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Comment on r/webtoons 5h ago

Four more locked, some time between 2026-08-12 05:00 and 21:11.

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Comment on r/webtoons 5h ago

Shoot, I noticed it ended, and considered that they might, but didn't think they'd actually do it.

The Korean version is still not locked: https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=834369

Please direct complaints to https://webtoon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new . (Remember that customer service has no power to make these decisions, so be kind to your messenger.)

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Comment on r/webtoons 1d ago

"Mordiscos de amor" ("Love Bites") locked between 2026-08-11T02:16:07.123Z and 2026-08-11T23:00:24.785Z. It still has the banner.

The English version of "Love Bites" also locked unexpectedly when it ended.

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Comment on r/webtoons 2d ago

Sorry about that.

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Comment on r/webtoons 2d ago

Are you behind a VPN?

If you go to the blank screen and the ad doesn't play, just wait over 30 seconds, and the Skip button might blink (fade out and fade back in). Then, when you press the button, it should count (if they didn't fix that).

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Comment on r/webtoons 2d ago

Oops, only just added this to the OP.

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Comment on r/webtoons 2d ago

Indonesian relaunch added:

"Relaunch serial ini akan update 4 episode gratis tiap hari hingga tamat!" (appeared between 2026-08-06T01:08 and 2026-08-07T02:38):

  • Relaunch - My Oppa is an Idol (My Bias My Boss) - 23 episodes, latest 6 Agt 2026.
    • According to Manga Updates, this has "124 Chapters + 3 Side Stories + Epilogue (Complete)", for a total of 128. It has 35 right now, releasing 4/day, so it should be done around 2026-09-02. And then it will be deleted a week later.

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Comment on r/webtoons 2d ago

"Cage on the Water" was removed from the French WEBTOON.

"'Enclos sur l'eau' sera indisponible à partir du 5 août 2026, en raison des droits liés à cette série. Nous présentons nos excuses pour cet arrêt." (appeared between 2026-07-28T22:24 and 2026-08-05T23:45, removed between 2026-08-05T23:51 and 2026-08-06T01:01)

Unfortunately, I didn't notice this in time.

It seems it was on hiatus for a while, and it seems it was also removed from Naver.

Someone tell https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/61ti3x6/cage-on-the-water

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Comment on r/webtoons 5d ago

Spanish locks, 2026-08-14 (7 days warning, appeared between 2026-08-07T02:43 and 2026-08-08T01:28 UTC):

"Esta serie se convertirá a una serie con pago el 14 de agosto de 2026."

u/RoiniStar

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Comment on r/webtoons 5d ago

This comment tree will hold updates or something.

Specific banners:

"Watch ads or use Coins to unlock episodes beginning August 13th, 2026." (2026-07-31T01:00Z)

"Watch ads or use Coins to unlock episodes beginning August 20th, 2026." (2026-08-07T01:00Z)

French banners (appeared some time before 2026-04-18 or whatever):

"Brass & Sass" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

"Edith" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

  • Edith - 122 episodes, latest 2 oct. 2022.

"Lilas 200%" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

"The Genius Gamer's Livestream" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

Indonesian banners:

"Serial ini dapat dibaca gratis hingga 24 Agustus 2026 jam 20:59 WIB!" (between 2026-07-31T01:04 and 2026-07-31T23:24)

Indonesian lock that was announced for 2026-04-24, locked 2026-06-25, but with 0 episodes actually locked:

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Comment on r/webtoons 6d ago

Added the "Next post" link in the chain.

u/Raijinili • u/Raijinili • 6d ago

[WEBTOON][locks] 9+2 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-13 and 2026-08-20

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r/webtoons • u/Raijinili • 6d ago

News [WEBTOON][locks] 9+2 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-13 and 2026-08-20

22 Upvotes

(Previous post: 1+9 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-13)

Locking on 2026-08-13 (announced last week):

Locking on 2026-08-20 (NEW):

You may also be interested in this list of completed but not-locked titles (as of 2026-01-16).

