Sweet Home Reading Guide: All 141 Chapters, Complete

If you watched the Netflix show and want to know what the original manhwa actually says, this Sweet Home reading guide is what you need. Seasons 2 and 3 of Netflix went off-script significantly from the source material. The manhwa is 141 chapters, fully completed in 2020, and free to read on WEBTOON.

TL;DR: Sweet Home reading guide: 141 chapters, completed. Free on WEBTOON (Mature rating). Season 1 of Netflix follows the manhwa. Seasons 2-3 are original Netflix stories. Carnby Kim wrote it; Youngchan Hwang drew it. Read from Chapter 1, no required reading order, no spinoffs needed to understand it.

Sweet Home reading guide: where to start

Start at Chapter 1 (or the prologue, which is marked separately) on WEBTOON. The reading order is linear. There are no alternate volumes, no seasonal breaks, and no companion works required to follow the plot. The full 141-chapter run is on WEBTOON, free, with a Mature content rating you'll confirm once.

Shotgun Boy is a prequel in the same world, but Sweet Home is completely self-contained. You don't need it. Read it after if the world interests you enough.

The series completed in July 2020 on Naver Webtoon. The English WEBTOON version closed in September 2020. Every chapter is available now.

Overview

Sweet Home by Carnby Kim (story) and Youngchan Hwang (art). Free to read on WEBTOON, 141 chapters, completed 2020.

Sweet Home is a horror manhwa about a world where people begin transforming into monsters driven by their deepest desires. The story centers on Cha Hyun-su, a teenager who moves into a rundown apartment complex after his family dies in a car accident. He was already considering suicide before the outbreak started. The apartment becomes a fortress as the remaining residents try to hold off the creatures outside and figure out what's happening to the people inside.

Written by Carnby Kim with art by Youngchan Hwang, the series ran on Naver Webtoon from October 2017 to July 2020. It accumulated 2.1 billion views on Naver during its run. The English WEBTOON version has 2.4 million subscribers. Netflix adapted it starting December 2020, which brought another wave of readers to the source material.

The monster designs follow a specific logic: each creature's physical form reflects the obsession or desire that drove their transformation. That logic is more explicitly developed in the manhwa than in the Netflix adaptation, and it's central to the horror.

Sweet Home reading guide: key takeaways

• Sweet Home completed its run at 141 chapters; the full series is on WEBTOON free
• Written by Carnby Kim, art by Youngchan Hwang; Carnby Kim also wrote Bastard
• Protagonist Cha Hyun-su is suicidal before the outbreak and remains an ambiguous figure throughout
• Monster transformations are linked to human desires; the logic is clearer in the manhwa than in Netflix
• Netflix Season 1 follows the manhwa; Seasons 2-3 are original stories not based on it
• Rated Mature on WEBTOON; contains extreme violence, gore, body horror, and suicide themes

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What Season 1 of Netflix covers

Netflix Season 1 covers the main events of the Sweet Home manhwa relatively closely, at least in outline. The Greenhorn Apartment, Cha Hyun-su's arc, the core survivors, and the early monster confrontations all map to the manhwa's first major section.

The differences in Season 1 are mostly in emphasis and character framing. The manhwa spends more time inside Hyun-su's head. His internal conflict, the voice of the monster he might be becoming, and the specific psychological texture of the apartment standoff are more developed in the manhwa than the show has time to portray. If Season 1 left you wanting more interiority from Hyun-su, the manhwa delivers it.

Character designs, some survivor arcs, and the basic premise all translate. Season 1 is where the two versions track each other most closely.

What changed after Season 1

This is the part most viewers who come from the Netflix show want to know, and the answer is: quite a lot.

Netflix Seasons 2 and 3 are original stories not based on the manhwa. The character fates in the Netflix version diverge significantly from what the manhwa establishes. Sang-wook's arc ends differently. Yu-ri's storyline takes a different direction. Netflix introduced Seo Yi-kyung, a character who doesn't exist in the manhwa, and built substantial Season 2 and 3 content around her.

The endings are different. Netflix Season 3 (July 2024) concluded the show's version of the story. The manhwa has its own ending that the show did not adapt.

What this means for reading: the manhwa and the Netflix show are two different versions of the same initial premise, not one source and one faithful adaptation. If you watched all three Netflix seasons, you've seen one interpretation of where this story goes. The manhwa's ending is a separate answer to the same question.

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Content warnings: what to expect

Sweet Home earns its Mature rating. Readers who approach it expecting something like the tonal register of a teen horror series will be surprised.

The monster transformations are graphically depicted. The body horror is specific and detailed. Youngchan Hwang's art renders the physical changes with enough anatomical clarity that the process feels visceral rather than stylized. If you're bothered by gore, this series is not light about it.

