Punch Drunk Love Vol. 4

Punch Drunk Love #4

by Moscareto, Okdong (Illustrator)

A MAN POSSESSEDCommunication is not Park Seon-woo's strong suit. It's made him enemies at work--who now want to send him packing--but worse than that, it's made Mr. Jeong think Seon-woo's parents abused him. Hoping to clear up the matter, Seon-woo brings Mr. Jeong home to meet his parents, but that only creates new misunderstandings! Fortunately, it seems to bring the two even closer together, to Seon-woo's delight and Tae-moon's bewilderment. And as Seon-woo starts to follow Mr. Jeong's advice about improving his appearance, he notices a big change in how his coworkers treat him...a change that makes Tae-moon seethe with jealousy!

Genres: Manhwa, Manga, Romance, LGBT, Comics, Comedy, Graphic Novels

376 pages, Paperback

Published November 4, 2025

Reviews

[Amina · Rating 5 out of 5]

✰ 4.75 stars ✰

“They say once you start to view your partner as adorable, it's true love.”

For the past few months I've been internally debating whether or not I should include the other content I read that does not constitute as actual books, a war that I finally have admitted defeat to, the reasons being:

✧ to explain why there was such a dip in the number of books I read in March and April (April was not a good month for me - book-reading wise) 😢

✧ to attempt to boost my Goodreads average, which is kinda upsetting me atm 😥

✧ to finally put to use the many approval gifs i have, but so rarely get to use!! 😣

✧ to give myself a few five star ratings, because its been kinda distressing seeing so many readers have on and off five star wins when i haven't had a five star read for more than a year and a half *cries forever*

Ahem. forgive the meltdown.

Y'know that feeling when you discover something and you just want to devour it all, because there's so much content that you have available to you? It's how I felt when I stumbled into the world of manhwa - this whole realm of ideas and stories untouched and unexplored. Many moments of intervals in my life, I've experienced that feeling. My sister calls it jumping from one fixation to another, but I like to call it the stages of my life. Optimistic realist that I am. 😏

Just as I was making my way down the rabbit hole of manhwa, ANN (an animanga website I visit frequently) did a feature on Moscerato...

Coincidence? I think not? Fate, I tell you, fate! 😤

Anyway, Moscerato is a writer who really needs no introduction in the BL webtoon genre. With more than ten titles under her wing - ranging from office romcoms to historical omegaverse, she is a gem of gems whose creative juices have lit a spark in how ingenue her characters and writing is, no matter which impeccable artist she collaborates with. 👌🏻

“This punk is already scared! vs. Oh God! Thank you!” 😅😭

It is incomparable in how she has taken a trope that is so disliked and created magic with it; because nothing stinks more than miscommunication or misunderstandings between love interests. It's horrible! 😮‍💨 But, to take those misconceptions of each other's true being and make it the selling point of the story - the entire basis of a plot is so hilarious and inviting and sexy, and still so wholesome and fresh and pure and just a delight to read. 🌟

It's impressive.

And I am not easily impressed. My abysmal rating average peaks for itself. 😶‍🌫️

THE WRITING ✍🏻

“Seonwoo, how can you be so honest and straightforward despite your insecurities?
Teach me, master.”

Comedic timing is everything and she knows how to deliver the kill. 🤌🏻🤌🏻 Even when it starts off so aggravatingly annoying at how completely off base both MCS are with each other -literally not even on the same page or wavelength, let alone same planet, but somehow, they make it work in these sexy and hilarious scenes that have you laughing at the absurdity of it, but swooning at the wholesomeness of how their chemistry and romance just seizes your heart. 💘💘

And, I will never hear the Hokey Pokey the same way again. 🙂‍↔️😅🙂‍↔️

THE ART 🎨

Preppy and pretty - flamboyant and colorful and so rich with feeling. meme-worthy, adorable chibis, striking expressions, such consistency and fluidity - vibrant and eye-catchy. 😍 I could go on and on, share every panel, highlight every meme-worthy moment, but please enjoy the few collages that capture just a small fraction of the exceptional magic this dynamic duo was able to create. 🎨👍🏻



THE SHIP 🩵🤍🩷

You will not find a more chaotic MC than our perverted perfectionist protagonist, Seon-woo. with his insanely ridiculous and horrific fashion sense, his super adorable yet serious lease on life, kinky on the inside, but determined to keep it on the down low on the outside so as not to scare off the very man he's been thirsting over ever since they breathed the same office space. 😌 Straight-forward to a fault, but surprisingly very new to being totally honest about what it feels like to have such wholesome and vanilla feelings for another. 🥹

“I like you because your my dumbass! Why the hell would I ever stop?”



