An Easy Target

Description

Ha Gyeong Su's spent the past three years trying to forget about one traumatic night. It isn't until he meets Dong Hyuk that he gets a full night's sleep. One night without the nightmare of being tied down by a room full of men under the watchful eyes of Yule.

Original Webtoon:
Lezhin, Bomtoon

Official Translation:
English, Japanese

Note: There was supposed to be a side story for Yule's brother but it got canceled as it was getting too long

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Ha Gyeong-Soo the Fool

Ha Kyung-Soo's Gentle Touch

Обманутый Ха Кён Су

傻x夏景树

傻x夏景树窝囊废何敬书言

窝囊废何敬书

言いなり隼人

호구 하경수

Groups Scanlating

Lezhin

Random Fujoshis

Latest Release(s)

c.1 by Lezhin 6 years ago

c.1 by Random Fujoshis 8 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

70 Chapters + 3 Reviews + 3 Side Story (Complete)

S1: 46 Chapters + Review (1~46)
S2: 24 Chapters + Review (47~70)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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User Rating

Average: 5.9 / 10.0 (171 votes)

Bayesian Average: 5.95 / 10.0

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Last Updated

January 1st, 2024 3:33pm PST - 1 year ago

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Genre

Adult Drama Psychological Smut Yaoi
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Im Ae Ju

Artist(s)

Im Ae Ju

Year

2016

Original Publisher

Lezhin

Serialized In (magazine)

Lezhin (Lezhin)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Lezhin US

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #766

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Monthly Pos #1469

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3 Month Pos #2791

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6 Month Pos #3604

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Year Pos #4025

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List Stats

On 198 reading lists

On 131 wish lists

On 384 completed lists

On 31 unfinished lists

On 215 custom lists

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A gem among the mediocrity

by TheOneWhoGotAway
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This story has some severe abusive themes, and many people won't make it past the 40ish chapters. Defiantly not for the weak of heart. The ending for me was the thing that sealed the deal. I had such a love hate relationship with the ending. In any case I would never want to be in MC's place.

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Hmmm

by tipz
4 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Honestly, it starts off as feeling terrible for the MC, but ends with the MC being so annoying that you just want to scream “figure it the out, for your own good!”, and can tell where they actually help to escalate more madness in people that are already mad. Maybe a BPD/ Stockholm Syndrome combo going on here, paired with attracting rapist Narcissists. Crazy.

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So much rape

by Charrr
5 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Legit this entire Manhwa is just filled with rape and sexual abuse. Anyone who has experienced sexual abuse or rape would vomit at the first few chapters. Like does our mc have Stockholm’s syndrome or what?!

DESPITE RAPING THIS DUDE OVER AND OVER, HE STILL CHOOSES TO STAY WITH HIS RAPIST INSTEAD OF THE GUY WHO IS NORMAL AND ACTUALLY LIKES HIM. sorry it’s legit so damn disgusting and can’t take it. This is like on a wayyy different level than killing stalking. Like in KS at least Bum actually loves Sangwoo, in this one the mc DESPISES the dud and stays with him anyway. ALSO MC GETS RAPED LIKE IN LEGIT EVERY OTHER CHAPTER. LIKE JESUS CHRIST BRO, CALL THE FUCKING POLICE. ohmygod it is so frustrating, despite putting up with so much fucking rape (FROM MULTIPLE RAPSITS), mc doesn’t even get that much of a happy ending. I REALLY just hoped the author would put the mc with the nice guy as a side story or alternate ending BUT NO, all we get is a guy who got dumped cuz his crush preferred a rapist over him. He deserves way better like tf.

CONCLUSION =
PLEASE DONT READ IT . It’s for your own good. Life was better before I read this crap. FYI people with sexual trauma SHOULD NEVER READ THIS. This comic is so fucking frustrating and the ONLY good point Is the art style. They glorify rape in this Manhwa, honestly pretty disgusting yknow? Reading this was torture to my soul.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Nope

by luna697
5 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

The premise was really interesting, however 70% of the content is uncomfortable rape scenes. About halfway through I found myself disengaged and no longer invested in any of the characters. I just kept reading because I wanted to know how it ended.

There were times that I found myself sympathizing with the abusers and that felt really disgusting, however I'm sure that was intentional on the part of the author and I think shows skill at being able to illicit such an emotion. The manhwa was definitely an interesting commentary on the dichotomy and complicated aspects of abuse.

I think it could have been a lot better if we had more access to each character's thoughts and motivations, or at the very least the MC's. The emotional connection I wanted to have with him was just not there.

