DICE: The Cube that Changes Everything (Manhwa)

[Lord C]

Was actually impressed that no one started a thread on this.



Dunno if this link up here will become an actual image (kinda new here)

Anyway...
Author and artist: Yun Hyun Seok.

Dongtae is rock bottom in everything.
Looks, grades, life, everything.
But all that might change.

If you could change your life by playing a game, would you?

The story, without putting spoilers, is more like this: Do you know ``The Gamer``? Trade comedy for tragedy.
There is this sort of ``game of life`` going around, and due to it, you can change yourself with the points. Looks, smarts, luck, everything can be changed. However, an interesting concept is of the quests and the G.M. behind them, which adds a faustic theme along with ``a deal with the devil``.
43 chapters translated already. Personally, I think that in order to judge the story, someone has to read until chapter 16, it`s the turning point of the story and even has a BGM.

[Kirito]

So this series finally gets its thread, huh? To be honest I planned to make one for this series, but since not many people pay attention to Manhwa's I sort of just ignored making one. After the way Orange Marmalade ended I sort of got turned off from Manhwa's, but Dice pretty much recaptured my faith in them. I just hope this series gets the attention and general interests it deserves because it warrants it.

I've read the translated chapters for 43, but I've seen the raws and they're at 54 chapters right now. So in terms of where translations go we're 11 chapters behind. All right. I may be weak in Korean, but like I did with Orange Marmalade I'll give my summary on the raws on a weekly basis.

Anyways...

Spoiler for Chapter 43:

Dice pandemonium is currently at hand. I wonder if this means other dicers will start their own gangs or clique in the near future.

Dong Tae's theory on why he's getting less quests must be him reaching a point where obtaining Dice is not much of an necessity to him. Makes sense since he looks better, he's very strong, plus an top rank dicer with time stopping abilities.

I wonder if there's more to Taebin since he has something of a bad or not tragic bad story.

[Lord C]

Hmm, batoto is down with all manhwa and naver`s official translation is slow as hell...
Either way, lonemanga.com translated until 49
dicescans.blogspot.com translated until 51

[Kirito]

I keep forgetting to update this series. It's sad that no one pays attention or cares about it. Anyhoo, I'm here to announce that S1 of this series is over in the Korean raws. So much does happen from chapters 51-62, if what you're saying Lord C in terms of currently translated chapters, we've got 11 more to go to end S1. If you're interested I could do a summary from chapters 51-62. I'm learning a bit of Korean, but I still suck at it, but I think I could manage based off imagery and what I could take in terms of text.

Let me tell you, things get so trippy and it sucks that the author is taking a 4 week break. We won't see a new raw chapter until mid September at best...sadly!

[anonfr]

Originally Posted by Kirito

I keep forgetting to update this series. It's sad that no one pays attention or cares about it. Anyhoo, I'm here to announce that S1 of this series is over in the Korean raws. So much does happen from chapters 51-62, if what you're saying Lord C in terms of currently translated chapters, we've got 11 more to go to end S1. If you're interested I could do a summary from chapters 51-62. I'm learning a bit of Korean, but I still suck at it, but I think I could manage based off imagery and what I could take in terms of text.

Let me tell you, things get so trippy and it sucks that the author is taking a 4 week break. We won't see a new raw chapter until mid September at best...sadly!

I'm interested in that summary. I just viewed those raws today, man it gets intense real fast, in a lot of places. Did Dongtae finally give up eunju? The video game analogy was funny, because it's exactly how she's been thought of by a lot of the fandom.

[Lord C]

Quality aside, things got serious in the last chapter translated

Spoiler for Serious sh%t:

[Kirito]

Originally Posted by anonfr

I'm interested in that summary. I just viewed those raws today, man it gets intense real fast, in a lot of places. Did Dongtae finally give up eunju? The video game analogy was funny, because it's exactly how she's been thought of by a lot of the fandom.

Sorry for the late reply, anonfr. Been too busy with Tales of Xillia 2 and UNIEL to make a post the summaries I mentioned. Well, either you're still interested or not I'm going to post them now. So let's get started...

Ahem:

Spoiler for A Simple Note:

This summary summarizes the events of chapters 50-62 leading the to end of S1 of this series. These events will lead up to how S2 of this series will potentally play out. Enough dragging on, let's get started.

Ahem:

Spoiler for S1 Summary (Remainder):

At the train station Dongtae learns that he's been betrayed by his guild members and they attempt to kill him as a result. Despite the overwhelming numbers and having no dice to use Time Pause, Dongtae is still able to defeat them. During the fight X (speaking through the stations intercom since Dongtae's phone is broken) grants Dongtae dice rewards if he's able to defeat is old guild members in battle and was able to succeed in doing so.

