I have been incredibly unimpressed with the translation and editorial quality of the "professionally" translated manwha I've seen in stores. Last year I picked up a freebie volume from the Ice Kunion publisher (WTF is up with that name?) that had samples from different series in it; they all looked like someone printed out crappy scanlations on cheap paper and stapled them together!
I haven't read very much scanlated manwha, but most of what I have I've liked well enough.
Comic and Comic Lover Dream are both about a girl struggling to become a manwhaga (manwha creator); I've only just started them, but I'm entertained so far.
Demon Diary had very cute characters and lovely shonen-ai art, and the story started out promisingly enough, but it ends in a hastily resolved mess that leaves a lot of subplot points that were built up dramatically dangling into nowhere. It had one (very talented) artist but multiple successive writers, and it shows. If you read it, do so for the demon manservant Eclipse, who is gorgeous and snarky and awesome.
Due to technical difficulties I've only been able to download 1 chapter of I Wish so far, but it reminds me favorably of "Petshop of Horrors" (which I have completely fallen in love with, FYI) and "XXXholic".
And last but certainly not least, my favorite manwha so far by far has been They Too Love. It's a lot like "Kare Kano", with not as polished art but more offbeat. I really hope it gets licensed, since scanlations of it are going so slowly--but a publisher like Tokyopop had better get it over the ridiculously awful English manwha publishers I've seen so far!
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I haven't read very much scanlated manwha, but most of what I have I've liked well enough.
Comic and Comic Lover Dream are both about a girl struggling to become a manwhaga (manwha creator); I've only just started them, but I'm entertained so far.
Demon Diary had very cute characters and lovely shonen-ai art, and the story started out promisingly enough, but it ends in a hastily resolved mess that leaves a lot of subplot points that were built up dramatically dangling into nowhere. It had one (very talented) artist but multiple successive writers, and it shows. If you read it, do so for the demon manservant Eclipse, who is gorgeous and snarky and awesome.
Due to technical difficulties I've only been able to download 1 chapter of I Wish so far, but it reminds me favorably of "Petshop of Horrors" (which I have completely fallen in love with, FYI) and "XXXholic".
And last but certainly not least, my favorite manwha so far by far has been They Too Love. It's a lot like "Kare Kano", with not as polished art but more offbeat. I really hope it gets licensed, since scanlations of it are going so slowly--but a publisher like Tokyopop had better get it over the ridiculously awful English manwha publishers I've seen so far!