Cesur's manga / #psychological(6)

KILLING STALKING ENDING IS ACTUALLY GOOD.     Ignoring some plot holes, the last chapter was actually a good thematic closure:   • Sangwoo What is interesting about sangwoo's ending is that his death is a poetic irony. Sangwoo did exactly what his mother did to him : showing Bum how he slept with Jeun, killing her and make him feel guilty about it, going to the forest together to bury the corpse and so on. And in all this mess, Bum wasn’t even accepted for who he was. In the last author’s note, someone asked if Sangwoo loved Bum, she simply said that the answer is in the last chapter, she pointed out the fact that Sangwoo was calling Bum’s name during his last moment. At the end he did recognize Bum for who he is, and he was killed with a pillow just after that, just like his mom tried to do when he was younger. It’s like he was betrayed and killed a second time by an important person (cause I suppose he didn’t see who killed him), which is very sad and pitiful... His past just repeated itself and destroyed him.  It’s sad. It’s horrible. It’s karma. • Yoonbum What makes YoonBum’s death completely valid is that, again, he get in trouble because of his own fault. From the first chapter, we know that YoonBum’s reason to live is Sangwoo; he was his new obsession, the guy who “saved” him when no one cared. And what happened when YoonBum tried get close to his hero? He put himself in a big, obscure mess. The Sangwoo that YoonBum “loved” so much was a monster, an illusion, and how did he die in the end? Pursuing the illusion of a dead man. Just like the start, YoonBum again fallen for an illusion and again did pay the price. • • • They both lived in the same house and they shared a « relationship », but it’s impressive to see how they actually lived in two different worlds and psychologically speaking they had nothing to do with each other. Both of their lives just ended miserably.. and to me they had no future together since their mental illnesses made it impossible. Sigh... their death was the only solution to finally free them from their problems.  The end of Killing Stalking is good. Not perfect, a little clichê, but good enough. P.s: Killing Stalking is a psychological horror thriller not a romcon.

Waoh! brothers complexion is on point in this manga.

I was really looking forward to this, too bad the execution was quite poor. It seems like the mangaka had a lot of ideas, and they just got away from them as the story was compressed into the seven chapters. It feels a little rushed in a lot of areas, and there's just so much random information here and there that isn't even necessary or explored enough to be actually relevant. Trying to make Mizutani both pitiful and vengeful didn't really work out, either. Kusaka seemed to be the most balanced character, but overall I felt that none of them got real development. I truly feel like the drama was force, maybe because 1 volume isn't enough to cover all of the emotions and everything just went fast forward in the last 2 chapters. this manga has a lot of potential but too bad it's only 1 volume.