Have you ever played online games? If so then have you ever defeated a streamer? Today's manhwa is about a gamer girl who's fate changed as the day she met the guy who she had defeated on stream. The name of this manhwa is "Date a Ranker."
Details
Author & Artist: Chya
Genre: highschool, romance, friendship, comedy, video games
Chapters: 33
Status: on-going
Year of release: 2024
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Plot
The story follows Seong-a, she's a die hard gamer. You can say that she's totally addicted to games. She's so good at it that she defeated one of the famous streamer who's name is Hanjun Kang.
She often uses a handsome character to play with and the streamer uses a Guy character wearing pink clothes.
After winning Seong-a asked the opponent to delete their character or he can give her money instead. The guy kept requesting but she did not listen and he ended up giving her the money. It was too embarrassing for him he turned his stream off.
On the other hand Seong-a's mother called her because she didn't go to high school entrance ceremony.
Her mother also reveals that Seong-a nearly got kicked out of her middle school because of playing video games and skipping classes.
It seems Seong-a's mother is not happy with Seong-a playing games. The next day she went to her school but arrived late and a guy wearing hoodie was behind her desk who was sleeping when she tried to wake him up he shook her hand away.
Later Seong-a didn't pay attention to the classes as she was getting bored and wanted go home to play video games.
She went to the rooftop as she wanted to avoid the other students but then she had to move in a dark room.
There she was not alone a white hair guy wearing hoodie approached her and she didn't let him speak. When the students was talking about yesterday's losing match of the streamer and shaming him because they are in the same class.
Seong-a realized she's with the guy who she had defeated yesterday and tries to get away with it.
But Hanjun guessed she knows him but she pretended to be his biggest fan. She somehow got away with it and was thinking to transfer her class.
But then she bumped into the black hair handsome guy who looked exactly like the gaming character she uses in the game and his real name is Tae-ui.
Question arises can Seong-a spend her time peacefully with Tae-ui? Or she will be discovered by Hanjun creating a chaotic situation?
Review
I have not read any manhwa with this concept before, it's my first. I really admire it when it's related to gamings. I really love to play video games so I can related to that.
Once you start playing you get a bit addicted or maybe more. I saw my niece being this much addicted to games as Seong-a so I can tell she's a relatable character.
Seong-a is not only a good gamer but she's very smart. She's handling the situation very well. As Hanjun is very mad at the person who made him lost and also took his many his anger is valid.
It must be a hard moment for him to lose on live stream and people gossiping about it hard. As a public figure he could not take the defeat normally. On the other hand Seong-a plays so she can make a living with it also because she loves playing games.
I also find her mother being genuine because asian parents do not support eSports. They only prefer the children to become a doctor, engineer, teacher or lawyer and many more protfessions.
But there are much more than type of things around the world. Gaming is a big sector in the industry and I feel parents should always support their children in anything they want. The character of Seong-a's mother is so real that I could feel connected with the story.
The plot is really good, I found everything blending perfectly. I do not only like it I just love it. There's no fantasy if you're looking for something like that.
There's high school romance and friendship which you don't wanna miss seeing. There's no typical love stories, the story feels authentic.
There are 33 chapters and every Thursday a new chapter is posted. So, it's on-going which is a great news for the readers. I am sure gamers would love to read this kind of manhwa.
The art is also fine as heaven, I liked it very much the details are really amazing. The game characters outfits are pretty funny. Well, you must know there's second lead syndrome and love triangle trope.
So, you might end up getting disappointed at some points because the female lead is confused. I really want her to end up with the streamer guy I think they have good chemistry. The black hair guy is a bit fishy and I am still exploring this manhwa.
I will rate this manhwa 10 out of 10, because I believe the story is very intriguing and it will catch attention once it's on trend.
There's no hype for it at this moment but I hope people will acknowledge it more. It's definitely worth it and I would suggest to read it.
Credits:
Pictures are the screenshots of the chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6 from the manhwa, you can read it on webtoon.
Pictures are edited with Canva