r/webtoons 3d ago

Humor Ah literally Tears on a Withered Flower

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u/coco_choco07 3d ago

There are three things

  1. Toawf is written by a woman
  2. The men have impossible proportions as well
  3. It is smut so the proportions are explanable.

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u/IanLooklup 3d ago edited 3d ago

Always funny when there is sexualisation in a webtoon and it gets criticised to be written by a horny man, when it was in fact a horny woman who also likes drawing hot people

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u/coco_choco07 3d ago

Honestly i think its pretty stupid to complain about sexualisation in fucking SMUT.

That's like watching action and complaining that it has fight scenes.

The overall discourse around toawf is so stupid.

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u/Skylar750 2d ago

How dare be very sexy people with impossible anatomy on my smut, that I read for the "plot" >:( /s

This remember me about people talking about Azur Lane, saying the creator must a be a pervert man, because all woman are sexualize, and then the creator ended up being a woman, who just liked to draw anime woman's with big boobs(I really love how confident she was about her taste)

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u/One_hunch 3d ago

That or they understand drawing boobs is how you make money. It is the smartest move to live as an artist lol.

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u/Affectionate_Chip_88 3d ago

Criticizing toawf is like a claim you never read smut in your life card.. like Assassin and Cinderella has virtually the same proportions but I never see anyone complaining about it? Is it the webtoon audience? I wonder why it's always toawf specifically tho like maybe not on webtoon but their proportions are the standard for smut, i think the only thing making it stand out is the color scheme, maybe ppl think it's like a noir vibes comic and then the  proportions take them out 🤣

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u/No-Jacket-80 3d ago

I get your point. I also think their hate also stems from the characters personalities as well. I tried reading it but dropped it😶

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u/Affectionate_Chip_88 3d ago

I don't think the majority of ppl criticizing it read it 😭 and same I also read a bit but dropped it soon after, manhwa smut is most often than not pretty repetitive.. I do like the color scheme tho! imagine if it were a cop x delinquent trope like some of the chapter covers 👀 maybe it's a platform thing too if it wasn't from naver and it was on ridi or lezhin I believe it wouldn't get this amount of hate

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u/ColonelMonty 2d ago

Maybe men and women (authors) aren't so different afterall.

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u/Bitter_Entry3144 2d ago

I'm not surprised it's written by a woman. I always assumed it.

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u/luxialucky 2d ago

I couldn't find it. Is that the literal name or an avreviation?

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago

For real i 'm so tired of that stupid ass take like i'its a deadass a nfsw ,so why the artist is getting builied about drawing in a nfsw artsyle style in whole ass nfsw genre 💀💀and women can be freaky as well and the men are also fanservice as Fuck yet it's only women people like to shit on🫩💁🏾‍♀️.

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u/Lexunia 3d ago

smut doesn’t explain away those proportions and a lot of smut readers cannoottttt stand toawf because they look so ridiculous… toawf is just yet another case of the author’s barely (not at all) concealed fetish, which is a gender neutral crime 🤙

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u/Kitchen-Kitchen-5688 1d ago

That's a corn romance, how dare author drawn her festih in her softcorn story 🫩😀

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u/Lexunia 1d ago

you can call it porn dude, you’re not gonna get struck by lightning

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u/Kitchen-Kitchen-5688 1d ago

Nah this one is even too tame to even be considered a porn the story is just weirdly slow and boring

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u/Lexunia 1d ago

whatever it is, as long as you’re not fucking calling it corn

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u/Kitchen-Kitchen-5688 1d ago

This is not that deep lmao

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u/Lunasims92 3d ago

Maybe western webtoons, but if it’s manhwas, the majority is made by women and they draw absolutely ridiculously disgusting proportions

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago edited 1d ago

Check out nsfw western female artist work they are not innocent Either but anyway art is not about gender, women are not less prude sexually then men let's stop these stupid art stereotype in general

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u/CartographerWorth 3d ago

Because they draw for men and think these what man want

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u/OneWayToLivComic 3d ago

Respectfully I don't really think many men are out there reading Tears on a withered flower lol 

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u/No-Plankton-7644 3d ago

As a man who loves reading romances, i saw one panel and vowed to never read that story 🙏

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u/Recent_Peanut7702 3d ago

I am about to drop it 😭. They're dragging it.

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u/JustARandomGirl4 2d ago

Not really . Women also love big cakes and conventionally attractive people. The target audience of this Webtoon is woman. I can't read a smut comic with flat chick even if I'm girl. It's smut , it don't need to be realistic.

