Updated May 12, 2024 by testing
I won’t lie to you guys, Nano Machine is a way too special manhwa to find stories that are super similar to it, but we can try to get as close as possible.
In terms of art, personality, character development, over all universe, these are the manhwas that will give you the Nano Machine vibe in a way or another.
If one of the entries isn’t to your liking, you can diss me in the comments, but I doubt that will happen, my choices were made VERY carefully.
KOREAN WEBTOONS SIMILAR TO NANO MACHINE
28. Worn And Torn Newbie
Genres: Webtoons / Action / Adventure / Fantasy
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 11/20 | 6/10 | 6/10 | 6/10 | 29/50 |
Lee Eojin, I don’t know if I should call him a gamer since he has been sucking at the same game for more than 15 years. Just imagine, after all this time, he is still dead last.
Anyways, he got a second chance that came in the form of a major cheat that let him reset everything and get back in the game as a newbie.
He knows the game by heart and in no time became one of the most famous players of the game, worthy to be called a gamer.
He clears every quest with ease, but there is one last thing he has to do to affirm his superiority, finish the story of course.
Let me see what a cheater can do when he ventures into unknown territories. I’m dissing him but I know he’ll make it or he wouldn’t be the MC.
27. Peerless Dad
Genres: Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Martial Arts / Slice Of Life / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 12/20 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 33/50 |
This is the story of a master martial artist that turned into a househusband due to the tragic death of his beloved.
Having to take care of three children alone, he discarded his passion and searched for a safe job that would earn him a stable monthly income.
He couldn’t have been happier to learn that some evil organization was kidnapping the kids in his village so he could have a reason to get back on the battlefield.
I can’t really decide if I should label our MC as a good dad or not.
26. Promised Orchid
Genres: Shounen / Action / Fantasy / Horror
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 12/20 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | 34/50 |
Yang Jaesin has been having the kind of dream any teenage boy would normally have at that age. He would dream of an extremely beautiful woman who would tenderly whisper in his ear that she is waiting for him.
In the end, it’s just a dream, there is no way a goddess like her would ever look his way. And yet he had some sort of weird feeling that intensified when a fortune-teller advised him to try and escape his fate.
Why do fortune tellers have to be so cryptic, get over the mysterious vibe you are trying to maintain and just spill it, with normal words.
25. Sword Sheath’s Child
Genres: Action / Webtoons / Martial Arts
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 13/20 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | 35/50 |
Bira is the definition of an antisocial introvert in ancient times. He secluded himself in a forest away from humanity and has been living happily while befriending the animal that dwells in the wilderness.
One day, a boy named Tanyu came wandering on his turf, the extroverted one in the duo. They got close, and Tanyu told Bira that he was tasked to clear an extremely dangerous mission.
Like any normal friend would do, Bira, who has no combat experience whatsoever, decided that he will be the one to save Tanyu from his fate.
It’s not like I don’t cherish my friends, but I think the guy is confusing friendship with stupidity.
24. Reincarnation of the Suicidal Battle God
Genres: Webtoons / Action / Adventure
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 14/20 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | 36/50 |
If sore loser was a person, it would be the Demon King in this manhwa. He managed to whip out all of humanity. Only one warrior, Zephyr, remained and they are currently engaging in their final battle.
Zephyr couldn’t hold a candle to him. In a desperate attempt to at least go out gloriously, he auto destroys and claims the Demon King’s arm.
The guy was furious, he wanted total victory and now he is missing an arm that a puny human severed. What a disgrace!
He went to the Gods, and imagine, he forced them to bring back Zephyr to the past so he can have his revenge.
Zephyr woke up in his 20s with all the memories of the future and I believe that Demon King will end up biting his finger when he will come back to him a 100 no, a 1000 times more powerful than before.
23. Return to Player
Genres: Action / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 15/20 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 38/50 |
Normally, when I would tell people to imagine that the world is now set up just like a game they would only think of the cool and existing stuff and it actually happens.
They just all forget that monsters in a game are cute and all but if you saw them in real life I bet you will be the first one running.
