Suicide Boy

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Suicide Boy - As the title implies, the story is about a boy who wants to commit suicide.

When i first started the series, I expected it to mainly focus on different ways a person can kill themselves - with MC constantly failing to do the deed. And even though that is partly true, "Suicide Boy" has more to offer than "How can i kill myself" tutorial.

The story centers around Hoon Lee - a weak, skinny teenager who resembles a female MC from Watamote series - He even has feminine traits and usually ends up doing something cringy/awkward.

Hoon lives a lonely and depressing life. There ... are several reasons why he wants to commit suicide: He has no parents; thanks to his dad, he has a massive debt - that he can't pay; he lives in poverty and sometimes can't even afford cheap food; has no friends; has no goal in life; he also gets bullied and is abused hard at school.

Despite these, the series isn't "heavy" to read; nor is it saturated with depressing stuff filled with suffering. There are sad moments here and there, but nothing over the top (except for 1 time towards the end of season 1). There are some light-hearted moments, including gags and funny stuff - so den't expect gloomy aura 24/7.

Characters that are introduced throughout the story are likeable and get a decent development.

The biggest issue with the series though is that the plot progression is sometimes very slow and nothing really happens. You could say that it suffers from repetitiveness in certain situations. And there are only 60 chapters out yet!
To me it feels like the author could end the series in just 5 chapters if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to, thus the story goes on.

Art is typical for Korean mahwa style - not my favorite, but it's Ok.

Overall, it's still quite good. Definitely give it a try.

This whole manga was good, The problem is that this whole manga was sort of..queer baity?.. For example, he finally got some male friends that enjoyed being with him (one of them enjoys it lol) and that said friend has a really good relationship with the MC, they sleep in the same room and this is actually a big deal because the mc has severe social anxiety and bad thoughts of what will happen to him, so someone sleeping next to him is already an achievement, and correct me if I'm wrong there is also multiple romantic side stories where its always the MC's male ... friend and himself. They buy eachother food etc etc, stuff you would do for both your friend and your lover.

And just as the author gets you on the edge of your seat making you think they are going to fall inlove, a female character pops in because..just because..THIS IS QUEER BAITING! The character is a stalker, she was implied lesbian, getting confessions from girls and saying she never had interest in men. But ever so suddenly she appears in the MC's life and in the blink of an eye, the relationship with his friends doesn't matter anymore, this girl literally followed him home while fantasising about how cute he was, which is already creepy enough!

I dont NEED queer relationships, it's just the fact the author is allowed to make the character gay! He just tossed a very good potential clove interest away just to bait the readers who were reading this for the comedy, but alot were reading this because they actually thought there was going to be good bisexual, gay and lesbian representation.

Oh and the mc is shota bait too, can't forget that one! It wasn't a problem for me, but knowing most people it will definitely be a problem for them, so just pointing this out.

got in mind the premise when reading it, still misrepresents several points about mental health, and especially suicide, a difficult subject. The author clearly had aesthetics and humour (edgylord/shota) in mind, not hardships, which could have been a good critic of countries that often pushes aside people who are not "useful" to them due to poor mental health.
didnt expect anything normal from lezhin either way. wouldn't recommend to anyone normal or someone who is not a p-f.

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