becomes the mascot of the new guild) who is tasked with destroying all the shadow portals, training new members, and turning them into a new generation of Grail Knights ready to defend this realm gifted by the gods from the forces of evil. It also has a great artistic design that reflects the main character’s magnificent golden aura as he strikes down evil everywhere he goes.

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