So I went online and read all the current available chapters of KS. KS is a Korean manhwa, and it was all nicely colored and stuff. Except, it easily makes the list of one of the MOST FUCKED UP THINGS I HAVE EVER READ. I don't think it should be associated with YOI, since the similarity is roughly 2% and the 2% comes from both works being fictional. At least I hope KS is fictional, otherwise I'm a bit scared.
A summary of the chapters so far? Sure. The guy pictured above, Yoonbum, is an absolute crazy fucking stalker, and I believe there was a page that mentioned "borderline personality disorder". Yeah okay people with BPD really fuck up their social relationships, so I was like "aight this guy is gonna be fucked up". And he was.
He likes a boy from his uni, and so he stalks the boy to his house, and essentially breaks in by dusting the keypad and guessing the key combo. Then he goes over to his victim's bed and starts masturbating. That was... uncomfortable to read. Then it turns out his victim Sangwoo is actually a psycho killer! Sangwoo the killer kills girls, uses his basement as a torture chamber, and he smashes Yoonbum's legs with a hammer and locks Yoonbum in his basement. That wasn't even the most disturbing thing about this work.
The disturbing part is where Yoonbum goes full Stockholm (and you never want to go full Stockholm) and starts "loving" Sangwoo. They have a weird relationship, where Sangwoo keeps Yoonbum as a house slave and they jack each other off in a couple of scenes. Except the eroticism is spliced with Sangwoo casually killing a few more people, and Yoonbum being too scared to escape because Sangwoo likes playing with his mind.
The latest chapter was probably the worst part, where Sangwoo thinks Yoonbum has escaped, and he has a full-on meltdown. He then vows to kill Yoonbum when he finds him, before returning to his house and finding that Yoonbum never escaped at all. There's a scene dedicated to Sangwoo quivering and saying "let's stay together forever". I mean, it's vaguely reminiscent of a love story. Except this is almost the most fucked up thing I've ever read, and not really a love story.
If I was younger I'd feel pity for a character like Sangwoo, because he's good looking and fucked up, and it feels like "he just needs to be loved". Right now I'm like "I don't think there's a healthy way of loving a psycho killer, and I wouldn't call what is depicted here love, either".
I hope the author ends this series by having a massive show-down, where everyone essentially dies. Like I believe in rehab but goddamn idk how many years of therapy these characters need before they are okay for society. If the author does intend to travel down a "I love you" and "I love you more" route, I think I'll be more disturbed than I am now. Either way, I'm curious as to how KS will end... it was enjoyable to read, as messed up as it was.
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