Oh god, THEY'RE ALL ON CRACK.

Too many volumes for my eyes.

Freakin' Koreans. I swear, they're all robots.

My guess is that she had a lot of manga ready beforehand.
She's been working for a long time.
Though just from the # of manga she has published, I can tell that she's high in demand. lol

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What...? Hwang Mi Ri has a lot of works?

Wow.....That woman's got a lot of things on her hands. -___-;;

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Like Bae and Starry said, she probably had them before she started working...I guess she didn't want to be late on deadlines?

But on a more serious note...O_O...it IS weird that she releases so much in such short periods of time. *cough*superhuman*cough*

I don't know how popular Hwang Miri is in Korea, but it boggles my mind that scanlators devote so much of their time to translating so many of her clone-like storylines when there are many other much more creative, beautiful, interesting manhwas out there, languishing for lack of translators.

I remember facepalming so hard reading a thread here asking why all Korean shoujos are about high school delinquents. Although there might be a cultural reason, my easier answer is that seemingly 75% or more of scanlated shoujo manhwa come from one woman: Hwang Miri. Imagine a world where Adachi Mitsuru were the author of practically every sports manga -- wait for it -- and this category made up 75% of all shounen mangas. Please, scanlators, have mercy on us.

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Well, from what I've seen most Korean artists have an absurd amount of series to their names... it's just that we don't really see them much. There is even a Hwang Mi-Na that has only been added very recently (like 5 minutes ago) and yet she has so many series while only being active since 1980... then compare it to Hwang Mi Ri's Koren wiki page.

It's just amazing really.

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Yes. I find it amazingly CREEPY that any one person can draw so much. Not only numerous series, but many of those have around a dozen volumes, more or less. Even in 100 years, that does not seem possible.

There seems to be some sort of pattern with manhwa...

It seriously creeps me out, I'm not kidding >.>

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Maybe she has so many assistants that they form an assembly line?

Hmmm...... I think you have a point. I never noticed because I don't read her work but by my calculations I got, wait for it, 925 volumes. 925. I don't really know, but it seems something is going on. The art does change. There is an older (Candy style? is that right?) style and than there is the more modern style she is popular for. Maybe she is a vampire.

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Meh. I don't like her works that much anyway.

(This judgment has been made by the information on this thread, I do not know of this Author's work and do not intend to start reading it to make an educated opinion)

Making so many volumes of manga must have meant the writer really cares little for quality control. And yes over 400volumes? That sounds too much to me, I honestly couldn't think of a way she could do that without some kind of catch. The argument of her doing the works previously make sense but still, the fact that the art hasn't changed or anything just doesn't seem characteristic of a human writer...maybe a robot who is doing the art whilst the writer comes up with the plot. It urks me that someone could really spend so much time writing all those things whilst, most people here seem to think its garbage, I don't know it most probably sells in Korea, or maybe shes just a glutton for negative reviews.

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I've read 3 of Hwang Mi Ri's series and they're almost exactly the same. There's always jjangs and gangs and fistfighting and an evil girl, a crazy boy...basically she's rewriting the same manga over and over again.

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I have not finished anything by this author.
Though if you say her works basically follow the same pattern, I can see it happening.
When one has panels, the work goes faster than doing everything from scratch.

And if I'm not mistaken, many of her series are similar in length.

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she's a robot.

925 volumes in a lifetime is just not possible.

Eh, different authors work at different paces. While Hwang Mi Ri is one of the most prolific Korean authors out there, she is also one of the least diverse (I won't say uncreative because I don't believe that to be true). As many people have noted, she often recycles character designs, settings and plot, which probably cuts down on production time. Most mangaka do that, but Hwang Mi Ri seems to do it to a greater extent.

Another thing that probably allows Hwang Mi Ri to churn out so many volumes is the simple (minimal?) artwork that she does. Hwang Mi Ri, like many other mangaka, often skimps on drawing backgrounds for her characters. She also is skimpy with quality checks (I've seen characters drawn with right hands attached to the left arm, very uncanny-looking).

I wouldn't say that there's been no change in the artistic style of her work. She used to draw characters with much rounder bodies (is that late 80s or early 90s style?). Many mangaka who do undergo significant shifts in their style in a single long series often work on that series over a number of years, but Hwang Mi Ri often finishes series in a few months. You have to look at a much larger sample of her work to see a comparable shift taking place - it is there though.