Legs That Won't Walk
10.9.2020 The protagonist in this story is a young(ish) man with a leg injury that came from him being a boxer. So far in the story (ch 17) life has really dealt him a shitty hand: his old lover since his high school graduation has suddenly turned into one who does domestic violence and rapes him in bed, and apparently his dad ran foul of some korean mafia debt collectors. There’s a lot of dark things happening, and so far no character is either white or black but instead all sorts of grey. His new boss, who’s attracted to him, kinda goes berserk on the old lover, and one of his ’new coworkers’ is just really yandere. I want to know what’ll happen next, but so far this is Korean version of a yaoi yakuza-rape trope. 24.4.2024 ch 92 The yakuza finally offers to help our boxer get his leg fixed.
Gyangu no Kai-kata
3.5.2021, 9.7.2023 A New York gangster named Clyde (born 1921) disappears in 1953 and turns up outside the apartment complex where Yuu lives. What starts out as a hostage situation, with Yuu scared to death, gradually evolves into Clyde becomming dependant on and tolerating Yuu... into bad attraction and then honest attraction. In a few scenes where Clyde seems to have difficulty opening up to Yuu about his growing attraction, we see him dreaming about vanishing into mist in front of Yuu. This actually starts to happen, and when Clyde sees Yuu desperately trying to grab on to him, I guess the moment when Clyde CHOOSES Yuu with all his heart makes him finally ”stabilize in time”. The morning after, Clyde’s thoughts about how he ”doesn’t feel as heavy” anymore seems to confirm that. Maybe the story is about how SOMETHING plucked up one part of a soulmate pair and dropped them off close to the other, and if they both chose one another they would be able to stay together. Oh, and saying ”iku” in Japanese means ”I’m cumming”. Clyde’s comment on wanting to learn Japanese just to be able to understand what Yuu says during sex (because when he gets too excited he switches from English) is a real accepting your new life thing. Kinda like him also saying ”if I could taste your miso soup every day” and Yuu commenting ”that’s how Japanese propose” is so....adorable.
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