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Wow

by sagesmith
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

Um, where to begin? I knew this would be a messed up story going in, so I’m honestly not complaining about that. I’m not going to read an ero-guro manga and then complain about how gross it is, I signed up for this mess.

That being said... what did I just read? Um, the art work was beautiful. The story was engaging enough that I read the entire thing from start to finish. The weirdness of the story... it was over the top. And I’m not even talking about the rape, which was of course over the top as well.

By the end the MC got exactly what he deserved. I wanted him to be happy, but even in the side story (the author gives alternate endings where the mc ends up with a different guy) he’s so focused on his rapist, he can’t move on and be happy. I guess he had Stockholm syndrome? I’m sad he couldn’t get the help he needed after such severe abuse. How would he go back to that when all he wanted the entire time was for it to end?

I’m not impressed. I’m disappointed. He deserved a happy ending after all of that. But the author wouldn’t let him have that. Not even in the alternate ending, which really pissed me off.

All in all, it’s just torture porn and I shouldn’t have expected anything else.

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Nothing redeeming at all..

by ohgu59
5 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

I read the summary, and thought what the fuck would someone have to do to redeem themself after gang raping their boyfriend. So then I decided to read it out of curiosity, but it just kept getting worse as the chapters went on. I lost my patience after about 30 chapters, and decided to just skip to the end to see what the point of this whole story was and I'm glad I didn't waste my time reading the whole thing. There were so many things left unresolved, little character development, and no point to the whole story line. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading psychological/dark/manipulative stories from time to time, but if you compare something like this to killing stalking or anything by Harada it falls short by a lot and in many ways.

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Waste of time

by WhipNaeNae
6 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

MC ends up with the guy that orchestrated his gang-rape. Love interest literally had his friends gang-rape MC and watched it happen with a smile. MC is somehow with him by the end. What sort of madness is this please? This is what happens when authors stupidly try to redeem the irredeemable. He should have been in jail, not having a romance tf. The way it was framed was not just a depiction of a messed up relationship, to paraphrase one of the commenters. If it was just a story of an abusive relationship, without an romanticizing, then that would've been different. Instead, their story was framed (by the end) as "ok he did fucked up stuff, but he regrets it and is trying to make up for it so that he and the MC can be together." There is no amount of making up that will make what he did okay.

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I feel like I need to defend my rating

by drifting
6 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Idk if anyone else noticed this but the author isn't exactly romanticizing the rape and the abuse. She's purposely telling a story of a terribly unhealthy relationship, without hiding any bit of the manipulation and mind-fuckery that comes with it. She could have easily thrown in more fluff to soften the plot and make it easier for the readers to accept the relationship, but she didn't.

I also appreciated that dedication to the characters, as messed up as they were. The side stories were a good example of this -they were extremely close to canon and the author didn't waste any page space giving us an ideal happy ending. She made it clear in the side stories that a happy ending doesn't exist with the characters being the way they are.

It's not a fun or pleasant story to read. But it's solid enough in plot and character development, and interesting enough to keep many of us reading. That said, I'll probably NEVER read this manhwa again.

... Last updated 6 years ago

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There is no hope

by SmexyBL
6 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

This was just torture porn...over and over and over again. It lost the human element 20 chapters in, or at least that's when I lost hope for the human element. Don't get me wrong, I love some consensual non-consent and rough sex. This, however, made me seriously lose hope and feel straight emotional pain.

The comment from earlier is right. The description is a lie and gets turned on its head almost immediately.

I have given more than one star because although the character development was one dimensional and the story had so many issues that it tired me out, the art was nicely done. I don't see any good bdsm practices in here though, just a heads up.

Edit to kind of respond to @drifting:
While this story doesn't romanticize abuse and does show it being painful and bad, my problem with it is the normalization of abuse. I feel it is normalized through the acceptance of the abuser's emotional manipulation as well as the familial elements the author brought in to support the abuser. Also, dont even get me started on the choices the victim makes when confronted with the opportunity to protect or reject his abuser. All of this is painful normalization that expanded for 70+ chapters without a moral turn.

... Last updated 6 years ago

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beyond disgusting

by HoshiSama
7 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

I was really hoping that this wouldn't be yet another glorification of rape, but it's worse than that. It's an incredibly realistic depiction of rape (and PTSD) that then turns into that. I thought I would at least try to read a little longer after checking to see how it ends, but when the abusive ex boyfriend scolds the protagonist for "talking in [his] baby voice again" after raping him I had to quit. Regressive trauma isn't sexy. Rape isn't sexy. Torture and kidnapping aren't sexy.

NONE of this could be called BDSM, I don't care if someone gets tied up or not. This is abuse, and it's vile.

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