The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor

Description

Hyun’s what some may call resourceful, thrifty, or, um, stingy. Whatever you call him, he’s also dedicated—he grinded night-and-day to get a top-tier character. But once he sold it, every last cent was taken away by loan sharks. In the new VR MMO Royal Road, he’s committed to making it big for himself and his family. He knows that he should absolutely NEVER be one of those weak and poor sculptors, so what’s he going to do when he accidentally becomes the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor?

Original Webtoon

Official Translations:
English, Indonesian, Thai

Note:
S1 adapts up through Vol.2 CH.7 of the novel.

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Dalbin Jogaksa (Novel) (Adapted From)

Moonlight Sculptor 4-koma (Spin-Off)

Associated Names

Dalbic Jogaksa

Dalbich Jogagsa

Dalbin Jogaksa

El Legendario Escultor de la Luz Lunar

Legendary Moonlight Sculptor

Legende du Sculpteur Crepusculaire

Legendinis Mėnulio Apšviestas Skulptorius

Moonlight Engraver

Nhà Điêu Khắc Ánh Trăng Huyền Thoại

Легендарный лунный скульптор

ประติมากรนักล่าแห่งแสงจันทร์

月光雕刻師

달빛 조각사

달빛조각사

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

v.3 c.52 by Method Scans & ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Scans 4 years ago

v.3 c.51 by Method Scans & ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Scans 4 years ago

v.3 c.50 by Method Scans & ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Scans 5 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

169 Chapters (Cancelled)

S1: 52 Chapters (1-52)
S2: 65 Chapters (53-117)
S3: 52 Chapters (118-169)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

2 topics, 6 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.1 / 10.0 (548 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.01 / 10.0

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Last Updated

April 13th, 2025 2:38pm PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance Shounen
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Category Recommendations

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Intime

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Kross Komics (Expired)

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

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3 Month Pos #808

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6 Month Pos #771

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Year Pos #903

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Where is chapter 99?

8 years ago

Virtual Reality | Time Frequency Perception

9 years ago

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There is a reason why there are many who rates this on 8-10 rating, and yes, they are correct.

by charioles
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Look at all those reviews below which are full of negativity and complain on how the adaptation story is too fast paced and that the art is bad.

Story side:
Well, I'll be fair here. The story adaptation is not that too much rushed. If you want to see some really rushed manga/webtoon adaptation, see Zhan Long, Overlord, and Doulu Dalu.

That said, this LMS adaptation is not that rushed, the story is upright close to the novel with only slight differences that's practically only flavor texts. Please don't say that the story is being "skipped", the correct term is "summarized". The reader of the adaptation will have around 80-90% content compared to novel readers and no major plot/content is skipped, so story-wise it's truly still acceptable.

For the art style side:
Those reviewers below complains that the art is mediocre, characters not like the depiction in the novel, and such.

Well, Although it's not the best ever, this adaptation is by far really well-made. I mean, see Doulu Dalu & Coiling Dragon/Panlong adaptation then I dare you to come back here and complain again. In case you still say that the art in this LMS adaptation is poor, then you people are being ungrateful bastards.

Look, it's in full-color, and unlike other adaptation where even old men have baby face, this one clearly show actual facial line that's rich in expression.

Someone actually complain that MC's depiction is different than what the novel depicted. Apparently he/she thought that MC is a big, muscular athlete.

Then on my understanding, MC is not depicted as big muscular guy at all in the novel, well duh, minor SPOILER alert the big muscular guys are his dojo mates... MC really was depicted as athletic and has stamina, but he never was depicted as big brawny guy. Although he does dojo training, it would not make him a big muscular guy with ripped-chest and visible bicep. He is clearly depicted as your average around 20yo korean gamer boy on appearance, and yeah the novel stated that he does not look handsome but also not ugly.

If you still complain that the art is ridiculous, I dare you again, go read Coiling Dragon adaptation. Now that's what I'd call "bad art style" that miss the novel depiction by a huge margin which will make fans cry when they see it. The artist of Coiling Dragon's adaptation is like a Stormtrooper and the artist of LMS adaptation is like a Boba Fett. Don't you even dare to put them on the same league.

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Shrug

by enaikelt
10 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The artwork is technically lovely. Whoever is adapting this series has a good deal of skill, but the problem is that he's really just not a very good storyteller. The dialogue and exposition are really over-simplified, as if talking down to the reader (like I don't know what a quest is!!), and I would almost rather the beautiful paintings weren't quite so beautiful, since that leads to a lot of panels where people are just posing around for the sake of looking good.