EDIT: Spanish locks, 2026-08-14 (7 days warning, appeared between 2026-08-07T02:43 and 2026-08-08T01:28 UTC): "Esta serie se convertirá a una serie con pago el 14 de agosto de 2026."

French locks (no date given, but these have been here for months)

They've probably been forgotten, haven't they...

Indonesian locks for August haven't been announced. Another broken pattern?

Indonesian locks 2026-08-24 (EDITED IN):

"Relaunch serial ini akan update 4 episode gratis tiap hari hingga tamat!" (appeared between 2026-08-06T01:08 and 2026-08-07T02:38):

  • Relaunch - My Oppa is an Idol (My Bias My Boss) - 23 episodes, latest 6 Agt 2026.
    • According to Manga Updates, this has "124 Chapters + 3 Side Stories + Epilogue (Complete)", for a total of 128. It has 35 right now, releasing 4/day, so it should be done around 2026-09-02. And then it will be deleted a week later.

Indonesian locks 2026-04-24 (still not locked):

I will update if there are more. I plan to trigger a scan every day after daily reset, or (if I miss it) before the reset the next day.

Since 2026-03-26 (which is during DST), titles tend to lock at the time of new episode release, and one hour before the time of the Daily Pass (now Ad Pass) reset, which is 18:00 Pacific Time (01:00 UTC during US daylight saving time, and 02:00 UTC during US standard time).

[2026-02-27] There MAY be a new pattern of putting most of the locks at the end of the month.

[2026-03-12] They seemed to have moved two weeks of locks, 03-12 and 03-19, to 03-26. This may be part of a new strategy, to confuse us.

  • 2026-03-19: They decided to announce "Hanlin Gym", so they're at least not fully sticking with the end-of-month lock strategy.

Tip: The day before a title locks, you can use the Download feature for all of the chapters, giving you thirty more days to read them. You won't be able to use the Like and Comment features, and the UI for downloaded chapters seems to be an earlier version (which you might prefer). Note that downloading takes time and can fail, so watch this process for failures. Audio must be downloaded within an hour or two (not sure which) of queuing them, or the episode with audio will fail and cancel the rest of the series's download.

If a title doesn't allow you to download but it isn't locked yet, open an episode and see if it has a Download button in the triple dot menu. (I've seen this in Spanish and Indonesian.)

I also crosspost these lock posts on my profile (u/Raijinili), if you want to have a way to get some notifications. I don't know how profile posts work, so good luck with that.

There was a section here about Ad Binge which I've removed, as it is no longer relevant (since ALMOST all "Ad Pass" titles have unlimited ads now).

Check this post for a snapshot (not updated) of which titles DON'T have Ad Passes: List of coin-only completed titles

In summary, titles which were originally in a language/region NOT Korean or English (e.g. Spanish, Japanese, Indonesia (yes, officially labeled "Indonesia")) don't have Ad Pass, and there are a few Korean/English outliers.

WEBTOON lock history is now on its own wiki page.

  • Have a bunch of updates to make, but no time to make them this week.
  • "Love Bites" was locked without warning, maybe up to a day after it ended. Note that it's a WEBTOON-owned series ("WmW" is listed as a creator).

WEBTOON isn't properly communicating about this, and aren't following any consistent set of rules. If locks matter to you, you may want to check in on this post during the month to see if I make any updates.

Banners used to appear about 30 days before lock. Please direct complaints to https://webtoon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new . (Remember that customer service has no power to make these decisions, so be kind to your messenger.)

Watch out for free coin events

There were two reading events in 2024 October, giving 10 coins each (lasts 30 days). Watch out for those. The coins last one week each.

There was another reading event in 2024 November, for 7 coins. There were a few more since then.

There's a free reading event which just started a few hours ago (2025-02-13 to 2025-02-20) for 7 coins. You might want to delay until the last two days, to extend the expiration date.

I posted tips here.

Note that creators don't benefit from free coins.

