Book of the Dead is a Manwha that takes place entirely in the afterlife/purgatory, compromised entirely of young souls which killed themselves

This Manwha has a whole lot of Gore, Psychologically focused themes and surpassing trauma

The original Korean sources were NSFW with nudity but it has been cropped for the English translation

I had been searching for a long time for a Manwha like this, and when I originally found it, it only had 6 chapters so I felt like I had **won the lottery

if the gore and traumatic aspects are not a trigger for you, I suggest you check out the first four chapters

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[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The original Korean sources were NSFW with nudity but it has been cropped for the English translation

This sucks. I hate when they change something like that for no reason. Just translate the original work and leave the rest untouched. Give me what the author intended.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree, especially when the content of the manga itself is extremely disturbing if you weren't okay with the nsfw to begin with

And you know it's not that common either, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to be cropped

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah so either there's someone clutching pearls at management or they think the Western audience is even more sensitive than we sometimes are.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay, it's gory. Does it have, like, a plot or something? I'll assume it's not comedy.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm, well without spoiling some stuff the best way I can explain it is that they have to find themselves, accept their past and move on

it has action and it has a lot of mystery corresponding to the world they find themselves in and so called 'reapers'

It is still very early on so I can't explain it 100% even if I wanted to

The images I showed were from chapter 1.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago

if you want a summary with spoilers then:

::: >!This is a river of death where reapers roam and instinctively know the infinite sea, the goal is to reincarnate but nearly every individual here has had awful experiences leading them to not desire it, so you meet fucked up people and more fucked up people and travel the infinite ocean for islands of peace or destruction and to overcome them, again, it's still bit too early for me to totally predict what'll happen, and the meat of the action just started!< :::