The category is: misery porn!
The characters aren't even characters but stereotypes of sociopathic gangsta ML and fresh of the boat MC, who at least shows some fangs and tries to escape (and his attempts are the only thing that makes this kinda interesting, because it's so rare, that MC doesn'troll over and just take it).
I predict either chasing arc or murder- suicide. I hope for MC suiciding and ML rotting, because he magically can't live without being a cancer on MC's human rights (some magic woo woo about ML being aura vampire sucking water energy out of MC).
IMO, why people can't distinguish the characters:
1) people don't pay attention to details, all these people are different and I had no issue with knowing who is who.
2) I think *the biggest reason is there is there is no usual childish tiny uke/ big mean seme trope*. They are all adult men and artist portrays them as adult men, including their faces. It's adult story with adult artstyle and it shows that this is very rare in manga/manhwa scene (I mean there's plenty of stories like this, just they are not easy read slop and are rarely popular.)
3) They are all average handsome adult men, so they are kinda similar, but not identical because handsome features need to be specific to be considered handsome.
4) artist let's them grow and change, ie dye the hair, grow tall etc . It's so rare in comics, that when it happens, people are surprised and confused, because woojin didn't have his hair blond and spiked in high school and choi isn't a natural redhead (he's Korean, so duh).
I personally think that the artist could work some on drawing faces from profile view and could lean slightly into caricature, to make the differences bigger, but genuinely I think when it comes to art, I think that amid clip studio 3d slop this one shines through as the artist has actual drawing skills and doesn't do another copy catted manga-big-eyes thing, but goes their own path. I only wish they had proper time to draw and produce high quality they are truly capable of.
No the first part was hella confusing cus they have different hair color in high school. That was me in the beginning. I had to focus on the story to get used to it
Lmfao why wouldnt one focus on the manhwa they are reading from the very beginning.People like that exist?
Haha focus on their eyes you can distinguish it
That was me reading this cus i got nothing else to read so I wasn't really the hooked or interested.
What? So what? Their faces are distinctive enough, PLUS, if you paid attention, you'd notice that other characters name them, so it's super easy to figure out that hairdressers in that universe exist and characters can change hair after 15 years.
Because lotsa people read those to fill up time, not to read. Like you watch soap operas, you don't really watch them for plot, just fill in the silence when you're ironing a pile. On top of that, reading and comprehension are different skillset. That's it.
Yes and I said I didn't pay attention. Chill out girl it's not that deep.
Plus let's be real the artist do draw their character pretty similarly. They're built similarly. Plus yes I know they had their hair colored changed but the confusing part was who's hair color had this color when they were young. Reading this while it was ongoing was also a facter because I had to refresh my memory when it updates.
Omg not trying to be mean but it's hard to believe(although I do)that people like u exist.i would never read or watch something i do not like or am not interested(heavily)in but u do u ig
Ah, as for the articles and rumors- we're talking about South Korea, idols are killing themselves over a dating rumor or minor DUI situation, because they can't stand the pressure cooker there.
The societal pressure is at least a bit realistic plot point. It's just it's badly written.
There's is something absolutely wrong about hiw this story is written, it's not about the tropes, but about the story beats and structure itself. There is no tension. No character inner conflict, they don't seem to be actual characters, just stand ins for a BL tropes.
Like they are all over-exaggerating and not reacting enough at the same time. It also feels like a baby's first story posted on watpadd at 15. Mustache twirling villain, mcguffin pregnancy, characters that stumble over their own shoelaces upon a plot.
Main characters have no agency and they just accept what happens to them. That makes them boring and isn't good way to create tension. To be fair I laughed at this chapter's plot, with villains big speech. Like, would he break into a Disney villain song next?
I have no idea what is happening, but Moscareto is genuinely good writer. It seems either she has a bet to write the shittiest story to get out of a publishing contract or something. Or she left the writing to the artist.
I want more babies....~~~~~ gimme~~
ThonI must admit, this is likely one of very very few mangas/mantras that the artist has stricken great balance between their style and actual baby-ness of the babies, so they don't look like creepy bug eyed aliens and are in fact super cute.
There was a moment in thus story when it was good sci fi and could easily go i to mindfuck body horror.
But ni, nevermind, it's just another flamvour of a harem story with way too much sex.
The name is salty LUST u expected what?????
Fuck off
Chill out man, why so much anger?
Could you ask the same, why being a cunt in your first comment.
Hence, without anger and kindly, fuck off. I have no patience for people like you.
Thanks for explaining so I will also explain that my first response was not me being a cunt! Here It goes:
Thank you for sharing your opinion. It is perfectly understandable that the amount of adult content may not be to the liking of all readers. However, it is important to consider the work within the context of its intended purpose from the beginning. Salty Lust was conceived as a work aimed at an adult audience, and this type of content is not an incidental element, but a central characteristic of its narrative identity. For this reason, criticizing the work for containing exactly the type of content it advertises may result from an expectation incompatible with its purpose. This does not mean that the reader is obliged to appreciate it, but rather that the evaluation should take into account the objectives that the work aims to fulfill, and not those of a different genre or audience.
And that's what I was going after, I know that text can be dry and soulless but you don't need to read it like it's to tick u off! Just because someone uses ANY kind of resources to make a word more apparent doesn't mean they're screaming at u, maybe they are but you don't need to swear, anyway I hope u have a good day and read the tags when starting a new story!
see pieces of shit like this is why we cant have nice things. "no patience" im sorry who the fuck asked?
