Can I ask what scene it is and what's different I haven't read the novel but I'm curious (I'm fine with spoilers)
Nothing sticks to the novel bro, what a horrible world we live in (gimme spoilers)
SPOILERS but i’ll skip some deets
in the novel yoohan gets lured to what is essentially one of the sex dungeons/drug holes that mr. kim has set up. he’s there to save the actor boy who is giving him intel (because that big bulky henchman of mr. kim and myungshin found out about it somehow i can’t remember), but on his way in he sees a young looking kid being tormented (like in that chapter of the comic where myungshin brought that new actor to mr. kim to torture). when yoohan escapes the place he stops to save the young guy who end up being the son of someone rich in america, i think? i’m forgetting details because it’s been a year since i read the novel.
in the raws for the comic, though, yoohan just enters this clean looking building, sees the spy he planted, fights the henchman, then leaves. the scene just seems completely wiped of the grittiness. it’s lackluster and makes little sense.
That first bit had me stressed I thought you were gonna say he was lured there and raped I'm glad that's not the case thanks for telling me weird that they changed it like that though
Kevin! They got rid of Kevin?! (I think that was his name).
I guess the comic won’t cover the sequel novels, but if I remember correctly, wasn’t Jay jealous of Kevin because after he was rescued by Yoohan, he developed a crush on him?
And also, wasn’t the guy passing on info to him being brutalized again when Yoohan found him and Kevin?
And they escape in a car driven by Kevin who’s like 16, and Yoohan was surprised he could drive cus of his age?
(It’s been years since I read the novels, so my memory is fuzzy.)
they got rid of him maybe his character was taken out because of his age? but i think they should have just aged him up instead. the scenes felt empty without him there. not sure about the crush thing since i didn’t read the sequels (i didn’t even know there were ones omg), but yeah that’s how i remember everything else playing out.
i think my main issue with cutting all this out is that it’s going to seem like jay is way more insane for what he’s about to do in the hospital afterwards when… all yoohan did was go to a location where nothing was really going on in the first place. like there was no sense of danger whatsoever. oh well.
The sequel series was done, the. I feel the last sequel series dropped the ball, but anyway, that’s irrelevant to the comic.
If it was due to his age, they could have just made him slightly older, but I guess if the comic won’t cover things beyond Payback, then the Kevin character is a bit irrelevant.
Either way, even without Kevin, the stakes could still be raised, the other guy was being hurt, Yoohan put himself in danger. The whole thing was scary.
looked at the raws and now i’m let down by the changes made. there’s a character completely wiped from the story and a scene that’s in an entirely different environment from the novel. sigh.