The violence against human characters is also sustained. People die in the apartment standoff, and the series doesn't treat those deaths as background events.

Cha Hyun-su's suicide ideation is not a background detail. It's woven into his character arc throughout the series. The manhwa is careful and purposeful with this thread, but it's consistently present.

Content warnings: extreme violence and gore, body horror (monster transformations), sustained psychological horror, suicide themes and ideation. Adult readers and older teens who understand the context will find this handled with more care than genre horror usually manages. Younger readers or readers sensitive to any of these topics should know what they're getting into.

Where to read Sweet Home

WEBTOON is the official English source. The full 141-chapter run is free. You'll confirm a Mature content rating before the first chapter. There's no subscription requirement for the complete run. WEBTOON's mobile app or desktop browser both work well for this series.

The vertical scroll format is standard for WEBTOON reading. Youngchan Hwang's art was designed for vertical scroll; the panel flow and horror timing are built around the scroll rhythm, not against it.

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Physical editions of Sweet Home have been published in some markets. The primary digital English source remains WEBTOON.

Reading tips for Sweet Home

Read the prologue. It's labeled separately from the main chapters and easy to miss if you start at Chapter 1 directly. The prologue is short and establishes who Cha Hyun-su is before the outbreak. It's not optional setup; it changes how you read his arc.

The monster transformation logic rewards attention. Each creature's physical form reflects the obsession that drove them. The manhwa sometimes shows this explicitly and sometimes leaves you to piece it together. The ones you have to infer are usually more disturbing than the ones the series explains outright.

Don't read Sweet Home during a bad mental health stretch. This is practical advice, not a spoiler warning. The series is relentlessly bleak in stretches, and Hyun-su's interiority during his worst chapters is written with enough specificity that readers in difficult places sometimes find it too close. The series has real emotional craft; it's not wallowing. But know your own limits.

Read all the way through. This Sweet Home reading guide is built around completed series for exactly this reason: the ending exists and is earned. A lot of horror manhwa with apartment-standoff or monster-outbreak premises either trail off or lose narrative coherence by the late chapters. Sweet Home holds its logic to the ending.

If you read Bastard before or after Sweet Home: Bastard is by Carnby Kim but set in a completely different world, normal contemporary setting, serial killer thriller premise. Not connected to the monster outbreak universe. Still excellent, different register entirely.

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• Best Manhwa Psychological Thriller: if Hyun-su's psychological arc was what held you, this list has more of that.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many chapters is Sweet Home?

Sweet Home ran 141 chapters total (140 chapters plus one prologue) on Naver Webtoon in Korea. The English version on WEBTOON also has 141 episodes. The series is fully completed with a definitive ending. Is Sweet Home manhwa completed?

Yes. Sweet Home completed its run in July 2020 on Naver Webtoon. All 141 chapters are available to read now on WEBTOON without waiting for updates. Where can I read Sweet Home for free?

Sweet Home is available free on WEBTOON in English. The full 141-chapter run is accessible without a subscription. The series is rated Mature on WEBTOON, so you'll need to confirm your age to read it. Is the Sweet Home Netflix show faithful to the manhwa?

Season 1 follows the manhwa relatively closely. Seasons 2 and 3 are original Netflix stories not based on the manhwa. Key character arcs and the ending differ significantly between the manhwa and the Netflix adaptation. Who made Sweet Home?

Sweet Home was written by Carnby Kim with art by Youngchan Hwang. It originally ran on Naver Webtoon in Korean from October 2017 to July 2020. The English version ran on WEBTOON from January 2018 to September 2020. What is the Shotgun Boy connection?

Shotgun Boy is a prequel manhwa by Carnby Kim set in the same world as Sweet Home, taking place just before the events of the main series. It follows different characters at a school during the same monster outbreak. Reading Shotgun Boy is optional but adds context. Sweet Home stands completely alone without it. Is Sweet Home appropriate for mature readers only?

Sweet Home is rated Mature on WEBTOON for good reason. The series contains extreme violence and gore, body horror depicting monster transformations, psychological horror, and suicide themes in the protagonist's arc. It's appropriate for adult readers and mature teens who understand the context, but not for younger readers or those sensitive to graphic content. Does Sweet Home have a sequel?

Sweet Home does not have a direct sequel. Shotgun Boy is a prequel in the same world. Carnby Kim's other major work is Bastard (2014-2016), a psychological thriller set in the normal world, unconnected to Sweet Home's monster outbreak premise.

References

• Sweet Home on WEBTOON: free, complete 141-chapter run, Mature rating
• Sweet Home on Netflix: original adaptation, 3 seasons (2020, 2023, 2024)
• Shotgun Boy on WEBTOON: prequel series by Carnby Kim, same world