Woo Min-jo’s entire life has been put up as collateral to repay the debt left behind by his mo...
- Author: 문무진
- Genres: Yaoi / Webtoons
my type of age gap rs 😛
MY THEORIES ON WHY THIS MANHWA IS TITLED "HOUNDS OF SISYPHUS".
SO, i'll start off with explaining who "sisyphus" is in greek mythology. sisyphus is a king punished by the gods for his deceitfulness to eternally roll a boulder uphill, only for it to fall each time.
my 1st theory is giwon is sisyphus's earth reincarnation. in ch24, "person" being the only bolded word when he confessed to jinwo hints he’s not human and neither are his hounds. AND, in ch0, he walked out of a collapsed building looking completely fine. NO regular human could survive that.
there is also a phrase associated with sisyphus which i found very interesting, "a sispyhean task". it is a metaphor for any task that is incredibly difficult and requires constant effort, but is pointless in the end. my 2nd theory is that the town he independently established is that task—he needs to learn perfection isn't unachievable. his one-sided love for jinwo could also be another one of his tasks — he has to accept that for a fact jinwo can’t love him back.
now i will explain who the hounds i think really are. in greek mythology, hounds represent unwavering loyalty and guardianship.
the hounds introduced in ch23, are said to protect giwon with blind loyalty—like he’s seriously a KING they see as their GOD, which leads me to believe that they are his worshippers. this fits into the narrative that he is actually sisyphus reincarnated.
in conclusion, if giwon is actually sisyphus reincarnated on earth, he may have also triggered the apocalypse which coincidentally based on greek mythology is a transformation or ending of an age which also brought his hounds with him.
I FEAR THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL MANHWA EVER. chapter 24 gave me the goosebumps!!
A thirst for revenge drags Raymond into a sinister game at his new boarding school, as he finds hims...
- Author: Baek Nara,Oscar , 오슷카
- Genres: Yaoi / Psychological / Adult / Mystery / Drama / Webtoons
wow
its an adapted version of a korean novel. the story is based on a student transferring to a very secluded, boys only school? (i think) and he meets a gang of students who would repeatedly SA him and manipulate him to do a lot of disgusting stuff but in the end its just another stockholme syndrome trope with the transfer student ending up with a member of the gang of students. PLSS HELP ME FIND THIS MANHWA AHH
very consistent artstyle tho i wish the ending didnt happen. :(
why do i find it so funny that the black hair guy's name is dante??? LIKE i can't take it seriously as it reminds me of those weird dark romance characters and how their names are usually so cheesy e.g. killian, zade, ryle- make it stop.
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- Author: 손이불 / 청금강
- Genres: Webtoons / Yaoi / Adult / Mature / Smut / Violence / Drama / Psychological Webtoons Drama Psychological
the novel does it better in showing haewon's descent into PTSD but overall i really (controversially) like how the story plays out. its like the perfect stockholm syndrome yaoi that succeeds in showing the complexity of an abusive relationship and how the myth of "arousement in sex" is disapproved with further studies at the physiological standpoint. non zero sum does not shy away from the reality of the frequently romanticized "toxic" trope.
how does ian always magically appear in the panels when eunsan is in trouble??
how does ian always magically appear in the panels when eunsan is in trouble