During Mio's outing (while waiting for Dongtae to contact her) she enters a fortune tellers tent and learns about the Tower Arcana and the Tower of Babel. These, however, relate to what X is planning, but I don't know how or why. To make this interesting...Biblical themes are somewhat present during this series, in case anyone never picked up on it.

After dispatching his old guild members he learns of the new special dice which increases a Dicers abilities, and X will plan something once the number of A Rank Dicers exceed a certain limit. Moonyoung watching the events through the stations security system and tells Dongtae about the next stage about the dice (which is oddly censored and isn't revealed until chapter 62, but will get to in a second). He escapes via Teleportation and from a spoiler I've been told it's said that Moonyoung and Dongtae are acquaintances...interesting.

After the events at the station, Dongtae is heading towards the concert hall only to be dejected in not being able to help Eunju get the other choir members who ditched (because of dice and quests) to come and participate in the event. Eunju reveals that it's she who asked Taebin out and not him, and this news surprises and upsets him, but doesn't show it. She sees blood on Dongtae's shirt and worries, but Dongtae being upset and confused accidently pushes her away which ends up with her falling on the ground. Realizing what he had done, he uses Time Pause and leaves the park where the concert hall was being held guilty and upset.

While walking home in ends up running into a very upset Mio who attacks him for standing her up and leaving her alone throughout the day. Dongtae makes it up to her by agreeing to hang out at his place for the night, and with that being said Mio can start to complete her quest from X to spend the day with him.

So they start their date and during their time together Mio learns of the events Dongtae's been through earlier in the day, and the special dice she accidently found in the clothes he wore that day. She cooks, they talk, and play games and during those times she kisses him on the cheek and things between the two get more awkward. Mio starts to tease and seduce Dongtae but the latter heads to the roof to cool his head. He starts to thing of Eunju and gets depressed again. Mio follows him there only to tease him about the cute shark underwear he has hung up. He chases her and falls down on top of her (Rito Yuuki lvl 1 style) and the mood between them get more awkward and intimate. Dongtae ends up destroying the moment which results in Mio beating the crap out of him.

When morning hits Mio leaves the roof and goes to check her phone, only to see that her quest had been complete and becomes an A Rank Dicer. She accidently rolls the dice after Dongtae surprises her by following to see what's wrong. She quickly hides the dice in her pocket and the side she lands on is the "Eye" symbol. I don't remember the term for the "Eye" in terms of ability, but let's call it the "All Seeing Eye" for now.

With the date officially over Dongtae escorts Mio home partway and she leaves not telling Dongtae she became an A Rank Dicer. Once Dongtae returns home after seeing Mio off, he gets another big announcement from X (via computer monitor cause remember his phone is broken and it's generally the main tool of communication with X) regarding the dice game and that the number of A Rank Dicers have all reached 16. So that means, it's time to change the rules. The next stage of the game is a PvP (Player vs Player) battle royale/survival system where Dicers put their dices and careers as Dicers on the line.

Moonyoung demonstrates this by attacking a female Dicer and takes her dice, turning the girl into the person she was before she used Dice. He then takes the Psychokinesis ability from Dongtae's old guild member and turns him back into what he originally was pre-dice. With that Moonyoung has the Teleportation, Time Pause, and Psychokinesis ability. He also mentions that if he can gain the other 3 (Flight, Invisibility, the All Seeing Eye) he can challenge X again...

X tells Dongtae that the next stage of the game can give a Dicer the ability to change the world.

At home. Mio tests out her All Seeing Eye ability. Her ability allows her to obtain info on people and things just by observing them. Her ability also grants her the chance to see how much dice a Dicer has, their abilities, Rank, and how they were pre-dice. Mio looks at herself in the mirror and sees the fat, hideous self she despises.

At home Eunju gets a text from Taebin, asking her if she's available to meet sometime.

And with that. The summary and events of S1 finally ends.

Phew. It took some doing but I'm glad I was able to get this done. Note: That the notes that I've bolded were summaries I've found by people sharing them. The rest were me using imagery and understanding of the situation. So, anyone following this thread. What do you think? It sucks that we have to wait until mid-September to see the start of S2, but for now all we can do now is wait.

I've done my part. Like I said, hope you all enjoy the summary I put up for you guys!

[anonfr]

Originally Posted by Kirito

Sorry for the late reply, anonfr. Been too busy with Tales of Xillia 2 and UNIEL to make a post the summaries I mentioned. Well, either you're still interested or not I'm going to post them now. So let's get started...

