The translation is really inaccurate and just outright wrong at times, and the Tapas version censored the manhwa. The author also had another chapter dedicated to explaining more about the plot and characters because they felt that they didn't do a good job of depicting them, but I suppose Tapas just didn't feel the need to even include that.
I'll start by correcting the important scenes that Tapas skewed the meaning of.
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The section where the MC reflects on the stalker's traits. Tapas translated it to, "he could've applied his talents on something more worthwhile instead of using them to torment me." While the meaning itself isn't entirely irrelevant, in the original version, the message is more along the lines of, "choosing to stick around me wasn't the best idea. if he had used his talents for something else, couldn't he have become really successful?"
The "I've never had painful relations with anyone except with him. No matter how they end, relationships always begin gently. But with him... he leaves me with trauma every time we meet" part is COMPLETELY WRONG. And it's not just a minor issue -- they changed the meaning ENTIRELY. It's because of this misconstrued translation that I felt the need to even write this up. The actual translation would be, "excluding when we'd have sex, being with him (the stalker) hasn't been painful. The start would more-or-less be gentle, regardless of how it would end up. However, for him (the stalker), he gets hurt by me every time he's with me."
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"If I untie you, you'll be able to do whatever you want to me... Should I?" is wrong. The stalker's actually speaking here, not the MC, and he says, "Even if you untie me, I'll only touch you a little," so the MC teases him by pulling on the rope. The stalker responds with, "Gah, what are you..." afterwards. The stalker was actually speaking the entire time here... He said that he's satisfied just being able to have the MC in his life and that he's happy that he's able to see and talk to the MC when he gets home, even though he's slightly disappointed that he doesn't know what's happening to the MC at work.
I'll probably edit this and add more/just summarize the differences later (because just from this, I'm sure there are a lot more...), but even subtle differences in dialogue can have a huge impact on the portrayal of the characters. I think it's really unfortunate that so many lines/situations have been skewed. It seems like they took the base meaning and just rewrote it to be whatever they wanted it to be at times.
thank you so much for sharing this <3
but honestly.....why they changed such sentences( and as you mentioned, more of em!!) cause it feels like the whole story from your points of view changes by these sentences, it's really sad that they did that (I thought they'd be only censoring the naughty scenes n not their words (〜￣△￣)〜 )
what series have you guys been waiting on for a while to update?
i've always just read one shots or shorter series without getting too into the characters and/or plot, but recently i've found some manga/webtoons that i actually got surprisingly invested in only to find that they were either dropped or are rarely updated. personally, webtoons are easier to cope with because they can be available for free and usually accessed on sites, but not being able to find even any trace of raws for more obscure mangas/manhwas feels pretty bad, like i have to suddenly force myself to forget about the characters and stories that i grew to love because i just can't find them anywhere
What lies at the end.
Royal servant
A man like you.
#these are some Manhaws i've been waiting..really great!!!^,^
Our house love trouble
Fujoshi trapped in a seme
I am my wife
This is all the series I can think of right now though there's more
Sekaiichi hatsukoi >:(
I know that feeling, it's why I sometimes check mangaupdates before I pick up a series. I've gotten to that point where I've read almost all the good BL available, so with anything new or old, I'm fairly in tune to what manga is getting frequent releases. There's probably only a handful of series that I actively look forward to that's been pretty slow on releases - most notably Star Right. I'm not going to complain about their scanlation speed though, because they seem to be the only group that is still interested working on Ougi Yuzuha, so I'll wait as long as I have to. I only lament the fact that they might not pick up the last two volumes, since they've been so slow on this one. Of course, speed of scanlations isn't always an indicator, but I find the slower the group, the more the waning interest :(
There's also Kachou Fuuugetsu, which probably hasn't been updated for close to a year now. It wouldn't be so frustrating if the group leader wasn't always telling us how much she wants to read the next chapter, too, and that they've been working on it...for almost a year. And then they release something else and it's like, what happened to KF?!?!? Is your typesetter seriously still working on it?!? (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating that last part, but honestly if you read their updates on it, it's incredibly frustrating). Again, I say this as a reader and I'm grateful to still have had the opportunity to read it, but I'd rather they just be honest about their interest in the project instead of continually leading us on for almost a year and telling us they are working on it when you really aren't (come on, it's been almost a year!). Okay, I had to get that rant off my chest, I do like that group, but they definitely seem to be getting to the point where they're on the verge of closing down.
