It starts okay, fairly well. The art for the demons makes me nostalgic for Phantasy Star. The battles are pretty quick and kinda easy. There's no immediate over arching story that you can find right away.

But the really big problem is that the main character is needlessly bitchy. I don't expect her to be a saint but she goes beyond things going wrong for a person into an actively bitchy. With her attitude, any good she's done seems inexplicable. There doesn't seem to be a logical connection.

Let me add that the problem with this story isn't a cliched unoriginality, and it's not mediocre either. It isn't a series that JUST does things decent or competently. The problem comes from the plot being paced just slightly off. The artist clearly wanted to make his main characters bad people. But it would have been better to just make the girl a regular kinda bad, he gets too into a stereotypical bitch bad for her. It doesn't seem the type to do what she did to get to the island, or go see a troubled student just cause it involves a demon especially since she didn't want to go deal with her before she knew about the demon. Storywise, there's no reason she couldn't have gone without knowing of the demon, then learn the story, then get the guy to kill it.

... Last updated on January 7th, 2011, 7:10am

I don't believe this series went on the path it originally started. From the story of a feisty woman on the run from demons that want to rape/kill her (for the first 3 volumes there is a noticeable sexual motive to the series) that seeks the help of a serial murderer, to a a story about the exposure of war crimes. It completely changed into a whole different story that might as well be a different series with different characters altogether. That's all fine and dandy but it's not what I expected when I started to read. It affected character development and left many unanswered questions.
I hope the series will be continued as promised, in order to bring it back on it's initial direction.

This is a great manhwa, the arwork was gritty but solid and the story and characters were EXCELLENT. I can't remember the mans name, but the demon killer guy, has just been voted scariest mother ****** in my book lol.

A unique manhwa!I want more!!

Island is the first Manwha I've read and by far, it's the best manwha EVER!

I love how the plot morphs from demon hunting to something more....kicka**!!
but..I have to agree on the ending though..it's too......detached and open ended. I wish there could be more in the arcs...! v_____v;;;;;;

... Last updated on September 22nd, 2008, 10:56am

great art but i cant say this is horror
also ending sucks

Good start, nice art. BUT... the main characters personality suddenly changed, in the middle of everything it changes from demon hunting gorefest to "the pride of korea", and then suddenly end without a real ending, "the and", now what is up with that?

Nice try, but I'll give it a 4 for it's inexperienced "manwhaka"

... Last updated on October 10th, 2007, 10:36pm

    I don't even know where to begin.

    Art is BLAH. Nothing special; like any typical manga writer, this writer intends to make all the characters look cool by adding a bada$$ personality to Pan and Miho. This backfires because Miho at times pretends to be this cold superior btch towards normal people and then acts like a scared little girl when attacked by demons or when she is around Pan. Obviously, she's got nothing but a big mouth to back up her ugly personality. Pan is actually bearable; he's this killer monk that slaughters demons so his evil and ugly personality matches him. Any new characters introduced, have inconsistent personalities created for them. The creator apparently wasn't giving much thought about individual person; there's no character-building and no lesson-learned throughout this whole story. Long story short, the mangaka was an idiot and this book is proof that it's a failure manga. DON'T READ.

... Last updated on April 5th, 2019, 11:50am