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I’ve saw the scene that he died, saw the interview of the author herself stating why did he died, and I still can’t understand why she did that. She, herself stated that if he didn’t kill anyone, he would die, so why bother killing him when he’s not to blame? Couldn’t he being in PRISON be much more worth it for him to learn a lesson? To re-start a new life? Her statement saying “What would makes you think that he would be happy in Japan” ahn, MANY things? He would restart over, with the help of a friend that cherished him? That he could move on, and try a new life? Seek for medical help bc of all the awful things he saw and was forced to do while living? “He lived his life to the fullest” like wtf? He was child traffic, raped, was forced to assassinate ppl and thats living the life to the fullest to her? When he encounter someone that encourages him to change, she simply KILLED HIM bc she couldn’t forgive the fact that he killed someone, so he had to pay for his life? I gaged by reading this, bc even though he’s part to blame for killing someone, what choice would he had? Why bother then, letting him live if his ending was going to be like this? After struggling so much to change, to move on, to part ways with his unfortunate fate, she simply choose him to DIE??? I couldn’t be more pissed than I am. Oh, and when she said in the interview that even if he live, he would part ways with Eiji, like???? So why bother him dying while reading the letter, or why bother making a sequel of the person that wouldn’t be able to live without this person EVEN THOUGH her original thought that they would part ways, and that’s it? Like, that’s IT? I thought quite cold of her saying that, after building an entire relationship and trust between the two of them, or after everything Ash has gone trough nothing “special” would happen. Like, this man was raped multiple times in his life, and he couldn’t seek for help even when he would LIVE? What kind of thought is that? That every ppl that was done wrong in this life has to die to live in peace? Is life so meaningless to her that, just bc someone has gone through a very traumatic experience they can’t fight back and want to live? They can’t fight back and want to change? She has my rage, and I will never forgive her, never. I respect her as an author, and an artist. It’s her work, her project and her art. But, I couldn’t disagree more with someone in my life.
It’s okay I cried at the ending too
As an artist myself, I know it can be pretty depressing when someone is enjoying your work for FREE. But, what can be done? Most mangas, not only is difficult to get a translation, it’s difficult to reach certain areas of the world. How can we support it, if the company makes it so hard to reach us? I saw many comments saying that, they buy the physical work bc of the piracy in this site. I saw an author himself posting mangas here, bc it was engaging his work. So, what’s the point of it? I doubt it that, a BL mangá would make huge profit in a country homophobic, as Korea, with the fangirls alone. Not only that, no one has the money to spend in each chapter, at least not me that it’s Brazilian and the dollar here is SUPER expensive. How can I read other mangas like this???? So, it makes much more easy to let the piracy alone, bc at the end of the day it makes more benefits to the author than harm
Thanks for your interesting input! I think it'd be helpful to share this, so people understand that it is not that easy and at the end of the day, both the author and readers profit from it
True, i don't have access to lehzin in my country and even if i do i still can't afford it cuz a dollar in my country can buy me literally a complate meal!
I'm also Brazilian and I can confirm the dollar's price converted to our currency is CRAZY expensive, so people who read illegally isn't the kind of people who could be paying for it, so it wouldn't make a difference for the author. But on the other hand we always encourage people who can pay for it to do so and at the end of the day, people who actually have money and speak english buy the chapters because we talk about it, if it wasn't for that they wouldn't even know about it or wouldn't know if it was worth it. Besides, the language barrier is a real problem. Here in Brazil, the physical manhwa of On or Off is being published legally, in Portuguese, uncensored and in a gorgeous edition. It's extremely successful, people read it before and loved it, as soon as they announced the physical edition those same people RAN to buy it and it was sold off in a flash. So it's not just about the money, it's easy to talk when you are from the US, the price is fair on your currency, you can understand the language, the author isn't a xenophobic among other reasons. We love to support authors whenever we can, but for that to happen it has to be accessable to our currency and language at least, the authors just forget we exist though.