#never ending darling

[cloudy-gift]

"My Never ending Darling~" I hate the dude, but he is such a good villain!

This manhwa is so good wtf, the PLOT- the characters- the action, the horror, one of the best manhwas so original and refreshing to see.

[the-reincarnated-princess]

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Propaganda:

Ha-im: She's taking up arms against her boyfriend, who's been torturing, killing, erasing her memories and cloning her anew for YEARS

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Propaganda;

Louis and Lestat: In the original book Lestat literally turns a 5 year old little girl into a vampire to trap Louis in their loveless, abusive relationship, because he knows Louis will worry about Lestat (whom Louis now recognizes as a remorseless monster who sees humans as nothing but food) using this child (Claudia) as a tool and creating the most evil and messed up surrogate child of all time. (He was right, btw, bc she grows into a woman trapped forever in a child's body and hates them both for it. but this isn't about Claudia.)

In the TV series, Lestat is a white devil offering aid, sympathy, and love to a gay, closeted black man in the 1900s. He offers him company, capital, a friend who sees him as an 'equal' Once he turns him into a vampire, his desire to possess and control Louis becomes apparent. He displays TEXTBOOK narcissistic and abusive partner behaviors, apologies for how awful he was, promises to change, makes romantic gestures to try and smooth things over. They start having an 'open relationship' where Lestat loses it over Louis taking advantage of being able to see other people. Lestat writes a love song for him and sends Louis a recording sung by the woman he's having an affair with; Louis confronts him at the singer's apartment and they have angry sex in her bed.

Late in the TV series, they get in another fight, and Lestat literally drops Louis out of the sky and leaves him paralyzed, with Claudia (in this adaptation, a young woman who is more like a sister/mother to Louis) to nurse him back to health and re-teach him how to walk. Louis still takes him back.

In both the book and the TV series, Claudia convinces Louis that the only way they can be free is to kill Lestat. In both, they poison him, slit his throat, and dump his body in a swamp. In the TV version, Louis sobs over Lestat's dead body, refusing to allow Claudia to burn him and ensure he can't come back from it. (Spoilers: he gets better. and he's pissed about it! He follows them to Europe.) Their gay divorce drama eventually results in the destruction of an entire enclave of over 400 vampires in Paris and the death of their surrogate daughter.

Ha-im and Geunhu: The whole premise of the story is that Geunhu keeps killing and cloning Ha-im in order to make their relationship perfect. Once Ha-im finds out, that still doesn’t stop him from repeatedly killing her and trying to wipe her memories.

[bl3ssed-cursxd]

its so funny how the author of never ending darling on webtoon created the webtoon based off a dream they had LMAOFJA

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[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)"

[webtoon-related-tournaments]

Never-Ending Darling:

It is written so well like- every episode would make you want even moreeee. And don't get me started about cliff hangers---Overall a good read.

Survival Log:

Ssamsson, a streamer with 3 million subscribers, starts live streaming in a deserted island with five other streamers. To find catchier material, the group explores the island deeper and deeper and faces an old bunker. With curiosity and fear filling the air, the ATTACK has begun!

[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.

[cloudy-gift]

The (Future) couple that I'm cheering for!

...and Ha-im Yun's crazy ex's reaction to that

[flapjacs]

Never Ending Darling finally ended :0

So fucking good

10/10 would recommend

[the-reincarnated-princess]

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Propaganda:

Makishima and Kogami: It's hard to explain without spoiling anything, but they're represented as exact opposites, and one is ready to sacrifice everything to kill the other. Despite his deep hatred for him, his passion for his pursuit made them a pretty popular and engaging ship. Even past his death, his ghost continues to haunt his thoughts, which he seems to accept with very little upset.

Ha-im and Geunhu: The whole premise of the story is that Geunhu keeps killing and cloning Ha-im in order to make their relationship perfect. Once Ha-im finds out, that still doesn’t stop him from repeatedly killing her and trying to wipe her memories.

[simonespeaks]

how did geunhu even pull ha-im in the first place? bc even if you ignore him murdering her at least 2x a week, he’s still a terrible boyfriend. they’ve been together for years and he didn’t know basic shit like what her favorite food is. yeonji had to tell him to comfort ha-im while she cried; like he genuinely doesn’t know how to be remotely decent it’s crazy.

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[sumire182]

In the end, you see yourself just waiting for better days.