Naver Webtoon ratings are public on every episode, and the newest ten episodes of The Stellar Swordmaster all sit between 9.952 and 9.984. Open the Korean list for any other hit series and the column looks different. We read that column for ten of the biggest series that are on both Naver and WEBTOON on November 8, 2026, and averaged each one's last ten free episodes.
The number is a star score that Korean readers give each episode. The data behind it carries more decimals than we show, and we rounded to three. Our own arithmetic is the plain mean of ten of them. Treat it as a mood reading of the Korean audience over a stretch of weeks, not a verdict on the whole series.
Naver Webtoon ratings, ranked by the last ten free episodes
| Rank | Series | Average of last 10 | Lowest and highest of the ten | Naver favorites | WEBTOON likes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stellar Swordmaster | 9.970 | 9.952 to 9.984 | 577,459 | 3.6M |
| 2 | Absolute Sword Sense | 9.940 | 9.903 to 9.951 | 336,054 | 2.6M |
| 3 | Omniscient Reader | 9.877 | 9.717 to 9.958 | 1,452,226 | 44.5M |
| 4 | Villain to Kill | 9.807 | 9.315 to 9.955 | 197,919 | 11M |
| 5 | Teenage Mercenary | 9.697 | 8.930 to 9.937 | 765,867 | 20.3M |
| 6 | Eleceed | 9.671 | 8.972 to 9.912 | 620,961 | 39.6M |
| 7 | Lookism | 9.649 | 9.508 to 9.799 | 2,497,895 | 59.3M |
| 8 | Time-Limited Genius Dark Knight | 9.379 | 7.725 to 9.856 | 209,806 | 2.5M |
| 9 | Surviving the Game as a Barbarian | 9.378 | 8.485 to 9.741 | 329,954 | 4.9M |
| 10 | Tower of God | 7.811 | 5.582 to 9.440 | 1,888,849 | 66.3M |
Three series are not posting right now, so their ten episodes are older. Omniscient Reader, Teenage Mercenary and Tower of God are all marked as resting on Naver. The Omniscient Reader ten run from April 14 to June 9, 2026 and end with the season 1 afterword comic (9.958), the highest score in its row. Teenage Mercenary's ten run from February 7 to April 11, 2026. Tower of God's Korean list stops at Season 3, Episode 235, dated February 2, 2025, and its ten end with that finale. Its English list ends at "[Season 3] Ep. 235 (Season 3 Finale)" on February 23, 2025, and WEBTOON's mobile page says "On hiatus".
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What the top of the table looks like
The Stellar Swordmaster and Absolute Sword Sense are close to flat lines. Their ten scores differ by 0.031 and 0.048 from lowest to highest. Nothing in the last two months made Korean readers angry enough to move the average.
The Stellar Swordmaster, WEBTOON series art. Image: WEBTOON.
We read the first three English episodes of The Stellar Swordmaster on November 8 to see whether the score makes sense at the start. Naver's first three episodes scored 9.911, 9.962 and 9.970, so the series was a hit from episode 1. What you notice as a reader is how little the first episode explains. It opens in snow over a slum with narration that ends "...then you're a star." Vlad sells "rose candles" that burn for five minutes at The Smiling Rose, and when a mercenary calls them a scam, he tests one against a clock on the wall and wins the argument. The episode closes with One-Armed Jack, one of five slum bosses, asking where Vlad's boss is.
Episode 1, The Stellar Swordmaster. Image: WEBTOON.
Episode 2 gives Jack his one-hand joke: "Sorry I can't clap louder than this. I only have one hand." Vlad then fights off Jack's men with a wooden stick, and a voice in his head, which he blames on the black lightning that struck him, says "Hey, kid." Episode 3 moves out of the city. Vlad meets a retired knight, Stangar, who offers to answer one question for every piece of jerky he is handed, and who closes his left eye before he shows Vlad what an aura looks like. A cloaked figure with a sword steps in at the end, and the last line is "It's been quite a while, Jorge."
None of that proves 9.97, but each of the three episodes ends on a new question, which is the kind of start that fits a flat line of scores.
The current English web list for the series reaches Season 2, Episode 136 (November 3), and the page says "Read 7 new episodes only on the app". Our Stellar Swordmaster reading guide covers where to start.
Reddit readers talk about the series in the same terms. On r/manhwa, u/sanhuaa_ wrote on November 5, 2026 that it is "like my current fav manhwa that I look forward for new chapters", and complained that the day it posts has moved. Earlier, u/Ash_Born_here posted on July 19, 2026: "GAWDDAYUM this manhwa is so good." Both are single voices. They match the score without proving it.
Where the average hides a bad week
Villain to Kill, Teenage Mercenary and Eleceed sit in the middle. Teenage Mercenary and Eleceed each have a single episode that falls well below its neighbours, while Villain to Kill's last three Naver episodes slide in turn, 9.762, 9.62 and 9.315 (episode 254, dated November 2, 2026). Teenage Mercenary's lowest is Naver episode 272 at 8.930, dated February 14. Eleceed's lowest is Naver episode 413 at 8.972, dated September 15.
