
I've read both Shutline and Flashlight, except for the setting being in America, gun play and the male leads hair color I didn't find anything similar between the two to be called plagiarism. The author should not have just taken it to social media and saying they're leaving the judgement to the readers, that's just inciting bullying towards the newer author. From their tweet I gathered that they just got messages from others about them finding some similarities. They said that tracing is not the only form of plagiarism so it's definitely not about the art, I could even believe if it was because it can be easy to overlook but if it's about the plot then Kyo needs to actually check Flashlight out to make her own judgement man.
This reminds of when the author of Pawn's revenge was accused of plagiarism by Killing Stalking fans over the kidnapping trope. Rn I just feel bad for Yangma, let's see if some new info comes out.
Can someone send me the author's previous manhwa if they have it? I can't find even find the name on baka updates
it's very niche fr, its only on their postype (korean patreon) so you do have to pay for it and translate it yourself