In this Webtoon, out of nowhere, humans turned into adventures, monsters are invading from everywhere and there are quests that they have to fulfill. In all that chaos, one player was given a cheat, a cheat that turned him into our last hope.
First time ever that we are just glad someone can swindle in a game.
22. SSS Class Revival Hunter
Genres: Webtoons / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Psychological
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 39/50 |
I can’t believe that someone can be desperate to the point of killing himself over and over again just to gain power. This is just pitiful madness.
Power is truly addictive, when you get some you’ll always start asking for more, at least the main character of the Korean Comic is using it for the greater good of humanity and a tiny huge bit for himself.
I mean, strength, money, fame, and girls came following his awakening and I’m sure he is very sad about it.
21. The Archmage Returns After 4000 Years
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 40/50 |
Demigods are omnipotent beings that are controlling our world from the shadows. Only a handful of mages led by Lucas Traumen know about their existence and are fighting against their tyranny.
To the Demigod, those mages are just annoying bugs with no real power, so to make the buzzing stop the easiest way is to claim the head of the snake.
However, death is too nice a punishment for the one who tried to disturb their plans so they trapped him in another dimension to rot for all of eternity.
After 4000 years a mage named Frey attempted to kill himself and ended up in front of the Great Mage and offered his body to him.
Lucas is now back weaker than ever against OP enemies that he can’t even scratch. Staying in his prison would’ve at least spared him the humiliation.
20. Legend of the Northern Blade
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Martial Arts / Shounen / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 40/50 |
An entire legion was outsmarted by a single little runt. They killed his entire sect and let him live so they could put their hands on the secret art of the Northern Heavenly Sect. He was forced to reveal their secrets, but he kept the most important one to himself.
Thanks to a certain turn of events, the skinny weakling escaped and began his training in seclusion deep in the mountain. After 7 years, the boy came back transformed, strong, overpowered even, but most importantly, so handsome.
Now that he is ready, he will be unleashing his full wrath upon the monsters who ruined him.
19. The Second Coming of Gluttony
Genres: Seinen / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Supernatural / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 41/50 |
Any insult you can come up with would probably fit this guy to a T, that is before he was granted a unique ability that opened all the doors for him.
The impossible dream that he wanted to achieve, looks like it will be a piece of cake to make it become reality so he can now upgrade it a little, just to make the challenge more interesting you know.
I really love when losers turn cocky just because they have some nice muscles now.
18. Kill The Hero
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 41/50 |
Manhwas are starting to give me trust issues. All the characters that look like the good guys turn out to be the most despicable villains and now I doubt everyone that’s nice to me.
The MC should’ve followed my example since he was betrayed by the so-called hero of humanity and got killed like a dog.
However, his naiveté wasn’t the end of him since he came back in time while keeping all the memories he had made so far.
Just wait until he starts messing with our messiah in the most maddening ways possible. The guy is sure to lose all his hair before his time to shine arrives.
17. Second Life Ranker
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 42/50 |
The MC’s twin brother disappeared 5 years ago and he has to look reality in the eyes, he is most probably dead.
One day, he received a pocket watch. Inside, he found a diary. Don’t ask me how it fits, it can be a hologram or something.
It was the diary of his brothers and what was written inside was mind-blowing. There existed a tower, a tower that granted special abilities to all the people who entered. If you manage to get to the top, we will have any one wish granted.
Drawn by the reward, his brother climbed it but was betrayed by his comrades and was murdered. I also don’t know how he managed to write this detail, he is supposed to be dead but give the Manhwa some slack, in the end, it’s a fantasy story and we need to get the story going.
Anyways, enraged by the news, the twin discarded his name, took his brothers, and went to that tower to take revenge. You know the expression: Looks like you’ve seen a ghost. You’ll be using it a lot here.
16. OOPARTS
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Supernatural / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 42/50 |
Some people were given forbidden objects called “OOPARTS” that gave them unique abilities. They were so irresponsible with them that they had to be kicked out of our universe and are now living in a realm that lies on the border of our world and the next.
