I dont 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 its your second read. Itll 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. Its 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. Moris obsession with the idea of a Mom runs deep and is honestly heartbreaking but its 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 isnt blood its sacrifice and love and unconditional care. Its forgiveness its honesty at your lowest and its reaching out and seeing the best of one another even when things seem to go south. Its 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. Its starting a journey that may or may not be dangerous to you and unfruitful to help one of your own its 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. Its misunderstanding another ones intentions and learning more about them as you go driven by the desire to find a place next to one another. Its 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 doesnt matter gender doesnt matter race doesnt matter whatever the hell god says about it doesnt 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 cant 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.