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Hive

Description

People are having the serious issue with the global warming in 2014, but what if unknown gigantic insects appear in the city because of pollutants are above the average? Now, here is the last human-being (main character) tries to escape from the danger and tries to find a way to save the city.

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Original Webtoon:
S1/S2, S3

Official Translation:
English, Indonesian (S1),
Thai (S1-3)

Note: This webtoon will be adapted into a Korean Drama.

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

The Dog Man (Prequel)

Dead Queen (Sequel)

Associated Names

خلية

รังมฤตยู

虫穴

하이브

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Latest Release(s)

v.3 c.143 by LINE Webtoon 7 years ago

v.3 c.142 by LINE Webtoon 7 years ago

v.3 c.141 by LINE Webtoon 7 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

Prologue + 242 Chapters (Complete)

Season 1: 65 Chapters
Season 2: 34 Chapters
Season 3: 143 Chapters

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (182 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.5 / 10.0

21%

12%

24%

Last Updated

August 6th, 2025 7:39am PDT - 4 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Fantasy Horror Mature Psychological Sci-fi Seinen
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Big Picture Comics

Naver

Serialized In (magazine)

Naver Webtoon (Naver)

Naver Series (Naver)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

LINE Webtoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #706

(+3)

Monthly Pos #1904 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3205

(-474)

6 Month Pos #3960

(-1008)

Year Pos #5752

(-86)

List Stats

On 767 reading lists

On 266 wish lists

On 160 completed lists

On 36 unfinished lists

On 169 custom lists

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User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Likable MC, and there's an actual plot, not just bug-monsters

by Megorova
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

There's two main pros in this manga that makes it much better than other apocalypse-themed series:

MC is an adult and family man - husband and father, not some brainless idiocy-fueled high schooler. Reminds me of Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead TV-series. They had to go thru similar 'evolution' of their personality, just to save their family.
Besides sudden appearance of giant bugs that are killing people, this manga has an actual plot, furthermore it's complicated, coherent and consistent.
P.S. There are four seasons, currently (2021) S4 is released on Fridays on comic.naver.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Realistic and gritty

by roms89
7 years ago

Rating: N/A

If an actual giant-bug induced apocalypse ever actually happened(shudders), I could absolutely see it going down like this. There are no super powered, hyper intelligent teenagers who grew up in a dojo but a 30 something father who went to engineering school. And the author's done his research. As an engineering student, I appreciate the lack of star trek mumbo jumbo.

And every character is fleshed out. Even some random character with just two panels dedicated to them feels unique and alive. There are no homogenized factions. No big bad evil military oppressing people, but a military that's filled with assholes, with heroes and people conflicted over the struggle to survive and doing the right thing.

All in all, an amazing read. Hope they make a tv series out of it.

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Very good indeed

by Famas
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Ay first glance it seems like another zombie apocalypse with giant insects but it's much more than that. It actually has originality, sudden plot turns, creativity, it's interesting to read. It's not just run from monsters/loot stuff/be very scared as usual. Characters are great too, I loved how the MC evolves from nice office worker to a guy who'd torture his victim for not answering a question instantly, and his crew is interesting to watch too.
Definitely recommended for those who like good challenging stories.

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Resident Evil meets Insect horror

by MarsHunter
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

I am mainly doing this as a response to the only other review.The series is good, period. None of the characters you care about are straight archetypes, new elements get thrown in at regular intervals, and the visuals are quite nice. The only problem I had was with

the frankly ridiculously smart insects doing their kamekaze thing with artillery shells but other than that the series is pretty well rounded. Oh, and the webtoon is released by line webtoon which is a subsidiary of naver, the official korean webtoon site. So it gets released reliably.

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Survival manga from zombies and insectoids

by fiqipraramadhan
1 month ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Great story though monotonous, great drawing but the illustration part/panel/page puts me off and too long, likely my 1st manhwa webtoon and the last

... Last updated 2 weeks ago

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Waiting for S4 to get translated!

by ekushay
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I'm not sure why Webtoon made this a daily pass series. It would've been nice to be able to go back and reread the earlier chapters, because after 3 seasons, you forget what the heck has happened. The action and plot is well thought-out, but unfortunately because of daily pass, it's impossible to remember all the small details. Oh well...

I like the author (thank you for Aura LOL) and appreciate this series a lot -- the art needed to draw all those bugs and buildings? Yeah, it's not easy.

I also like how gramps and MC is unkillable -- some people hate that, but it's a meme at this point. The survivability of these characters is amazing, so props to that. Also, the different plot twists that keep coming up are mind blowing and the story just keeps going on. It's draggy because of that, but I'm not tired of it (to each their own!).

Looking forward to Season 4. Down with Xanadu!

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Really boring?

by moonmystery
2 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

I don't know what is so great about this series. Personally found this to be an absolute bore to read.

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Another generic Apocalyptic plot

by bull3thole
11 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

There nothing really special about this webtoon. I don't like how people in the webtoon are idiots and no common sense. It seems like the author doesn't know how to write the psychological element in this webtoon because we don't see the progression of people when they are at their breaking point. He just writes about it because you just need it for this kind of genre.

At the end of the day, I'll still read this webtoon because I like the apocalyptic genre. So far it's been okay, but it's not a webtoon where you will check for updates.

... Last updated 11 years ago

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