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[Webtoon Wednesday] High Society

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Title: High Society

Author/Story: Gyeonwoo (original novel)

Artist: Surreuk Comics

Rating: R-15

Genre: Romantic fantasy

Hosted On: Manta Comics

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

Sell me! I’ll be the most expensive lady to obtain.

While scheming to get out of an arranged marriage, Cesare runs into Adele, a shoeshine girl from the slums. The two make a 3-month deal to help Cesare elude marriage. However, Adele is so different from the women he’s met before that he can’t help but be drawn to her.

My Thoughts:

High Society is a lot.

It begins with Adele, a shoeshine girl whose identity as a woman has just been revealed by thugs in the back alleys of the city’s slums. In her attempt to escape, she crosses paths with the handsome libertine Cesare Buonaparte. Despite not being related – not a single drop of blood connects them – they look like they could be brother and sister, and that’s exactly what Cesare needs to keep from being swept up into an unwanted and unprofitable match with Lucrezia Della Valle, a young woman who is absolutely obsessed with him.

This is a fake everything series. Cesare hires Adele to pretend to be his sister as they share the same golden eyes and dark hair, promising to make her into a perfect noble woman to be married off to Lucrezia’s older brother instead. Think Pygmalion with an incest angle.

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We Need To Talk About Get Schooled

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#greenscreen i am so disapointed in this manhwa i really wouldnt have thought THIS one would go THAT far 🧍🏽‍♀️ #fypシ #manhwa #getschooled #webtoon #getschooledwebtoon #hwajinna #viral #webtoonrecommendation

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If you’re an avid webtoon reader, you may have caught the images from and responses to Get Schooled chapter 125.

The chapter utilizes racial slurs, a Black character being racist against Koreans, drawn along the lines of racist caricature, and subject to antiblack racism.

The chapter started going viral on TikTok and Tumblr and, about 24 hours ago, was pulled from the English version of Webtoon. (It is of course still up on the Korean version and there’s next to no chance that it will be pulled there.)

Here’s the thing about Get Schooled: if you know anything about modern South Korean conservatism, this won’t be a surprise to you. If you’ve actually been paying attention to this webtoon – which has used a radfem (but not… technically in the way online leftist US-ians use it to stand in for “terf”) elementary school teacher as a creepy bad guy in one arc – Get Schooled kind of… highlights a lot of concerns of the modern day conservative (male) youth especially in Korea.

Obviously.

It is a Korean webtoon.

I stopped reading the series during the arc with the “radfem” teacher because, as someone who’s friends with several Korean feminists and who keeps an eye on the news/feminist thought, theory, and practice there… I was able to recognize the absolutely unsubtle dogwhistles and bullhorns at play in that arc.

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[Webtoon Wednesday] Lies Become You

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(this trailer is hilarious because it’s not actually that accurate to the plot!)

Title: Lies Become You

Author/Story: Seoru (original novel) and Winter (the adapted story)

Artist: C.MU, Danbi, and Soo

Rating: Slightly Mature (some steamy moments, but this is R15)

Genre: romantic fantasy, magic, elementals, betrayal, Egyptian-inspired setting, romance, marriage of convenience, contract relationship, politics, historical

Hosted On: Manta Comics

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

Once an enemy, now a husband?

Femme fatale Veronica is sentenced to death for obsessing over the prince. With her life now in danger, she boards a ship to escape, unaware that it belongs to her archnemesis, the alluring Prince Halid. He agrees to help her, but only on the condition that she pretends to be his wife!

My Thoughts:

In the introduction to Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism, he notes that he “looked especially at cultural forms like the novel, which I believe were immensely important in the formation of imperial attitudes, references, and experiences”. He goes on to say that:

“I do not mean that only the novel was important, but that I consider it the aesthetic object whose connection to the expanding societies of Britain and France is particularly interesting to study. The prototypical modern realistic novel is Robinson Crusoe, and certainly not accidentally it is about a European who creates a fiefdom for himself on a distant non European Island.”

I have wanted to cite Edward Said in an analysis of Lies Become You from the second that I saw the first chapter of this Korean webtoon and noped out of it last year.

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[Webtoon Wednesday] Monochrome Rumor

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Title: Monochrome Rumor

Author/Story: Chiyul (original novel) and NORANG

Artist: Momoko

Rating: Slightly Mature (for themes of exploitation and abuse, side stories on Ridibooks for the novel are R19)

Genre: contemporary romance, thriller/mystery, BL, second chance at life, celebrities, found family, crime/criminals

Hosted On: Tappytoon

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

After being involved in a car accident together, Hajin is asked by Sihyeon to take care of Sihyeon’s younger sister after his death. Hajin never expected that to mean he would wake up in the hospital in Sihyeon’s body instead of his own. Even worse, Sihyeon was an infamous idol who would do anything for money, had multiple sponsors, and was apparently about to abandon the boy band he was a part of to sign a new contract with a larger agency. At first, Hajin believes the public’s negative opinion about Sihyeon, but the more he learns about Sihyeon’s miserable circumstances, the more enraged he becomes. Determined to get revenge in Sihyeon’s stead, Hajin decides to reach out to an old acquaintance for help. However, the deeper he goes into his revenge plot, the more people he becomes entangled with…

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[Webtoon Wednesday] Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom

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Title: Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom

Author/Story: Yir (who wrote the original novel)

Artist: Gu-Raeng Mo

Rating: All-Ages (but with some jokes/plot points about sex and references to CSA in Sabrian’s backstory)

Genre: Transmigration, Shoujo, Romance, Childcare novel, fairytale retelling, fantasy

Hosted On: Tapas

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

Fairytale stepmothers are notoriously wicked. But after a children’s clothing designer is reborn as young Princess Blanche’s stepmom, she’s determined to break the mold and shower her daughter with love. Now she just has to convince the girl’s cold-hearted father to do the same. In her quest to make a happier home for Blanche, Abigail begins to uncover secrets and schemes within the palace. Will devious forces tear the Freidkins apart, or can Abigail stitch them back into a family?

My Thoughts:

Here’s some unexpected Stitch Lore ™ for you: I actually ranked Snow White at the bottom of my favorite fairytales… up until I read the first volume of this series’ novelization a couple years ago. I read the first volume and went “wait… maybe Snow White deserves rights”.

I love this webtoon. Deeply.

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