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Melting Point is literally just Dash but without the ABO verse thing, and instead of swimming, they made it hockey.
I actually love Melting Point, don’t get me wrong, but I also finished all 180 chapters of the Dash BL novel last year, so I know what I’m talking about. I already suspected it back when in first few chapters of Melting Point where they introduced the whole “sport advertisement worker uke x athlete seme,” setup because that’s exactly the whole premise of Dash. BUT I brushed it off thinking maybe this would still go in a different direction than Dash. But no. After these recent chapters, it’s way too obvious. From first chapters until now, the story flow, pacing, timing—it’s ALL Dash.
What pissed me off more is they even copied the burger and cigarette thing. In Dash, the seme is an olympian swimmer, picky with food, only really likes burgers. The uke smokes, and the seme doesn’t like it. Melting Point used the exact same setup. And the lookalike third person? Dash had that too—the seme meets a celebrity overseas in a bar during his training in Australia, and that celeb looks exactly like the uke. Later on, that celeb even gets involved in the story for jealousy drama. In Melting Point, it’s basically the same thing but with a model instead of a celeb, still met overseas in a bar, still looks like the uke.
At first I thought I was just overthinking, like maybe it’s coincidence. But no, this is just straight-up copying. I like both Melting Point and Dash, I really do, but author… don’t you think this is too much? You copied almost everything just to ride the hype. Dash was super popular around 2020–2021, even if it’s underrated now. And the timing is crazy, because only this year Dash finally got a manhwa adaptation and yet Melting Point is getting all the clout with what’s basically a recycled version of Dash’s entire storyline.