Manga title: Killing Stalking
Manga artist: Koogi
Manga cover picture:
https://imgur.com/rZIzjRB
Review: As time goes on, people tend to mature. Interests tend to change, and sometimes your own taste tends to shift from one flavor to another. From the basic fluff to more mature content as I grew older, I discovered a lot about Boys Love. I saw different types of personalities, various shapes of relationships and assorted colors of love. But this peculiar manhwa broke through from the cliché and the more I went deeper into the story, the more I got engulfed into the world of the broken. This is Killing Stalking.
The two main characters, Yoon Bum and Oh Sangwoo, suffer from mental disorders, and this makes their characters and relationship unusual from the rest. Readers should have an open mind when reading this because to some, they will only view this as “abusive,” “graphic” or “violent” and nothing else. The characters were beautifully written; the plot twists were genius. Once set the violence aside, anyone will understand why Killing Stalking, despite its gore content, took home the ₩100,000,000 Grand Prize Award at the Second Lezhin World Comics Contest.
Koogi, the artist herself, once said, “This is not
BL.” Definitely, it’s not Boys Love. It’s not a fluffy, pink romance that has a happy ending. It’s not something a senior fujoshi would recommend to a yaoi newbie. But, it’s never wrong to try something odd once in a while, just like tasting a fatal yet savory delicacy.
Final Verdict: 9.5/10 (for fellow mature readers); 5/10 (not recommended to newbies)