Tappytoon drops maid-velous January reads

The new year has everyone frantically writing down their 2025 resolutions: eat healthier, exercise more, and take better care of their mental health. KCB can’t help with the first two, but we can help with the last one. After all, what better way to improve your mental health than by reading more webcomics? (KCB takes no responsibility for any unintended mental and/or emotional distress caused by these reads. Feel free to blame the authors for that—kidding, but not really.)

Tappytoon has unveiled its January slate of releases, and there’s a notable increase in maid-themed series. Happy reading!

New Releases

My Hot Harem has Turned Cold on Me!

Joo-ah isn’t ready to settle down with one man in her otome game…she wants all the men. She’s been working hard to have all four male leads fall in love with her and into bed with her. But, just as she’s finished the game, for some reason, her harem of hotties aren’t being so hot with her and, on the contrary, are giving her the cold shoulder. It turns out, the game might not be over yet.

My Hot Harem Has Turned Cold on Me! released on January 13.

The Maid No Longer Desires Her Master

Lynn has only known terrible things in her life. Ever since her mother died, she has been passed around and abused, from the innkeeper to a noble house where in the latter, she has been assigned to take Lady Elizabeth’s place when her tutor punishes her. The only light in her life appears to be Martin, the heir of the Ereuputh Dukedom, who can always make her smile. The original story was written by writechoco with SMIM providing the artwork and HNM writing the storyboard.

The Maid No Longer Desires her Master released on January 15.

Sultry Satisfaction

Jae-eun didn’t expect to have a friends-with-benefits relationship so soon after breaking up with her douchebag fiance, and she definitely didn’t expect to be FWB with her boss Seokwon. Nor did she expect it to get even more complicated with Seokwon beign a single father. But things should be fine if they don’t have any feelings for each other…right? The steamy adult romance was originally written as a webnovel by Seoarang with sunyang adapting the story into a webcomic and leezel illustrating.

Sultry Satisfaction released on January 19.

My Master Likes to Be Spanked

As naughty as the title sounds, My Master Likes to be Spanked is an all-ages webcomic and will release on January 22.

New Seasons

The Absolute Threshold

A childhood filled with mobs, gangsters, and violence has left Joomi yearning for a normal life but all that comes to a screeching halt when she meets Jeong Yoongyo, the successor to Korea’s biggest mob clan. Despite all her best efforts to keep away, Joomi finds herself drawn to Yoongyo and back into the world that she has been so desperately trying to break free from. Gyougyul‘s original novel was turned into a webcomic with Bulgama at the helm.

Season 2 of The Absolute Threshold released on January 14.

Let’s Hide My Little Brother

Too many people love Franz Vesta in the BL story The Miracle of Magic and because of that overwhelming love, Kyla, Franz’s older sister, dies at the hands of the madman who’s obsessed with her brother. But Kyla isn’t going to let that happen if she has a say in it! If the problem lay with people’s infatuation with Franz, then the easiest solution is to hide the problem aka hide Franz! CHAEJIHOO wrote the original novel with Chen Li adapting the webcomic’s artwork.

Supposedly, a new season of Let’s Hide My Little Brother was set to begin on January 14, but it appears to be on a hiatus. There has not been an announcement on when it will resume. Season 3 resumed on January 6 on the Korean platform.

Reborn as the Character That Never Existed

Most of the time, characters that have died and are reborn are reborn into characters that have tragic fates, but what happens when a writer is reborn into a character that has never existed? Despite being the older sister of the female protagonist Loina Remetio, Thalia Remetio has never been mentioned in the novel. As the writer, Thalia knows that only tragedy awaits Loina and the second male lead, but what will she do with this knowledge? Nina adapted the story, working with Hodo for the artwork.

Season 2 of Reborn as the Character That Never Existed released on January 14.

Into the Thrill

Moon Haewon has suffered a lot in his short time on earth. Not only has his mother died, but his only friend Taeshin committed suicide and Haewon believes that he may have contributed to his death. At a police interview, Haewon meets Hyeon Wujin, a special prosecture as well as the man Taeshin has been sporting an unrequited crush on. Despite the barriers Haewon have thrown up, his walls slowly begin to crack under Wujin’s intensity. VENOM adapted the webnovel by Leefail into a webcomic.

The second season began on January 20 and Into the Thrill will now have a 10-day updating schedule.