When he fell first, but he fell harder, Tae-moon aka gloomy and depressing Mr. Jeong didn't stand a chance against him. He carries the burden of rich family issues, but Seon-woo easily brings out a part of him he can't explain. They share such an adorable, yet chaotic energy, who can go from insanely jealous to extremely protective - it's so cute and wholesome, it's enough to give you cavities! 🍬The effect Seon-woo's dazzling charm hit him with was like being Punch Drunk Love, for how not in control of his thoughts, his expressions, his intentions, he became saddled with his affection and attention. ✨🍹🩷

THE SMEXY ❤️‍🔥

“I've only ever fantasized about doing it with you. But these obscene thoughts of mine are sincere.”



Considering their whole fiasco-romp started with a simple glitch in communication - the snu snu, fwop fwop was high maintenance. 🫠🫠 Seon-woo is such a hot mess in the sheets - an imagination gone wild of the dirtiest ideas imaginable vs the sweet romantic gentle loving pairing with the second hand embarrassment amped up by high-level smoking hot as sin tasteful depiction had me alternating between fanning myself to face palming myself, but still had my heart go badump, badump more times than I expected! 🥰

THE QUOTES 👨🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻



I like him so much that it feels like he taught me what it feels like to have real feelings for someone.

And even if I fall to the wayside, drunk off my own feelings, I know that I'm not alone anymore.... And that makes me stronger.

I can't stand knowing that I missed something you said! 😆

... to love someone means to break down the walls I've built around my own little world.

For the first time in my life, I've found someone I want to protect. 🥺

THE FEELS 💌



“Even if we were legitimate partners in crime, I'd be happy. As long as we're together, I'm happy. No matter what we're doing. I'll love him all the same.”

A fever dream that was funny, flirty, frisky, filthy, and still full of love and light and heart and wholesomeness - why wouldn't it deserve anything but a five star? As hilarious as the misconceptions of each other were, I loved how Moscerato did not drag it for too long; the levity that came with even them realizing the wrong notions of each other was brilliantly handled. 👏🏻 And kudos to Seon-woo's parents' portrayal - truly beautiful people - loving and open-minded, who love and support their son and embraced Tae-moon with open arms, a welcoming familial love that he never received from his own father. 🫂

It was a joy to read - a serotonin boost I never knew I needed, but couldn't imagine now not ever knowing. An ill-planned, ill-fated office romance that became so much more; for once you get over Seon-woo's initial attempt to approach Tae-moon, it's just a super fun and wild time. It felt like a privilege, actually, that my interests and preferences aligned so perfectly with this. 😌 Usually it is quite difficult to get through misunderstanding romances - but each one here was treated in such an adorable light, rather than being frustrated, it was entertaining. Finding myself having a chuckle of incredulous disbelief escaped me - watching the two of them fall in love, stay in love, made me love them even more. 🫶🏻🫶🏻

So yeah, this is me finally breaking the silence because I'm getting depressed at the backlog in my reading stats. It was also something the artist wrote to Moscerato in one of the Author's Note's that resonated with me and finally spurred me into action, convincing me to realize enough is enough Amina, or you'll never be able to remember what kept you distracted from your usual reading program... 😯

A story is a story, regardless of the medium.

Ain't that the truth. 💯💯

[Mina ☾ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Man I fucking love this series, this story and this couple. Give me more.