Two series fall further. Time-Limited Genius Dark Knight (the Naver series 시한부 천재 암흑기사) has the biggest drop among the series still posting: "2부 67화 셀수스의 이름", dated August 26, scored 7.725, and the next episode scored 9.575. Its other nine scores run from 9.034 to 9.856, and without that one episode its average would be about 9.56. Surviving the Game as a Barbarian has the lowest average of the series still posting, 9.378, and it has two soft spots: Naver episode 154, "생존자들", dated September 2, scored 8.485, and episode 160 on October 14 scored 8.795. The English reading guides are at Surviving the Game as a Barbarian and Time-Limited Genius Dark Knight.
The averages of those last two are 9.379 and 9.378, which is a gap of about 0.002. We would not rank them against each other, and the order in the table is arithmetic, not a judgement.
Episode 1 title card, The Stellar Swordmaster. Image: WEBTOON.
Tower of God is the only series below 9
Tower of God's ten are 9.166, 9.440, 9.313, 7.295, 9.334, 8.958, 6.655, 5.582, 5.977 and 6.391, reading from the newest backwards, and they are the last ten Korean episodes before the break. The four lowest are consecutive: Season 3, Episodes 226 to 229, all under 6.7. No other series in the table has a single episode under 7.7. The first three Naver episodes of Tower of God scored 9.88, 9.91 and 9.93, so it started as a high scorer too.
A caution before you use the table to decide what to read: Naver's favorites column puts Tower of God at 1,888,849, higher than every series here except Lookism (2,497,895). A low score from the readers who rated those Season 3 episodes doesn't make the series a bad read. It does show where Korean readers pushed back, and WEBTOON's list does reach Season 3, Episode 235, so you can look up the discussion before you get to those chapters.
For a series that is still posting, Eleceed, Lookism and Villain to Kill all have reading guides here, and What Time Does Webtoon Update shows which of the big series are really posting this week. For breaks, see Manhwa on Hiatus.
Our take: read the floor, not the average
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Our view is that the lowest of the ten scores matters more than the mean. A series that averages 9.4 because of one angry week is a different thing from one that averages 9.4 because every week is middling, and a mean alone can't tell them apart. Absolute Sword Sense's floor is 9.903. Tower of God's floor is 5.582. If you can only look at one number before starting a series, look at the lowest recent score and then at the episode title that goes with it.
The cases above show a second thing: a low score is a prompt to look, not a reason to skip. A Reddit poster who listed Surviving the Game as a Barbarian in their "Top5" in an August 24, 2026 tier list post, next to Solo Leveling and Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, was rating the whole run, which no single week can move much.
What we couldn't check
We can't see why any episode scored low, because the star score has no reasons attached and we didn't read the Korean comment threads. Naver counts only the readers who chose to rate, and we don't know how many that is for each episode. The ten series are our pick of hit titles that are on both platforms, not a complete list, and we left out any series whose Naver match we couldn't confirm by creator names. The last-ten window covers a different span for each series: two months for the weekly ones, and older windows for Omniscient Reader, Teenage Mercenary and Tower of God. We didn't match Naver episode numbers to English episode numbers except for Tower of God's Season 3 finale, which both lists label 235. We read only the first three English episodes of The Stellar Swordmaster; for the other nine we used lists and scores. We didn't open the app, so the "7 new episodes only on the app" line is counted, not read. The favorites and likes numbers come from Naver's series data and WEBTOON's weekday pages, and each platform counts differently.
How we checked this: on November 8, 2026 we read Naver Webtoon's episode lists and series data for the ten series, WEBTOON's English list pages and Originals weekday pages, the free Episodes 1 to 3 of The Stellar Swordmaster, and three r/manhwa posts. Last reviewed: November 8, 2026.
References
- 별을 품은 소드마스터 on Naver Webtoon, 절대검감, 전지적 독자 시점, 빌런투킬, 입학용병: Korean episode lists and star scores
- 일렉시드, 외모지상주의, 시한부 천재 암흑기사, 게임 속 바바리안으로 살아남기, 신의 탑: Korean episode lists and star scores
- The Stellar Swordmaster on WEBTOON: English list, app-only line and Episodes 1 to 3
- Tower of God on WEBTOON: Season 3 finale and hiatus status
- r/manhwa: Stellar swordsmaster New chapter?? (November 5, 2026), The Stellar Swordmaster (July 19, 2026)
Related Reading
- The Stellar Swordmaster Reading Guide: where to start the top-ranked series.
- What Time Does Webtoon Update: which big series are posting this week.
- Manhwa on Hiatus: official break notices, by platform.
- Where to Read Manhwa Legally: the platforms behind these rankings.
