You're so right!
It’s dark romance, idk what you were expecting going in? Did you seriously not hear about them beforehand, or even read comments / summery?
I understand reading one and going :0 but you’re naming some of most popular dark romances and are pissed off because they have dark themes?
It’s funny coincidence that you read stuff you don’t like so often and then proceed to rant that you hate it on website where they are all consistently in popular section lol, gutsy, I’ll give you that. Though I don’t really care about any hate on them, I do gotta say that your criticism on them is pretty shallow because it comes down to preference / pov of the reader. You don’t feel their love. Doesnt mean it’s not there in eyes of author or the readers.
Me personally, I’ve only partially read Anastasia and didn’t try the other ones, and thats on making your own reading list with stuff you KNOW you enjoy.
Cus the whole “don’t like, don’t read” should be practiced not just preached.
Okay? But I can still complain? I’m not harassing readers or the authors. I do read stuff like this a lot, mostly with the hope that it won’t end up like most stories seem to. I’m fine with dark themes it’s how it’s handled and the ending that upsets me most of the time. I’ve read manwha where the ML was utter trash and then DID change and redeem themselves or at least say sorry and truly love the mc in the end.
It’s so funny when people say this though, as if art isn’t meant to be discussed and also talk about what is in a movie/how it was handled. Everybody has an opinion amd shares it on every single thing all the time but for some reason BL manwha readers suddenly hate opinions being shared when it comes to their dark yaoi.
Sure, maybe my opinion is shallow but there’s literally nothing wrong with me saying I interpreted it that way as well as the author making it that way.
And you say don’t like don’t read should be practiced and seem (key word is seem) to be upset that I made this post, yet doing the same thing as me by reading this and commenting lmao. You sitting here replying to my post and saying what you don’t like about it or anything you think at all is literally the same thing as me or anybody else sharing their opinion on a manwha, and yes sure maybe my interpretation of no love is different form other readers and the authors but idk man l think my interpretation of somebody raping and abusing someone then not even saying sorry doesn’t seem very romantic and like they actually love them.
Thank you
I have a list of my favourite couples with healthier dynamics
There is no r*pe, violence or cheating between main characters. Nothing unforgivable in general
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/2747536/
That's so funny. I literally had to clock someone on that too. Like, we can't say any opinions about people being horrible in a comic, but you can tell us off because you have an opinion about an opinion?? I also read about a-holes and it incites me to discuss about it because I'm engaged, I'm feeling what you're putting down
Pearl boy makes me uncomfortable
Literally 90% of manhwas im crine
I haven't read any of the stories you cited precisely because I know they're mostly slop. I think you should definitely spend less time reading stories that give you no value in return on time invested. These days not very good stories are getting dropped, but personally I'd rather go on a drought not having read any good stories than pick up slops just to fill in time ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Y’know what, you’re right. Idk why I torture myself like this. I just always hope it’ll get better but it doesn’t
like you said, it's all in the handling. and so many (most?) creations in this category drop the ball HARD. people want to act like those stories get flack just because they're "dark" and the people who take issue with them are just sensitive puritans who can't handle hardcore themes and topics when a good chunk of the criticism they get is aimed at how shallow, flippant, and often poorly written and developed those stories are. acting like it's deep or impactful just because it's violent and brutal. is that all there is to honesty? what's with the sugarcoating all the abusive behavior by suddenly making it into a lovey-dovey functional relationship between abuser and victim just because there's a sob story for the abuser? can't even make it halfway convincing with a proper reflection and working-on-themselves arc for those abusers. just "chasing" and "it's all okay because now the abuser is affectionate towards their victim!!!". so many of those glossed-over abuse relationships are doomed if their creators were honest because they never actually address or resolve the abusive character's abusive behavior or their root causes. victims just magically get over their trauma, and so on. why not get into the dysfunctional relationships that would likely end in tragedy if they kept going? yeah, yeah, escapist idealized dark romantic fantasies or whatever. it's still unsatisfying in my book. even though a lot of those stories are some kind of "I can fix him (with love!" stories, they hardly ever/never dig deep into that either.
I'm deeply irked by the whole thing because sometimes there's potential in exploring mindsets and attitudes towards love, obsession, and intimacy, but because these creators don't want to do any research or something (idk), it's just shallow depictions of eroticized rape and violence a million times over. there are other conflicts! there are other ways to include sex scenes! I wouldn't be so irritated if these stories weren't so shallow and formulaic for the cheap thrill of it all! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
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We gotta clock them together sometime
Like literally so many different manwhas where there is no love in the relationship or the top/ML (sometimes the bottom) treats the other horrendously and doesn’t even redeem themselves or barely does.
I’m gonna be stepping on some toes but Codename anastasia, passion, the new pearl boy, some novels like run away if you can. Like almost everything I’ve read, complete and incomplete tbf, the relationship has like no actual love in it to me and the ML doesn’t even suffer for what they did or at least not in a substantial way.
Like tell me why you can abuse this person, rape them (and in a pure sadistic way mind you), manipulate them, be rude, sleep around, but in the end y’all get together after you just say sorry once or not even sorry sometimes. And then all these other horrible manwhas that are just straight torture, like Barge In and Reverse Thinking. I mean I do agree with don’t like don’t read and all that but I still wanna complain about all this I’m ngl.
It just pisses me off.