[Frank Chillura (OhYouRead) · Rating 5 out of 5]

We finally get a book full of emotion and love, as well as wild smut! 🙏🏼

[colagatji · Rating 5 out of 5]

masterpiece.

the story!
the art!
characters!
the fun!

my face and body are hurting from laughing so much

would recommend it to anyone interested in the genre

and i am so fucking glad i exposed my brain to webtoon's brainrot months ago
so this gem would find a way to me

[Yui (back-from-hiatus?) · Rating 4 out of 5]

~ 4.0 ☆

I'm currently reading this online, so I'm a bit ahead of Volume 4's chapters. It’s such a cute manhwa.

[Ch. 55]

[Jenna Giampaolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok so i liked it but the mc in the beginning was giving me SO much second hand embarrassment where i had to put the book down and think about my decision to continue reading. it was very funny, i laughed at a lot of the lines so i will give it that. it grew on me but i can’t say i liked it as much as some of the other reads so it’s like a 4/5.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was a little bit disappointed by this one, so it's taken me a while to sit down and actually mark it as read/reviewed.

The beginning is great: I love Seon-woo's incredibly weird but intensely competent family, and I particularly adored Tae-moon's interactions with Seon-woo's parents. The balance between humor and genuine emotion is difficult to maintain, but all of these scenes do it so effectively.

Seon-woo is blunt and honest and, it turns out, wildly kinky, and Tae-moon is deeply confused by his consistently growing attraction to him. He's also thrown for an absolute loop by Seon-woo's parents, who not only clock the true nature of their relationship, but also start talking about marriage and acceptance. Tae-moon feels guilty about it - they're not officially dating, it's just a physical thing - and also completely overwhelmed by the idea of gaining a family that might actually love him.

He's also finally realizing that all of the assumptions he'd made about Seon-woo's abusive family and terrible childhood were just him projecting his own awful upbringing onto him. But at the same time, while he doesn't have a great relationship with his own father, Seon-woo is making him face the fact that he is incredibly privileged to have a rich, powerful father whose biggest issue right now is him trying to force Tae-moon into taking over his incredibly wealthy, powerful business.

Turns out Tae-moon's pride can take a break if leveraging his family name means protecting someone he loves...because he has fallen head over heels for Seon-woo without realizing it. Seon-woo had simply been waiting for him to catch up, not pushing him into anything he wasn't comfortable with, but being very open about his own interest in and attachment to Tae-moon.

That's one of the things I still like the most about this series: that Seon-woo isn't the slightest bit naive or oblivious. He's very astute, actually, but comes across as unfeeling or out of touch because even if he's able to pick up on other people's feelings, he doesn't consider it his business to interfere with them. His family raised him with deep acceptance and a whole lot of freedom, and he extends that to everyone he meets. Just in a way that rubs a lot of them the wrong way, because they don't understand him.

I also really appreciated that Seon-woo's parents weren't over-the-top unbelievable about their intense tolerance. Yes: they make a huge deal out of embracing Tae-moon as their "male daughter-in-law" and whole-heartedly support whatever their son wants out of this relationship. But when Tae-moon sends Seon-woo to the store, he gets a chance to hear their true feelings, which are more complex.

The acceptance and love is unwavering...but they tell Tae-moon that they are from an older generation that doesn't fully understand same-sex relationships, and are embedded in a community and culture that isn't too familiar with seeing those types of couples in action in real life. So what they're promising him is to do their absolute best to learn and to be there however the two of them need.

It's...lovely. Raw and honest and even more impactful because they recognize the complications but are determined to be there for their son - and their potential new son - no matter what.

Tae-moon's dad doesn't seem likely to ever be that kind of parent, but they are working on their relationship in their own way. His dad seems to genuinely want him to be a part of the family now, and to take on his part of the inheritance, which Tae-moon had been mostly rejecting out of a deep sense of pride and childhood betrayal. But it's kind of stupid to turn down wealth and power just because he's mad his dad treated him and his mom badly when he was younger.

The pacing at this point started feeling a bit too frantic for me: so much was happening with Seon-woo's job and Tae-moon's father that it got kind of muddy after a while. So many moving parts, with Seon-woo and Tae-moon putting elaborate plans together separately, then running into each other's plans and disrupting them, then encountering new workplace drama...

