#geunhu ji

[horrorvillaintourney]

Round 1B, Match Ten: Geunhu Ji (Never-Ending Darling) vs. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)

PROPAGANDA FOR GEUNHU JI:

"He repeatedly kills and clones his girlfriend every time she does something he is unhappy about and he uses his cloning technology to influence everyone in power with promises of immortality."

PROPAGANDA FOR HANNIBAL:

"I can’t believe he wasn’t on the list because Antony Hopkins? Hello? Iconic cannibal with *taste* [...] (I like Mads too but Hopkins is just his own man and he’s awesome)"

[maleyanderecafe]

have u read Hotaru no yomeiri? It's new an i think u may like it also can u recommend me something similar pls thx lol

I have read Hotaru no Yomeiri but I have to reread it because of the new chapter update. It's made by the same person who did Promise Cinderella, which is also a pretty great series (no yanderes though) and a strong female lead. There's only eight chapters out right now.

The story is about Satoko, a sickly but beautiful girl from a rich family. She hasn't been married off because of her sickly nature, but she's a smart girl who wants more in life. She ends up getting kidnapped and makes a deal with Goto, one of the guards, stating that she will marry him as she's fallen in love with him. As a result he ends up killing the kidnappers, falling in love with her quickly after kissing him even after she's watched a bunch of people he's killed. The two end up escaping to his village soon after, where they discard her and don't try to help her. To stand up for herself, she's able to woo the town through her dancing and ends up working as a prostitute there (mostly nonsexual ones since Goto would kill anyone who would try to have sex with her). The person who she tries selling herself to is a terrible drunk, abusing her when they first meet and even insulting her scar, and as such she refuses to be bought by him. After she is assaulted by her, Goto comes and attacks the man, nearly killing him if Satoko had not stopped him. The man apologizes for his dunked behavior and afterwards Goto has a heart to heart with her by showing off his scars too before she coughs up blood and passes out in his arms.

As per usual, this author does a good job with making a rather unorthodox love with a strong female main character. Satoko doesn't have much to live for since she's going to die as she's sickly, so she doesn't have much to lose with Goto. She also is able to stand up for herself even with her bullying, using whatever she can to her advantage, and is very smart, even dedicating her body when she dies to science. Goto on the other hand seems to want to have an unconditional love, even despite his killing, which is what makes him fall in love. I wonder if he was conditioned to do this when he was younger since it feels as if he doesn't really seem to have a strong reason to live. Probably doesn't have a great backstory, that's for sure. I'm sure Goto will come to love her in more "normal" means in the future, just as she will come to love the softer sides of him.

As for some things that are similar...

Assassin x Cinderella - has the kind of against the yandere, but the yandere is dangerous and also obsessively in love with her. They are both assassins but the girl is much less competent and more innocent (despite being an assassin).

Olgami - cat and mouse game with Yoosoo the vampire and Chaeah who is a great female lead. She's trying her best to survive and boy does she do it well. Yoosoo and her have to work together, though it's a constant tug of war between them.

Never-Ending Darling- a more sci-fi based story centered around cloning. It's another cat and mouse type game with Ha-im Yun and Geunhu Ji, who keeps cloning her. Ha-im is a strong and smart female lead as well, and the thrill of the tug of war is very nice.

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii - personally I think it's a little debatable if Kirishima is a yandere since he still sleeps around with other girls willy nilly despite loving Yoshino, but Yoshino is a great female lead character who doesn't take other people's garbage.

There are probably some other ones but I think those ones are probably the most similar to Hotaru no Yomeiri that I can think of.

[webtoonpolls]

How many couples do you think is enough to start the tournament? And how many do you currently have?

Hades/Persephone

Kade/Zaida

Frank/Lola

Arcus/Maud

Charles/Sam

Thanatos/Daphne

Boyfriends (?) [I'm still torn on this one tbh]

The Girlfriends from Boyfriends (the propaganda on that one was more compelling so I'll allow it)

Naiver/Heinry

Rashta/What'sHisFace

Alex/N

Carhel/Lena

Lincoln/Angela

Kala/Ezra

Karloi/Evonne

Amon/Blondina

Duke/Daisy

Duke Yulius /Mint

Maiori/Queen Vel or Mal/Vel? (I think these are the same thing but idk which is correct)

Geunhu Ji/Ha-im Yun

Mr Bass/Mrs. Bass

[Note: for transparency sake, there are a couple more submissions, but the propaganda isn't very compelling and idk how seriously to take some of them when they call one half of the ship "the guy (doesn’t matter which one)". Even if I included those submissions, I wouldn't be at the minimum of 32 ships. I only have 33 submissions as of now—two of them being Canvas comics that don't apply and a good portion of them being Hades and Persephone submissions. You can stop submitting them now lmao.]

32 would be a good minimum, but I'm willing to take in more! My main concern with this tournament is that Webtoons are sort of niche and finding 128 bad ships in Webtoon Originals without going into crack!ship territory might be difficult.