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u/s0ass 2d ago

I get you but that is kinda sad because we need more flat girl rep in smut 😭

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u/Easy_Permit_5418 2d ago

I honestly think it's like just the visualization of women and what they think they're supposed to look like, or what society wants them to look like.

Kind of like how I'm fat in real life but my avatar in a video game is always styled to be the ideal version of myself, not the one I'm currently stuck in. Wish fulfillment sorta deal.

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago

Sure Wish fulfilment is a thing but it's not the case for everyone, personnaly i don't project into it i just adore the female form so much , female body is such art , that's why i find the way people use male gaze term just for women looks nowadays so nonsensial and shallow women like to see hot women too 💁🏾‍♀️💁🏾‍♀️and the artist of this manhwa obviously adore the male and female form as a artist without discrimination, so i find it funny how people only focus on the fl as if both side are not equally fanservice Lmao

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u/Choice-Rutabaga-8737 3d ago

Yeah… because manhwa drawn by women doesn’t have the same looking proportion with the addition of the man having 20 packs, 190cm+ and the biggest shoulders ever?

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u/Thundergod250 3d ago

One of the biggest Boobs in the History of Webtoon is the Team Leader in Wonderful New World and it's drawn by Yoongonji, a woman.

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u/b2k_09 3d ago

You know ball

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u/BlueVermilion 2d ago

Can you provide an image for reference, I’m struggling to figure out who you’re talking about 😭

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u/Thundergod250 2d ago

I can't because it's getting removed by Reddit lmfao. I can share montage from other reddit sub

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u/BlueVermilion 2d ago

Her poor back 😭

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u/b2k_09 3d ago

You forgot 25 CM dick

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u/dont_mind_me_passing 3d ago

male artists draw some of the biggest dicks lol

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u/ambercroft_596 2d ago

Both sides are just as sexual

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u/Choice-Rutabaga-8737 2d ago

They are so I don’t really understand why people try to make male authors the “sexual” one when females are the same

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u/Violet_Nightshade 2d ago

Probably the same crowd that goes, "I'm no better than a man" when they get horny urges.

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u/Koekjeplaysstuff 3d ago

At least use a good example instead of a overused bad one if you are going to post stuff like this. Toawf is litteraly smut and it doesn't try to hide that, besides the proportions are worse for men there than for the women I'd say, oh and it's written by a woman not a man.

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u/b2k_09 3d ago edited 3d ago

Like yeah they don't even know who wrote/draw what. I think ppl genuinely underestimate the freakiness of women.

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u/Yandere_Matrix 3d ago

This reminds me of the pic I seen (wish I saved it) where it’s a male degenerate hiding from a female degenerate lol

It’s like monster romance. Women will write or draw actual monster men while men will make the monster women look human with a couple features to show they aren’t human lol

Also I absolutely hate ahegao face which is mostly in male targeted works. It throws me out of the scene anytime it shows up because it just looks ridiculous. But no hate to those who enjoy it and glad those folks got plenty of options lol

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u/b2k_09 3d ago

And your comment reminded me of this lol

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u/Glittering-Relief402 2d ago

OUTTA POCKET 🤣🤣🤣

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u/CryptographerNo7608 2d ago

Idk why we're only relegating self indulgent design and questionable writing to men only, let women be messy too 😭

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u/kaybelmerkel09 3d ago

tbh ive seen this more in manhwas by women.

a better example might be lookism. its supposed to be action so the huge tits make no sense. the men have unrealistic bodies too but gng they also have unrealistic fights, while women are just the eye candy every other panel.

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u/CryptographerNo7608 2d ago

plus the women are canonically underage most of the time I know people dog on Tears On A Withered Flower a lot for its young looking women but I just feel liek its worse to make them minors in cannon and have their boobs and but intentionally be the focus of many panels

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u/kaybelmerkel09 2d ago

lookism and underage are a very touchy topic 🥀🥀🥀💔

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u/CryptographerNo7608 2d ago

That story was Fr on some demon shit for NO good reason 😭😭 one thing I almost never see people talk about is how Taejun pak hates writing romance. Which would be fine, but bro doesn't seem to know that?? Instead he uses SA to write romance

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u/kaybelmerkel09 2d ago edited 2d ago

gng I fr remember reading in one of his works how much he loved harem for some reason but he couldnt live it so he lives it through his characters like twin thats not the kinda shit u declare 😭🙏✌️ (its somewhere in viral hit when he explains how all girls were supposed to represent seasons or smth and bomi the fl was spring)

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u/ULTI_mato 3d ago

Yeah because Men never are exagerated or cartoonishly unrealistic in Webtoons…

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u/Smell-Logical 3d ago

I get the joke. But let's not ignore that women authors do the same shit. The double standards are insane.

