WALK ON WATER

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
Not Available
RELEASE
June 10, 2020
CHAPTERS
64

DESCRIPTION

Starring in gay porn was never on Ed's bucket list. He's straight, he's not an exhibitionist, and he has a decent career in security. That said, he also has a debt that he's been working to pay off for years now, and he can barely keep up with the accruing interest. If having gay sex in front of a camera is the way to digging himself out of this pit, then he's willing to be filmed for that money shot. But when he meets Glenn, the charismatic CEO of a gay porn production company, Ed finds himself falling into something much deeper than financial debt. Now, Ed is coming for the money...but will he be staying for Glenn?

(Source: Lezhin US)

CAST

Glenn McQueen
Ed Talbot

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

cornwlia
75/100
Walk on Water is about the capacity of change and love
Walk On Water surprised me in a good way, the resume and looks made the impression that it's only be some kind of hard smut with no real story, but it's actually about moving on and changing because of the circumstances or because of your loved ones. In general, the writing lacks a lot, but I'm just stunned by the art — maybe I'm a huge JAXX's fan? Hell yeah. So as I said before, the author introduces a lot of different characters, but downs really take a good look in any of them, except Ed, even Glenn lacks some more depth, Chang had great potential because of his twisted idea of ""love"", but the author gave us mostly one chapter of explanation and flew away from it.
So now Im going into some more detail about some appealing topics:
1 - The porn industry
Probably y'all know who Mia Khalifa is, I only heard her story, so I'm sorry if I didn't write it correctly, but we all see the damage that some years in this industry made to her image, even if she moves on, changes her lifestyle, people will always remember her for what she was, but not for what she is or will be.
Bringing this to the manhwa, Glenn did have his film production turn into a scandal because of his background, although he used different names, and Ed struggled to find other jobs other than blue collar (even those were difficult as hell), neither other actors will have it easy for the rest of their lives. As the other blond guy said, I don't really remember his name, sometimes all he wants is to start again, but he never knows when his past will be coming back to him, and even when he said that he's anxious if any of his clients see's him with his daughter or recognizes him at her school. Although both lives are completely different, your personal image to one will always be the one he acknowledges.
This type of context producers know what they are making to the others image, although Glenn is written as a good person, people need to understand that he is no saint, and the power he has on others people's image and future.
And, just to end this topic, this industry decieves the desperate and ingenuous ones, it doesn't have any pop up alerts about how it affects people's future and perceptio, and at the beggining it's almost a paradise, you work little to receive an interesting amount algo money. What could go wrong? (Spoiler: everything) People age, people turn out to be unattractive to the media, and when you do, in an instant they'll find someone as desperate and as attractive as you were in the past.

2 - The different types of attachment and love
The author made an interesting job here. Some people portray love as something obsessive, distorted and individualistic, as Chang — him making Ed pay with that amount of interest was a way of not letting him go, but at the same time, a way to make the only person that ever made him confused, miserable. While others see it as something mostly trivial, as Glenn always did, before meeting with Ed, it didn't matter how many night stands, but mostly no thought about his own feelings.
Although Ed is the protagonist, he doesn't really stand out in this topic.
(observation: I hate Chang, but still think he's a deep character, his idea of """love""" is distorted, and i don't agree with it, so please don't think too deep about this review)

3 -RESTARTS!!
In the end, the protagonists hop into a relationship again, but this time, things are completely different from the start. Their start was basically:
Glenn: Do you have feelings for me?
Ed:
And in the next chapter he is like: I love you
IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?!?!

So the approach for their restart was pretty interesting, because Ed decided to take things slower and in a more meaningful way. Meaning that as things went wrong the other way, why not try a new path? That's what's so good about life, even when you get it wrong, you can always change paths and become better.

"A man cannot step into the same river twice, because it is not the same river, and he is not same man."
-Heraclitus

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