23rd September 2026

Thoughts on "My Girlfriend" Webcomic - Beware, spoilers ahead!

I just finished reading this webcomic called My Girlfriend on Webtoon. If you haven't read it, and don't want it spoiled, I'd recommend you read it before continuing. It's not that long, but is no longer available for free on Webtoon. I do not care how you go about reading it so please use your own problem solving skills if you want to read it but don't want to give Webtoon money. If you don't want to read it, but are still here, I will give a quick overview. It was about a guy who finds out his perfect loving girlfriend, Miho, is a monster after she gets hit by a car. She's in the hospital, but appears strangely unharmed - he goes to head home but then needs to bring something to her unexpectedly, and spots her in an alleyway with someone's head in her monstrous maw.

He becomes scared and doesn't know what to do, and he speaks to his friend about what to do. Later he walks in on her eating his friend too - but then it turns out his friend is fine. When he confronts the two of them, they show him a photo of the three of them hanging out at a bar that night. They encourage him to go to hospital, acting worried about how paranoid he is, and he is diagnosed with schizophrenia and given medication. He is still suspicious and doesn't take it. (This is a terrible example for anyone who does need medication for their schizophrenia). For a while, even you the reader begin to believe that he might have been hallucinating the whole thing.

I don't want to explain every single plot point, but as the story goes on, he discovers that she has systematically turned everyone he knows into a monster, including himself - but he just hadn't realised. Miho is able to control the other monsters, and has been using them to keep tabs on him, make his life easier, and keep him safe. She is obsessed with him - because when she turned him into a monster, he was able to retain his free will, rather than becoming a mindless monster - just like her.

But although she was obsessed with him due to his ability to continue thinking for himself after becoming a monster, this also frustrated her. She wanted him to fall in love with her, become obsessed with her like she was for him. She wanted him to succumb to her idea of what their life should be like. But all he could think of was how she was a disgusting monster, who had turned all his loved ones into mindless monsters. He wanted to get rid of her - and she HATED that.

This was really interesting because the very thing that drew her to him - his resistance to her will, his lucidity, his own sense of judgement - is what made him special to her. But it becomes a contradiction when he actually resists her. She tries so many strategies to get him to change his mind. Eventually, he devises a way to kill her, thus ending her obsession with him.

Well, the situation with her obsession with him, it kind of reminded me of those men who date alternative girls, just to try to turn them into normies. Or who date sexy girls just to make them cover up. It made for a really good plot because not only is it a supernatural situation with monsters, but it can also be read in a more realistic abusive relationship way. The monster part wasn't what was truly monstrous - the really monstrous part was the humanity behind each action. And yeah, there are a few side plots which show people who aren't monsters yet are still truly monstrous. Even the main character has a few people in the comments saying "maybe it's partly Jio's fault too", when he pretends to love Miho while secretly plotting to kill her... or does that just show how abusers can control the narrative? Well, reading this comic was a really interesting experience.

When she dies at the end of the comic, she has already turned the entire population of South Korea into monsters, and all the monsters she set up to monitor him are left without further instructions. So the population of South Korea continue their lives as normal, but whenever he walks into a room, it goes quiet and everyone starts watching him. Right at the end, he learns that he has developed the ability to create more monsters when one person shows up who isn't a monster. And at this point he says he understands why Miho was so obsessed with him, because basically every other person in her life must have felt like an NPC.

Well, this wasn't to say that this is a comic that everyone should read. But I did think it was a good comic, and it left me with a lot of thoughts. I want to put more posts on my journal again, so this became my first post in a while, while I mulled the comic I just finished over a bit. I know this post is not very polished compared to some of my previous posts, and I'm sorry if I've treated any of the more serious topics in a way that seemed flippant. But to be honest, I just felt like a bit of a monologue to take my mind off other things.