The Tutorial Is Too Hard Reading Guide: Where to Read Now

The Tutorial Is Too Hard reading guide comes down to two things now. Start at Episode 0 on Tapas, where the series runs as The Tutorial Is Too Tough!, and stick with it through the time jumps. And know that the English edition has stopped: Tapas put it on hiatus on September 29, 2026, a week after its last episode, while the Korean original keeps going every Monday.

This page is about where and how to read it; whether it's worth reading at all is the Tutorial Is Too Hard review's job.

The Tutorial Is Too Hard reading guide: English vs Korean status

Credits: original story by Gandara, story and art by Imae Daiki. KakaoPage shows a 9.6 reader rating and just over 30 million views for the webtoon.

Screenshot: Tapas series page for The Tutorial Is Too Tough!, taken October 19, 2026.

The notice is short. Tapas says the series "will be entering a hiatus due to a production review of the title's localization schedule," and that's all it says: no return date, no reason beyond that. It lands on top of the bigger problem. Tapas stopped selling Ink on October 1 and closes for good on March 31, 2027, and anything you unlocked goes with it. No other English platform has been announced for this series.

What you're signing up for

Lee Ho-jae, a 26-year-old former pro gamer, gets an invitation to the "Tutorial World," picks hell difficulty without a second thought, and finds out he's trapped there. Tapas puts his odds at "a mere 0.01% survival rate." The joke is in the title: the tutorial is the whole story, and it's brutal.

The Tutorial Is Too Tough! cover (via AniList).

The thing that trips new readers up isn't the difficulty, it's the structure. Episode 0 opens in the future, and the story then goes back to Ho-jae's first day and cuts forward again now and then. Plenty of people miss that. A September r/manhwa thread was titled "I feel like I started to have a stroke after chapter 40," and the top reply explained it: "At some point it starts giving us a glimpse of the future, it’s actually really cool and sometimes more interesting than the main timeline. If it feels confusing at first, I suggest you just tough it out" (r/manhwa).

Not everyone toughs it out. In an August thread asking what readers thought of the series, one reply said they "Dropped it when it started hopping between future and present events instead of just continuing the story naturally." Another, higher up, called it "Absolute peak. Goes into the mental state of a character so much more than most stories do" (thread). That split is the real decision point, so make it early.

The Tutorial Is Too Hard reading guide: how to read it

1. Start at Episode 0. It's the scene the whole story is building back toward, so don't skip it as a prologue.
2. Expect the cuts forward. When the story jumps ahead to a later floor, it's on purpose. If you hate that kind of structure, you'll know within the first few dozen episodes, and that's the time to drop it, not two hundred episodes in.
3. Read on the timer. Every episode except the newest 81 unlocks on a one-day wait. That's a lot of free reading, and it's the part we'd spend time on.
4. Don't buy Ink for the newest episodes. You can't top up anymore anyway, and purchases vanish when Tapas closes. If you already hold Ink, this is a fine place to use it, as long as you'll finish before March.
5. Caught up? You've got two options. Read the Korean chapters on KakaoPage, which keep coming weekly, or wait and see whether the English edition finds a new home.

For where Tutorial sits among other tower and system series:

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Our take

We'd still start it. A former pro gamer treating a rigged survival game as a puzzle is a premise that holds up, and the readers who love it talk about how far inside Ho-jae's head it goes, not about power levels. But go in clear-eyed: the English edition has no restart date, the platform carrying it closes in March, and the free timer is the smart way to read it. If you want the same flavor with an English home that isn't going anywhere, our list of manhwa like The Tutorial Is Too Hard is the next stop.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is The Tutorial Is Too Hard completed? No. The Korean webtoon is still running on KakaoPage with a new chapter every Monday. The English edition on Tapas is on hiatus since September 29, 2026.

Why is The Tutorial Is Too Tough! on hiatus on Tapas? Tapas says it's due to a production review of the title's localization schedule. It gave no return date, and Tapas itself closes on March 31, 2027.

Where can I read The Tutorial Is Too Hard in English? Tapas, under the title The Tutorial Is Too Tough!. It's the only English platform AniList lists for the webtoon, and nothing has been announced for after Tapas closes.

How we checked this: on October 19, 2026 we re-read the Tapas series page (hiatus notice, episode list and dates, wait-until-free terms), the Tapas Ink and end-of-service notices, the KakaoPage series page, AniList's record for the series, and the two r/manhwa threads quoted above. The screenshot is ours.

Last reviewed: October 19, 2026

Related Reading

• The Tutorial Is Too Hard Review: our rating and what works and doesn't, if you want a verdict before committing.
• Best System Fantasy Manhwa: where Tutorial ranks against the rest of the genre.
• Solo Leveling Reading Guide: the genre's reference point, useful for seeing how differently Tutorial paces its climb.
• The Beginning After the End Reading Guide: another long-running fantasy for readers ready to commit.
• Manhwa Like The Tutorial Is Too Hard: eight picks with the same trapped-in-a-system pressure.

References

• The Tutorial Is Too Tough! on Tapas: series page, hiatus notice and episode list
• 튜토리얼이 너무 어렵다 on KakaoPage: Korean original
• The Tutorial Is Too Tough! on AniList: staff credits and characters
• Tapas end-of-service notice
• Anime News Network on the Tapas shutdown