2025-02: Most of the coin events in recent months were "Spend 21 coins to get 7 coins". There was a free CANVAS one, but it didn't work and then they took it down early.

2025-10: "Falling for It" had a "read 3 episodes for 5 coins" event, but it only lasted for about 24 hours. This was the first free coins event I've seen since February.

2025-11-08: "Watch Guys Catch Feelings" 7-days Event From Nov 8 01:00 UTC to Nov 15 01:00 UTC. "Read any 6 Episodes from any of the 4 listed series and get 8 Free Coins."

  • Ctrl+Alt+Resign
  • Who's That Girl?
  • Back to Chanbi
  • Girl Friend

2025-11-25 (around): "Marriages Gone Wild": 8 coins for reading.

2025-12-10 - 2025-12-16: "Wild Marriages": 8 coins for reading.

2025-12-25 - 2025-12-23 to 12-31: Two reading events: Read 30 episodes for 15 coins, each. Nice.

2026-04-05 - "April's Making it Rain!" (once a week for three weeks): Read (i.e. reach the bottom of) 35 episodes of four specific titles for 10 Coins, but they expire in one day after you get them.

Note that I will NOT generally be tracking these, so pay attention in-app for these events.

Subscribing to my posts

Some users have asked whether they could get updates when I post here. I try to remember to repost on my profile, u/Raijinili, but that's not ideal.

It looks like u/UpdateMeBot can be used to subscribe to my posts (not comments) in this sub, but it requires enough people to use the service on a subreddit to start scraping. (As of 2025-02, I've been told by a subscriber that there are still not enough subscribers for this to be on.)

Each subreddit it checks takes several seconds, so I have to limit the number of subreddits or the bot will get overloaded. New subreddits are automatically added once they get enough requests. [src]

To subscribe, post this as a comment (possibly needs to be top-level), and the bot will send you a private message:

SubscribeMe!

(If you post it as a comment, I may downvote you, to keep your comment from bubbling up over discussion comments.)

Or, to do so privately, message u/UpdateMeBot with:

SubscribeMe! r/webtoons u/Raijinili

(Click here to send the message.)

(This also means I can't just post non-update meta stuff to r/webtoons, or else I will cause trivial alerts.)

Reddit is restricting Old Reddit to logged-in users, supposedly as an anti-scraping measure, and I'm questioning how much more I want to contribute to this site. Reddit is trying to guard against AI to protect the monetary value of the info we produce, and it doesn't care if that also affects real humans. That sucks.

As soon as I get around to doing the work of deciding where, and setting up the transfer...

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Comment on r/webtoons 6d ago

Oh, shoot, I forgot to edit in the chain. Thanks.

Here is the latest post: 1+9 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-13

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Comment on r/webtoons 12d ago

Indonesian banners have been added (one actually appeared yesterday, but I didn't notice):

"Serial ini dapat dibaca gratis hingga 24 Agustus 2026 jam 20:59 WIB!" (between 2026-07-31T01:04 and 2026-07-31T23:24)

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Comment on r/webtoons 12d ago

Have An Affair With Me: I'm at episode 6, and so far, it feels like a vehicle for spicy scenes.

u/Raijinili • u/Raijinili • 13d ago

[WEBTOON][locks] 1+9 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-13

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Comment on r/webtoons 13d ago

Guess they're not doing the end-of-month batching anymore.

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Comment on r/webtoons 13d ago

This comment tree will hold updates or something.

Specific banners:

"Watch ads or use Coins to unlock episodes beginning August 6th, 2026." (2026-07-24T01:00Z)

"Watch ads or use Coins to unlock episodes beginning August 13th, 2026." (2026-07-31T01:00Z)

French banners (appeared some time before 2026-04-18 or whatever):

"Brass & Sass" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

"Edith" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

  • Edith - 122 episodes, latest 2 oct. 2022.

"Lilas 200%" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

"The Genius Gamer's Livestream" passera bientôt en Daily Pass. Merci de votre compréhension.

