This webtoon, while having a very exciting storyline, also manages to bring light to the difference in treatment people receive, just for looking a certain way… as I was reading it, I began to realize that, without even wanting to, a part of me had become like the bullies in the webtoon who picked on the unattractive kids. Main Lookism Characters: Daniel PARKīoxer, High School Student, Hot-Headed, Teenager Bookmark to stay notified whenever a new chapter is released. But sometimes, the manga chapters get delayed. At night, however, Daniel’s dream life becomes a harsh reality when he returns to his original body. His new body makes him a social-media influencer, a trainee for an entertainment company, and a clothing model. He experiences discrimination and hates for his original body, kindness, and special treatment of others.
As Daniel Park (Park Hyung Seok) lives with two bodies, he begins to see how much the world discriminates against people considered unattractive or different. His days are split between the two bodies: the handsome one for the daytime, and the original for the night. When one body is in use, the other falls asleep he can switch bodies by waking up the sleeping one. A few nights before he begins school, however, he receives a new body that is tall, muscular, and handsome. Resolving to run away from his problems and start anew, he moves to Seoul and plans to attend a new high school. Bullied and harassed every day by a delinquent, he takes out his anger verbally on his mother and asks for a school transfer. Now possessing two extremely different bodies, Hyung Suk must learn to navigate his new and much more popular life at J High whilst also solving the mystery of where his second, almost superhuman, body came from.Park Hyung Seok is an unpopular and bullied high-school student who is looked down on by his fellow student for his obesity. The only problem is that his original body still lays beside him-and when one body falls asleep, he awakens in the other. In an attempt to escape his biggest bully, Lee Tae Sung, he decides to transfer to Seoul's Jae Won High School, a vocational preparatory school notorious for its liberal education system and carefree students.ĭays before his transfer, Hyung Suk wakes to find that he is no longer in his usual chubby body, but is instead in a perfect body! Tall, handsome, and beautifully toned, Hyung Suk has become the ideal version of himself. Short, overweight, and unattractive, he is used to being bullied by his classmates and constantly discriminated against for his looks. Park Hyung Suk has spent all 17 years of his life at the bottom of the food chain.
Line Manga also serializes the manhwa in Japanese, with Kadokawa publishing it in print format.
LINE Webtoon began releasing the title in English in June 2017. Park launched the action drama manhwa on the Naver Webtoon (now Line Webtoon) webcomic portal in November 2014. The anime series, produced by Studio Mir, will stream worldwide on Netflix under the title Gaiken Shijou Shugi on November 4. The Netflix TUDUM Japan event announced an anime adaptation of Tae-Jun Park's Lookism manhwa on Sunday, revealing a teaser visual (pictured above) and teaser promotional video.
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