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Yeongji Bae from Never-ending Darling, who has an unspecified trauma disorder

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Drawing of a woman with short brown hair and black eyes. She has a black mole under her right eye. She's wearing dark grey trousers and a tan hoodie tucked in with two beige stripes over the chest. She looks distraught with her left hand she's holding out a futuristic transparent smartphone with the name Geunhu Ji written in Korean. Above the phone there's a speech bubble with Korean.]

[horrorvillaintourney]

WE NEED TEN MORE SUBMISSIONS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

villains currently included in the tournament are:

Norman Bates

Bughuul

Chucky

Blade

Willy Wonka

Shorty

The Thing

Benny

Willy the Weasel

Geunhu Ji

Carousel Entity

Black Philip

Herbert West

Daniel Robitaille/The Candyman

Jean Jacket

Khan Noonien Singh

Samara Morgan

Audrey II

Mick Taylor

The Beldam

Jennifer Check

Angela Baker

Kurt Kunkle

Jigsaw

Skinamarink

Leprechaun

Josef

Pennywise

Howard Stramble

The Hunter

Pinhead

Tiffany Valentine

Billy

Michael Myers

The Le Domas Family

The Mantle Twins

Howard Howe

Jack Griffin

Adrian Griffin

Chef Slowik

Tall Man

Blissfield Butcher

Bruce

Belial Bradley

Dracula

Mrs. Loomis

Stu Macher

Death

The Society

Sully

The Babadook

Hill House (my singular mod submission)

if you want to submit someone else, the form is still open!

[webtoonpolls]

Repeatedly Killing The One You Love

Geunhu Ji & Ha-im Yun (Neverending Darling)

this submission makes me a little giggly bc its the first ship ive submitted where i dont hate the webtoon i think its brilliant actually. anyways they’re a bad couple bc keeps killing her and cloning her for various reasons but imo the lowest low in their relationship was when he tortured one clone to get her to help him propose to another clone. like damn. they are not meant to be

Mr & Mrs. Bass (Andy Bass)

Mrs. Bass allows her husband to breathe in his own piss

Mrs. Bass in fact HAS accidentally murdered her husband and needed his sister to perform necromancy on him multiple times.

[maleyanderecafe]

Hey, sorry to interrupt, but have you heard of 'never-ending darling'? It's a pretty cool thriller webtoon/manwha that has a, you guessed it, a male yandere. It's basically the protagonist Ha-im Yun getting killed + cloned by her "boyfriend" Geunhu Ji every time something doesn't "Goes according to plan". Currently the English version only has 23 episodes (while the Indonesian translation already has 50+) and is still ongoing as far as I can tell. You can find it on webtoon, here's the links:

English;https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/never-ending-darling/list?title_no=4212&page=1

Indonesian; https://www.webtoons.com/id/thriller/never-ending-darling/list?title_no=3366&page=1

Korean; https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=758660&weekday=fri

Hope you have a great day!

I did actually read this back when it had around 15 chapters, but it is nice to know that there are over 50 chapters that we will get to read in the future! It's a very good sci-fi based thriller with a yandere as the villain characters.

The story of Ha-im Yun starts out with her relationship with her boyfriend Geunhu Ji, and him proposing to her, but it fails. He clones and then murders her to recreate the event over and over again until he can get it route, however, she eventually does catch on and is able to outsmart him in a way that allows her keep her memory of what he's been doing, with her police friend. Cloning is a more common process in this world, and Geunhu Ji is the leader of said project, using it to destroy those that don't agree, by cloning them and destroying their original body. Eventually Ha-im Yun is able to escape Geunhu Ji's clutches, which leads to two clones of Ha-im Yun running about- one who knows about Geunhu Ji's true nature and one who is blissfully oblivious.

I really like Ha-im Yun as a protagonist. She's smart, stubborn and a good counter to her boyfriend Geunhu Ji. Like in a lot of thrillers, the story keeps you on their toes and Ha-im Yun is always attempting to outsmart and weave around Geunhu Ji and not always with success. The story itself really shows how cloning can have very dystopian consequences, having doubles run around and being able to adjust the memories of people to match with some overlord.

Geunhu Ji is also an amazing villain and yandere. He has power and wants so desperately to be with Ha-im Yun that he will literally clone her over and over again and kill her just to make sure that he's able to have Ha-im Yun love him the way that he deserves. He has cameras everywhere in his company, and clones/murders anyone who stands in the way, even going so far as to murder Ha-im Yun's superior just for stating that Geunhu Ji is kind of strange. He seems to see through everything, pushing farther and farther and the tug of war between the two is rather intense, making for a great story.

It's hard how to state just how good this series is, and it's a shame that so far there isn't a ton of people who know about it. I would highly recommend reading it and my summary doesn't really do it good justice, so please try it out.