Jinx

Edit

What would you like to edit?

SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsTypeExternal Links  

[HUGE content warning for this manga: SA]
This manga is from the same author who did BJ Alex. Although the art style is beautiful, it doesn't distract from the awful contents. This author includes situations of sexual abuse and manipulation in this story, as well as violence. For this to be called a BL or romance is just shameful.. This is a manga romanticizes sexual abuse. The author did this in BJ Alex but it's so much worse in this one. If you're thinking of reading this, don't. This story will most likely end up with the two characters eventually falling in love but that's literally ... not okay.

Jinx is the 2nd manhwa by Mingwa, the creator of one of the most famous BLs of all time, BJ Alex. and comparing BJ Alex to Jinx.... it's disappointing.

Jinx is about this guy named Dan who gets hired as a personal physical therapist for a professional MMA fighter named Jaekyung, but then, Dan learns that Jaekyung has a "jinx", he needs to have sex before every one of his matches so he can win, and in return, he'll pay Dan a large sum of money, which seems like an interesting premise, but its just executed some-what poorly

Most of the chapters are just Jaekyung and ... Dan fucking, and then some story development, and then them fucking again. Not much character development is inserted into the chapters.

On the bright side, the art is extremely well done and the backstories of the characters (especially Dan) are executed very well. It just has something missing from it that it needs to truly shine as a good, original BL manhwa.

It has extremely good potential, which is why I recommend to stick with it and see how it goes on in later chapters.

What happens when an immovable object meets unstoppable force?

Or, rather, what happens when you get the world's biggest asshole ML meeting the world's most pitiful designed-to-be-pathetic MC? You get Jinx.

This webcomic could be read as some kind of dark comedy, I'm telling you. I did not read BJ Alex so this is a very objective review of Jinx by itself.

The ML is just, like... the definition of toxic masculinity and he's such an unlikable asshole that I'm honestly not sure how the manhwa is gonna bounce back to make the audience root for these two to end up together but as of chapter nine, my ... only guess is that he's gonna be spending like half the story kissing ass to the MC trying to make up for the EXTREMELY rocky start. It's just basically dubcon bordering noncon, you know... the usual.

On the other side of the ring, we have MC who is just... THE LOAN SHARKS ARE CHASING AFTER HIM. HIS GRANDMOTHER IS IN THE HOSPITAL. GUESS WHAT? SHE'S NOT JUST IN THE HOSPITAL, SHE HAS CANCER. AND SHE'S DYING. AND MC NEEDS TO GET MONEY FOR HER TREATMENT OR SHE WILL DIE AND MC LOVES HIS GRANDMA SO MUCH. MC IS CONSTANTLY SUFFERING BLOW AND AFTER BLOW AND HE REALLY NEEDS TO KISS ASS TO THE ML (AND HAVE SEX WITH HIM) TO DIG HIMSELF OUTSIDE THIS HOLE.

This is the reading experience of Jinx. Feeling bad for the MC, hating the ML, wondering how the hell the author is going to make this toxic relationship work, then wondering if author will even go through with real future character development for ML, then further wondering if ML is just too far gone already for any of this to have a happy ending. The nine chapters of Jinx I read, most of them was just me suffering from the ML's unlikable attitude and then me laughing at how the author designed the MC to be the most sympathetic pitiful guy in the world. Like, yeah, MC is constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown. Of course, I'm going to feel bad for this dude.

This review is only half serious because I honestly can't take this manhwa seriously. I don't think it's supposed to be read seriously. Oh, also, the art is pretty good.

You know, as much as I ragged on this series, it's not like it doesn't have ANY redeeming qualities to it. Yes, the MC is likable by force of design. He's an underdog of sorts. You, the reader, get the feeling that ML is completely misunderstanding MC as a person and he'll PROBABLY start treating MC better when he realizes that his life is in the gutters. There's SOMETHING to look forward to, which is good optics for your weekly-releasing manhwa. It's like, so terrible, and yet I keep reading. I keep coming back to it. Even though I experience the same goddamn disappointment every week. Maybe I'm just a masochist.

So, despite the ML being an asshole and people screaming he's irredeemable (I mean, they're not wrong), at least there is some semblance of a story and there's potential for character development. We're just going to have to see.

NOT RECOMMENDED!!!
Update: I read till chapter 45 and dropped it.
I decided to make a review when I reach chapter 10, and so far to be honest, the storie is messed up. I have been trying to find one reason why this manhwa is good and the only thing I could think of is the art style, which is really pretty and one of the main characters named Joo Jaekyung is a hottie, nothing more than that.
His personality and his actions until now are disturbing and awful, which makes me hate him.
Basically this is a storie about a guy who is rich, powerfull, a MMA ... fighter with a tremendous physical force and scary personality who has a "jinx", he needs to have a enjoyable s3x session before a match. The point is, just for him, he doesn't care about the other person, their feelings and their CONSENT. Yes, there are some disturbing scenes, it was painful to read.
And then he finds a new physical therapist named Dan, who is having financial problems...
I haven't read BJ Alex, so I can't compare both.
I will stil continue reading Jinx, but so far, I have mixed feelings.
I don't recommed it for sensitive people, actually for no one thus far.

BL has a poor relationship with the wider animanga community in the same way the black plague has a poor relationship with Europe. BL has always been seen as the deranged bastard of the romance genre, and nothing shows that better than probably the biggest BL manhwa right now: Jinx.

Let’s start off with the very little good this comic has. The art is magnificent. The way the author uses shadows is commendable as they add on the drawings so well and make every page come to life. Their use of lines is also amazing, and everything from the character's clothes, to to their hair, ... to their facial features just looks beautiful. If Jinx didn’t have such good art I wouldn’t even give it a 1, and message MAL to add a 0 rating and even that may be too generous. Okay, that’s all the good time for the bad.