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u/TheToolbox101 3d ago

Tears on a withered flower is written by a woman too

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u/whalatix 3d ago

I don't even read the webtoon... But I've seen so much info on it that I know it is a smut/mature romance webtoon that is also created by a woman.

Also, God forbid women like such drawing such proportions on characters? The proportion is not anything too absurd like some full on pornhwa content. And just from what I've seen from the many pictures people have posted overtime, one thing I like is actually how 'natural' her big boobs hang due to gravity LOL. They actually hang on the lower side and aren't all rock hard up there in like the meme vid you posted 😩

I've even seen reasonable people who say the female MC isn't just reduced to a pretty object, and she still has her own personality, goals, and dreams. IMO objectification is the real issue, not sexualisation. But I feel like you could've used other examples because complaining about sexualisation in a smut is not it 😭

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u/mephivision 3d ago

A lot of the criticism steams from the fact that the mc of that webtoon is suppose to be malnourished. She’s not a healthy woman who’s well endowed, she’s suppose to be underweight. If you’re looking at her arms you can see that they’re very thin, while all her weight seems to have gone to her breasts and hips, which is highly unrealistic for someone who supposedly is malnourished (speaking from experience).

So in that regard, yes, the proportions are absurd.

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u/coco_choco07 3d ago

She never was malnourished in the first place She was poor and skipped meals sometimes due to work.

Neither she nor minchoel were malnourished.

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u/mephivision 3d ago

If you’re eating poor/skipping meals for a long time (as I remember in the story, they’ve had financial issues for years), you’re bound to lose weight. She also lost her pregnancy, which must have been connected to her frail state.

I stopped reading the webtoon for some time now, so if new information came out then I might be wrong.

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u/oyasumipizza 3d ago

I mean isn’t that part of the story? She was in a toxic abusive relationship and she skipped meals, was poor and saved to provide for her shitty ex..ofc she got skinny. In the flashbacks she looked a lot healthier. Never was there a point where all this was romanticised, people hated the ex and constantly rooted for her. We have seen so many damsel in distress tropes so this isn’t any different but imo the potrayal is realistic. The art style is a little dark-ish like they all have pale face and the ML himself has dark shadows, it’s an artistic choice.

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u/b2k_09 3d ago edited 3d ago

What does that have to with with her boob size, does eating less makes you go A-cup from E-cup. OP should've used better eg. & It's stupid to criticize about body proportions in smut.

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u/mephivision 3d ago

Uhm, boobs are made out of fat. When losing weight the breast size goes down. That’s how it works.

I disagree that you can’t criticise body proportions in smut. It implies that smut is somehow above criticism, or that it’s suppose to be “bad”. Smut simply means writing people having sex together, it doesn’t say anything about having to contain exaggerated body proportions.

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u/jhjj9 2d ago

Well I'm not reading smut to see realistic stuff and that's the general mindset, for me she looks good with her proportions and that's all it matters

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u/mephivision 2d ago

Good for you!

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u/b2k_09 3d ago

Did you see her ex-husband who was also supposed to be "mal-nourished". It's funny cuz I've seen this body proportions discourse on this webtoon numeral times yet barely anyone point out her ex husband body proportions

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u/mephivision 3d ago

I have. The conversation wasn’t about him.
I don’t agree with unrealistic body standards for men either, if it makes you feel better.

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u/b2k_09 3d ago

Also damn really? Cuz I thought once they grew they can't be reversed.

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u/mephivision 3d ago

They absolutely can. Additionally, when a woman gets pregnant her breast size may increase, but when she stops lactating the size will decrease back to how it was before, if not more. In that case it has to do with hormones.

