People have been throwing the word pedophilia around way too much these days. Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent children. This is a 17 year old, which in certain countries is nearly a legal adult.
And about their sexual relationship, it's not ethical, not appropriate, and it is exploitative and disturbing. But again it's not illegal, majority of countries have the age of consent set at 16. (Also I checked and in China it's 14, so that's even lower)
So, is this slightly off-putting? -Yes. Is it pedophilic or legally wrong? -No.
And before you start calling me out, I didn't say anything about a relationship like this being okay. I am just tired of people calling authors disgusting and their content pedophilic when it's not the case.
Ehm so I don't know anything about why the manhwa doesn't continue... But the novel is completed (5 volumes + 4 side stories).
Here is the link for the raw novel:
https://booktoki466.com/novel/2309949?stx=%EB%B3%84%EC%9D%98+%EA%B6%A4%EB%8F%84&__cf_chl_tk=ragEgHrb9gngcTZmcYq_q2PgrBbmdsYiQvzpJcLX52U-1733537737-1.0.1.1-Qu6ywMhFeGrQ5IG.h7Ae9G1_ftoewVx_N.Dp3W3tcqg
I don't remember well, but I think the manhwa adapted 3 volumes.
My problem with this is that confinement r*pe plot can be done right, we have seen it in Warehouse (and in many more as well). Similarly, regardless of the plot, the toxic sex/r*pe can be done well (in my opinion Married Man is perfect example of this)
However, this shit ain't it!! Not only the hinted plot (revenge story?) stops making sense right when it gets introduced but the sex ain't even good??!!! Like I don't care how trashy the plot was supposed to be, but even the sex sucks????!!!
I checked the raws to confirm what the other commenters been saying and they are right. Stop reading here. The first 4 chapters are probably the best you can get from this manhwa, anything past that is shit.
Someone please tell me nothing happens to the restaurant while he is gone with that stove on
I found it familiar, and surely it seems like an adaptation of the novel I coincidentally stumbled upon few days ago.
https://readhive.org/series/74802/
the line "foolish Ellery" always strikes me painfully. He desperately wanted to trust his friends until the end ㅠㅠ.
Given I have wasted my time on this, it could at least have an ending?! You can't even call this an open ending. Bigger disappointment than other trashy works of the same kind, because this had a potential but ultimately served nothing.
To everyone wandering about the state this manga is in.
I follow Katsura Komachi on Twitter and she's the sweetest person. Unfortunately she mentioned that she was and still is struggling a lot with depression and had a huge author's block. She also has financial issues so she does not focus just on writing her manga.
In April, she started writing a manuscript for the next chapter we are getting. I think it is safe to assume, that the chapter will get published at the end of the year (it's my prediction, don't take it as a fact). After that, the 2nd volume of this manga will get released!
I hope that releasing the next chapter gives her confidence boost. So please be patient and supportive of Komachi-sensei.
Hear me out, skip the first 40 chapters, start reading from chapter 41 onwards and you are in for quite enjoyable story. You won't miss much, it's perfectly comprehensible and you will save yourself from the problematic uncomfortable part.
You can also skip further to chapters 70-80 from where onwards you are basically all striped off the main plot and it gets more focused on family and development of the two side couples.
meaningful chapters: 10-12, 21, 37-38, 42
The hate uke is getting is so unjustified. I almost didn't read the story because of how much people trash on the uke. But now that I have, I see it's either people who dropped the series too soon or just did not understand it's maturity who leave those comments.
Contrary to popular opinion I actually fairly like uke. He has strong resolve, he may seem weak but contrary is the truth. He could have made really stupid decisions and sleep with his boss when being made advances at, yet he didn't (and he was already broken up with his ex at that point). He has flaws, but that only shows that he is written human.
His reasons for breakup are clear and rational. The ex didn't do anything excessively wrong (though the homophobic slip up was hurtful) but it is still valid to break up over feeling hurt, insecure, or unequally loved in a relationship (regardless of what's the truth). Surely he could have communicated with his ex, but so could have the ex. Plus the ex's pov chapters also show that they were both equally responsible for how the relationship ended.
So all together I don't really understand why people hate on the uke. I am pretty confident in saying that uke gives no reasons for such enormous hate.
The only thing I wasn't a fan of was how he fell for his boss who treated him badly for the most of the time. But then, the uke was able to walk off from that relationship. And during the boss' redemption moment the uke wasn't gonna accept him back easily.
To sum it up "Everyone loves in different ways. That's why both partners need to put in effort to make their relationship work. To understand each other. Because . . . that's what makes someone truly happy" (Jeonghan, ch.50)
This manhwa is actually completed with 20 chapters. Is no one really gonna translate the remaining 8? This story is so worth it. Please