After an eventful Webtoon Camp, Ma-eum faces more challenging situations as a rookie webtoon producer in Episode 5 of Today’s Webtoon.
In the most recent episode of Today’s Webtoon, in hopes of wrapping up the Webtoon Camp smoothly, things didn’t turn out the way Man-chul wants them to.
Ma-eum hurts one of the webtoon artists while trying to protect Shin Dae-ryuk and Jun-yeong. Moreover, her dad finds out she’s working instead of developing her judo skills.
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Today’s Webtoon Episode 5 Highlights
“How could a webtoon producer hurt an artist’s hand like this?”
Ma-eum immediately mediates and saves Dae-ryuk and Jun-yeong from the artist. The artist then creates chaos by saying that he will sue the company if he hurts his hands.
Jun-yeong takes him to the hospital, while Ma-eum is chastised by his supervisor for what she did. Ma-eum is concerned that she has ruined an artist’s career.
Meanwhile, at the hospital Jun-yeong sees the artist and his friend, it turns out that his friend is faking the injury and records it on camera.
Unfortunately, they have already posted complaints on the internet and Man-chul has to answer his seniors that everything is fine at the camp and it was all a small misunderstanding.
However, Jun-yeong saved the day by making Ma-eum feel a little bit better by showing the video he recorded that the artist is faking his injury.
“I’m going to believe in you and try this out because you took a chance on me.”
After the Webtoon Camp, the judges are finalizing the winners of the camp, and all of them except Producer Kwon are impressed by Shin Dae-ryuk’s storytelling skills.
His drawing skills are lacking, however, his story writing and framing and toning of the plots are natural as praised by writer Baek Eo-jin.
Furthermore, Man-chul thinks they can improve his drawing skills, and surprisingly writer Baek offers to take him in as his assistant.
Dae-ryuk did not win the competition, but he was offered an incredible opportunity, which he immediately declined, thanks to our Ma-eum, who never gave up on him and constantly encouraged him to give it a try.
Eventually, Ma-eum manages to convince him and introduced him right away to writer Baek Eo-jin and his assistants.
“Why can’t you believe in your own daughter? If my mother doesn’t believe that I can do it who will believe in me?”
Simultaneously, all of the new artists were assigned a producer, and Ma-eum assigned Goo Seul-a as her artist; however, Seul-a is not yet confident in herself.
Seul-a felt like she was not skillful and talented enough to debut as a professional webtoon artist.
She was unsatisfied with the outcome of her drafts and overwhelmed by all of the feedback she received from Ma-eum. Additionally, her mother is nagging her to get a real job instead of working on her hobby.
Frustrated and tired Seul-a burst into tears and voiced out her thoughts to her mother about becoming a webtoon artist.
Her mother then hugged her crying daughter and tried to console her.
“I don’t need someone who will be swayed by sympathy.”
Chief Heo invites Jun-yeong for a dinner and to discuss his offer. Jun-yeong asked him about the future of the webtoon team. However, Chief Heo is quite eager to get rid of the webtoon team as soon as possible and acquire an entirely new team.
He believes that the webtoon team will not be able to reach its promised target and has already planned to get rid of the webtoon team.
Chief Heo wants Jun-yeong to give him a falsified report of the team’s progress. Jun-yeong is still in a dilemma but pretends to accept his offer.
“You see, we feel differently and make different choices. Things that bother you at all could be big problems for me. And I may truly cherish the things that mean nothing to you. See? You and I are two different people.”
Ma-eum is shocked to find out that Producer Kwon has scouted Seul-a to be his artist for his webtoon.
Producer Kwon offered Seul-a the project and advises her to quit her project with Ma-eum as his project will give her money and experience as well.
Subsequently, Seul-a accepts her offer and Producer Kwon advises Ma-eum to let Seul-a go and think about how an artist also needs to make a living and she cannot just give her false hopes.
Feeling dejected, Ji-hyung adorably consoles broken-hearted Ma-eum.
Confronting her father with her decision, Ma-eum met his father to spar with him at the dojo.
His father is delighted because he is expecting Ma-eum to return to Judo. However, Ma-eum confesses that she already has a job and she is working on her Judo skills.
Her father gets furious to find out that she had no plans to return to Judo. Still, Ma-eum bravely claims her choice and tells her father that she had a new dream now.
Today’s Webtoon Episode 5 Musings
This episode highlights the struggles and the ambition of new webtoon artists. It simply illustrates the different progress of a webtoon artist in the making which shows it is not an easy ride, to begin with.
Seul-a struggles in making a debut and doubts if she is talented enough to become a professional webtoon artist.
Not only did she learn that the other artist who joined at the same time as she is already preparing for her debut but also her storyboard is not improving. It symbolizes the pressure of not being able to catch up on someone’s progress.
Moreover, Dae-ryuk’s effort to improve his drawing skills by just practicing drawing a perfect circle means that he is eager to improve his skills and make sure he debuts within a year.
Meanwhile, we have more heart-fluttering moments for Ma-eum and Jun-yeong, as well as another episode with Jun-yeong smiling.
Furthermore, the way he looks at Ma-eum predicts that a romance is about to blossom between them. Correspondingly, the chemistry highlighted in this episode is surely engrossing.
Ma-eum and Jun-yeong’s co-worker relationship is improving and that is something to keep an eye on.
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