Why do all the manhwas/webtoons with legitimately good plots and actual thought behind fantasy/culture elements get discontinued??? Now I have to read the 570th manhwa about an abused princess who gains the favor of everyone by pretending to not give a shıt / entering a contract marriage and getting praised for being “smart” despite everyone else in the webtoon being dumb as a rock.
Can we get some original concepts like this one please? Such a waste of great art…
I didn’t finish this but imo the mysophobia is kind of inaccurate here… I’m now wondering if the author has/had mysophobia because the MC will straight up touch “contaminated” objects and then immediately afterwards put his WHOLE HAND on his face when he’s freaking out. Like hello? I know people have different experiences but this is just a little silly.
That’s fair. At least it’s not a harmful perspective necessarily, but when you’re publishing pieces on a diverse subject that you aren’t part of/don’t really know much about it’s best to have someone in that group proofread or something. I feel like mysophobia and contamination OCD is soooo misrepresented in media which causes people to stay ignorant on the subject…
But then again this is Japan so lol
Oh ok mb for not finishing but isn’t that also under contamination OCD? I feel like by diagnostic criteria it would still be OCD given rituals / circular thinking
Idk what the point would be of having a manga where this guy goes through exposure therapy to cure his OCD when he doesn’t actually have it but maybe the point is flying over my head idk
To continue, the point of the manga is for him to realize he’s not dirty. And he deserves to experience different things. He may not have misophobia, but he still has a type of ocd (not sure which). And the exposure therapy breaks down his barrier slightly, but doing it with the ml is really what makes him realize he can start to let go of his problems. Like he finally reached out to his father again, and he interacts with his coworkers more, aswell as not wearing his gloves at work.
Yea I guess so. But I still feel like contamination OCD & mysophobia have so many overlaps so I feel like it’s still inaccurate. If he’s more concerned about contaminating others with his own body then it doesn’t really make sense that he will touch his face rather than avoiding it. I just feel with that kind of thing he would realistically be conscious of every single move and it’s not really possible to slip up like that. Just my opinion tho
there’s no way that massive guy got drunk from 1 sip of soju lmao common sense doc please
Alcohol can have vast reactions for each person.
Some can handle it and drink a russian Don under the table, others get shitfaced after a small amount as seen with JJ.
Hell, there is even people with medical conditions that can have other reactions, as is the case with some korean people that genetically cannot drink alcohol due to risk of death.
Body build DOES play a big role. Him being heavy doesn't matter as much as his body being lean and other factors that make his system work differently.
There's also something to all this as it's a VERY commonly used trope in stories in asia, so you'll likely find people getting drunk more easily over there than with other countries. Else the cliche would be common in western fiction as well, which it isn't. Likely because our relationship to alcohol is a bit different and rooted in our systems even. XD
lowkey rapey
Meh not rlly (I can elaborate if you want)
He told him “stop I don’t want it” and tried to push him away fym
And then at the end ash is like “yk that wasn’t me right it was just in the moment” like tf
This manhwa is supposed to highlight consensual sex
I mean we have access to Karlyle’s thoughts and he’s enjoying it, plus it’s already been established between them that he only says that bc he’s embarrassed… I do think it’s a lil weird but it’s more of an author issue than a character issue
But how from Ash’s perspective how tf is he supposed to know if Karlyle is being serious or not. Like, him saying “it hurts” like 3x “I don’t want it” “stop” and physically trying to push him away is a bit excessive for Karlyle just being a tsundere type. Did they already establish a safe word and I forgot or something??? This is so common in those manhwas where the bottom will try everything to get the top off them but they “actually secretly enjoy it” like that is a lovely message you are sending about consent to your audience.
Bc they’ve talked about it before, I’m pretty sure Karlyle said smth like “I don’t hate anything you do” or sum. They do establish a safe word when Ash is in his right mind
Oh okay didn’t remember that they had a safe word my fault
First point doesn’t really make sense though… saying that one time doesn’t automatically mean infinite consent
That’s true but I’m guessing it does for the author (Asian standards are a bit iffy)