The Legend of Maian

[MangaDex]

 

[Lymus]

Hiatus forever, conclusion never.
Thanks Im Dal-Young

 

[grom]

not the first or the last one. He start with amazing story, start two stories aside from it, then hyatus two of them and restart another two new stories after....

 

[Vykos]

ln has ending but it pure horror

 

[scarlet_breaking]

Dal-Young has like almost 20 projects that he keeps jumping about.

 

[xaraphina]

This is a left over from his move to Japan. He got some of his other works picked up, but this one gets shitty real fast so nobody is going to invest in it unless he changes it.

 

[HakaishinAndroid616]

Ending is quite terrible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/noveltranslations/comments/3o3m5w/novel_translation_the_legend_of_maian/cvtvc40/

 

[GurryCurryBurry]

That LN ending. Holy cow.

 

[m4ng4]

will someone msg me when that author of the manga decides to change the ending for this manhwa.
I don't even want to start after reading about the end of ln. ?

 

[dim1]

What the hell is that ending, no seriously what kind of person trolls people like that,
I went looking for this manga because I liked from a while back but that spoiler killed any nostalgia

 

[Glomoro]

Vaguely interesting summary, check. Hiatus publishing status, check. Author name is Im Dal-Young, check. Fuck this shit, I'm out of here.

 

[danish341]

Spoiler

Felix utterly fails to save Felicia despite being hax as fuck from the experience he got in the future.

Basically, there is some omnipotent race in the universe called Nura that oversees many planets and worlds like the one taking place in the Legend of Maian.

And the Nura deemed the world of Legend of Maian to be scrapped asap due to it being uninhabitable because of all the conflicts on the planet.

So the Nura show up at the end just after Felix finally reunites with Felicia after she gained back her memories and strikes her a fatal blow.

We find out the Legend of Maian inhabitants were just guinea pigs in a cage made by the Nura.

They pretty much nuke the entire planet with 500 foot pillars of radiative fire, killing everyone and everything.

Felicia tries to protect the planet while dying but fails to protect it so she just clings to Felix and her child.

After the entire planet is just a burning husk, the Nura arrive on the planet just to collect the burned corpse of Felix and Felicia's child because being their child, he is a combo Madrin & Blood Fines and the Nura are interested in his DNA and powers and shit.

So yeah, even in death, Felix and Felicia's child they were hopelessly trying to shield from impeding doom gets their dead child taken away from them to be dissected by the Nura and used as samples for experiments.

 

[maelstroon]

DO NOT READ THIS! IT IS IN HIATUS HELL, THE ENDING IS TERRIBLE AND

Spoiler

THE AUTHOR FUCKING THROWS A NTR OUT OF NOWHERE BETWEEN THE FMC AND THE VILLAIN

IF I COULD GIVE 0 TO THIS SERIES I WOULD GIVE IT

 

[Shin_968]

I first read this manga in 2013, and it was quite enjoyable. But then I found out it had been in hiatus for a year. "Ok...let's wait a bit longer", I thought.
7 years have passed...

 

[Mizumachi]

This author needs help...

 

[conscript117]

@danish341 That is the ending? wtf? ....

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thank you for the information on this...after 5 years I now know how this ends which is a plus...
I'll just put it on my completed list and be done with it.

 

[hedgemoney]

@danish341 That's the ending? I know Im Dal-Young is terrible at writing endings, but if that's the real ending of the novel, wow. Words can't even describe the level of bad that ending is. That actually killed any desire I have of wanting this series to continue. That's even worse than his other ones.

 

[kurousagi75]

I'll keep denying that shitty ending until the day I'll forget about this story or when the writer will decide to give it a proper ending....

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Ugh, I just wrote half an essay about why I would or wouldn't recommend reading this only for it to be lost due to a skill issue of mine really. In any case, here's the TL;DR because I cba writing all of that again:

I can only recommend reading this up until chapter 54​

(maybe 57 if you like bad/sad endings).
What follows after is bad and incomplete and that might actually be a good thing reading the comments here.

As for the readable part, I liked the characters (well, most of them) and especially their chemistry. There's a lot of banter (in a positive way).
The art (for most parts) isn't anything special, but I think the expressions and stylised bits really make for funny moments.
The story mostly follows classic tropes but when it doesn't, it's usually in a good way. The characters embark on a grand journey gathering companions in the process and so on. Even though there are multiple female characters, it's NO harem.
If I had to criticise something, it'd be those two things:

• the drama comes with a lot of exposition and little consequences
• It seems like the author made FMC OP before thinking about ways how opponents would pose any threat to her and had to get creative in the aftermath

Still, these are minor things compared to the later chapters...