The Best 28 Non-Cliché Manhwa that Defies Cliché Story
Non-Cliché storyline manhwa that defy cliches, offering fresh narratives and unique perspectives. They challenge traditional tropes and engage readers with unexpected plot twists, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes. These manhwa push creative boundaries, delivering captivating storytelling that breaks free from the ordinary.
1. SSS-Class Suicide Hunter​
Kim Gong ja envy all the star hunters in a world where there is a tower of trial. One day, he was granted with a legendary skill to copy others’ abilities at the cost of his life. He was killed by the Flame Emperor, which activated his skill, and now he’s copied a new one, the ability to travel back to the past upon death.
2. World’s Strongest Troll
Dex is a legendary gamer which has a nature of chaos in him. As he was playing the game Arcadia, he was given a class that cannot level up but with special power called Plausibility which is an unknown power that can control everything in the game.
3. The Greatest Estate Developer
Kim Suho who is a civil engineering student woke up as Lloyd Frontera, a lazy noble who enjoys drinking and his family is deeply in debt. Suho used his engineering knowledge to create modern inventions in order to avoid the terrible future that awaits him and help his family.
4. Overgeared
Grid is an unlucky man both in real life and game. But he encountered the rare legendary class which let him forge unique weapons and equip the game’s most powerful gear. Grid makes the decision to use his newfound abilities to achieve fame and fortune.
5. Ranker's Return
The world’s top ranker Meleegod decide to delete his character after setting every possible record in the game. But when his family has financial problem, he decide to return and conquer the game again using a new character and gain fame and fortune to help his family.
6. The World After the End
Jaehwan responded to the tower’s summons when it appeared on Earth. In the end, he realized that humanity had never been annihilated and that the Tower was merely an illusion. He engaged in a war with the Towers’ creators and makes a vow to demolish the world and the system that mistreated him.
7. Talent Swallowing Magician
Elric Melvinger is the sole heir of the most powerful Magicians family. However, the family lost almost every member in a war with the Demon King, leaving only Elric and his older sister. Elric is unable to use magic due to a disease. He wishes to cure the disease in order to restore his family.
8. Boundless Necromancer
Seong Hyun is a normal hunter where he cant get strong no matter how hard he tries. Everything changed when he receive an invitation to join the Tower of Trials on hard difficulty. He got the Necromancer class as he climb the Tower of Trials which make him stronger than average climbers.
9. Omniscient Reader Viewpoint
The Main Character is trapped in the world of his favorite webnovel. He knows the plot of the story from beginning to end because he was the only reader who stuck with it until the end.Â
10. Superhuman battlefield
Seo Moon Yeob is a human with the world’s greatest superpower who sacrificed himself after saving humanity. He was thought to be dead, but he returns 17 years later to a more peaceful world, and superhuman sports have become a world-famous sport.
11. Reformation of the Deadbeat Noble
Irene Pareira always sleep to escape his painful reality. But one day he dreams about an old man who always swing his sword day and night which change Irene view of life and he decide to turn over a new leaf and face the reality of life.
12. The Book Eating Magician
Theodore Miller knows everything there is to know about magic except how to use it. When he was about to be expelled from the academy, he came across a grimoire called “Gluttony” that manifests as a magic-hungry creature on his hand, allowing him to use magic as he pleases.
13. The Dark Mage’s Return to Enlistment
Kim Minjun suddenly summoned to another world, where he became a dark mage. He saved the other world to return to Earth but dungeon break had occurred threatening his comfortable days which makes him enlist into the military.
14. Is This Hero for Real?
Kang Hansoo and his classmates were chosen to become heroes in a magical fantasy world. When he refuses to risk his life for a world that isn’t his own, the goddess abandons him for dead in the forest, and he vows to exact revenge on the goddess.
15. Existence
Lee Ja in has been through thousands of reincarnation and has lived many life as many types of animal from a dinosaur to an ant. In the last cycle of his reincarnation, he reincarnate as a human with the power of his past reincarnations and he comes to a conclusion that human must perish.
16. Pick Me Up, Infinite Gacha
‘Loki’ who is ranked 5th in the world of mobile gacha game was transported into the game as a playable character named Han Yslat. In order to go back to the real world, he has to clear all 100 floor in the game and he must guide the Game Master and all the players inside the game to victory.
17. Memoir of The King Of War
Dan Sa Yu was saved by a Martial master when he was dying. He then become the disciple of the martial master and was passed on, one of the strongest martial art in the world before his master died.
18. The Priest of Corruption
Main Character was transported into a virtual reality game and became the only follower of Mother of Corruption, one of the Evil God in that world. He travels around the world to become stronger and resurrect the Evil God.
19. Dungeon Reset
Dawoon was summoned in a deadly dungeon and has to clear it to progress to the next level. He found a bug in the system when he fall into a trap and everything was reset once the dungeon is clear by other people. He then become creative to survive and getting stronger every time the dungeon was reset.
20. Doctor’s Rebirth
Main Character was killed in a civil war when he volunteered as a doctor to help the injured soldiers. He then reincarnated as a boy in the Murim world with the knowledges of his past life as a doctor. He realized that he was inside the world of his favorite Murim Novel “The Supreme Demon King”
21. Taming Master
Jin Sung was level 93 archer and decided to delete his in-game character and become a Tamer. He then encounter a hidden class and unlock a new power which rivals the strongest. He was makes a bet with his teacher to become the strongest only by taming monsters.
22. I'm Destined For Greatness!
Kim Taehyun is your average guy but wants to become The Best in a virtual reality game. He determined to become the strongest as a blacksmith or even better, no class at all but his luck keep interfering with his playstyle which earned him a title “God of Luck”.
23. A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
Desir regressed when he failed to prevent the end of the world leaving his comrade behind to go back to 13 years in the past. He determined to become stronger and train with his comrade to prepare for upcoming disaster.
24. The Beginning After the End
King Grey who has everything in his past life reincarnated into a new world filled with magic and monsters. But there is entity that tried to destroy everything he has worked for in his new world and make he doubt the purpose and the meaning of his second birth.
25. Tower of God
Bam, an Irregular who was not picked by the Tower, unlocked its gates on his own. The tower summons chosen individuals with the promise of fulfilling their deepest wishes. The story begins with Bam meeting Rachel and becoming great friends with her, however Rachel eventually went to climb the tower, and Bam followed her.
26. Becoming the Monarch
Chris a one-armed mercenary with tremendous experience and skills swallowed an artifact after an unexpected confrontation with a ferocious looter, he finds himself sent back in time when he was 15 years old. This time, he’ll put his expertise to good use and aim for the top.
27. Legends of the Swordsman scholar
Woon Hyun who is a scholar at Imperial Palace but he likes martial arts so much. But one day, a misfortune happen and he suddenly picked up his brush to conquer the Murim world.
28. Worthless Regression
Lee Sungmin was summoned to the world called Eria. He has no talent and died miserably in the end. He then regressed back to the past by chance and still have no talent. He determined to moves forward and struggled until the end even with no talent.