So technically, they live in a wanna-be My Hero Academia universe where everyone has superpowers and loves to fight each other to see who’s stronger.
15. The Beginning After The End
Genres: Webtoons / Adventure / Fantasy / Action / Romance
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 15/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 42/50 |
It’s really vexing when people who have everything are never satisfied. I mean, come on, King Grey had power, money, fame, woman, half of the world for god’s sake, and all he wanted was to die, really now!
Worst of all, he did die because he stopped fighting, but of course, great ones always have a second chance and he was reincarnated in a super cool world where magic is real.
Not only did he get a fresh start, he got a special one since he found out that he was an exception between the expiations of this world, a mage that could control all the four elements and their variants.
If he tells me he wants to end himself this time as well, I will be glad to end his suffering with my own hands this time around. How extremely generous of me, don’t you think?
The Beginning After the End sure is worthy of its spot in the Holy Trinity of the Webtoon world. So while you’re at it, why not check out manhwas similar to it? Who knows, you might end up finding new gems 😉
14. The God of Death
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 42/50 |
I don’t know if you realized but the authors just love to turn worthless people into OP and kakkoii characters with so much charm. And yet my turn still didn’t come.
They chose Kang Moo Han over me this time around. He was an insignificant human being that died flattened by a car.
After his death, he was chosen to become one of the candidates that are competing to earn the title of “God of Death”.
To be considered worthy, they have to clear all the quests that will be assigned to them. An easy task unless your enemies decide to put their nose where it doesn’t belong.
13. Leveling Up, By Only Eating
Genres: Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 43/50 |
The MC of this Webtoon is one of the only two people on this Earth that contracted an extremely rare disease that makes the patient bulimic. Make that three, I think I have it too.
He was about to die from overeating. I think if I could choose the way I would go out that would be it.
To save him, his doctor told him to play an AR game where all sensations are perfectly realistic. He can eat, feel as if he was full, and not gain any weight. Please someone create that here as well!
12. Hitpoint
Genres: Webtoons / Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 43/50 |
Everybody says that dreams have no real meaning, in the Manhwa universe it’s the exact opposite, except if they are naughty ones, those never come true.
After a car accident, Ha on-Bith started to feel a sudden burst of pain coming from his heart. At night, he would dream that assassins are coming after him.
The next day, his dream became reality. Why are they pursuing him? I don’t know how but the accident turned his heart into a deadly weapon or something like that, and they want it. I would also like to know how they got that info…
11. Limit Breaker
Genres: Action / Horror / Tragedy
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 43/50 |
Compared to Lucas Traumen, his guy got off easy with a mere 3000 years of entrapment in an awakening test.
In the real world, only 10 years passed but those 10 years took a toll in the world since it is now overrun by monsters.
I hope those 3000 years of training weren’t wasted on the guy since he is now the only one who can clean up the mess.
10. I’m Destined for Greatness
Genres: Shounen / Action / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 43/50 |
Taehyun Kim is so good at games that even the most useless characters can turn into an OP warrior in his hands. I swear I’m not exaggerating. He is a blacksmith in the game. 0 combat abilities and yet he is the number 1 player.
If only he could turn himself into a badass in the real world as well…
9. Murim Login
Genres: Action
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 43/50 |
Now don’t tell me that living inside a game, if you are good at it, is not better than living in our boring world.
The MC of this Webtoon, at least, gets it. He was a low-ranked hunter that could barely make ends meet. He accidentally got trapped in a martial arts VR game where he lived, trained, and thrived for quite some time.
When he finally managed to get back to reality, he realized that he was happier in the game and without a care in the world just went back in.
8. Solo Auto Hunting
Genres: Action / Adventure / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 16/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 43/50 |
So the guy was just a butcher and one day he awakened the most convenient abilities ever. He can put himself on autopilot which allows him to hunt monsters with flawless technique and unbelievable strength.
He puts no effort whatsoever, doesn’t train, and just earns easy money, a ton of it. He also became famous and popular. The universe really has favorites, boring people, just why?