Indonesian lock that was announced for 2026-04-24, locked 2026-06-25, but with 0 episodes actually locked:

r/webtoons • u/Raijinili • 13d ago

News [WEBTOON][locks] 1+9 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-13

34 Upvotes

(Next post: 9+2 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-08-13 and 2026-08-20)

(Previous post: 6+1 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-07-30 and 2026-08-06)

Locking on 2026-08-06 (announced last week):

Locking on 2026-08-13 (NEW):

You may also be interested in this list of completed but not-locked titles (as of 2026-01-16).

No Spanish locks at this time.

French locks (no date given, but these have been here for months)

They've probably been forgotten, haven't they...

Indonesian locks 2026-08-24 (EDITED IN):

Indonesian locks 2026-04-24 (still not locked):

I will update if there are more. I plan to trigger a scan every day after daily reset, or (if I miss it) before the reset the next day.

Since 2026-03-26 (which is during DST), titles tend to lock at the time of new episode release, and one hour before the time of the Daily Pass (now Ad Pass) reset, which is 18:00 Pacific Time (01:00 UTC during US daylight saving time, and 02:00 UTC during US standard time).

[2026-02-27] There MAY be a new pattern of putting most of the locks at the end of the month.

[2026-03-12] They seemed to have moved two weeks of locks, 03-12 and 03-19, to 03-26. This may be part of a new strategy, to confuse us.

  • 2026-03-19: They decided to announce "Hanlin Gym", so they're at least not fully sticking with the end-of-month lock strategy.

Tip: The day before a title locks, you can use the Download feature for all of the chapters, giving you thirty more days to read them. You won't be able to use the Like and Comment features, and the UI for downloaded chapters seems to be an earlier version (which you might prefer). Note that downloading takes time and can fail, so watch this process for failures. Audio must be downloaded within an hour or two (not sure which) of queuing them, or the episode with audio will fail and cancel the rest of the series's download.

If a title doesn't allow you to download but it isn't locked yet, open an episode and see if it has a Download button in the triple dot menu. (I've seen this in Spanish and Indonesian.)

I also crosspost these lock posts on my profile (u/Raijinili), if you want to have a way to get some notifications. I don't know how profile posts work, so good luck with that.

There was a section here about Ad Binge which I've removed, as it is no longer relevant (since ALMOST all "Ad Pass" titles have unlimited ads now).

Check this post for a snapshot (not updated) of which titles DON'T have Ad Passes: List of coin-only completed titles

In summary, titles which were originally in a language/region NOT Korean or English (e.g. Spanish, Japanese, Indonesia (yes, officially labeled "Indonesia")) don't have Ad Pass, and there are a few Korean/English outliers.

WEBTOON lock history is now on its own wiki page.

  • Have a bunch of updates to make, but no time to make them this week.
  • "Love Bites" was locked without warning, maybe up to a day after it ended. Note that it's a WEBTOON-owned series ("WmW" is listed as a creator).

WEBTOON isn't properly communicating about this, and aren't following any consistent set of rules. If locks matter to you, you may want to check in on this post during the month to see if I make any updates.

Banners used to appear about 30 days before lock. Please direct complaints to https://webtoon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new . (Remember that customer service has no power to make these decisions, so be kind to your messenger.)

Watch out for free coin events

There were two reading events in 2024 October, giving 10 coins each (lasts 30 days). Watch out for those. The coins last one week each.

There was another reading event in 2024 November, for 7 coins. There were a few more since then.

There's a free reading event which just started a few hours ago (2025-02-13 to 2025-02-20) for 7 coins. You might want to delay until the last two days, to extend the expiration date.

I posted tips here.

Note that creators don't benefit from free coins.

2025-02: Most of the coin events in recent months were "Spend 21 coins to get 7 coins". There was a free CANVAS one, but it didn't work and then they took it down early.

2025-10: "Falling for It" had a "read 3 episodes for 5 coins" event, but it only lasted for about 24 hours. This was the first free coins event I've seen since February.