The characters:
EVERYONE SUCKS, outside of Potato my pookie. The two leads are just your average bl couple, but showcase all the bad stereotypes that people have about BL. Let’s start off with Dan, the uke. We go from sympathizing with Dan as this destitute man being forced to sell himself to Jaekyung, to just being annoyed with him. Dan isn’t the most bold man, but the way he instantly becomes helpless at the mere sight of Jaekyung is frustrating. He instantly turns into a slave with no will or thoughts of you outside of “muh Jaekyung.” He develops feelings for Jaekyung for reasons I can't fathom after he was nice to him a few times in between all the times he’s assaulting and belittling him. Dan started the series off sympathetic, but now I just find myself annoyed at his presence, and hoping he leaves Jaekyung so the story ends quicker. This is a romance btw, and I don’t want the main leads anywhere near each other

AND JAEKYUNG OH JAEKYUNG. He is the most arrogant, self centered, cruel psychopath I have ever encountered in fiction. It’s amazing people put up with this guy even with his talent as a fighter. He treats everyone like garbage, and I find myself fighting the urge to close my laptop and question my life choices every time he’s on the page. He’s your generic psycho bl top, and he has little to zero characterization outside of that. The reason I can’t write much about him is because there isn’t much to write. He’s just a walking trope.

The pacing:
It’s just awful, the story is over 40 chapters long and it feels like we are on chapter 4. The plot has not moved outside of Dan falling in love with Jaekyung. Everytime the author has seemingly thrown a challenge that may actually make the story interesting, the author swerves us and has Jaekyung win because of reasons.

The message:
This manhwa romanticizes things like sexual assault and manipulation. It tries not to by showing how much it hurts the uke, and how much he verbally hates it, but then again shows how hot it is with the good art making it look sexy. It just makes you wanna vomit.

The fans: Minor tangent but the amount of people who think this is some amazing written romance concerns me. The amount of defenders Jaekyung has is mind boggling. I have heard the absolute dumbest excuses on why he is not that bad. “Oh he got bullied as a kid.” Okay? That does not excuse even 10% of what he’s done. He’s an objectively evil person that deserves chemical castration more than he deserves Dan. He is actual proof that no matter how evil you are, as long as you are hot, people will defend you.

Conclusion:
Jinx is an absolute awful manga that is the personification of every bad stereotype that people have about the BL genre. It romanticizes SA and coercion, has horrendous writing and pacing, and all of the characters are just walking tropes who get more and more unlikeable every chapter. The only saving grace this manhwa has is its art, and that does not make up for a fraction of the flaws this series has. This is what people thought Killing Stalking was, but at least Killing Stalking is a thriller, whereas this is a straight romance. Jinx is a horrible manhwa that no one should waste their time with.

I have mixed feelings for this manhwa at the moment...
The art style is great, but beside that it's just abuse and harassments from everyone towards Dan. I know this will go as BJ Alex with the top hurting the bottom and then realize he actually likes him, but i just cannot stand these BLs anymore. It's always the same story.
Although, i will keep reading a few more chapters, i still have hope that there is more to the story than what we have at the moment.
I feel like the author should just work on the art and let someone else create a story.

Tl;dr: It's like ... BJ Alex, but worse at the moment.

No. Just- Dude, no.
Although the features are very captivating, like the first one, BJ Alex, the toxicity of this... Thing is huge! Sincerely? I do not recommend. It's obvious that this motherfucker is just abusing the boy, for God's sake. It's a fucking romanticzation of rape, man. This was one of the WORST manga I've ever read, although I've read one about the abyss of hell, which almost compares to this one. I rarely hate a manga, this one was already on my "worst" list even before its official release.
Don't waste your time.

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

The writing sucks ass and the main couple is stupid as all hell.

With every new chapter that comes out Dan loses more and more braincells each time and becomes nothing but the type of slave maid bimbo you'd find in a bargain bin light novel about a dark lord. He's not really meek or anything, unless the "romantic" scene demands for it, but he becomes so relient Jaekyung and develops stockholm pretty much instantly.

How should I describe him...he's kind of like a fusion betweeen Kazuya and Chizuru from Rental Girlfriend, that is not a compliment mind you. He swoons so often for Jaekyung for the ... smallest of things and it's pretty much clear that he's fallen in love already...even though their romantic moments suck. They suck so bad.

The scene with the grandma made me cringe so hard.

Anyhow, the other main lead:

We basically know NOTHING about Jaekyung yet for the 40 chapters except for:
-He is a dick
-He has a big dick

That's it, I am serious. We get a few hints (If they can even be called that) once a "rival" character arrives but it's not at all enough to make me interested in this dickhead. By the way, I wrote rival with quotations because that shit gets dropped so quick that I was left wondering why the author even bothered with it.

Am I dissapointed since I'm a big fan of the author's previous work, BJ Alex? Yes. However, the extra comics are leading me to believe that this will be a much longer and slower paced story. So, WHO KNOWS, the writing might become better...I hope. Because I do like the art.

for all the ones who don't recommend this and say it because they say it has rape and SA, are wrong. first of all, there's no rape at all, that was a deal and both of them agreed to it. now about the SA, the ones that complain about it, don't really care about the story, and prefer to read a bl that has only romance and nothing intresting much, because after all the crazy things thats happening, somehow in an insane and unimaginable way it will be about love. so when things going really deep down, the climax of the story will be sweeter.
overall ... the story is good and the art style is really amazing so I recommend reading it :3