But it's also not great... the gods are cuties... and I understand the premise of them loosing power and all... the story would be good enough if the plot was just about restoring the faith, resolving the misunderstanding with the emperor and reforming the temple. Human greed would be enough to justify it without needing to complicate more the plot.. adding something to justify the corruption and be the big bad wolf and and a even higher being that took her there and must not be talked about is just... unnecessary complication.
And I honestly dislike how they mixed korean "shamanism" in it. Especially because mc is faking it instead of it truly being an instrument/medium for her to use the power. And it's even weirder her admitting it being a for of conning people when she knows her mother was the real deal. I'm not fond of mixing eastern and western fantasy in such a forced and ridiculous way. It's the same with them being about food and the people from this fantasy world loving their food out of nowhere... sorry, but food of a completely different culture like this is an aquired taste. So it feels as forced as idk... a holy faith with paladins in a otherwise completely murim/martial arts setting. I'm not saying it's impossible, I've seen a couple works where they mix it beautifully... but this one and a lot of others is just... too forced to be believable. Back to the comic it bothers me that mc can't decide if the korean shamanism and gods were true and she just hated them or if it was just con.
I can't help but feel that there were a 100 better ways for her to do things and while I get it was for "plot reasons" it makes her feel... quite dumb honestly. It really could be worse... but frankly I don't see enough reason to keep reading it... I'll check if there's a novel and spoilers but more to confirm what I think will be the rest of the plot since it feels... quite predictable.
But it's also not great... the gods are cuties... and I understand the premise of them loosing power and all... the story would be good enough if the plot was just about restoring the faith, resolving the misunderstanding with the emperor and reforming the temple. Human greed would be enough to justify it without needing to complicate more the plot.. adding something to justify the corruption and be the big bad wolf and and a even higher being that took her there and must not be talked about is just... unnecessary complication.
And I honestly dislike how they mixed korean "shamanism" in it. Especially because mc is faking it instead of it truly being an instrument/medium for her to use the power. And it's even weirder her admitting it being a for of conning people when she knows her mother was the real deal. I'm not fond of mixing eastern and western fantasy in such a forced and ridiculous way. It's the same with them being about food and the people from this fantasy world loving their food out of nowhere... sorry, but food of a completely different culture like this is an aquired taste. So it feels as forced as idk... a holy faith with paladins in a otherwise completely murim/martial arts setting.
I'm not saying it's impossible, I've seen a couple works where they mix it beautifully... but this one and a lot of others is just... too forced to be believable. Back to the comic it bothers me that mc can't decide if the korean shamanism and gods were true and she just hated them or if it was just con.
I can't help but feel that there were a 100 better ways for her to do things and while I get it was for "plot reasons" it makes her feel... quite dumb honestly. It really could be worse... but frankly I don't see enough reason to keep reading it... I'll check if there's a novel and spoilers but more to confirm what I think will be the rest of the plot since it feels... quite predictable.