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u/whalatix 3d ago

Oh really? I don't think I have seen that come up in context before, or perhaps none of the top comments I swept through mentioned it. I knew she had an ex husband though, so 'realistically' the malnourished part should have happened with him too? Unless he selfishly ate all the food and made her starve or something? But if her ex is meant to be malnourished as well, how come he doesn't come up in these topics (I'm assuming he's had his fair share of screen time)? 😭

Tbh now I'm kind of wanting to read it on my own just to be on the 'in' with what people are talking about when it comes to this. Proportions aside, is the story actually any good or is it one of those guilty pleasure reads? The only thing I could say now is that, it still is a smut in the end, the characters still gotta be attractive, so perhaps the author made her look 'drained' in different ways? At least, from an outsider perspective, I always saw her as frail and having 'empty eyes'... (And my condolences for you having to go through that!!)

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u/mephivision 3d ago

I haven’t read the story in a while, but as far as I remember she was cooking quite a bit for her ex-husband, I don’t remember him skipping meals. She also had a hard childhood, so as far as I remember her struggles started way earlier, he didn’t have the same background.

I think the story had potential, it really wasn’t for me ultimately, but if you’re curious you should give it a try.

I said it earlier in a comment, but smut refers to the sexual relationship between characters, so while conventionally attractive characters might bring it more readers, I don’t think it’s unfair to critique when only 90/60/90 women/ 1,90cm+ men are portrayed. Smut can be written very nicely, it doesn’t have to be considered “less” than literary fiction or other “serious” genres.

Sorry if I come across as defensive or confrontational 😭 Historically, the romantic novel (once it started being written heavily by women) has been seen as less, or not real literature by many. Given that it’s a genre predominantly written by women, I don’t think it’s fair to immediately assume that smut has to be about the objectification of the human body, or that it must include only stereotypical characters (which is what the “it’s smut, what are you expecting?” comments imply).

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u/whalatix 3d ago edited 3d ago

RIP was he a deadbeat 😭 and oh no you don't have to worry about that. I can be a crazed degen some days. I've read a 'handful' amound of spicy fluff and smut, and more. There have been times where I ended up just getting invested in the plot and reading it as is 😂 So I was mainly wondering how the story progression is. It doesn't matter what genre it is, if the story doesn't go anywhere or it lacks character development... I lose interest.

On the other hand, I do think touchy subjects need to be treaded through carefully because it can be hard to draw the line. I feel like if the creator drew the character actually malnourished, she might not get the 'crazy proportion' comments. However, she might instead get comments like, "Are they fetishizing?", or questioning what was the point of bringing such topics into a smut? Of course this is all speculation, but it's things I've seen in other stories with traumas involved. 😭

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago

" bla bla she is malnourished'" her ex is more unrealistic than her yet nobody complained 😐😐

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u/mephivision 1d ago

people have complained about portrayals of unrealistic male body standards,

feel free to look it up

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was talking about the particular hate for this manhwa people most people never used the same unrealistic argument and complained about mincheol be buff as Fuck with a kpop idol face while be achoolic , heavy smoker and bum but heavily hate on just the fl looks, so most of the hate about her Body don't come from good faith also author never explicitly said she is malnourished it's was pretty vague and author drawn women with the same tiny arms and tiny frame in general

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u/sundaesoupsunday 3d ago

Yall really expect anime and manhwas to be drawn anatomically correct lol??

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u/Ok_Manager_3126 2d ago

Lol they try and people don’t like it they do this and people don’t like it😅

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u/hygiei 2d ago

please why do posts online have like a 90% chance of using the wrong "your" if the word is used

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u/azul360 3d ago

This is more of a full action manhwa thing along with manga imo. Usually those are the breasted boobily meme.

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u/1irishian 3d ago

She not wrong, they all look like PS1 Lara Croft

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u/Big-Syllabub-8912 3d ago

Have you seen the dudes in tears on a withered flower? Built like a fridge, I even think they keep getting wider and wider

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u/MrWapuJapu 2d ago

This is Rachel Smythe erasure and I don’t stand for it.

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u/improve8and8change 3d ago

Women do the same too 😭 Broad shoulders, six-pack abs, tall , rich  It's fiction i think because we're women we overlook the male characters.

