Killing Stalking, Household Affairs, Erotic Fairytales: The Weird Side
Lately I've been more into reading manga than actually watching shows, and by the grace of apps like Manga Rock & Manga Fox, I've stumbled upon some strange things this past month.Killing Stalking
I saw this one floating around the internet for a while before I finally decided to cave and see what it was about, and though I'm disturbed I don't regret a thing. Once you get past the intense explicit sexual content that makes up quite a bit of this manhwa, and the fact that the two main characters look like even more mentally destroyed, older versions of Levi and Erwin Smith, you start to really appreciate the brain behind the story and how complex and meaningful it is.
Without spoiling too much, the whole thing begins with the stalker of our story, Yoonbum. He feels as though he is in intense love with the other main character, and the killer of our story, Sangwoo, a dude he met in army training camp, where Bum was being assaulted by the other trainee soldiers but is saved by Sangwoo before anything permenant could take place. Ever since then, Yoonbum has been obsessively in love with Sangwoo, and eventually breaks into his home to discover that Sangwoo is this killer psychopath who lures men and women into his house with his sex appeal and then murders. He catches Yoonbum when poor little Bum wonders into the basement of Sangwoo's house when he heard a noise, and discovers a beaten up young woman tied up and naked, her legs broken to prevent her from running. Instead of killing him, Sangwoo breaks Bums legs and gives him a domesticated housewife/sex-slave role in his home. Eventually the two begin to develop feelings towards each other in this messed up situation they are in, Yoonbum battling with the decision to escape when the multiple chances arise, and Sangwoo battling whether or not to kill him despite his feelings, which is what the story focuses on really. It's a story which explores the fine line between love and obsession through a really unique but toxic relationship.
However, this is VERY explicit, so if you aren't into things like that, maybe give it a miss and just read the reviews. But on the other hand, you get to read it in color! Enjoy that fantasy.
Household Affairs
Another very VERY explicit manhwa. This is even more messed up than Killing Stalking in some ways. It starts off with a kind of normal situation of a husband who works too much and a lonely wife who doesn't feel loved or wanted by her husband anymore. So, she bangs the fried chicken guy Yeon-woo.
Almost everyday.
Turns out, the husband, Ha-jin, is an assassin and the marriage to Si-Yeon, his neglected wife, is just a sham in order to keep him undercover, but poor Si-Yeon doesn't know that. To her he's just a normal dude working an office job, but if she ever finds out what he does for a living and who he really is, he has to kill her as a company policy, according to his wacked out boss with a fetish of being called mother. Along with her, there is Ha-jin's work partner who is slightly obsessed with him in an intense sexual way. Again, exploring the blurred lines between love, lust and obsession. So basically, Si-Yeon wants Ha-jins D, his boss wants his D, and his partner wants his D. Every woman in this manhwa wants Ha-jins legendary D basically. He's so well drawn though, even the reader ends up wanting Ha-Jins D eventually regardless of your gender.
As time goes on and things become uncovered, Si-Yeon begins to find out more and more about Ha-jin's true job and identity, and what their marriage really means, whilst he falls for her for real and contemplates killing her, as he's battling with his loyalty and commitment to his job or his feelings. As I said before, if you can look past all of the fan service and explicit sex in it, you'll see that the story is really meaningful and kind of relatable to many people who maybe were in a similar situation as Si-Yeon, in terms of feeling neglected and unwanted in a loveless marriage. Maybe not so much the sex-crazed succubus split personality she has though.
Erotic Fairytales
Well, this one is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine, no matter how I try and play it off I knew exactly what I was in for with a title like that. But trust me, the stories are actually cute and the art style is right up my street. The sex scenes (are they scenes in manga?) in these short manga stories are pretty tame towards Killing Stalking & Household Affairs, and don't happen throughout the entire story (other than the little mermaid one where she needs 'live energy' in order to live, so they kinda bang a lot but for a good cause).
My favourite one was the Little Red Riding Hood version they did, where the wolf was actually this really cute kemonomimi character who's really sweet and Red Riding Hood is this tough assassin-ninja-like chic from a village. The two meet and fall in love, face some troubles, but overcome them together, and it ends with them having sex together for the first time. It's cute as a story but they drew it and you see it.
You see everything.
All of these are worth a look if your into psychological warfare (the first two cover this more than the erotic fairytales... That's just a cheeky guilty pleasure).
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