Hyun was not leaving his room and spending a socially reclusive life after a certain traumatic event. Then one day, while his parents and sister were on the way on their vacation without him, - of course it was him to refuse to go – a traffic accident takes their lives. As he became an orphan, on top of his mental disease, he moves to a cheaper studio apartment. It wasn’t the end of his suffering; not long after he lost all his family, the world is ruined, literally. Without a warning, people become a monster to roam and kill other people, and the street is reduced to a ruin in no time.

I’ll explain the storyline no more. It won’t be meaningful to spread out the storyline, and even if I want to write more on it, there’s not much to write because the story is not much developed for now. Let me stop explaining the fun-less and meaningless introduction of the storyline, and let us examine on the strong points of the webtoon Sweet Home, the reasons why this work can be rated as an excellent work.

First, I want to point out the directing. Only reading through the earliest stage, where monsterization starts and the first monster appears, this is the strong point that anyone will agree with. It’s not simply because the monsters, morphed from humans, are drawn terrifyingly. The drawing is indeed terrifying enough to avoid reading it at night with lights off, but it doesn’t adopt the cowardly way to do it only with the visual terror and the grotesque drawing. Simply put, the directing is excellent. It’s a bit hard to explain with a written review, so think about the (illegally) circulated clips of famous movies with good critic responses. It’s like them. The process a crisis coming to Hyun, the placement of each frame, and the terrifying monsters which are located at the right places. After the early stage and it becomes less of Lovecraft-like horror (and the readers finishes understanding what’s going on), the strong point fades a bit, but as the author’s capacity doesn’t go anywhere, it’s safe to say the readers will have no worries to be bored with loose directing.

The next strong point is, unsurprisingly, the character. Though a lot of characters appear, and various events happen in the restricted situation and space, the completeness of the characters are top-quality. Of course, the protagonist, Hyun, is such a character. It’s nothing too special to look at the background setting, but with the aforementioned outstanding directing skill and the stereoscopic character of his, the readers become to support him from the heart. Not only Hyun, though the degree may vary, the most of main and supporting characters are well-made with charming and humane. The setting that when a hidden desire gets to the extreme, the person becomes a monster, is very clever from this viewpoint; it has a very good aspect to maximize the individuality of the characters. On top of that, even the morphed monsters (‘lotus root’, ‘muscle’, etc…), which kills people without a blink, have strong characters as well, despite they have no line at all, enough to draw supports from the readers.

Lastly, I will regret much if I don’t acclaim the author’s hint throwing skill, too. It’s good, too. From the suggestion of a crisis or a change which will happen several episodes or dozens of episodes later, to Hyun’s predestined catastrophe and crisis and his past, the story itself is outstandingly fun and it also makes the readers expect the next episode. The hints are mostly yet to be recovered, but it doesn’t draw much worry if we think about the author’s previous work, Bastard.

Frankly speaking, it’s not easy to explain fun of a webtoon with a written review. As a reviewer I tried to explain the strong points I felt as persuasively as I could, but you know, seeing is believing. The readers who seek for a fun webtoon are recommended to run to the Line Webtoon right now.