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kinda read both of them but a while apart. I did not notice that at all, mostly bc these troupes are reused sm. If the author noticed alot of realy similar details or anything jut plain copied and pasted I would be mad too.

I haven’t really read Flashlight, but I’ve seen people recommending it as being similar to Shutline, nitbinwondernif this plagarism accusation is about panels and poses and not the story?

Apparently it's the vibe that's similar. The fans who were saying they're similar couldn't exactly pinpoint what's the same about the two stories. But having read both of them, I really don't know where the supposed similarities are. They just both use some popular BL tropes (blond x dark hair, masculine seme & uke), but apart from that the story's plot, art, theme and message aren't similar at all.

I heard the author of Flashlight was dealing with this ever since her manhwa started. Even had to change her artstyle over it. It also sucks for her because she's a considerably smaller author than kyou.

I read both and honestly I just feel like the accusations is such a reach. I never once thought of shutline while reading flashlights and like yangma (author of flashlight) was very willing to communicate and find a common ground between them because in the statement yangma said that kyou said to change the art style cus kyou said it seem like yangma plagiarized off her work because the atmosphere is similar. Yangma pretty much try their best to cater to that but they couldn't do it immediately because they already made 20 chapters but after that they try their best to change their art style and manuscript to cater to their senior who is accusing them of plagiarism. And like kyou don't even have the evidence to show it. It just feel like kyou publicly make that statement of accusations so her fanbase can try to dig out something that are similar so she can use against yangma.

I havent read Shutline because I dislike the artstyle, and loved Flashlights artstyle, so that whole accustation makes no sense to me. idk plot wise, tho i rly dont see how they would be similar that way either. personally I think the Shutline's author is js tweakin rn

as I said on forum the other day, it was very shitty of Kyou to say "I'll leave the judgement to the readers" when they in fact, didn't leave the judgement to the readers ╮(￣▽￣)╭ They literally bullied Yangma, a rookie artist, for over a year - blocking on social media, sniping, groundless accusations, putting company pressure, sending their readers to harass etc. idrk what to call this type of behaviour lmao but i don't think i can respect kyou after all this. I'm kind of glad they're being called out and getting dragged, especially by the korean readers after posting that bullshit (very much deserved)

That’s crazy. It’s hard to change your art style, but besides that, Shutline has a bit of an unconventional look. Personally, I find the characters attractive, but I know a lot of people don’t. Whereas I think Flashlight has a more “mainstream” or conventional art style

I think Jake and shin are both attractive and it kinda sadden me seeing people insulting kyou art styles from time to time cus our Korean Eminem is not ugly but the accusations is definitely a reach! Without evidence and accusing it base off similar things that 10000+ bl has in the manhwa as plagiarism is very much career ending and it also feel very ill intentions.

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tysm!!!