The website included behind the scene clips too http://audiocomics.co.kr/24/?q=YToxOntzOjEyOiJrZXl3b3JkX3R5cGUiO3M6MzoiYWxsIjt9&bmode=view&idx=7318717&t=board
why the fuck is jitae apologising to haeyoon. the bitch got inappropriately and invasively up in his shit just because he's gay. like he clearly respected her relationship and not made a move but now jitae is supposed to feel guilty just because she's straight and he isn't? why must he fucking apologise for doing nothing wrong and sticking with his best friend? is he just supposed to up and abandon his closest friend because a wife whose insecurity is lowkey rooted in homophobia??? why must jitae be punished to make it seem like these fucking siblings are in the right. trash story
author name is cho sangduck. mangago……… sighs
To be fair it’s actually someone on bato who made this mistake and the bot just pulled it. Although it is annoying when people can’t even bother to research the authors name especially in English or Korean
i’m just started reading and max’s situation reminds me of the real world parallel of coma / people who are alive but they’re in a vegetative state where they can’t speak or talk to anyone
I know this entire side story is the author trying to make Dohyeok serve some weird penance through sex and being the bottom or whatever and clearly they could see it wasn’t working out with his character so they had to whip up the sexual assault and sexual trauma and like. No. No one deserves this shit and just because he was awful the author is trying to use that to justify this needless rape…
Nah, the author is lazy. To write a good redemption arc you need to actually work, but why work when you can just write this shit? Am I right? Who needs good character development when you can put them through trauma
also it's giving the author thinks the only way to be a bottom is to be assaulted ? why is that their bottom "ritual"
OMG YES. Like it's kinda contradictory. Wouldn't trauma make you less likely to be comfortable doing that stuff, instead of making you to want it more (or to even find it plesurable).
to be frank. i enjoy this work a lot and this mangaka’s other works too. but, but it gives off so much white saviour vibes. like i know lin che’s home environment was bad and there wasn’t much chance to find other chinese people that could mentor him or be a friend to him but how is that in china town there were no other children and there were no women at all especially when lin che was left to wander off on his own for a majority of the time and portraying other chinese people as like all bad and scummy? china town was about community about relying on each other.
and then just so elliot could come in save the day because lin che is powerless now he needs elliot’s help no matter what. lin che has no one to depend on except elliot. like i know i find it sad and realistic that lin che has to shrug off his chinese heritage to even gain power and position in the mafia, i find it sad that no matter what he does he will still be seen as an other first and foremost (as seen by elliot’s white friend immediately pointing out his (rumoured) (!!) mixed heritage to elliot himself), and i find it sad that elliot no matter what lin che does will always get things easier. cause it’s a historical manga, cause it’s mirrored in society as a white person having more privilege. but elliot losing something, striking out, then lin che having to appease his guilt, having to give up his last funds/security so that elliot can be repaid just for taking care of lin che, then having more of the emotional burden to reconcil with elliot and getting found out because of elliot’s outburst… i’m sorry but it’s icky to me. it feels like lin che’s trauma was all mad for lin che to save elliot from the big bad chinese dad, to feel safe from the horrors of the chinese people, to have lin che assimilate with elliot himself feeling so insulated, and it all culminates because it’s because of elliot’s outburst that lin che is in this dire situation right now. cause they burst out of the house and found because of it and lin che is going to bear heavier consequences than elliot.
fuck i’m sorry if this is incoherent but another commenter pointed out how weird it is that a japanese author is writing this so strangely and i cant stop thinking about this
This. Thank you for giving voice to my thoughts.
Very insightful comment
one thing i do not get is wooyeon mentioning he asks questions because he doesn’t understand feelings; when people have a lack of empathy (low empathy caused by PDs or wtv.) it’s not that we can’t understand but it’s we do not feel, at least when we’ve grown up like wooyeon to that age. he’s an immensely callous and ruthless man with a cutting wit and intelligence so it’s like you know exactly how to hurt people which translates to him understanding their feelings thus their motives and weaknesses so he can hit them where it is painful. so like i know he’s a goddamn crazy bastard but that question was so funny to me lol (yeah it’s dramatic but when you have a lack of empathy you make it up by analysing situations and cross referencing memories and experiences to gain that social tact ADD ON THE CRAZY BASTARDNESS OF WOOYEON with his cruel actions and orchestrations and it just makes the whole line seem silly)
I read it as he is able to understand the logic behind people’s actions but not isn’t able to relate to them.
ngl the art style makes them look like the onceler