It got to be a bit too much for me. Hopefully that storyline gets smoothed out better in the next volume.

This one also had one of my least favorite kinks, which might've turned me off if it'd happened in an earlier volume when I hadn't gotten so invested in the characters. It was handled in a funny, true-to-them way, though, and I do find it weirdly sweet how overwhelmed Tae-moon is by Seon-woo's attempts to spice up their bedroom.

[Heather’s Reading Bubble · Rating 5 out of 5]

Punch Drunk Love is my favorite BL manwha. It has the perfect balance of comedy and romance that many other series have tried and failed to do. I love the evolution of Tae-moon and Seon-woos relationship as well as their character arcs from the beginning of the series. I also found the conversations about the workplace and physical appearance to be extremely realistic. People do treat you better when they find you attractive and no it shouldn’t have any baring to how you do your job but unfortunately it does. I loved when Tae-moon realized that he was doing the same thing to Seon-woo that their co workers were. I honestly could read these two doing just about anything and think it’s great. Love love love.

[nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

the couple rings and the cartier bracelet.. taemoon is so in love and im here for it! seonwoo being the usual seonwoo, the funniest person to ever exist. im just glad he has his family and taemoon after being dragged into mess by this fuckass supervisor.

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay so I read this series online so I’m not exactly sure how the chapters line up with the volumes published. But anyway… this was a very fun read! I have had this on my TBR for forever, and I’m really glad I decided to read it finally! Seonwoo is definitely neurodivergent coded and I like how open he is with sex and voicing his opinion. I didn’t like Taemon at first, I thought he was a dick. But he eventually grew on me, especially when I saw that he started caring for seonwoo more.

[Vy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I came for the BDSM. Didn't end up seeing much of that. But am I disappointed ? No. Absolutely not. I love their misunderstanding, mostly their resolutions. But what I love the most is the way family and support to your loved ones is showed. Almost made me cry, and I really didn't expect that.

(Also, it's been really long since I had kind of a small crush on a male character, but I really love Tae Moon.)

[Elaine White · Rating 5 out of 5]

This felt like a long one, but I'm glad for it. We got some real, intense emotions, rather than just them having sex and an internal existential crisis. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses, with that interesting cliffhanger!

[Ryofire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another cute volume in this series! I liked how the leads' relationship developed this volume, and the art continues to be lovely. It's still not my favorite of Moscareto's works, but it's enjoyable enough. This volume certainly has its moments.

[Javairia · Rating 5 out of 5]

not me binge reading this in three days again 😔😔

[iz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very silly.

[Eke · Rating 3 out of 5]

fellas, we haven't completely lost the plot and that's a good thing i think

[Freya**Secret SIn** · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are tons of misunderstandings.
Tons of smut
MC is unhinged, and everything was so funny
Also, it's very sexy. I loved it.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

love the side stories!!

[fer♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5⭐
no tienen derecho a ser tan cutes y caóticos😭✨🩷

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grumpy bear finally gets his act together and appreciates his chaotic little twink lover

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands down the funniest magna I've ever read. Give me 1,000 more episodes

[rooo · Rating 4 out of 5]

LLORARÍA MIL VIDAS LOA AMO

[-moonprismpower- · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love Seon-woo’s family. What great parents. Had me so emotional that they were so accepting of Tae-moon and already considered him part of the family. Very sweet.

[Donna Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve never laughed so hard in a ridiculous series. I DESPISE miscommunication but I genuinely love it in this series? Never has it been so funny lol I love them

[Corrine Zelaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

What does that old man have planned? I’m so glad they got past the miscommunication and we can get to the romance and acceptance of it.

[Sheyddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

No pensaba que pudieran seguir con la comedia tan buena, pero es increíble como hasta las notas de autoras son divertidas aqui.

Te amo Seonwoo, tú eres el peligro.

[Mahdiye HajiHosseini · Rating 4 out of 5]

نتونستم تا جلد بعد صبر کنم و باقی چپترها رو هم خوندم. قطعا دلم برای سون‌وو تنگ‌میشه و برمیگردم تا حلدهای بعدی رو باز هم بخونم.