Johnjohn

I will literally bet a kidney and a lung on kinosaki being endgame

I just finished reading the novel yesterday and imagine my surprise to see that it was being adapted into a manhwa. I was so happy and though yay people get to see this great piece of work! Until I saw the comments and read the first 20 chapters. WHY DID THEY ADD ALL THOSE EXPLICIT SCENES AND UNNECESSARY GENERIC BL DUBCON SLOP?????? The novel was a story of two people coming to terms with their respective traumas by eventually finding comfort with someone they were forced to be with. All the serious scenes like the MC having a panic attack or the MC risking his life to save the other esper was treated with the emotional respect that it deserved. There is no fix by panic attack make-out or fix by reverse guiding sex bs. There is just pure human to human comfort, you really get the feeling of how they find companionship, friendship and eventually family in one another before anything sexual or romantic.

The MCs love for the ML was portrayed as pure, respectful and unconditional. whilst he did fawn over the ML’s perfect features, it felt more of a point from a fan because he truly never expected anything from the ML. He often wished for the ML’s Hyung to come back just so that he can be happy, he’d never secretly jack of to the ML or mysteriously pop boners. In the novel the only explicit moment in the story was when the MC had see with the ML to save him after the ML faced off with the main antagonist which admittedly I was not a fan because of dubcon but at least it sort of made sense and the scene was short with the Mc never taking any pleasure in it. But in general they don’t kiss until after they get together and the mc never does anything physical like kissing with any other character.

The MLs Tsundere nature was also more subtle since it was told through the MCs perspective and the MLs care for the mc was subtly portrayed through him opening up about his past and him encouraging the MC to open up and wanting the MC to stop risking his life. It came off as really sweet and much healthier rather than cloyingly childish and the MLs development was also great.


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Also what the heck MC gets raped by the antagonist in the Raws?? That scene is completely unnecessary and completely added and it just comes off as fetishy?? Baby boy does not have to go through all that man.







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Read in isolation it’s not that bad, probably the kind of BL I would turn off my brain to read once then banish it to the back of my mind. But reading this after reading the novel, story fresh in my head, was painful. If you like it then more power to you, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.


TLDR: please read the novel, translations are on novelupdates. The manhwa, imo, doesn’t do the novel justice. The novel, a story about two people overcoming their trauma whilst finding companionship in the other, was turned into more of the generic guideverse BL in the Manhwa with the focus being more on their romantic and sexual relationship and whether or not they get together.