I’ve been reading a few web novels recently. The material starts off very good—those are the ones I start reading anyway—but midway for some reason I’ve mostly run into the problem that they’ve changed the tone hundreds of chapters in… usually to go on a creepy note, usually where they, over a prolonged period of time, tease a particular long-term appearance woman/women are going to be degraded with no possibility of resisting (for some reason) and can only be helped but help is just out of the way. I wonder why that specifically but… doesn’t matter, it is creepy. And the parts before were good wholesome stuff of gaining strength, and of affection… and where the women are strong. Able to handle themselves. The method for said creepiness has always been, again for some reason commonly among my read ones, remarkably intelligent novels with very learned scenarios then having the protagonists start doing stupid things just because, and these things happening, usually to the end of some ‘I wasn’t able to prevent this’ while everything is ignored to give weaklings an opportunity to somehow do weak sh…stuff. This is the background from which, tiredly, I started reading a pornhwa comic which was surprisingly decent for some chapters till I noticed the tone change again, and this time it took the prize with its sustained creepiness in a short burst that continued forward immediately (the next page) after backtracking the creepiness they were teasing over 4 whole chapters.

I’d like to read something completed which does not change its tone. I’m not a political person, I’m reading pornhwa here so I’m not saying you should do this and you shouldn’t do that. I’m reading a pornhwa but porn stuff isn’t inherently bad… doesn’t change its tone is most important but not being creepy throughout is the other main condition. I don’t say that there shouldn’t be trouble. But I definitely do not like reading sustained teasing of some horrific deed done—I’d rather have it resolved soon after the thing is introduced and especially not the cutting off to another party having sex over 2 chapters to ‘build tension’ that something horrible is going to be done to the other character like in this pornhwa. And also dislike the wanton harm caused to characters like circumstances similar to ones mentioned (unless it plays into the story, and respects the character by for example fighting it out to the end rather than the many ‘creepy’ described things usually done, and the harm is given less time while the resolve and thoughts of said character is given more time after which time is soon dedicated to resolve said scenario).

Has anyone read a completed pornhwa (or 18+ manga) which does not take pleasure in these things, or does not — start out decent but change tone to particularly take pleasure in real, despairing harm caused to ‘suddenly helpless’ women or maybe even others? I’d really like it if I have been really unlucky so far… but that doesn’t matter much. Has anyone read something good?

(By pornhwa I mean illustrated, not novel. Frankly novels will also do as long as they fit the conditions, and I preferred the descriptive words anyway but also like illustration media, so mentions of those are appreciated as well).

Edit: For pornhwa, Keep it a secret from your mother (complete)- is good. As are No Man’s Land (first season of 3 complete), Living with Two Busty Women (complete), and Sorcery: A Yokai Harem (discontinued after a short while).

    • @RtcOP
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      25 months ago

      I haven’t tried it. Worth checking then. Thank you.

      • @computerfucker
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        45 months ago

        A bit of spoiler, you come for the horny and stay for the story

        • @RtcOP
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          25 months ago

          That’s fine, I’m actually reading these for the story. I was looking for manhwa to have a break spell from the bad luck with webnovels where were not erotic focussed (but did have some decent love parts initially, the last one) and the first one which caught my eye turned out to be a pornhwa. I had bad luck there too… but from there I came and made this post. After all good depictions of love are also quite decent to read.

          • @computerfucker
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            5 months ago

            ~~Another good fit to your criteria that I know of are:

            • Manager, please be punished (the conflict is purely internal to the MC)
            • A pervert’s daily life (I have forgotten most of the story so take it with a grain of salt)

            On the shorter side:

            • Amaama Koakuma (A manga where the girl is relentlessly pursuing the man)~~

            Edit: Oh shit, I take that back. I thought you were not that into the story lol.

            • @RtcOP
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              15 months ago

              I’ll take a look at these as well, I haven’t read these

    • @RtcOP
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      15 months ago

      This one was not my thing but thanks for the suggestion anyway.

    • Mr.Paddle
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      15 months ago

      The website looks clean. ! Will be using it in future;)

  • @RBWellsV23
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    45 months ago

    I think you might like a book I just read, if you like fantasy. I don’t want to spoiler it, and it wasn’t perfect or anything but enjoyable and the balance of power is good, though the sex part plays with it. Lots of violence, not realistic or gritty though. The Warlord by Gena Showalter.

    • @RtcOP
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      15 months ago

      I will need to check it myself to get a feel of it… thanks for the suggestion. I will not know about the nature of the violent sex (the term can have a few meanings) but I’ve been looking around anyway and this one provides a clear name for the list. I will check it.

      • @RBWellsV23
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        25 months ago

        It’s not so much the sex that is violent, just set in a violent (but kind of silly) universe.

        • @RtcOP
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          15 months ago

          In that case there will probably be no problem

  • pg9
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    45 months ago

    I don’t know too much about pornhwa. Although it is not completed, “Let’s Hang Out from Today” also known as “Friends to Lovers from Today” doesn’t have those kind of things.

    • @RtcOP
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      25 months ago

      Looks good from chapter 1. I like it. I’ll see further.

    • @RtcOP
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      25 months ago

      chapter 33/34. It had the same creepy instance I mentioned above. The assault and cut off for half of the next chapter where two other people are having fun, and they continue that bit again. For what? To build tension? Why… the only intention is to perhaps ‘enjoy’ that whether they are going to be violated or not, no? I don’t enjoy it. It troubles me.

      That was my rant. I was a little annoyed (by that, not by you).

      • pg9
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        25 months ago

        That is the most mild pornhwa I have ever read. Most are NTR and girls degraded to sex slave degree.

        • @RtcOP
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          25 months ago

          Thank you for your suggestion. That instance aside, and after-chapter panels which display the scary thoughts of the team, it turned out to be a decent read at least till the latest chapter. I will cautiously go back from time to time to take in the new chapters as well… cautiously because it really seems that the ‘team’ wants to do ‘that’ stuff which would make me feel a bit sick.

  • @RtcOP
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    25 months ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. I’m going to sleep now but will check if there are more replies when I wake up. If any of these I find good from start to end, it’ll be one I re-read from time to time, it is worth doing. Thank you for your suggestions.