"why being a cunt" dude, the only one being a cunt (negative) here is you,,,, literally all they did was point the very obvious title and ask what you expected,,, it's not like they were cussing you out (like you did) lmao
Let it be~ thanks for defending me tough but it's better not provoke him more, maybe he's having a bad week or something
Too long, I don't care what you have to say.
You came to me with unnecessarily antagonistic comment chiding me for expecting quality from a story and liking bits of it that are not 5v1 mid porn. What did you expect to happen? For me to say "silly me, sorry for thinking I may have an opinion?" Don't answer.
What I expected from title? Absolutely nothing. Nada. I didn't even register it, because I don't care about titles unless I'm buying a recommended book. Also, the translation is wrong, should be 'Stingy lust', salty is an idiom in this context.
So I have right to be annoyed by you and your attention seeking.
'I want abortion, but early miscarriage would be bad.' MC, who is clearly a schizo.
WTF, who thinks like this? Who writes this? Moscareto, you are better than this shit, what happened, did you rot your brain to the core with too much porn?
It's because abortion is a medical procedure and is mostly safe. If he goes through the legal way, the alpha would be informed and he will become an actual participant of getting rid of the baby. If through illegal way, alpha would probably live his whole life without knowing anything. Meanwhile, a miscarriage due to fucking is not only more painful and dangerous to his body but would mean that the alpha would discover he is pregnant and that he unknowingly killed the baby coz he was horny, so of course it would be bad, really bad.
someone get this 10yr old back to cocomelon bro
Like. What are you on?
Do you know the 'no sex in early pregnancy' thing that all the manga /manhwa authors like to quote, both in ABO and hetero, is taken out of the lecture at University of Arse?
It's one of those things that is constantly a plot point in those stories... and it's whatever in real life? You can't even really detect a pregnancy until 2-3 weeks and I doubt anyone stops having sex just after having it once a month, because they can "kill a baby".
"Violent sex"? What they have isn't really violet sex, it's defo intense, but let's not skew what they have into violence, will you? It cheapest what is actual violence to the point where everything 8s violence nothing is.
Also, had you have an early miscarriage, at first few weeks? You don't even notice it 90% of time, because it feels like irregular period at most. In a healthy woman, it's literally nothing physically.
And the most important part - "Killing the baby due to misscariage"? What the fuck are you on? But no, what the fuck are you on?
This story is written in a very miserable way, I don't expect two 20 years old to be the epitome of being put together, but this here is just 'no communication porn' trope taken to the. Your comment might even be interesting if there was an ounce of world building that would sustain it, but we get absolutely nothing. We just get infuriating NPCs, who don't have a thought in their brains, which is shocking from this writer, on how not put together this story is.
The only way this doctor's behaviour is acceptable, if she snuck some pro choice org leaflet, but can't talk about this shit in the open.
That being said, I don't mind misery porn in my fiction, I just hate lazy worldbuilding and misery porn just for the sake of it. He can't get abortion right now? Cool, it's omega vers, we know this work differently there, just explain it why exactly he can't get abortion, is it law, is it biology, is it ultra Christian hospital he went to or simply there's admin stuff and the nearest appoontment can be made in a month? Like, dear author, don't be lazy pos and give us some kind of worlbuilding that we the Reader can get something tonunderstand what why and where.
Because this- it's just things for the sake of things. This is no plot, this is just boring, lazy writing.
People in comments getting their panties in a twist because of fictional assault... while I'm here laughing, because animu artstyle and mediocre storytelling is making this unintentionally hilarious.
Due to art there is no gravitas to the situation that would make it a good emotional point, it's just all wonky anatomy, colorgrading adding nothing to the atmosphere and camera angles chosen to show as much dick in a hole as possible.
If you wanna be a motalfag over a paper character doing paper things, at least find a story where it hits. This one is just funny.
Not when some people are confused if the actions were of rape or not. Not when some people are shifting the blame on grayson and says he's the rapist for trapping them in the villa.
If you read that part in the novel and see others celebrate it bc the adaptation toned it down and fell flat on portrayal, you wont be laughing
My goodness. Honey, you are a brave one. I've been meaning to say this since ch 1. I read the entire novel and I found it amusing. So naturally I had great expectations for the manhwa but man....the disappointment.
The art style is so so stiff. The expressions are just either wide eyes and full of blush, or they look constipated. So many good scenes are just skipped over.
Don't even get me started on the weird anatomy.
The thing is, fictional characters, depending on the artist's style will have different odd looking characters(like one piece) but then again, those characters despite being anatomically unhinged, still look good PRECISELY BECAUSE THEIR MOVEMENTS DON'T LOOK STIFF. But here, the artstyle isn't the issue at all. It's the stiff and awkward movement. It feels so out of place and off putting.
Og commenter was talking about the artstyle. Not the plot of the story. They quite literally said the situation is serious but wonky anatomy doesn't make it seem that way. And I agree with that.
This particular part was quite the drama but the art wasn't even able to pick up 10% of greyson's genuine panic and want of running away.
"and fell flat on portrayal"
Artstyle and storytelling included. I got that they couldnt take it seriously bc of it