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- is good. For novels, Eat the World Tree- is mostly decent, it has some things which I do not likebat a few points but doesn’t specifically go into what I mentioned in this post.