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EOMMAREUL MANNAREO GANEUN GIL

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
4
RELEASE
July 7, 2026
CHAPTERS
53

DESCRIPTION

One day, after being discovered in an abandoned house by a rescue team, Mori suddenly finds himself in a children's protection center. Here, he begins to learn a new way of life – one that includes grand care packages sent by a mysterious patron. But when his closest friend is reunited with her mother and leaves the center, Mori learns for the first time the existence of a mother for every child, and decides to embark on a journey to find his own. But what sort of obstacles wait along the way?

(Source: WEBTOON)

Note: Includes 22 extra chapters.

CAST

Mori
Rider
Miria
AIA
Rodina

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

TheArbitrator
90/100
"Perfect tender beautiful silence"
When I close the covers of On the Way to Meet Mom, what lingers isn’t dialogue but instead it’s the quiet. So this won’t really be a review about the story or characters, at least not directly. It’s about how the manhwa presents itself, how it chooses to speak not through words, but through pauses, through stillness. There are pages where dialogue vanishes entirely, leaving just a boy’s hesitant step and a skyline that hums with memory. In those silences, the manhwa breathes its truest self.

The absence of chatter lets each panel speak. A single, wordless sunset carries more heartbreak than a whole volume of laments. You find yourself pausing on an empty alleyway, the cracked pavement glinting in dusk light, and feeling everything whether it be a sense of loss and longing or the faintest pulse of hope. The quiet isn’t void; it’s a canvas. And somehow, it never feels lonely.

And most importantly through all this it never gets dull. There’s a strange, persistent vibrance to this world. Colors whisper secrets: emerald moss climbing broken walls, the almost-too-blue stretch of sky, the dusty gold of early morning light on a roadside shack. Even the smallest thing beats with quiet purpose. The scenery isn’t passive. It watches. It remembers. It feels. It becomes a silent companion, guiding Mori (and us) through every fragile joy and soft tragedy.

Of course, there are characters. Mori, with his wide eyes and painful hope, and Aia, the little robot with a too-human warmth. And Rider, who first looks like a villain, then maybe a protector, and then something much stranger and kinder. But even here, the story doesn’t try to make declarations. Their kindness, their fear, the small hesitations they carry these are shown in glances, in small silences between action. When Mori meets Miria, it’s not a dramatic encounter, It’s a moment wrapped in tension, slowly unwound by quiet care. One softened gaze, one chapter at a time.

The pacing never hurries. It’s content to let us stay with a moment longer than expected. A whole page just for a stare. A three panel pause to show someone breathing. Time stretches, then folds in gently on itself.

And then, it ends.

Not with a thunderclap, not with a grand battle or revelation. But a soft exhale. A release. A stillness. Thirty-one chapters, and in the final whisper of warmth, the robot companion who has seen everything, who has felt more than a machine should breaks the hush and says:

“And they lived happily afterwards.”

It’s a small line. A popular one. But in that moment, it doesn’t feel cliché. It feels earned. Like a lullaby after a long, strange dream.

Not every story needs to roar. Some just need to hum. This one did. And it was beautiful.
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astratria
100/100
'Mom' was truly the friends we made along the way.
I don't even try to give a score to most manhwas that I read but this is a gut wrenchingly beautiful story. The theme seems childish and vague but gets clearer and more glaringly obvious as you read, especially if it's your second read.

It'll pull at your heartstrings from the very first chapter and will fill you with a breath of life with each following one, you might even miss your family and friends as you read it to be honest.

It's a wonder to see how it illustrates the concept of "Mom" breaking out of its bounds to represent chosen family. Everyone learns to love Mori, until braving dangers and the laws of the universe as they try to find what being a 'Mom' means becomes natural to each one of them.

Mori's obsession with the idea of a 'Mom' runs deep and is honestly heartbreaking, but it's the fact that somehow, somewhere down the line of everything that happened to him, he thought of everyone around him as 'Mom'. Because to Mori, 'Mom' was what he called the concept of a family.

But family isn't blood, it's sacrifice and love and unconditional care. It's forgiveness, it's honesty at your lowest and it's reaching out and seeing the best of one another even when things seem to go south. It's sitting with someone widely different from you on the floor and confessing what weighs on your heart as you try to solve a crisis involving someone that you both love.

It's starting a journey that may or may not be dangerous to you and unfruitful to help one of your own, it's finding your own strengths and believing in what you can do for one another in exchange for the innocence and love that flows between you.

It's misunderstanding another one's intentions and learning more about them as you go, driven by the desire to find a place next to one another. It's peering beyond what you hear and focusing on what you live through together.

And these things? The characters went through every single one of them and more for Mori, for the boy who started their family.

Species doesn't matter, gender doesn't matter, race doesn't matter; whatever the hell god says about it doesn't matter.

Family is who you choose and who chooses you, and this manhwa delivers it candidly with breathtaking art through a simple little adventure in 30 chapters with far more stakes than you could imagine.

Sometimes you get landscapes that seem out of a video game CG rather than a manhwa, painted simply but with much mastery. Sometimes you get extremely simple panels, childish little drawings with lines that tether on squiggly and can remind you of something drawn on a corner of your notebook when the teacher blabbing on becomes background noise.

And sometimes you get light, saturated panels filled with so much emotion and hope that they seem even brighter than reality. Yet not a single one of these is better than the other, and they all form the beautiful art that carries the story of "On the Way to Meet Mom".

I wish we could get more of Mori and his family, but the essence of the story itself was fully exploited with how it ended and I can't possibly ask for more.

I honestly started crying at the end, especially when it finally dawned on me that 'Mom' is actually 'Family' when Mori painted the foreign word over each drawing he made of the people around him. I went to read back the last few chapters and then I started crying again because I could finally read in between the lines.

And I cried the hardest when the judge called him soft and round, sent him back home and we got to see every single piece Mori drew with the korean word for 'Mom' clumsily written boldly on each one, and he ran to his family just to call them 'Mama'. As if Mori understood at the same time as me what Mom means to him.

I would read it again, a thousand times, and I will always allow my eyes to water a little at that "And they lived Happily Ever After".
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