New Special Episodes

Zero Day Attack

This wasn’t supposed to happen: Jin Kang, skilled hacker, wasn’t supposed to be victim to a broker’s trap, but unfortunately it happened. Unable to bear the shame and unable to face genius hacker VX, Jin Kang goes into hiding. While he masquerades as a normal cafe employee by day, Jin Kang is plotting his revenge at night. But his plans for revenge gets disrupted when a new customer Seo Yiyeon comes and shows a great interest in him. Yucheital is the author of the original novel with Summer adapting the story and Jaeha as the artist.

Completed at two seasons, Zero Day Attack began publishing epilogue stories on January 14.

Boss, Bxtch, Baby!

Dacto‘s Boss, Bxtch, Baby! throws Hojin between a rock and a hard place. A gang of loan sharks is out for his blood but Yoonseong, his former one-night stand is out for his dick. But if he agrees to be Yoonseong’s boy-toy for a year, then all his problems will go away. Although Yoonseong seems to be nothing but bad news, Hojin realizes that this unhinged corporate heir might be lonelier than he appears.

A new special episode released on January 20 which will then be followed by a Side Story 2.

Farewell / See You Later

I Became a Sitter for the Obsessive Villains

When Meia wakes up in the story The Flower of Shakir, all she wanted to do was escape the fate of the side character. She sure wasn’t planning on getting a job as a babysitter, never mind the babysitter of the villain’s two younger siblings! But maybe her fate will take a turn for the better especially when Duke Rakha Aintia seems to be interested in her and her touch…

Seongyeong oh and Yeoram worked together in adapting i singna‘s novel with the former writing the story and the latter on the artwork. The series concluded on January 16.

Wet Sand

Former gangster Ian wants to leave his past behind but TJ, a long-time friend and partner, has a vice-like grip on him. But then Ian is tugged in another direction, into what a “normal” life looks like, when Jo appears. A popular BL webcomic written by Doyak, Wet Sand will also be released as a print version by Inklore later this year.

The second season finale released on January 20.

Honey Bear

Talented judo athlete Geonwoo is like a giant teddy bear: he’s big and just as strong and he’s just as sweet. But he’s hoping that he can be specifically bakery owner’s Moon Geonwoo’s teddy bear. But unfortunately Geonwoo has sealed himself to all romantic relationships, but how can he resist in the face of such hot, er, fluffy buns?

Written by Ruyoung and illustrated by nutty, Honey Bear released its second season finale on January 21.

Our Ball Begins at Moonrise

Iris meets one of her most difficult clients ever, Queen Rosemary, when the queen comes knocking on her workshop. The two fight and when Iris wakes up, she realizes she had switched bodies with Rosemary. Unfortunately, there’s no way for Iris to return to her original body since that had been irreparably damaged and Rosemary is now dead, so she must live her new life as the queen who is universally hated. Plus, it turns out the queen had a plan before she died: dethrone her husband.

salmonberry wrote the original webnovel which was adapted into a webcomic with neuri writing the story and Koodo illustrating. The series will wrap up on January 23.

You Mustn’t, Your Majesty!

Rosetta has gone back in time, time and time again, to protect Crown Prince Armund. But it doesn’t matter what she does! That prince just refuses to stay alive. So she switches tactics the fifth time around: instead of being his personal knight, she decides to be his personal maid. But she underestimates how deeply paranoid Armund is and how difficult it would be for her to get close to him.

Ari Choi wrote the original novel with URANUS illustrating the art in the webcomic and Ahn Jinae adapting the story. The series will conclude with Season 2 on January 25.

The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway

What happens when you, a six-year-old boy, gets propositioned by a six-year-old girl announcing to the world that she’s going to marry you? Well, you do what most young boys do at the age: avoid it at all costs. And that’s what Lord Cárcel does, getting into all kinds of relationships with all kinds of women except his fiancée Inés. Little does he know, that’s exactly what Inés wants. In fact, she gives him explicit permission to do whatever he wants as long as he doesn’t bother her. So what does Cárcel do? Do everything in his power to prove to her that hey, he can be a good husband!

The second season, written by CHOKAM and illustrated by Cheong-gwa based on CHACHA KIM, will release its last episode on January 25.

Unfinished Business

Jichan, a director at a conglomerate run by his gang, is kidnapped by Eugene, the director of a pharmaceutical company, and forcefully turned into an omega via an experimental trait converter drug. But Eugene seems to really hate him for some unknown reason but for what possible reason when they have only just met?

Antstudio‘s Unfinished Business will release its series finale on January 26.

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