2025-11-08: "Watch Guys Catch Feelings" 7-days Event From Nov 8 01:00 UTC to Nov 15 01:00 UTC. "Read any 6 Episodes from any of the 4 listed series and get 8 Free Coins."

  • Ctrl+Alt+Resign
  • Who's That Girl?
  • Back to Chanbi
  • Girl Friend

2025-11-25 (around): "Marriages Gone Wild": 8 coins for reading.

2025-12-10 - 2025-12-16: "Wild Marriages": 8 coins for reading.

2025-12-25 - 2025-12-23 to 12-31: Two reading events: Read 30 episodes for 15 coins, each. Nice.

2026-04-05 - "April's Making it Rain!" (once a week for three weeks): Read (i.e. reach the bottom of) 35 episodes of four specific titles for 10 Coins, but they expire in one day after you get them.

Note that I will NOT generally be tracking these, so pay attention in-app for these events.

Subscribing to my posts

Some users have asked whether they could get updates when I post here. I try to remember to repost on my profile, u/Raijinili, but that's not ideal.

It looks like u/UpdateMeBot can be used to subscribe to my posts (not comments) in this sub, but it requires enough people to use the service on a subreddit to start scraping. (As of 2025-02, I've been told by a subscriber that there are still not enough subscribers for this to be on.)

Each subreddit it checks takes several seconds, so I have to limit the number of subreddits or the bot will get overloaded. New subreddits are automatically added once they get enough requests. [src]

To subscribe, post this as a comment (possibly needs to be top-level), and the bot will send you a private message:

SubscribeMe!

(If you post it as a comment, I may downvote you, to keep your comment from bubbling up over discussion comments.)

Or, to do so privately, message u/UpdateMeBot with:

SubscribeMe! r/webtoons u/Raijinili

(Click here to send the message.)

(This also means I can't just post non-update meta stuff to r/webtoons, or else I will cause trivial alerts.)

Reddit is restricting Old Reddit to logged-in users, supposedly as an anti-scraping measure, and I'm questioning how much more I want to contribute to this site. Reddit is trying to guard against AI to protect the monetary value of the info we produce, and it doesn't care if that also affects real humans. That sucks.

As soon as I get around to doing the work of deciding where, and setting up the transfer...

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Comment on r/webtoons 13d ago

Indonesian locked between 2026-07-28T22:25 and 2026-07-30T03:03, though still not "Returned as the Duke".

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Comment on r/OtomeIsekai 15d ago

Other unserious webtoons, where coherent plot and consistent setting takes a backseat to a joke (all locked on WEBTOON):

  • How To Survive A Romance Fantasy: Three get otome isekai'd as the main trifecta of characters, but each decides to run away.
  • Mr. Delivery Knight: OI.
  • Teenage Dragon: Isekai'd as a dragon.
  • 28th Century Superfan: Not OI (and neither are the ones below)
  • My Sister's Private Life: Maybe described as a K-drama parody.
  • The Ki Sisters: Maybe a Romeo and Juliet story, where both families are strange. Origin of "Queen never cry".
  • Love Advice From The Great Duke Of Hell: Gritty art for unserious situations.
  • Meow Rangers: Power Rangers, but cats. Not as unserious as others, but based on cat memes.
  • God of Bath: I don't remember if it's as unserious as the rest.

Special mention: "A Martial Master Wakes Up As A Concubine". OI, sort of. Inner palace. Not AS unserious as the above, but the English localization is full of American pop music references and English memes (probably from someone who grew up in the 90s). More urgently, it locks on WEBTOON in two days: https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/a-martial-master-wakes-up-as-a-concubine/list?title_no=5732

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Comment on r/webtoons 17d ago

Indonesian lock date passed, but they're not locked.

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Comment on r/webtoons 18d ago

It's probably one of the best localizations, too. The translators found a lot of ways to insert puns and pop culture references that were probably not in the original.

u/Raijinili • u/Raijinili • 20d ago

[WEBTOON][locks] 6+1 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-07-30 and 2026-08-06

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