Lost in the Cloud is an ongoing manhwa written and illustrated by Paspaskim. First released in 2021, It has been published and serialized by Lezhin. It is currently ongoing and the author plans for it to have three seasons.
The first episode was released on November 20, 2020, with its Season 1 finale released on March 11, 2022. An Epilogue was released a week afterward to answer some questions about Season 1. Its first official English episode was released on March 17, 2021, with the season 1 finale releasing April 15, 2022, and the Epilogue released a week later. Season 2 started on November 4, 2022 on the Lezhin Korea site, while the English version reprised on November 25, 2022.
Synopsis[]
Skylar has a secret hobby - taking photos of his crush, Chan-il. But when Cirrus stumbles upon Skylar's cloud storage with its impressive collection of Chan-il's photos, things escalate pretty quickly. At first confident his secret is safe with Cirrus, Skylar continuously finds himself in compromising situations, making him question Cirrus' true motives.
Manhwa Seasons[]
- Seasons One: 54 Chapters + Review (1~54)
- Season Two: 37 Chapters (55~91) (Complete)
- Season Three: Chapters (92~) (most recent update: chapter 118, part of season three)
Characters[]
Yeon Skylar[]
The main character of Lost in the Cloud, along with Baek Cirrus. Originally, he lived in Pohang with his mother and sister. However, during his last year in middle school, he faced abhorrent bullying led by his former best friend and crush Choi Minwoo. After learning about it, his family moved once he graduated. During his time as a freshman in high school, he developed romantic affection for his classmate Chan-il. This affection leads him to take secret photos of Chan-il up until his current senior year. This hobby of his is stopped due to it being found out by another classmate, and close friend of Chan-il's, Baek Cirrus. This starts a manipulative relationship between Skylar and Cirrus. Eventually, for reasons not known to Skylar, Cirrus stops the harassment. As the series progresses, Skylar realizes his feelings for Chan-il are not truly for him but are more or less caused by remnants of his affection for his former crush, Minwoo. Through this realization, he tries to distance himself from Chan-il to help move on from his past. Recently, Chan-il and Skylar have started to hang out again, along with two of Chan-il's other friends: Jiwon and Yoochan. While being harassed by Cirrus, it is revealed Skylar is being treated for PTSD caused by his past with Minwoo.
Baek Cirrus[]
He finds out about Skylar’s secret hobby of taking photos of his friend Chan-il. While at first, he was going to tell Chan-il about the behavior, he thought he could find amusement in harassing Skylar, so he chose to do the latter. For the entirety of season one, Cirrus harasses Skylar, revealing his more sociopathic side, which he hides in public. As the series progresses, it is shown that Cirrus has familial complications and it's hinted that he might have a personality disorder. After an incident where Skylar separates himself from Cirrus, he realizes he "needs" Skylar and develops a strong attachment to him. Through this realization, he stops harassing Skylar and treats him more like a close acquaintance in hopes that Skylar will grow attached to him as well. Currently, it is shown that Cirrus has hostile jealousy toward Chan-il for being close to Skylar.
Seong Chan-il[]
A childhood friend of Cirrus and the crush of Skylar. He has been in the same club as Skylar since their freshman year, and he held great admiration for Skylar due to his great photography ability. While Skylar and he started out with an incredibly rocky relationship, Chan-il even thinking Skylar hated him, the two eventually became friends as Skylar let his icy persona down. Chan-il is not aware of the relationship between Cirrus and Skylar, nor is he aware of Skylar’s crush on him.
Yang Ri-in[]
A friend of Cirrus and the sister of Da-In. It’s been hinted in season 1 that her contact name in Cirrus’ phone is “Gorilla”. Cirrus trusted her and told her about Skylar and him taking photos of Chanil.
Choi Minwoo[]
A former childhood best friend of Skylar and his first crush. Minwoo saw Skylar as his brother and had no idea that Skylar was developing feelings for him. Therefore, he wasn't aware that he seemed to be giving mixed signals to Skylar. After an incident where Skylar kissed Minwoo while thinking he was asleep, and Minwoo retaliated with making a classmate kiss Skylar while the latter was blindfolded, their relationship broke off. After shaming Skylar for his sexuality and wishing death upon him, Minwoo began spreading rumors and led people to beat Skylar up. He continued this behavior toward Skylar until adults got involved and handled the situation quietly. Currently, he goes to Jangmyung Science High school.[1]
Skylar's Mother[]
Skylar's mother and Skylar have shown to have a strained relationship with each other. Over time, after his parent's divorce, his mother put different kinds of pressure on him, which infuriated him and caused him some stress. While currently their relationship seems less strained, there still seems to be tension and mistrust between them. She also worries a lot about Skylar's well-being, but thanks to Cirrus, her worry for him has calmed a bit.
Kim Jisu[]
Jisu is the current and fifth step-mother of Cirrus. Currently, Cirrus is trying to kick her out of the house, causing a manipulative contest between the two to show superiority.
Ha-Yeon[]
Ha-Yeon is the younger sister of Skylar. She has a scar on her thigh due to her burning herself when she was younger.
Story[]
With photographs taken of Chan-il which are checked on a laptop, Yeon Skyler feels he did not get a lot of shots this time. After breakfast with his mother, Yeon mentions going to the doctor alone then comments how he is feeling better. In class, a teacher details how on the student's computer desktops they will find the career development questionnaire. As Yeon thinks whether he made his mom worry, a student informs him that his homeroom teacher wants to see him.
In Teachers' Office 2, Yeon has opted out on the evening study hall consent form. A teacher had spoken to his mom and discusses whether Yeon would want to attend the advanced study hall. While Yeon prefers co-study groups, the teacher amicably keeps him in for an entire period discussing his school work.
Having been handed a document by the teacher, Yeon passes it to Baek Cirrus in class. Studying during recess, Yeon is approached by Chan-il and asked about a photography lesson. Both members of the photography club, Yeon recalls Chan-il was the first person who actually walked up to him. Although Chan-il plans to meet Yeon, after Cirrus finds him he heads to soccer instead. With the clock reading around 12.50, in a classroom overlooking the pitch Yeon photographs Chan-il playing soccer outside.
Viewing the images on his laptop at home, Yeon moves to delete them from his laptop by uploading them onto the cloud, yet finds the folder empty. Receiving a text, Yeon sees someone has sent one of the photographs of Chan-il and raising how he took this photo. The messenger states they have the rest of them too.[2]
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Wiki Link[]
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