Ahem:

Spoiler for A Simple Note:

This summary summarizes the events of chapters 50-62 leading the to end of S1 of this series. These events will lead up to how S2 of this series will potentally play out. Enough dragging on, let's get started.

Ahem:

Spoiler for S1 Summary (Remainder):

At the train station Dongtae learns that he's been betrayed by his guild members and they attempt to kill him as a result. Despite the overwhelming numbers and having no dice to use Time Pause, Dongtae is still able to defeat them. During the fight X (speaking through the stations intercom since Dongtae's phone is broken) grants Dongtae dice rewards if he's able to defeat is old guild members in battle and was able to succeed in doing so.

During Mio's outing (while waiting for Dongtae to contact her) she enters a fortune tellers tent and learns about the Tower Arcana and the Tower of Babel. These, however, relate to what X is planning, but I don't know how or why. To make this interesting...Biblical themes are somewhat present during this series, in case anyone never picked up on it.

After dispatching his old guild members he learns of the new special dice which increases a Dicers abilities, and X will plan something once the number of A Rank Dicers exceed a certain limit. Moonyoung watching the events through the stations security system and tells Dongtae about the next stage about the dice (which is oddly censored and isn't revealed until chapter 62, but will get to in a second). He escapes via Teleportation and from a spoiler I've been told it's said that Moonyoung and Dongtae are acquaintances...interesting.

After the events at the station, Dongtae is heading towards the concert hall only to be dejected in not being able to help Eunju get the other choir members who ditched (because of dice and quests) to come and participate in the event. Eunju reveals that it's she who asked Taebin out and not him, and this news surprises and upsets him, but doesn't show it. She sees blood on Dongtae's shirt and worries, but Dongtae being upset and confused accidently pushes her away which ends up with her falling on the ground. Realizing what he had done, he uses Time Pause and leaves the park where the concert hall was being held guilty and upset.

While walking home in ends up running into a very upset Mio who attacks him for standing her up and leaving her alone throughout the day. Dongtae makes it up to her by agreeing to hang out at his place for the night, and with that being said Mio can start to complete her quest from X to spend the day with him.

So they start their date and during their time together Mio learns of the events Dongtae's been through earlier in the day, and the special dice she accidently found in the clothes he wore that day. She cooks, they talk, and play games and during those times she kisses him on the cheek and things between the two get more awkward. Mio starts to tease and seduce Dongtae but the latter heads to the roof to cool his head. He starts to thing of Eunju and gets depressed again. Mio follows him there only to tease him about the cute shark underwear he has hung up. He chases her and falls down on top of her (Rito Yuuki lvl 1 style) and the mood between them get more awkward and intimate. Dongtae ends up destroying the moment which results in Mio beating the crap out of him.

When morning hits Mio leaves the roof and goes to check her phone, only to see that her quest had been complete and becomes an A Rank Dicer. She accidently rolls the dice after Dongtae surprises her by following to see what's wrong. She quickly hides the dice in her pocket and the side she lands on is the "Eye" symbol. I don't remember the term for the "Eye" in terms of ability, but let's call it the "All Seeing Eye" for now.

With the date officially over Dongtae escorts Mio home partway and she leaves not telling Dongtae she became an A Rank Dicer. Once Dongtae returns home after seeing Mio off, he gets another big announcement from X (via computer monitor cause remember his phone is broken and it's generally the main tool of communication with X) regarding the dice game and that the number of A Rank Dicers have all reached 16. So that means, it's time to change the rules. The next stage of the game is a PvP (Player vs Player) battle royale/survival system where Dicers put their dices and careers as Dicers on the line.

Moonyoung demonstrates this by attacking a female Dicer and takes her dice, turning the girl into the person she was before she used Dice. He then takes the Psychokinesis ability from Dongtae's old guild member and turns him back into what he originally was pre-dice. With that Moonyoung has the Teleportation, Time Pause, and Psychokinesis ability. He also mentions that if he can gain the other 3 (Flight, Invisibility, the All Seeing Eye) he can challenge X again...

X tells Dongtae that the next stage of the game can give a Dicer the ability to change the world.

At home. Mio tests out her All Seeing Eye ability. Her ability allows her to obtain info on people and things just by observing them. Her ability also grants her the chance to see how much dice a Dicer has, their abilities, Rank, and how they were pre-dice. Mio looks at herself in the mirror and sees the fat, hideous self she despises.

At home Eunju gets a text from Taebin, asking her if she's available to meet sometime.