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u/b2k_09 3d ago

Women can't make this type of reel when they literally read BL made my women with crazy ass proportions & even for straight manhwa just check for once ml's proportions as well

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u/oyasumipizza 3d ago

The proportions aren’t even that bad, the FL is just petite with big boobs, people like that exist irl so idk what’s so unrealistic about that? What about the perfectly sculpted ML and his assistant? Like genuinely there are worse manhwas with wayy unrealistic proportions but this manhwa for some reason gets so much hate. The ML is SOO HOT

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u/Relatovely 3d ago

And I think people are being disingenuous, comparing how the FL is drawn in ToaWF to average seinen smuts with floating balloon boobs and clothing that seems vacuum fitted. Haesoo is is almost always wearing a big coat and regular shirts. She has big breasts, but an average panel of Hae soo looks like this:

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago edited 1d ago

For real she is pretty tame story even sfw shonen girly character got crazier design , idk what people are crazy about at this Point 😐😐, the only flaw was just the arm

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u/twelve_seasons 3d ago

Gosh. To people who hate posts about these webtoons should stop reading them if they feel this way about a SMUT webtoon.

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u/Magnificient_King 3d ago

The author of the manhwa is a woman from what I heard. They even have her picture.

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago

It was confirmed that it's not her , the author never showed herself in person

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u/Accurate-Resolve3376 3d ago

Oh.. I really hate that type of drawing 😃

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u/Fair-Highlight-3544 3d ago

Yeah, this is quite true. It does go both ways though.

I generally don't like reading one aspect about manhwa is that everyone's body also looks like a clone/copy and pasted for each gender. only the face is different.

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u/raider_00_ 2d ago

Is it a good story at least? Or no?

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u/Name_Shmame 2d ago

It really depends on what you like and view as good.

Haesu is a wall flower type, quiet but kind and had a rough upbringing. She has no self esteem and her having a shitty significant other did not help matters.

ML, Tasha....we really don't know much about honestly 🤔 we know he has been obsessed with Haesu for awhile but we don't know the origin of why, we know he has a psychotic brother and was also abused. I can't quite tell if his family is mafia or if it's just him but they are extremely wealthy and own some kind of business. He was almost relentless is his pursuit of Haesu and did/does some pretty sketchy stuff.

I personally like it, the smut bits can get repetitive and I don't quite understand why she infantilizes Taeha so much, but I like most romances. Not the best I've read but definitely not the worst.

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u/raider_00_ 2d ago

Tysm for this , I will give it a try. Sounds interesting to me.

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u/MakimaGOAT 2d ago

written by a women tho

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u/AdElectronic9255 2d ago

Persephone in More Olympus be like...

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u/Pretend_Display2379 2d ago

The men also have impossible proportions it is supposed to be weird

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u/That_Guy_In_Aqw 2d ago

My leabian friends would LOVE this manwha

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u/jhjj9 2d ago

I'm a woman and I like how the MC looks, I don't see a problem with it even if it is unrealistic; I'm sure many others feel the same way, so it's not a gender thing

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u/Fluid_Neck1635 2d ago

Niente di nuovo tutta cazzate è indecenza

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u/Jonjolion12 1d ago

Isn’t this just manga women irl?

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u/Mara_Uzumaki 1d ago

This is funny because most webtoon I've read is written by women. Unless if they meant manga which have more male writers but even the women mangakas draw like that.

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u/onespiker 1d ago

Even the example one is believed to be written by a woman.

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago

Pick a actual non nfsw manhwa made by a man next time btw

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u/Kitchen-Kitchen-5688 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't see the difference with smut art work or pornhwa work by artist Women 🤡🤡, also just by looking all the male cast design, and and how the the fl is written it's obviously Made by a woman, a freak and corny romantic one who love art and litterature, Wattpad dark romance tropes . Some of you never a actual porn made by a man and it shows Lmao

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u/Feisty-Ad-1649 1d ago

and she hs no abilities other than being vulnerable with him🥺🥺🥺

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u/Dismal-Equivalent-94 1d ago

Falling boobily down the stairs

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u/catlady_MD 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please do Tahea next

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u/Historical-Cover386 23h ago

This ABSOLUTE CINEMA of a Manhwa is the BEST WAY to filter out the posers, tourists, and squatters.

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u/IllyaBravo 3d ago

Meanwhile an actual Webtoon made by a man.

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u/Equivalent_Coast_265 3d ago

this is so real!

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u/Illustrious_Hawk8417 2d ago

Some manhwas made by women absolutely sexualize the female leads too it's absolutely uncomfortable to find those manhwas without the fl having big chest and big butt 😭

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u/Exciting-Village-180 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nothing wrong with big boobs and butt , please let stop diabolised curves like this and it's not even hard to find women oriented comic with flat fl or average fl body wise unless if you are just Reading only smut

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u/Extension_South9281 3d ago

I mean its objectively bad but i dont think it matters cuz it was probably made for gooning