(This post is solely about my experience with the series. It's not a review, but a view of the story and the explanation of my opinions about Killing Stalking)

I wrote a long post, then deleted some parts of it. I was oversharing, overwhelmed by contrasting emotions. But some of the deleted parts are needed for you to understand my post, so here's a summary of these: I relate to Bum (as a lonely girl in her twenties that has panic attacks every time she interacts with others and is in all ways dependent on anything or anyone that she can grab and hold for dear life) and I can't help but justify Sangwoo's actions and feel love and pity for him. I wish Bum hugged him and protected him until the end. I also want to add that I fully relate to Bum's extreme expression of his need of affection, that would be something to really cry about if Bum was real.

Here's the parts of the post I didn't delete, from start to finish:

I've just finished the series and now I'm shaking. I can't regret reading this, even if it left me with a huge invisible scar on my heart.

Reading the finale was painful. It was like experiencing a dream (indeed I perceived Bum and Sangwoo's experience as something positive) and watching it shattering into pieces. I hoped and believed they could have a good ending together. Maybe I was just blind, or I couldn't accept the truth.

Maybe, since I fully relate to Bum, I perceived Sangwoo as a way out of my and Bum's eternal loneliness and sadness. Indeed, I thought Bum would've helped Sangwoo the way Sangwoo "helped" him. I thought their bond was stronger than everything else. It was a safe bet in a life made out of uncertainties and wrong choices. Thank to the very last page, at least I don't feel like Bum abandoned Sangwoo after he screamed his name before he died in pain.

One last line (or paragraph, I guess): remember when Bum implicitly tells the police that he stays with Sangwoo because Sangwoo loved him like nobody else would be willing to? That's what makes Killing Stalking a love story, at least if I ask my heart. And if you take away Sangwoo's ill side, then it's fully a love story. Because I don't believe that anyone else would've met someone (sorry about this description, but I want to be as realistic as possible) ugly, smelly, depressed, and even perverted like Bum and helped him to be happier, taking nothing for themselves from him (no money, no favors, etc. And I don't think Sangwoo really pretended or took anything from Bum, at least not in exchange for his "love"). I may be wrong, but this is how I see things as someone very sad and lonely that fully relates to Bum. Mine is more of an involuntary view of things dictated by profound feelings than an opinion.

Does anybody else relates to Bum? Or Sangwoo? (One question deleted to respect sub rules) Have you ever wanted to live an experience like that or meet your Bum/Sangwoo? I'm open to discuss every matter regarding the series, even in private. Have a nice day!

P.S. Would you help someone like Bum? You don't have to give me the most obvious answer to this. I just want to hear the truth. As I said, I'm open to discuss every matter regarding the series! And sorry about the extra long post, but thanks for reading.