Oh well....

Two men doing it is not,,,considered yaoi??? Lmao i dont think we read the same thing. It was sex but it was manipulative as shit, it wasn’t just oh yeah hot steamy gay anal sex it was straight up yoonbum forcing himself on sangwoo and sangwoo accepting that and using it knowing how he controls yoon , and the whole stockholm syndrome thing. The author intended it to be this way, in a horror way. But oh if it was a male and female lead it wouldn’t be considered romance, or anything close to that. Them having sex or an ‘intimate’ relationship was to just add onto the actual story. And if you payed attention it wasnt just all about them having sex.

Who said it was just about them having sex? Who?????Is it hard to accept that those moments were also part of the plot and we cant pretend that never happened....
Also that is what yaoi means,if the author didnt say it wasnt,everyone would say it is bl....thats why there is the confusion
“Bum forced himself on him and Sangwoo had to accept?” are u forreal? it wasnt steamy and it was manipulative?WHAT? how does that matter,there many yaois like that....
“If it was a girl it wouldnt be romance?” Who says it was romance??? What the fuck are u saying? You make no sense at all,yaoi isnt romance,romance its a different genre....
Plus the author totally used the bl genre to promote and later said focus on the psychological...like why does she even need to say that? When u read,u read it as a whole and there is noone that reads KS as a fluffy romance so u can chill....its like saying the obvious...
Personally i think i readers is free to focus whereever the fuck they want...its up to the reader.
Also i clearly said it was a subgenre and that the main genres are thriller and psychological...you cant just ignore what i say and come with your conclusions


Also the “i dont think we read the same thing” is getting annoying af......its a very childish remark lmao
Did u read only some chapters and ignore some? Cause i appreciate the psychological/thriller as much as the emotional or their more vulnerable moments....
my point is (●'◡'●)ﾉ u dont have to bring the “but isnt yaoi “everytime KS is mentioned.....we know its not that simple.....

But think what you want...just dont put your words in my mouth :)

you guys should notify the author that KS is BL on Lezhin ,lmao ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
if she sells it as BL, its kinda weird to make everyone so confused like this xD
Not that it matters, its still a great manhwa ,but not for children obviously, since is mature with +18 bl scenes

I think what you're misunderstanding is people who say it's a yaoi, are focusing on the sex part mostly, which wasn't supposed to BL genre. It's why BL gets this bad rep by woke people who read KS and somehow equate it something from a BL universe, which the author has negated. If people insist on doing so either way, it's their choice, but that doesn't change the facts at all.
Genre or sub genre isn't determined by fans, that's the authors right and the author refused to tag this under "yaoi" or bl, because it isn't about love at the end of the day, even if people like to think it's "twisted love"
I think the author was adamant about it not being tagged as yaoi, so as to not justify the terrible and unacceptable behaviours in it as some justification in the name of love.
Also I think the author didn't want it to associated only with the sex part, and not the story itself. Now you can say that it wasn't about the smut for you, but not to many others who consider it foremost as a yaoi, than anything else.
It's important I think to make people aware that it isn't a yaoi or bl, but has sexual activity between two male characters.
There are many fucked up yaois true, but the authors explicitly publish it in that genre so it's acceptable to refer to them as BLs. The author of KS refuses to do so, so it's only fair to respect it if you liked the story itself, and not because you enjoyed how fucked up their sex life was in the story.

They're not BL scenes. 18+ sure. If a shoujo manga had two male characters have sex under fucked up circumstances, it wouldn't make the story bl. The love wasn't the focus of the story or even the intention, so it isn't considered bl. The author clarified it to the readers, so it's upto the readers who respect the author and the story to accept the facts, not be obstinate. If you wanna think of it as "yaoi", go ahead. But it isn't. You're free to think whatever you want.

The author shouldnt sell its as BL on lezhin then.....she must know that is BL there and readers consider like that,even here on mangago is yaoi....
I think its very unfair to make yaoi as a genre into such a horrible one,like the label it will make KS into a romance,when its just to remind people that there are scenes +18 between two men .......that simple
Also she clearly marketed as bl to gain this fame....
I think people misunderstand me , but if you read it and think its a lovestory,it has nothing to do with the genre.......thats an immature readers who is probably underage or easily influenced.
Even if is a twisted love for some readers,people still know that it was twisted, so like everyone can chill about anyone thinking what they had was cute.

I respect the author xp its just than when u repeat its not yaoi,it makes it worse....its like bringing problems that arent necessary....how a reader feels about a manhwa its entirely up to them,the author has no say in that.KS is known as a twisted thriller/psychological but even the yaoi subgenre aided on that fame....it doesnt take any of its greatness

all in all i am tired of explaining the same thing because we see it differently...thank you for being polite in your arguments....we might not agree but its ok.

think whatever also.....its not like yaoi is such a horrible thing.....it doesnt change anything
u can think its not yaoi and thats fine.
Also yaoi doesnt mean they have to be in love......there are mangas with no plot or feelings whatsover ,that are yaoi...why does everyone ignore the fact that is bl on lezhin lmao....the author could change that

So you read it because you thought it was yaoi, but you didn't like it because it had yaoi smut right? So what's the issue?
You say you respect the author but clearly disregard their wishes - marketing or not, which I don't it was, it was people who were reading it FOR THE twisted smut that gave it that reputation. Not just here, but in another BLs as well. Comparing it to POTN or even semantic error where the character is called sangwoo....the fact is it isn't a yaoi, regardless of what people might think.
Readers can choose to focus on anything in the story, but the author decides the genres and the author of KS doesn't want it to associated with BL or yaoi. So there are the facts. What happened or didn't happen isn't really important.
If you like it for the amit, or read it because it's "yaoi" you can say it. But the facts don't change.
The rest I've already explained so it's up to you. I don't understand why it's important to argue if it's a yaoi even if it has been clarified as not being one..the story will remain what it is.

Yaoi isn't horrible lol. It's the best~ but KS isnt yaoi for me, not by a long shot. And even more so because the author doesn't classify it as one. Which is a relief, because if that is yaoi, then the bad rep that yaoi literature has will never go away.. it's partly due to immature people and their toxic moral grandstanding that psychological thrillers in the yaoi genre are becoming associated with only toxic stuff and unhealthy relationships. Which isn't true at all. It's important to separate what is and what isnt BL - KS isnt one, regardless of what it's readers would like to think.

What happened isnt important and i should accept the facts?Whatever lol
When i read it, i didnt even know it was yaoi since i wasnt familiar with the genre,even now when i think about KS, i feel like its so special that it deserves a genre of its own.....but to deny a part of it,its absurd.
It has more to do with the reader than what the author says about the genre.You literally cant tell people where to focus and i still think that isnt as bad as u people say.....the fandom appreciates every aspect of the manhwa.Most of them just have fun and make jokes about it...nothing serious...all kind of readers...some focus on the smut...so what? its their right...there are other readers who focus on the plot.

anyways it seems like we see it differently,but not entirely lol at least we agree its great ,yaoi or not xp

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