I started out with the novel and am a fan of the novel.

This manhua is a blasphemy! Adaptation gone wrong.

Its got the atmosphere, the characters etc all wrong. The manhua transformed the novel into a romcom(romance comedy) anime high school kinda vibe, which is extremely far off from what the novel intended. The novel was grounded, realistic world with all the harshness, bitterness as well as the kindness and goodness of humans. It has a more serious tone and the cast have to struggle through obstacles and make tough decisions. This leads to a lot of focus on the character development and their relationships and interactions with one another. Empire management, technological advancement and the darkness of society were heavy themes intertwined into the plot. Theres many more defining various aspects but in conclusion the novel has a soul. The manhua trivializes ALL of these.

Several extremely important plot points were removed in favor of fan service shenanigans. The parts removed were essential in defining and developing the respective characters. Look, i can understand if you need to cut out content, you need to squeeze in the plot into the storyboard but to cut them out for stupid fanservice crap that does nothing to contribute to the plot? I spit on this manhua.

Honestly i can go on and on, how they got everything wrong, but i'm just too angry now. Hopefully later i'll throw in an essay lol.

The essence and very soul of the novel has been corrupted into the mess that is this manhua which does not resemble anything of the novel. Almost everything that made the novel got replaced with fanservice shit. I've seen a lot of adaptations gone wrong but this 1 absolutely screwed it all.

... Last updated on June 7th, 2020, 12:37pm

I have not read the LN.

It's way too fast paced, and it seems the artist doesn't know how to properly portray a lot of things, sometimes making the scenes not make any sense. Characters behave erratic or downright stupid just to make the story push forward, and it's not the problem with the source it seems but with how the artist chooses to draw some encounters (that's based on the comments from ppl that read the LN).

The backgrounds and some items are made with 3d models which don't really fit the story that well (I think they are stock models), which in turn breaks the narrative in various places. The characters tho have a clean nice art, tho the female characters are portrayed a lot younger than their age would indicate. Overall the artstyle is too much on the cute side imo.

Very interesting story about a modern guy that reincarnates in a fantasy world with witches and since he has no prejudices against them and has a good head on his shoulders he starts to doubt the common knowledge about witches and sees how they can actually help him and his town to move forward. All while trying to keep a low profile with the powers, like the church, and not going overboard with the altruism.
I like some aspects of the MC, specially how he keeps his head cool and thinks in advance, he doesn't have any special powers nor abilities yet he's able to see what needs to be done and bring the female lead (a witch) to his side and grow from there.
The story telling so far has been good too, characters are well presented and in a way it doesn't ruin the pace of the manhwa, the story progresses sensibly and the author foreshadows the events so it's clear he doesn't just make up crap when convenient and actually takes care thinking the aspects of the story.
The main weak point is how he uses the witches to bring about something similar to the industrial revolution, an witch industrial revolution if you will, in which the MC just progressively pumps earth's knowledge into the fantasy world. Unfortunately there is no good justification for the MC to actually know all that stuff, college graduates or PhDs or whatever his background was do not know the workings of all the inventions of the 19th century to the point of being able to recreate them, that's just not very believable.
Other than that, the art is quite good and the few fights have a good flow.
Overall, a good story that I'm looking forward too, I'd like to see how it fares after 100 more chapters or so.

this adptation is not all that good, the art style is on the cute side rather than the serious one, and the silly goofball skits are out of place, my recomendation? read the novel

This might be a bit biased, as i've already read the LN.

The Manwha as i wrote in the title is extremly fast paced, they skip around 90% of the story if not more.
Characters have become "cuter" or just plain paper cut from shitty ass mangas.

The original story of release that witch is heavy, gruesome and grainy. "This" piece of garbage is spitting on it's authors work, with making it "cute" and "dreamy". There are major parts where this adaptation is different to the LN. Such as cutting of parents/huge plot characters and introducing things that happen FAR into the book, in the early chapters.
I highly recommend the LN instead of this garbage. What ever you do, don't read this before the LN.