The Breaker reading guide comes down to one rule: read the three parts in the order they came out, and know that only the first two have an ending. The Breaker (브레이커) and The Breaker: New Waves are finished, 275 chapters between them. The third part, The Breaker: Eternal Force, stopped at its Season 1 finale and hasn't posted a new English episode since June 2024. If you want a quality verdict instead of a reading path, our The Breaker review has the rating; this page is about order, length and where to read.
Reviewing
The Breaker
The Breaker reading guide: the three parts at a glance
| Part | Length | Ran | First published | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Breaker (브레이커) | 72 chapters, 10 volumes | 2007 to 2010 | Young Champ magazine (Daiwon C.I.) | Finished |
| The Breaker: New Waves (브레이커NW) | 203 chapters, 20 volumes | 2010 to 2015 | Daum's webtoon portal | Finished |
| The Breaker: Eternal Force (이터널 포스) | 100 episodes so far | 2022 to 2024 | Naver Webtoon; WEBTOON in English | On break after Season 1 |
All three are written by Jeon Geuk-jin and drawn by Park Jin-hwan, who signed Part 1 as Kamaro. Part 1 began as a black-and-white print serial, New Waves moved online, and Eternal Force is a full-color vertical webtoon, so the look changes twice even though the artist doesn't. WEBTOON's English page bills Eternal Force as Season 3 of The Breaker, which settles the usual question: it's a continuation, not a spin-off.
The Breaker volume 1 (Korean edition), featuring Chun-woo Han. Cover via AniList.
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The Breaker reading order: Part 1, New Waves, then Eternal Force
- The Breaker (Part 1). Si-woon Lee (WEBTOON spells it Si-un), a timid high schooler, becomes the disciple of Chun-woo Han, a martial artist at war with the Murim, the secret martial arts society. It's the shortest part and the one everything else leans on.
- The Breaker: New Waves. It opens after Part 1's final fight. One warning: Ablaze's product blurb for New Waves gives away how Part 1 ends, so save it until you've finished Part 1.
- The Breaker: Eternal Force. A new lead, Haje Kang, is bullied to the point of standing on the school roof, ready to end it. Si-woon gives him "a push -- literally," Haje wakes up unscathed, and he begs Si-woon to train him.
Don't start with Eternal Force just because it's the one on WEBTOON. Si-woon is back, now as the mentor, and the story assumes you know him. The Breaker uses the clans, ki and master-and-student setup of murim manhwa from its first chapters, and the payoff in the later parts depends on having watched Si-woon grow up in the first two.
The Breaker: New Waves volume 1 (Korean edition). Cover via AniList.
What to expect from Eternal Force
The opening is the sore spot. Readers who loved Si-woon didn't want a new protagonist, and they said so. In one r/manhwa thread the top comment put it plainly: "The first 40 chapters were meh," but "the rest is good (prison arc is good)." Another reader there noticed that "The focus shifted onto goat sihoon to carry the manhwa once again." An older thread blames the author for "trying to force a second MC for almost 30 chapters," then adds: "It's amazing now but the author royally fumbled at the beginning."
AniList users agree it's the weakest of the three, but not by a mile: Eternal Force averages 70, against 80 and 81 for the first two parts.
The Breaker: Eternal Force cover. Cover via AniList.
This spring a reader who'd just finished the first two parts asked whether Eternal Force was worth it. The top reply says it "did improve after the poor inital release and towards the later half became what it should have been from chapter one."
For context on where The Breaker fits in the broader murim genre:
Best Murim Manhwa 2026 →
Is Eternal Force coming back?
Not on any announced date. The English run on WEBTOON started on July 31, 2022 and ends, for now, at "Episode 100 (Season 1 Finale)," posted June 9, 2024. The page still says it updates every Monday, but nothing has followed. In Korea, Naver Webtoon posted the 100th episode on March 28, 2024 and lists the series as on break, not finished.
The likeliest reason is a busy artist. Park Jin-hwan has been drawing Absolute Regression on Naver since July 2024, and when a reader asked last year whether there was any news, the top reply pointed to it: "Artist is currently doing Absolute Regression so at the very least until season end of Absolute Regression." That's a reader's read, not an announcement.
The Breaker reading guide: where to read it in English
- Part 1: Ablaze prints it as five omnibus volumes, two Korean volumes in each, so all ten are covered. There's also a box set.
- New Waves: Ablaze's store lists New Waves omnibus volumes 1 and 2.
- Eternal Force: WEBTOON, all 100 episodes, in English.
- Korean: Eternal Force is on Naver Webtoon. Part 1 and New Waves came out before Naver carried the series.
We didn't find a current official digital English edition of Part 1 or New Waves, so the Ablaze omnibuses are the legal way to read them in English.
Our take
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Read Part 1 and New Waves back to back and treat them as one finished story; that's the reason people still recommend The Breaker. Eternal Force is a bonus for readers who already love these characters. Give it past the shaky opening, where readers say it finds its feet, and go in knowing it stops at a season finale with no date for more. If you want something by the same artist that's still updating, Absolute Regression is the easier recommendation right now.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Breaker completed?
The first two parts are. The Breaker and The Breaker: New Waves both finished, so you can read them start to end. The third part, Eternal Force, stopped after its Season 1 finale and hasn't continued.
What order do you read The Breaker in?
Publication order: The Breaker, then The Breaker: New Waves, then The Breaker: Eternal Force. It's one story, and New Waves picks up after Part 1's final fight.
Will The Breaker: Eternal Force get a Season 2?
Nothing has been announced. Naver lists the Korean original as on break, and the artist has been drawing Absolute Regression since mid-2024.
How we checked this: on October 20, 2026 we pulled AniList's data for all three parts and for Absolute Regression, the WEBTOON English episode list for Eternal Force, Naver Webtoon's episode data, Ablaze's store pages, Wikipedia's publication history and four r/manhwa threads. We haven't reread the series for this update; reading-experience notes are readers', linked where quoted. Covers via AniList. Last reviewed: October 20, 2026.
Related Reading
- The Breaker Review: our rating and what the first two parts get right.
- The Breaker Character Guide: who's who across all three parts, including Eternal Force's new lead.
- Manhwa Like The Breaker: what to read next if you want more modern murim and master-and-student stories.
- Absolute Regression Review: the series The Breaker's artist is drawing now.
- Best Murim Manhwa 2026: where The Breaker sits in the genre relative to current titles.
- Nano Machine Reading Guide: another long murim run, still updating, with its own reading path.
- Doom Breaker Reading Guide: the reading path for another long regression action series, if you're shopping for the next binge.
References
- The Breaker on AniList: Part 1 chapter and volume count, dates, score
- The Breaker: New Waves on AniList: New Waves chapter and volume count, dates, score
- The Breaker: Eternal Force on AniList: start date, staff, score
- The Breaker: Eternal Force on WEBTOON: English episode list and synopsis
- The Breaker: Eternal Force on Naver Webtoon: Korean original
- The Breaker omnibus box set (Ablaze): English print edition of Part 1
- The Breaker: New Waves omnibus vol. 1 (Ablaze): English print edition of New Waves
- The Breaker (manhwa) on Wikipedia: publication history
