100% right. and i meant to upvote sorry
that's because of the age limit, the LN probably was for older audience? Yaoi is already pretty much smut from the get-go. The minimal nudity here was already "white washed" out.... frustrating but...
this should not have been the novel they adapt if they were going for a younger age limit. All this would do is drive younger audiences to the smutty novel. Truly they might as well not have adapted this one. The novel is basically smut - the story was interesting but there was A LOT of smut, like yaoi levels of smut. The way it is now, i wish they hadn't chosen this novel. I'd rather hope it had gotten picked up by someone else since apparently the novel was popular korean.
The manhwa feels so lacking, because it hints at it wants to go the smut route (not completely getting rid of it's romance novel routes) but can't because of age limit and it just seems so badly done. Like he basically ate my girl out and it's just such an awkward mess how they do it lol. They might as well as not even show clips of them having sex and just rework the story in that aspect.
I don't disagree, I miss the smut scenes from the LN as well, it's kinda lacking that level of obsession he has with her. But that's an entirely different discussion, I was just saying why it doesn't have it. There doesn't seem to be a halfway, it's either teen stuff or it turns directly into smut, and for manwha/manga etc to be smut it seem to have to have smut scenes almost every 2nd or 3rd chapter... and in this story it wouldn't have worked at least at the start.
If you're gonna adapt what's essentially a romance novel, you can't just gloss all the r-rated scenes. Like what's the point? While it's nice to see the story in manhwa, it's a disappointing adaptation. Man yaoi will have everything out there with so many manhwa's but they don't seem to give the same treatment to straight romances. This could of been an opportunity