The Greatest Estate Developer

 
 One of the recent Korean webcomic I marathoned due to the buzz with its completion. I have to say this manhwa called Greatest Estate Developer is another solid fantasy Manhwa on par with Solo Levelling. I have actually encountered the series last year when I played certain Korean Gacha game called Unknown Knights where the series feature collab event with Greatest Estate Developer but it was likely the novel version since the artstyle was completely different with the Manhwa.

The Greatest Estate Developer is a Korean isekai series where the protagonist is transported into a fantasy novel he once read. He awakens as Lloyd Frontera, the spoiled and notoriously useless son of a noble family. But unlike your typical overpowered hero, Lloyd’s main asset isn’t strength—it’s his knowledge of civil engineering from modern-day Korea.

With his estate on the brink of collapse, Lloyd sets out to use his engineering expertise and knowledge of future events to rebuild his domain—and his reputation. He’s joined by Javier, a talented and straight-laced knight who initially despises Lloyd for his past behavior. Their dynamic forms the emotional backbone of the story, gradually evolving from hostility to mutual respect and even unbreakable friendship.

Overall Greatest Estate Developer strength does not lies in originality as it shares many tropes with Skeleton Soldier and Doom Breaker which are its peer fantasy manhwa. But it does cleverly utilize thegood qualities of its genre and wrapped up its story in relatively satisfying and conclusive manner. What I find refreshing with Greatest Estate is its character and entertaining humor. 

If Japanese pop culture has Kazuma as extremely scummy main protagonist, Korean Manhwa have Lloyd Frontera who is extremely greedy and can be downright cruel in devilish manner, often playing dirty when it comes to extorting his opponents which are mostly evil anyway. However Lloyd's selfish behavior more often than not benefit everyone positively despite often frustrating his guardian knight, Javier and his good deeds eventually regain his trust and devotion.

In terms of humor, Greatest Estate is one of the better that I come across recently and story-wise the first half is solid tier despite the latter part can be rather dragging. Greatest Estate also quite liberal in using many parodies from popular pop culture particularly western pop culture as I can even notice Fear&Hunger and Adventure time cameo for starters.

Overall I would rate Greatest Estate Developer 8.5 as Fantasy Manhwa, Doom Breaker might still have slight edge in Fantasy RPG aspect. But for now, Greatest Estate Developer wins out by far margin since it has successfully concluded its story on high note. I won't be surprised if Greatest Estate will be even getting any Anime adaptation in the future since the quality can be considered on par with Solo Levelling which is the current golden standard of Korean Manhwa.