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Oh dear... Thank you everyone for your comments. Actually, the phrase "passion can't put food on the table" isn't entirely accurate. I've been in this industry for nearly 7 years, but I only worked on LM for a year and a half. I had substantial savings from my earlier career to support an extended break.
What I meant is that beyond passion, countless other emotions are involved in creating comics. Passion isn't the only ingredient – these conflicting feelings coexist and clash with it. Passion alone can't cancel out everything else.
From my initial contact with LM to officially taking it on, there were many obstacles. The fact it finally came together can only be described as fate.
My official role only covered storyboarding to line art, but I loved this novel so much that I voluntarily participated in other processes – scriptwriting, backgrounds, finalizing drafts – all unpaid extra work that consumed 2-3 days per chapter.
I thought I could handle it, but coordinating teams became overwhelming. After finishing my own work, I'd help others', then anxiously await public feedback. I had almost no breathing room – viewers of my live streams know I often pulled all-nighters. During the first few months, I'd go 2-3 days without sleep revising drafts. Approaching thirty after years of nonstop serialization without proper rest – even iron wears down.
I'm exhausted, mentally and physically. I've endured much criticism and held strong, but everyone has limits. I often forget I'm just an ordinary person... but I truly am.
Many unseen struggles occurred this past year and a half – things I can't and won't discuss. Giving up never comes from one specific reason but from accumulated burdens.
If I truly chased fame and profit, wouldn't I launch new works while I still have visibility? Why take a two-year break? Do I hate money?
"If things were perfect elsewhere, why would anyone come here?"
thanks for posting this ╥﹏╥ as sad as i am about little mushroom going on an indefinite hiatus, i wish her the best of luck with her other projects. chichi and the team's mental health comes before all! wishing her a great, restful, long 2 year break. i'll miss little mushroom with all my heart.
to all, please remember that financial support truly is important. that's unfortunately just the reality of things, especially in manhua. so many seemingly successful manhua get cancelled because it's very easy to pirate their chapters (even on cn side, not just here). even just one chapter goes a long way
Nooo I'm so heartbroken. I hope the artist takes a good rest. They def deserve it!
Genuinely asking but how do mass uploaders (for example Jujucat or bloomingdale) manage to download so much manhwa?
I just recently got L*zhin acc and even buying one manhwa (for example Shutline that has 73 chapters) IS SO EXPENSIVE?
Respect for all the uploaders because this can't be profitable at all.
i'm actually also curious about that bc i can barely buy chapters every week of stories i like but then the uploaders who be uploading 5 stories per day like ??
and the time it takes to screenshot or idk if they use an app but how do they get that shit out on time too that's hard work
They prolly have providers or just like my friend who got multiple accs and take free episodes ever week, but its just too much work
ohh holy shit multiple accs bruhhhh i feel like that takes up so much time how do they have a social life like that lmao
yeh im quite amazed LOL like i could never do those. I always forgot my passwords in everything
my friend is so nice too cause she shares her acc and she doesnt really mind others using it.
Which BL (finished or still ongoing) would you consider “a classic”?
Something that you feel everyone either read, heard about or should read?
At the End of the Road, My Darling Signed in, Robber x Lover, and Salad Days came to mind.
For me a classic is "Yume musubi koi musubi". Or stuff like junjou romantica xD
You listing everything that I would still consider fairly new makes me feel old lmfao
I think Ameiro Paradox is up there. Anything from this author is a classic tbh. They're mostly from the 2000s and I've been reading amepara since hs
Nahh, these definitely on the newer side. Idk how well known older bls are, and I felt like these titles were more recognizable. (￣∇￣")
ten counts
Seven Days. I think this is the only one I still truly enjoy from my early days of reading BL.
here u are
faded first love
semantic error
anything by ogeretsu tanaka
"Aistu no daihonmei" I found it by accident it's been ongoing since the 2000s and is still ongoing it updates once a year twice if we're lucky and if we're unlucky once every 2 years.
The story is not smutty there are references and mentions to bdsm but all the story ever does is have dialogue elude to it but the most our lead does is prank and tease other. Like "he's such a sadist he just gave his boyfriend spicy chocolate even though he can't handle spicy food". Mention of one of our leads having underage sex with an adult woman + all the side couples are shit except for one set of parents.
It's really charming but only starts getting good at around Ch18 where the author just makes the main couple like each other's company, say "you're my boyfriend it's fine for me to want to spend time with you anf get jealous when other people flirt with you and I do love you" and repeatedly admit they care about one another which is boring on its own but the rest of the cast has this OHSHC level of zaniness and antics that contrasts wonderfully with our main couple's charms and them being the only "normal" ones. (example 1 :all the girls have a calligraphy competition to see who can sit with one of our leading men at heating fable but then it dissolves into chaos as they start sabotaging each others calligraphy meanwhile our main couple just sits together at the table before deciding to just leave and go on a date)(example 2: the entire school is covered in banana peels and anyone who trips and falls form the banana peel gets amnesia and the only way to reverse it is to slip on a banana peel again.). They're adorable and sweet and I'm suprised it's not that popular.
Omg I remember aistu dahonmei lamo it's one of my first BLs
Some older classics I can think of:
Junjou Romantica - and all that series
Haru wo Daite Ita
Silver Diamond
Some slightly newer but I'd still consider classic:
Honto Yajuu
Doukyuusei
Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai
Ten Count
Omg I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention really! What are your classics honey??
Oh girl no ur fine, ur classics r some of my favs from back then I was responding to another comment lolll but for me probably things like "Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru", "Kimi no Tori ni Naritai", and I was a huge fan of "Private Magician"
Coming back to this because whether you like it or not Killing Stalking is one of the most iconic and well known "BL" out there (not animated). people wanted to know what was going on here because of the controversy over the Fujoshis thinking it was a pure romance when it's a psychological horror (for some reason it reminds of the twilight fanbase with how the fans loved it but objectively shitshow of a romance)
Other contenders are BJ alex, full volume, Anti PT, Jinx basically all yaois that were trending or making waves in the fujoshi/fudanshi/BL/yaoi community for better or worse.
We can't forget iconic Yaoi anime like Yuri on ice and Sk8 the infinity.
Adding to killing stalking because it was probably a lot of readers introduction to korean manhwa because it was a "BL" that broke free from the yaoi community and was in anime/weeb/manga community for the controversy.
Another example of BL breaking through the yaoi sphere was yuri on ice as it toed the line between sports anime and ice skating anime so it introduced a lot of readers and viewers to yaoi and BL.
I gave this a fair shot because of all the hype, but honestly, it just feels flat. I keep waiting for something to stand out, but it's just not happening. 64 chapters and it's still plain.