And with that. The summary and events of S1 finally ends.

Phew. It took some doing but I'm glad I was able to get this done. Note: That the notes that I've bolded were summaries I've found by people sharing them. The rest were me using imagery and understanding of the situation. So, anyone following this thread. What do you think? It sucks that we have to wait until mid-September to see the start of S2, but for now all we can do now is wait.

I've done my part. Like I said, hope you all enjoy the summary I put up for you guys!

Thank you so much. That was informative.

[Lord C]

Season 2 is already being translated by people and it's off with a great start!

Spoiler for The game has begun:

[Key Board]

The girl's special ability reminds me of another manwha called the Gamer

but anyway, interesting stuff

I just love how mean spirited yet logically sound the story telling is

[bnguyen14]

I just finish season 1 and oh my gosh! the ending just makes me want to read season 2, can't wait.

[Kirito]

Nice to see this thread getting a little love. I was meaning to do some chapter summaries, but if you guys are interested let me know. It's really great to see the Dice scanlators picking up the space with the start of S2. Only 2 more chapters to translate from the current raws and we're all caught up. So close already...

[bnguyen14]

@Kirito If you don't mind could you post some thing each known A-Ranker's abilities?

[Kirito]

Sure no problem...

Spoiler for A Rank Abilities and The Users.:

In the Dice game there are 6 A Ranked abilities. They are as of now:

1. Time Pause (Dongtae and Mooyoung)
2. Psychokinesis (The guy who got pummeled and got his orange dice taken)
3. Flight/Levitation (One of Dongtae's old guild members who betrayed him in S1)
4. Teleportation (Taebin and Mooyoung)
5. Invisibility (One of the bully who harassed Dongtae in the beginning)
6. All Seeing Eye (Don't remember the proper name but calling it that since it's simpler) (Mio)

So far the 7 I've listed have their abilities and their rank shown. That's all I know for now, but I will keep you guys updated on the new comers abilities.

[bnguyen14]

Thanks Kirito....wow, dat name, much funny, wow

[Awrya]

Originally Posted by Kirito

Sure no problem...

Spoiler for A Rank Abilities and The Users.:

In the Dice game there are 6 A Ranked abilities. They are as of now:

1. Time Pause (Dongtae and Mooyoung)
2. Psychokinesis (The guy who got pummeled and got his orange dice taken)
3. Flight/Levitation (One of Dongtae's old guild members who betrayed him in S1)
4. Teleportation (Taebin and Mooyoung)
5. Invisibility (One of the bully who harassed Dongtae in the beginning)
6. All Seeing Eye (Don't remember the proper name but calling it that since it's simpler) (Mio)

So far the 7 I've listed have their abilities and their rank shown. That's all I know for now, but I will keep you guys updated on the new comers abilities.

Taebin could have one more A-rank ability, the one that allows him to recover his physical strength in exchange for dice, shown in the Eunju game.

[bnguyen14]

^That is something you can do if you have dices to burn. Anyone can do it, A-rank are qualify only with the golden dice abilities.

[Kirito]

Okay guys. I just looked at the current Dice raw (chapter 66 to be exact) and I'm really interested in the concept and development regarding the abilities A Rankers can obtain.

Spoiler for Chapter 66 Raw:

I'm sure you guys probably guessed it, but looks like A Rank abilities can be developed and leveled similar to a skill map or tree in MMO and RPGs. In this current raw episode Taebin has a teleportation skill known as Auto Dodge. How it works I can't really make out because my Korean is really week, but if I'm correct when someone comes in contact with him within 2 meters his teleportation skill we activate and dodge on his own to escape and change the situation to his benefit. And during a diagram it's shown that the 6 A Rank abilities:

1. Time Pause
2. Teleportation
3. All Seeing Eye
4. Flight
5. Psychokinesis
6. Invisibility

Can be leveled and raised up either through dice or combat. I don't know but it shows that there are more ways an A Ranker can use their abilities, but it's still capped off to name a few. To put it bluntly, Dongtae only knows time pause but nothing else beyond that. While Taebin can teleport and auto dodge making him more versatile and dangerous.

The second season of this series is really starting to pick up at interesting points. I really hope to see Eunju's backstory because she's not really liked among the Dice fanbase.

[Kirito]

Hey guys following this series. I'm here to announce that chapter 66 has been scanlated and uploaded on the series translating team site.

[Kirito]

Okay. I'm here to announce that all of season 1 chapters and the current chapters of season 2 have all been scanlated and released! We're all caught up guys. Now we have to wait for the next update after this week's raw release.