Nobody August 27, 2025 11:03 pm

I wonder why they decided to adapt “Payoff” as a Payback side story instead of properly giving it its own story?
I wonder if they’ll also cover Paid-Payback?
IMO that one was annoying. They upped Jay’s uncle/Alice’s Labirynth’s owner annoying attitude up to 11 and we don’t really see the manager and Hansoo much either :/

    birds August 28, 2025 9:48 pm

    what is paid-payback about? is it a spinoff?

    Nobody August 28, 2025 11:11 pm
    what is paid-payback about? is it a spinoff? birds

    País-payoff is another sequel. They encounter more issues and Jay’s uncle is just plain annoying in that novel. Like he’s kinda annoying, but tolerable right now, but in that one he’s intolerable.
    If I remember correctly, it does cover Jay’s backstory and his POV on meeting Yoohan, though.

    birds August 29, 2025 12:14 am
    País-payoff is another sequel. They encounter more issues and Jay’s uncle is just plain annoying in that novel. Like he’s kinda annoying, but tolerable right now, but in that one he’s intolerable.If I re... Nobody

    jay's uncle pmo so badly in this one already.. oh gods. ive never rly liked jay's uncle, he's always been a bit creepy to me, but that might js be my opinion.

    ive a question about the book tho, is it like half and half? half jay's backstory and half his POV on meeting yohan? or does jay's backstory take up like the entire story or smth like that

    Nobody August 29, 2025 1:01 am
    jay's uncle pmo so badly in this one already.. oh gods. ive never rly liked jay's uncle, he's always been a bit creepy to me, but that might js be my opinion.ive a question about the book tho, is it like half a... birds

    I don’t remember very well because it’s been a while since I read the novels, I just vividly remember feeling super annoyed with the plot.
    It has a new conflict and villain and Hansoo and the manager are basically sidelined, instead the uncle takes up a lot of screen time.
    I don’t think Jay’s backstory and POV takes up all the volume, but it was a fairly long chapter from what I can remember.

    birds August 29, 2025 2:03 am
    I don’t remember very well because it’s been a while since I read the novels, I just vividly remember feeling super annoyed with the plot.It has a new conflict and villain and Hansoo and the manager are bas... Nobody

    oo alright!! tyvm for the explanation ♡♡

Nobody August 25, 2025 8:33 pm

There’s a lot of internal monologues, so we know exactly where the characters stand, but they themselves down. Mokwa admitted in this chapter that he learned a long time ago to keep things to himself, so I get him not being very vocal even when he has an aha! Moment, but what’s Nakwon’s excuse? He’s a major chatter bug and he’s already embarrassed himself in front of Mokwa multiple times, so it’s not that. One of them needs to talk to the other.
Overall I like their dynamics and their lack of inter-communication is not annoying because it doesn’t really detract from the narrative, but I just think it’ll be nice if they knew each other’s thoughts more.

    skewby dewby dew August 26, 2025 3:14 pm

    i have felt this way too, but i liked that nakwon is so annoying with his chatter and still doesn’t communicate well because a lot of people really do the same. and nakwon is always second guessing things when it comes to mokhwa because of his S1 guilt and then when he does speak up it’s something really nasty and rude and not what he meant to say, because nasty is his default. i liked that he kept struggling with communication so much. this is probably the first time he had to put so much thought into what he’s doing, then think so much retroactively about what he did, and then end up saying the wrong thing and ruining it anyway. good shit

Nobody August 25, 2025 3:20 am

Publang just announced at AnimeNYC that they’ll be publishing the novels in physical format.

Nobody August 25, 2025 3:19 am

Publang just announced at AnimeNYC that they’ll be publishing the novels in English. No plans for physical releases as of right now though…
But there’s always hope. They do publish physical books as well.
Payback is getting a physical release.

Nobody August 24, 2025 2:11 am

I’ve seen it translated 2 different ways, but I’m curious to know what the official translation of the name is?

I’ve been buying the novels as they’re coming out in English, but they’re currently on volume 2. I don’t remember if the island’s name came up in the early chapters and I don’t want to reread the novels until they’re completely available so I could binge read.

Nobody August 23, 2025 7:56 am

I wonder if the print version will be less uncensored?
I remember reading a manga on here that was censored, then I bought the print edition as was surprised to actually *see* some anatomy, not just a blank space.

Nobody August 21, 2025 4:27 am

Season 2 dropped in late July and new chapters come out every Wednesday, but it’s been 2 weeks and no new chapters have been released.

Despite its flaws, I’m really enjoying the story and want to see its conclusion, especially since the author had stated that the whole thing is already all plotted out.
I reached out via Twitter, but she didn’t respond, only liked my tweet.
I tried checking in Korean L*zh*n, but you need to be logged in. Same for b00mtoon.

And the last chapter released ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, so,I’m hoping whatever is going on is nothing serious and this series eventually comes back and completes its run.

Nobody August 20, 2025 2:10 am

Anyone that’s interested in owning the physical books, volume 1 was just released by 7 seas.

Nobody August 12, 2025 7:36 pm

Season 1 was great.
I stopped reading sometime in season 2 around when Woowon was offered that acting job and then reading the comments they went through so much crap that I lost interest in the story to be honest. I guess I’ll comeback to it eventually, but are they in a good place as a couple now? It annoys me when jealousy starts rearing its ugly head and if Woowon is going to be an actor/model, he’s gonna be around other “pretty” people.

    Nenesama August 12, 2025 11:27 pm

    They're pretty well established as a couple. They got matching rings and everything between them is going steady. So far the only problem is... Woowoon's ptsd... And something terrible that happened to him but you should definitely come pick it up again

    chocobuun August 13, 2025 1:15 am

    Lol you should pick it back up. Honestly last I remember he did like two jobs as a model and that’s it. He met no other models. He hasn’t officially become one yet. There isn’t much actual jealousy and no jealousy being dragged out. They’re actually having more issues with people around them causing trouble (like woowon’s dad, or the creep who likes to provoke seoan)

Nobody August 12, 2025 7:18 pm

Just saw a note that Shutline will be on hiatus from chapter 105 (which dropped on August 2).
The note said the author will be on medical leave for about 2 months.

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