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this is the cutest damn thing i've read in my life. who knew a mafioso ahjussi could be so endearing??? i loved the sense of humor in this.

Yeo Eui Joon, who works at a convenience store frequented by gangsters, wants to quit as soon as pos...

this is still one of my favorite couples. idk udou just really captures a lot of my own insecurities and the conflicts just resonate a lot with me.

Blockheads Kasukabe and Misato are always quarreling over everything. But one day, Kasukabe finds hi...

after reading a couple of their works, i must say this author is a phenomenal artist and a poor writer. the stories are always just... blah.

The priest Edward meets a veteran under a vicious curse. This is the love story of the young priest ...

so sad to see this shelved just as the plot was accelerating. i hope the author's health improves and that potentially they could revisit this story one day. it's rare to find slow burns like this one. also, cliff and ed both remind me of xie lian from TGCF in a way—the dynamic is basically martyr x martyr and i realized i actually don't see that in fiction much.

i always played clerics/priests in RPGs so it's fun to read a story with one as the protag. the women characters are written with respect which is a huge bonus.

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sometimes "i love you" can sound like "i will be the one to retrieve your remains." that line knocked the wind out of me. i really liked the way this story questioned what is romantic love—and the tangled threads of affection, shared history, loyalty, and responsibility that constitute it—or seem to. that it's often never as clear cut as we want it to be, and love alone isn't enough to build a life on. there is a wider world out there, something greater than ourselves. there always is. secondary to the love story, this was a lovely homage to the passion and sacrifice of journalists around the world, who do what they do at great personal risk. i thought the author handled all of this with great sensitivity and compassion. there was never a point where i disliked any of the characters, who are all trying their best in their own way to deal with grief and uncertainty. unlike some manhwa where there are reductive roles of damsel and villain, etc., here they are very human.

i kind of regret reading this because it was.. honestly a waste of time. there's nothing particularly wrong about the story, but that's just it—it's kind of just bland and inoffensive. lukewarm. like the characters never really come to life and there's no real plot to follow. i'm not convinced by the couple's reasons for falling in love/attraction to each other either, it just seems kind of shallow. not surprised to see this cancelled. i wonder if the author wanted permission to drop it.

the real neko x neko fr

how the fuck do you regularly fuck a man for two years and not know what a prostate is. how do you get regularly fucked for two years and never teach your partner how to do it better. now that's just silly.

During one of his visits to a gay bar, Yamato, a refined top with a princely aura, chanced upon a po...

i'm aro ace and i've also had.. complicated relationships with social expectations and love and desire. and i've also had a stalker who was obsessed with me for 8 years and delivered crazed love letters to my house accusing me of being heartless. and threatened to kill himself. anyway that's in the past now but man is this triggering all those painful little buttons. hurt people tend to hurt themselves (and those around them) all the more. i was pleasantly surprised to find such a realistic and emotionally raw portrayal of rape trauma, depression, and even asexuality and aromanticism (though the aromanticism was brought under the umbrella of asexuality—i don't know how these concepts are viewed in korea's lgbtqa community). a fantastic but heavy and dark read.

Chihiro woke up in a tattered state on a garbage dump. Suddenly, a man approached him while looking ...

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Kiyoshi, who works for a foreign finance company, is an egotistical and carefree man. However, he is...

Asagi, a salaryman, works for a production company for his favorite character, Docky. Asagi has hidd...