016 A Different Ending to a Movie-Like Story

Set of Moss, writer Yoon Tae-ho, an exciting publication, 2015-02-20, rating. After reading comments about Kim Tae-ho’s webtoon Moss, which is famous for its handsome visuals, I searched for it because I wanted to read Moss again.

I can’t remember why the rating is lower than 7, and I can’t remember the specific details. It’s definitely above 8 points, but it’s very strange.

Leaving aside the unpolished, lewd comments, some of them sound reasonable, so I’ll share them.

Overall, the overall quality is not as good as the original, and especially the twist that does not exist in the original stands out as a point. I don’t want to do it in the library later.

What to look at is only the writing and the art. A film is a combination of sound and music, but writing is better.

Needless to say, this is the creator’s strength. Finding a sense of rhythm makes the webtoon feel unfamiliar.

Could it be because the feeling of deliberate alienation is strong?

If this is the real reason, then I think I misunderstood the fact that the original paper book was transferred as-is into an e-book, and that when it was made on a completely different platform called the web, it was treated as an e-book rather than a paper book. That’s how it became a paper book.

I foolishly realized that webtoons are optimized for the web itself, not for books.

It feels like I watched a movie.

Because of the re-editing, the composition and flow of the cut version became unnatural, but it is still my favorite version if it is properly edited.

Almost everything followed the original faithfully.

The casting is especially excellent. I like all the casting except Ryu Joon-sang, who plays the prosecutor. It’s a masterpiece, but I’m left wondering what if the film had come out with a softer ending than the original.

It leaves a sense of regret.

It’s hard to capture all of the depth of the original, but I think the director’s choice was a good one.