But yes, I agree that that's the upside of webtoons. They get updated frequently and you can access raws for yourself if you have the money. Worse comes to worse, if you can't find raws for manga that you're desperately searching for raws for, you can also try buying online like at CDJapan. What manga did you recently read that you're having these troubles with?
Kore ga koi no wake ga nai
Toritan
Bokura no shyokutaku
Family simulation!
A man like you
Hatsukoi
Mods (actually everything by natsume kazuki lol)
Yarichin bitch bu
Akuma chan wa momoiro
Zutto kitto
Family simulation
Haru wa daite ita alive
Given
Literally any manga by Yamamoto Kotetsuko. She takes like 8 months to update her stories. I always wait she's completed one to read it bc I can't take the waiting
^ + moritat
Saezuru Tori
Rainy Days Yesterday
Hate Mate
Yuuutsu na Asa
10 Dance
And Smells like green spirit
i'm trying to find two bl/yaoi mangas. one was about this boy who had a "perfect life" and was handsome, rich, and popular. he designed a videogame, and a character in that videogame was actually a guy irl who hacked himself into the game so that he can get closer to the perfect life guy.
the second one was about crossdressing; all i really remember is that the seme was the one who crossdressed (he also had red hair) and that he beat up some guys who were attacking the uke. any deas?
Following
thanks!! i found the second, it's the first story in nise x koi boyfriend for anyone wondering
HA+ (≧∀≦) Time lag always causes it confusing.
to finish: save me, the unfeeling me, man of a virtue, last paradise, theo, the last zombie, my starry sky, escape into oblivion, from points of three, the best smell, unfather, dasadanan,
to finish:
for your love, last paradise, the unfeeling me, bottomless swamp
i read the raws. please don't read this if you don't want to be spoiled -- it's a great story that really does deserve the wait.
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kister has a twin brother -- cicero. they were both separated at a young age. cicero continued to live with his mother and his abusive father, and after being coerced into holding onto a rope as his father beat his mother, cicero snapped and killed his father with an axe.
cicero felt that kister was the only one in the world who could understand him. he was upset at how different he and kister became after being separated for years. while kister was dreaming of becoming an actor, cicero was fulfilling his "hobby." kister eventually met and developed an interest in jonathon because jonathon told him he saw him in a play. kister was touched by the fact that jonathon could remember him and his performance considering he just played an extra, and cicero couldn't stand the fact that jonathon was coming "in-between" them.
"slaughterer kister" is known for having a track record of 33 murders. in truth, 32 of those were conducted by cicero as he continued to murder men who resembled his father. the 33rd one was the only one enacted by kister. cicero wanted kister to be the same as him so that he could accept and understand him. he threatened to kill jonathon unless kister killed the 33rd victim, tom march.
so begins kister's act as "slaughterer kister" after cicero sets him up to be imprisoned, and his motive behind his alliance with jonathon in order to protect him from cicero.
this made me like kister a 100x more
Question: where did you read the next chapters? Did you read them in the original language or translated? I can't seem to find more chapters.
someone posted the link to the raws if you scroll down in the comments a bit. i read it in the original korean language -- the english translation's only available up to chapter 39 currently
What about the brother why does he act so suspicious?
so the story is like cicero is the real killer he is a Psycho who also dragged his brother into this mess . as you said he wants to kill jonathon because he is coming in between them but i want to ask are their 2 diaries the ones which contain the photos ?
see from my point of view i think baron is just in hiding as a undercover . it may be because he can't trust anyone in media because there could be many ways in which the truth could be covered and also because he knows that his brother is in danger
and now robben- i think he is a lot suspicious at first i thought he was the killer but now its clear so i don't know anymore he is a mixed character （￣へ￣）
robert - he is just another psycho
kister - HANDSOME BOIEEEEEEEEEEEヾ(☆▽☆)
and now i know that they have met in past so its like a revival
(づ￣ ³￣)づ