As others have mentioned, Weed is also really a little too boyish. His character is a grown man in his early twenties, who does martial arts and a good deal of physical, blue-collar labour work - hardly a pretty boy - and this is rather jarring.

Basically, while I did expect the adaptation to cut a good deal of detail from the novel, part of being a good adaptation is knowing how to portray the same story in a different way. This adaptation would probably do better as a series of illustrations for the novel, and not so much a story on its own.

UPDATE: Alright, so 5 years later I came back and read it again. I've forgotten most of the novel by now, and the webtoon is actually better if you don't remember much of the novel. It's kind of like a more kids version of the novel; lots more emphasis on the comedy and the friends going on wacky adventures, and the art style suits that. The first 15 chapters are still super weird, because you don't really get an explanation for why the MC is doing all the slow grinding at the training halls, but once he starts getting his hidden class, the comedy kicks in and it's pretty funny from them on. I also appreciate how the side characters are much easier to recognize in the webtoon than they were in the novel.

... Last updated 5 years ago

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Art doesn't do justice to the characters

by junaid_9j
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

Although I like the adaptations I must say the art is below average. Although Kim Tae-Hyung had average art in Planet Blood the art got degraded in this one...with winks often showing on characters expressions and many times mouth and nose missing ....the only reaction i can get from their character depiction is =.=

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Disappointing

by mercio
10 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

The art is not as great as I thought it would be. The story well, it's rushed. They skipped the part that made the story flow so well. I get if you skipped unimportant stuff but this is just too much. I've read a few webtoon adaptation of a novel non of them are this bad. The thing that made me read and re-read the novel is not there.

----UPDATE-----

@charioles

No, the story is rushed. I guess they were on a deadline or something. Yes, you can still understand the story but the feelings that we novel readers felt is gone. It's like watching a movie adaptation at 10x the speed.

And the art is terrible because of the hype before the release. You compare this to a chinese manhua adaptation that is made for kids. The story and characters were made "kid friendly". It was deliberately done that way. Cutesy art and stuff...

Because the novel is so good people have really high expectation for the webtoon. It didn't live up to the hype and failed still it manage to attract new fans (Non book reader fans...) and some people who actually read the novel still enjoy the webtoon. It just failed a lot of the Novel readers who expect something more.

On side note regarding the MC physical build. Do you remember the MT part in the novel? He lifted logs and others were commenting on his muscular body. He's not BIG MUSCULAR but he's SUPER FIT. Also he's looks too cute and round in this webtoon.

... Last updated 9 years ago

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Great story not as good adaption

by thevampirate
10 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Cakeland had it right. This version is very rushed and they drop a lot of details and simplify the story for time constraints. The art is way off from the novels illustrations and it makes weed look like a wimpy kid instead of the older athletic man that he is. The at the core the of everything story is still good and if you enjoy what you read (or even if you don't) give the light novel a shot its about 300 translated chapters ahead and has a much better story where the pacing isn't so rushed. I like LMS but I'm not sold on this version.

While this version isnt as bad as the Terrible Coiling dragon with its cutsey art style and complete Rewrites of events and characters or Douluo Dalu's modifications to the story to make it child friendly. It's still not Good its just average. Also if you think Weed isnt muscular look at the Manhua's novels. he is muscular, he may not be as muscular as the geomanchi but he's defiantly not a pipsqueak that they show him to be. Also his age is quite far off when he goes to college as a freshman everyone thinks he's a senior student if the webtoon version walked into college I'd think that he was a highschooler on a tour.

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Rushed

by cakeland
10 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

So far, the story is rushed (compared to the book). The book's best aspect is character development. The webtoon does none of this. Everyone looks pretty as well, a bit contrary to the book.

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Awesome webtoon adaption

by Drageath
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This is looking to be an extremely promising webtoon. Hopefully it will live up to the epic story its based on. But even if it doesn't, it will still be a great read. I love this Korean Lord of the Rings.

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The Adaptation Seems Pretty Good

by FrostLord
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The art isn't all that I imagined it to be but you can see the core essence of the story interwoven into it. A portion of the details is missing from the adaptation but that is expected since its impossible to port over all the details from the novel. In my opinion, so far it's doing a good job for a webtoon adaptation. Let's see where it goes from here. Let's leave positive comments and try to hype this series up as much as we can! Who knows, maybe they'll make an animated adaptation of it if its popular enough. ~Grisia

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