UnOrdinary

UnOrdinary is a "superhero" webcomic published by Line's comic website, Webtoon, and created by Uru-Chan.

Synopsis
John Doe is a bullied teenager who attends Wellston Private High School, a prestigious school where every student possesses all kinds of special powers. Due to him being a cripple (ordinary), John is even bullied and beaten by others on a daily basis to those reminding him from his past. One day, he encounters Seraphina, a God-Tier student and Ace of Wellston, who also ambushes him over the school's prize; though they eventually develop a bond and become friends. However, John has a dark secret that nobody knows about, and his life at Wellston goes downhill very quickly.

Unordinary Qualities

 * 1) It's incredibly repetitive. unOrdinary is very mean-spirited as it's mostly a series of events about the main protagonist, John Doe and the rest of weaker students (who are being called the "Crippled") along with other weaker civilians suffering constant abuses at the hands of those bullies for no reason in just as their satisfying amusement and it goes on for over 200 episodes. Unfortunately, there is no satisfying payoff to any of this as of 2022.
 * 2) The artwork is mediocre and amateurish overall. By most western Webtoon standards, it is unsurprisingly low.
 * 3) Inconsistent tone. It constantly jumps back and forth whenever the author feels like it.
 * 4) Attempts at trying to be a very serious story, but it fails in a poor executed way.
 * 5) Amateur writing. It doesn't seem to know whether it's a deconstruction about super-powered beings, modern society, parody or anything for that matter.
 * 6) It barely utilizes its premise despite its potential.
 * 7) The main cast are generally unlikable as they are treated as idiotic punching bags that refuses to understand each other.
 * 8) The designs are dull and are just tiring to look at.
 * 9) Inconsistent characterization. For example, there are characters who would switch from fighters with some sense of honor to mindless abusers whenever the author feels like it.
 * 10) The characters lack personality. If you were to live in the world of unOrdinary, you are going to either be an ignorant child or some insufferable asshole. Its very black & white but with little to no grey. There were attempts of the story going in between, but with no prevail.
 * 11) John Doe is an incredibly unlikeable protagonist during the second half of season 1 and the first half of season 2, he constantly beats up people whenever he feels like it. As mentioned before, it goes on longer than it should. Throughout the story, he acts insufferably arrogant to those who reminded him of people who betrayed him.
 * 12) It has a swarm of bullies that are everywhere that jumps out and attack others just because. Not to mention, they only exist for filler and are the closest to being the real main villains than EMBER.
 * 13) The school known as Wellston provides unrealistically high expectations for students. Yet the story treats them like selfish and disrespectful airheads who abuses their powers. While there is some truth to that if something similar were to occur in real life, but the idea was barely expanded upon past the first draft.
 * 14) There are far too many unlikeable characters that don't contribute much to the story. With Seraphina's mother, the authorities and the school bullies being the worst offenders.
 * 15) The school bullies are one-dimensional and are portrayed as cliched, malicious high school stereotypes who show no respect for weaker students just because. These bullies are so insufferable, that they made Victor and Monty from Power Rangers Ninja Steel look like saints by comparison.
 * 16) * Most of the civilians (including the 2 rude store customers) outside of the school are about as cruel and lifeless as the bullies.
 * 17) Lack of teachers. Wellston seem to only have 2-3 teachers despite being a top private school. Not to mention, there doesn't seem to be cafeteria workers, janitors or stationery sellers. This is a huge problem, because the story spends the most amount of time in that school.
 * 18) The pacing is atrocious as the author wastes so much time on plot-lines that don't matter yet rushed the ones that do. It is especially the case with the beginning of season 2.
 * 19) Misinformed social commentary. As mentioned in the 5th bullet point, it doesn't even know what it's doing. So despite its commentary on subject matters such as society, poor education system, effects of bullying and etc. Yet the result is surface level at best and pretentious at worst.
 * 20) Inconsistent world-building. Despite having over 200 episodes to cover and mostly taking place in one location, the world doesn't seem to have any clear rules or limitations. Yet it somehow keeps changing whenever the author feels like it.
 * 21) Ember, unOrdinary 's primary villain faction was pretty much forgotten by the author for a long period of time. Instead the author focused so much on the school bullies and random civilians as the "real" villains, while the closest we can get is Seraphina's kidnappers, and face-mask wearing ambushers while Zeke is the closest as well.
 * 22) The author's attempt to mirror this fictional society to the one that most of her readers are living in. As mentioned in a previous bullet point, it doesn't work.
 * 23) Unexplained lore. Despite having over 200 episodes as well as the author's insistence on social commentary, it has little to no depth. There's still barely if not any explanation about the world of unOrdinary. For example, how did their society became as bad as it is? Was there some sort of war? Where did their powers came from? To give examples from similar stories, in MHA, quirks are abilities that the people are born with. In The Boys, the "superheroes" got their abilities from Compound V. What about unOrdinary? Nothing.
 * 24) This is a very mean-spirited story to experience. While large part is due to all of the points that were mentioned on this list, but the biggest factor was how hard it tries to be more than it really is. It doesn't even reach the bare minimum of being a dumb, fun experience. By the end of the day, unOrdinary sucks to read and its a waste of time.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Likeable characters like Arlo and Seraphina.
 * 2) Some lighthearted and funny moments here and there.
 * 3) Sometimes the bullies can be cowards and do apologize.
 * 4) John used to be likeable before the second season of the webcomic.
 * 5) The action scenes are good.
 * 6) The artwork is great and nice to look at.
 * 7) In chapter 224, John thankfully redeems himself and regrets becoming powerful due to the negative influence of his bullies was wrong.