What happens when two yanderes fall in love with one another?
Head Over Heels is a 2018 Korean Manhwa written by South Star and illustrated by Prishe, published by Lezhin comics.Woohyun is rich, good-looking and popular… but he also happens to be a total bully. His punching bag is Ha Yan, a stuttering and amenable girl in his class. Woohyun likes nothing more than harassing her… The weird thing is, Ha Yan actually seems to crave his attention, feeding off it. As they each spin a web of deceit to ensnare the other, who will end up getting caught? And could romance bloom from this tangled, thorny mass of obsession?
It went on for two years, and finally ended at 63 chapters.
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Tropes that appear in Head Over Heels include:
- Adults Are Useless: Averted. Mr. Kim is more than aware that something is wrong in the classroom and that Ha Yan is not normal, despite Ha Yan's denial.
- Downer Beginning: We start with the main protagonist, Ha Yan, having milk dumped over her and being mocked by Woohyun and Jiwon.
- Honor Thy Abuser: A deconstruction. Ha Yan doesn't just honor Woohyun, she's in love with him, and she deliberately provokes him to get him to bully her. She has a twisted idea of love and lets Woohyun do whatever he wants to her.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Though Ha Yan was messed in the head a long time ago before she fell in love.
- Romanticized Abuse: On both ends. Ha Yan lets Woohyun insult her, physically assault her and get her in trouble with the teachers, and Woohyun never tells her off for being an insane stalker.
- Ship Sinking: Chapter 7 sinks Soojin/Woohyun, as he takes her out on a date only to be a total Jerkass to her the entire time. It gets repeated in Chapter 27:Soojin: I hate myself for having ever liked you, even for a second...
- Shout-Out:
- In Chapter 16, the student from another school who harasses Ha Yan has a hairstyle that's the same as Oh Sangwoo, a character from another comic by Lezhin.
- Chapter 13 has Jung Jiwon yelling "OBJECTION!" while pointing. Is Prishe a fan of Ace Attorney?
- Chapter 19 has Yan doing the infamous Beatles road walk.
- In Chapter 34, Jiwon's face is exactly like Obito Uchiha's mask.
- Yandere Couple: Ha Yan and Suh Woohyun are a deconstruction.
