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The only person doomed by the narrative in orv is Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja on the other hand, is doomed by himself, and the narrative is actively trying to save him. Han Sooyoung is a secret third thing, because she doomed herself, but in a way that is above my relam of understanding at this moment

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S-Classes That I Raised

What's It About and Where to Read It

This is an updated post as of April 2026. (My previous post from 2025 here)

Jump down to the Read More for info on the translations

Korean Title: 내가 키운 S급들

What's It About: It's about the Power of Love! And never giving up! And what does it mean to be a parent, a partners, a friend, a brother?

Fantastically detailed world-building and fantastically realistic and fleshed out cast of characters and a fantastically unhinged unreliable narrator of an MC.

It starts out looking like a standard male OP fantasy, but that is very much a fakeout, and it is very very much a subversion of that genre - something that has unfortunately earned this novel much ire in the Korean dude webnovel reader sphere of the internet.

It is also one of the best examples of "time travel fixit" as a canon premise that I have ever seen.

After his estranged little brother - Korea's top S-Sank Hunter Han Yoohyun - dies saving the life of the pathetic F-Rank Hunter Han Yoojin, Han Yoojin gets the opportunity to turn back time by 5 years and gain a new uber-powerful Skill that lets him 'nurture' S-Rank hunters to their full potentials - both humans and monsters. Yoojin is determined to just chill and prove himself by supporting Yoohyun, but it's not so easy especially as he finds more and more people to love and care about. And also this one annoyingly fascinating and useful guy - the current #1 hunter Sung Hyunjae - who had disappeared from the public eye in mysterious circumstances before Yoojin turned back time - keeps finding him fascinating and useful too and won't leave him alone.

This time a fan-made cover by s_class_potato that showcases a more complete cast list than the official cover. ↓↓↓↓

Webtoon Adaptation

Yes, there is a webtoon adaptation of it with an official English translation: My S-Class Hunters. There are 152 chapters in S1, which adapt roughly the first 160ish chapters of the novel, and the webtoon is currently on hiatus with work ongoing on S2.

The art is beautiful, and it is a very good work in its own right but it does adapt things more comedically than the novel. It makes for a pretty funny reading experience, but it leaves out enough of the (plot-relevant!) emotional bits as well as changes up certain plot points for better visuals that I would recommend reading (or at least skimming) from the start for anyone coming in from the webtoon.

Where to Read The Original

I.E. The novel in Korean: The complete story is 1165 Chapters

Main Story: 856 Chapters + 14 Epilogue Chapters (870 Chapters) Side Story: 167 Chapters Afterwords: 128 Chapters

These are now available on Naver, Ridibooks and Kakaopage.

Naver is horrendous to use internationally

Kakaopage is the easiest to use internationally IMO, and has a lot of freebies points. With enough grinding one can probably get all the webnovel chapters for free, while still showing support to Geunseo

Ridi is quite convenient too and often has sale events. Ridi is a more slash-friendly and female-reader friendly platform overall and has a more positive and shippier comment section I think.

However! Before you buy: One thing to note is that there are two versions of the text - a webnovel version and an ebook version. Yes, the text itself is different between the two.

Webnovel version: The ones that you can buy one-chapter-at-a-time and what you'll usually find on the 🏴‍☠️ sites. Side Story and After Words only exist as webnovel chapters as of April 2026. Ebook version: The 870 chapters of the main novel are also available as 35-volume set of ebooks. - Ebooks version has many added emotional beats and scenes (mostly of the homoerotic nature) - Ebooks version also has many "extras" - additional chapters and short stories, often from the perspectives of characters other than Yoojin, that often add a lot of great characterisation and world-building information. Apart from this there also exist some physical book sets but not in English - currently there is a Korean physical bookset of 10 volumes (with hopefully many more to come), and a Taiwanese bookset as well, and both these physical booksets have more unique "extras" in them as well.

If anyone decides to throw money at Geunseo for this, I would personally recommend going for the ebooks over the webnovel chapters.

Where to read the Translations!

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real massive siblingisms this week

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SHOOTING STAR SLASH

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i hate hate hate the way fandoms at large interpret the found family trope. so often people seem to think it means just recreating the nuclear family structure with characters who aren’t related to each other, and shoving those characters into either a mom role, a dad role, or a child role. when really it's supposed to be about finding/building a support system outside that traditional model, and illustrating that sometimes that isn’t always the best model....aka the exact opposite of what people do.

#A STEPMOTHER'S MARCHEN LETS GOOOOOOOO