<The Girl That Wet the Wall>: a sitcom-like story
Lezhin Comics Mature webtoon ‘The Girl That Wet the Wall’ is a serial webtoon by Gaehoju, and it is one of his ‘walls and girls trilogy’. For your information, Gaehoju is only responsible for the story, so most of his works including the ones from the trilogy have different drawing artists. You can find them in the Webtoon Guide DB. Each work of the trilogy has an extraordinary title, and the meaning of the title of ‘The Girl That Wet the Wall’, as I’m dealing with in this review, is really simple. The female protagonist, or the heroine, wets a wall with a certain liquid. Why, don’t we happen to wet a wall for once in our life, no matter we intended it or not? It’s like that.
The webtoon begins as the protagonist, Jun-kyu and Minji meet each other again for the first time in several years. The two had a short and intense encounter when Jun-kyu just got in the university. Jun-kyu went to a 3-on-3 blind group date, and at that night, going straight to a hotel, he made love with a girl for the first time. Jun-kyu clearly remembers Minji though quite a long time is passed since then, but she doesn’t remember him at all. Because at that time she was completely drunk. FYI, their workplace is a neighborhood cultural center where mostly used by old people as a gym. Jun-kyu is a receptionist and Minji is a personal trainer.
Let me explain a bit about her symptom (?). When she’s sober, she has an ordinary personality. But when she’s drunk enough to turn her memory off, she does absurd things and she hits on a man she barely knows. Jun-kyu, who was complaining that she’s ignoring him intentionally after their reunion, becomes aware of that while working with her and puts his brain to exploit that.
After that, the episodes go on like a sitcom. As an R-rated webtoon, there’s many fan service scenes but almost none of them covers explicit sex (until the early stages of the story). Basically, the atmosphere is bright and light, but as going further there are serious contents related to Minji’s hidden past or the relationship at work. Such a part is surely a strong point. It’s much better to read a well-organized story than reading a slapsticks-and-jokes-then-they-had-sex-again-anyway-and-all-is-well kind of story.
The drawing style may be a subject for strong preference, but not at the level of discomfort. Rather, I’d give a good score for its distinctive drawing style, as myself being a heavy reader of Mature webtoons. As the story runs smooth as it’s written by Gaehoju, who is famed for his prolificacy, and the drawing supports the story as well, this is a webtoon anyone would enjoy without much hesitation.