7. Solo Leveling
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 17/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 44/50 |
I’m sure you realized, I love to make fun of MCs but sorry when it comes to Sung Jin-Woo, I just can’t, I think I’m in love with him. It even hurts not to give him full points in every category.
He was the “World’s Weakest“. He danced around with death all his life and thus he was chosen by the Shadow Monarch to become his successor. Of course, the guys didn’t tell him, he just implanted his heart in him and turned him into an OP God.
A nice gift, if he would’ve given him a heads up, I mean he had the fate of the entire world on his shoulder and he didn’t know. At least he didn’t have to stress about it so that’s that.
6. Revival Man
Genres: Action / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 17/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 44/50 |
Hwan Seok looks like a thug, acts like a thug and yet he hates thugs and loves justice. He died protecting his neighbor from an attack and was revived after 3 days so he can take revenge on his assassin.
He got mixed up in some larger conspiracy that will have a huge impact on the world. He wanted to become a hero of justice, well, here is his chance.
5. Greatest Outcast
Genres: Action / Martial Arts / Drama / School Life
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 18/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 45/50 |
Guys, I have great news! We Otakus were considered outcasts, outside of Japan of course, but guess what, we are multiplying, we are invading the world, we are everywhere and we are no longer castaways, unlike our MC here.
Rejected by society itself, he was still able to live on thanks to the presence of his only friend. So when that friend was killed right in front of his eyes, his rage awakened some sort of terrifying ability inside of him that turned him into a killing machine made only for revenge.
4. Overgeared
Genres: Action / Adventure / Drama / Martial Arts / Sci-fi / Slice Of Life
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 18/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 45/50 |
The MC was a worthless loser both in real life and online. However, everything changed when, by pure luck, he found a legendary class item that enabled him to forge ANY weapon imaginable.
With his newly acquired ability came fame and with fame came the headaches. You reap what you sow they say, no one told you to go show off your greatness in front of everyone, moron.
3. Heavenly Demon Reborn
Genres: Action / Martial Arts
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 19/20 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 46/50 |
His master was accused of using Taboo demon martial arts and thus was arrested and beaten to death. The student, who was weaker than the master, decided to take revenge.
That’s basically suicide, I mean, a guy stronger than you, lost. Just what do you think YOU can do? I’m not about to tell you that a miracle happened, the guys pathetically died, as expected.
However, he was reincarnated as a demon and now he is trying again. Make sure you succeed this time or it will just be too pitiful to bear.
2. The Undefeatable Swordsman
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 19/20 | 10/10 | 10/10 | 9/10 | 48/50 |
As well introduced by the title of this Korean Comic, this is the tale of a guy, master in the way of the sword that has yet to lose a battle. The end.
Okay, okay, it’s not that simple, I’ll tell you the rest. Thing is, the guy was actually super weak. He wanted to become a martial artist but his fragile body didn’t let him.
One day, a strange customer came to his store and gave him a painting. You guessed it, the painting wasn’t a normal one since he grew stronger and stronger by the day and this is how his legend came to be. Pretty cool, no?
1. The Max Level Hero Has Returned
Genres: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Webtoons
| Similarities | Character Writing | Plot | Art | Total |
| 20/20 | 10/10 | 10/10 | 10/10 | 50/50 |
Welcome back, man! So we are in a bit of a pinch and we were hoping that you could help us. We are searching for the manhwa that is the most similar to Nano Machine, so give us some great stuff here, please.
Davey was the Prince of a very insignificant country. Unlike Wein Salema Arbalest (The Genius Prince’s Guide To Raising A Nation Out Of Debt), he didn’t have the brains to save it and was so overwhelmed that he fell into a coma.
His soul traveled to the temple where heroes gather and train, although he is clearly no hero, stress got the best of him.
For 1000 years, he worked on himself and when he was finally ready he came back as the Max Level Hero. He surely took his sweet time, but better late than never I guess. Are his people still alive though?
Conclusion
I take back what I said before, be nice to me okay? You won’t find anything better than these manhwas, I guarantee it!
So until the next chapter of Nano Machine gets out, please pass the time with one of these great Korean Webtoons.
