Eunha is struggling to balance multiple jobs and drowning in debt when she runs into her ex. It's been years, but Wonseo drops a bomb: the two never actually ended things. Eunha is shaken by her words, but walks away. When eviction looms, Wonseo offers a lifeline laced with history. Torn by pride and buried feelings, Eunha takes the bait.

We Never Broke Up has story by Jaliya and art by babpul. Localized by Manta Comics. Published by Manta (September 30, 2025). Rated M.

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I think we could all appreciate some good old, toxic yuri from time to time, right? Now, it can be hard to break up with somebody that you are in the throes of passion with. Communication is key in any relationship because if you don't properly lay something out, then you can end up making the same mistake that Eunha did and unintentionally lead somebody on for three years despite not talking to them. I was confused about the overall premise for this story because it likes to play things very vaguely. There's a lot of vagueness around the type of relationship our two leads had. There's a lot of vagueness revolving around one of them suddenly disappearing for three years. There's a lot of vagueness around the development of the area leading to a lot of businesses closing down. There's a lot of revolving around Eunha's feelings. There's a lot of revolving around the sex scenes, etc. The whole thing is just vague and if the whole point is to establish that a lack of direct communication can end up just perpetuating problems or kicking problems further down the road to be dealt with later, in some ways, this story would actually be kind of brilliant, but that's not the case a good chunk of the time.

This is about two women who might be compatible in the bedroom, but they are not compatible when it comes to talking about what's on their mind or what they want out of life. One of them doesn't want to talk at all, yet is also the one instigating almost every sex scene in this book, which leads to incredibly mixed signals, while the other one comes off like they're trying to have a conversation while also being very open about flaunting a rather uncomfortable power dynamic between the two. It seems like the story is trying to go for a dominant and submissive type of relationship, which I can appreciate as a fan of BDSM, but the whole reason why BDSM works is because you discuss with your partner what role you're taking up both in the bedroom and in real life. If one party holds some form of practical power over the other, even if they say it's for the sake of just helping out, then it's really hard to not see things as anything less then problematic.

One of our leads, Eunha, is down on their luck and just trying to survive, so she's forced to get along with Wonseo who is arguably too pushy and apparently dealing with a lot of mommy issues. There is an entertainment value in just how messy this is and I will admit that there is a certain level of spice to the sex scenes that probably would not be there if there wasn't all of this wound up tension. However, it's not like those sex scenes make up the majority of the story, a lot of it is just these two stubborn adults butting heads with each other and it's not nearly as hot or interesting as I think the story wants it to be. We keep prolonging the issues between the two instead of actually dealing with them and by the time I caught up, I felt like nothing had really been accomplished.