Mignon is an original ONA Anime. The project was first announced in 2021 and was originally expected that same year, until its release was pushed back to 2023.
The original animation was released in twelve episodes, at around five to ten minutes per episode, all written and directed and written by Bboong Bbang Kkyu (뿡빵뀨) and released worldwide on Vimeo by ABJ Company on August 11, 2023. As of January 2026, the series is now available on the Korean BL-only streaming service Heavenly.
An hour-long consolidated version with some adjusted visuals and added scenes, called MIGNON Master Version, was released on June 5, 2025, also a Heavenly exclusive.
Manhwa (Upcoming)[]
In late December 2025, a manwha adaptation of the series was announced. It will debut on Korean webtoon site Ridibooks on January 31st, 2026 at 10pm KST (8am EST/5am PST)[1].
Synopsis[]
Mignon is an original BL animation from South Korea. It revolves around a boxer named Mignon and a supernatural doctor, Oh Young-One [Editor's Note: this name is presented Korean-style, where family name comes first and where it is actually an English pun; the Western equivalent is "Young-One Oh"], who find solace in each another through an aggressive and romantic affair among violence, secrets, and unwavering devotion.
From ABJ Company: "After losing his parents at a young age, Mignon lives as a mechanic by day, and a cage fighter by night at an illegal arena.
Living a life of exploitation and violence, the only person who gives him any attention is Oh Young-One, a doctor at the illegal arena...
Despite knowing Young-One’s true identity, Mignon’s pure and blind love for him causes Young-One to start slowly opening his heart. But the hellish reality that surrounds Mignon starts to shake up even Young-One’s life!"
Characters[]
Mignon[]
(last name unknown)
An enthusiastic and emotional young man of college age, who works as a car mechanic during the day and, at night, as a cage fighter at an underground MMA—"mixed martial arts"—arena where spectators place bets on match outcomes (called unregulated sports betting: highly illegal and aggressively penalized in South Korea).
In both environments, Mignon has been subject to many years of physical, psychological, and emotional abuse conditioning by his "coach," the man who raised Mignon after his parents died, whose only concern for his charge is how to best exploit him.
As a boxer, Mignon doesn't care whether he wins or loses, regardless of the abuse his coach might inflict. His sole purpose at the "pit," the illegal arena, is to see the only person who has ever shown concern for him or treated him with any kind of gentleness: the on-site trauma physician there, Dr. Oh Young-One.
While 6'2 (1.88m) and 207 lbs (94 kg) of muscle and living a brutal life full of violence, Mignon himself is innocently excitable, gentle, and sincere: he never shows aggression toward or harms anyone outside the ring, even in self-defense. For almost the entire series, he has silver hair and blue eyes "with a wide look," features remarked upon as unusual. His appearance eventually changes due to a drastic plot development.
Oh Young-One[]
A seemingly young doctor who works nights treating injured fighters at the pit. He first gives the impression that he is a regular man, but when Mignon accidentally discovers him at the wrong moment, his exceedingly well-hidden secret nature is exposed. [Editor's Note: The English subtitles alternate equally between the singular "pit" and the plural "pits"; the singular version chosen for this article is both what Dr. Oh himself exclusively uses and the creator's most likely intention due to The Pit, a famous MMA landmark.]
Oh has a cool, generally unemotional demeanor that comes off as cold at times. Gradually, however, we learn this may be a very carefully constructed and very very long-perfected affectation that eventually shows wider and wider cracks as the series goes on.
He is nevertheless compassionate to his patients and treats their injuries with far greater skill than one might expect (while skimming a small price in the process). It is also apparent that, while he may not wish to, Oh feels a particular and persistent concern for Mignon, who started at the pit when only nineteen years old and whom he knows is beaten by his coach, "human filth" (in Oh's words) that he constantly tries to persuade Mignon to get rid of. Mignon, for his part, very enthusiastically enjoys Oh's company even when lectured, and calls him exclusively "Doctor" or, most often, "Doc" (Korean: "Seonsaengnim"/"Saem").
Dr. Oh has a particular requirement for his health, without which he starts to experience withdrawal symptoms such as tremor, cold sweats, fainting, and perhaps eventually even death. Mignon learning the details of this condition causes him great concern on Oh's behalf, while his discovery of it is where the story begins.
Master Woo[]
A seemingly feeble old man who is suggested to run the illegal arena, who is later revealed as possibly running other institutions of a kind. Woo also serves as a sort of mentor to Dr. Oh, though his exact nature (and how much of his wise advice might be reverse psychology) is unknown.
Mignon's Coach[]
A man only referred to as "Park." Not merely Mignon's coach, he is also the man who raised Mignon from a very young age after his parents died. There's no suggestion he has any familial relationship to Mignon and is instead defined by the brutal physical, emotional, and psychological abuse he shows him and that he has clearly shown him the entire time he's been in Mignon's life: violent conditioning in the name of "discipline" so Park can exploit him for as much money as humanly possible. Mignon's conditioning is so strong he finds it nearly impossible to fight against, even though he's twice Park's size, and even at his current age of twenty-one.
Park also acts as Mignon's boss at Dong-Myeong Autos, the car repair shop where Mignon works his day job as a mechanic and where Park puts on a façade of cheerful friendliness with the public. It's through this business that he eventually becomes involved with the mafia.
Dr. Oh particularly loathes Park, considering him "filth," and frequently gives voice to this opinion, though he is only aware of Park's current physical abuse of Mignon and has no idea how long and complicated their relationship really is.
Gangster[]
The leader of a group of brutal mafiosi working for "the syndicate," an unspecified organized crime ring which becomes entwined with Mignon and Dr. Oh's intensifying and complicated bond when Park, Mignon's coach, involves him in shady dealings. Their final showdown with several main characters changes life drastically for all of them.
Referee[]
The official at the arena who calls matches for either opponent. Especially excited by wins by K.O. or "knockout" (where the losing opponent is knocked to the floor of the ring, or "canvas," and is unable to stand up within ten seconds: a detail that becomes more important as Mignon's performance in the arena, and the story in general, progresses).
Story[]
In a crime-ridden district of the city, Dr. Oh Young-One heads through alleys, through multiple corridors in a seedy-seeming building, down multiple stairs, and into what's labeled an "electric room" where Master Woo, sitting at a desk, greets him. Oh passes through the arena doors to cigarette smoke and a furor of bets being placed. When he reaches the infirmary, Mignon is already there, waiting for him with an injured face and a grin.
While treating his injuries, Oh tells Mignon he's far too young to be in this desperate place, emphasizing he should be in university making friends instead. Mignon insists he doesn’t need either, in a conversation it's suggested the two of them have had many times before. Mignon goes quiet when Oh correctly guesses the injuries were inflicted by his coach. He tells Mignon that's reason enough to leave the pit, but Mignon argues that if he leaves, he won't see the doctor anymore. Oh sees this as a clear positive. Mignon sullenly heads out for a match, but as he's leaving, grins at the doctor and promises to see him soon.
Thinking of Oh distracts Mignon so much that he doesn't realize he left his boxing gloves behind until his match is about to start. He rushes back to the infirmary and barges in, accidentally breaking the lock with sheer force; there he sees Oh drinking directly from a blood bag, with full fangs visible in his bloody mouth. Mignon and Oh stare at each other, stunned.
The following morning, Mignon and his coach walk on a street overlooking the water. Mignon, deep in thought, muses over Dr. Oh being a vampire and his absence when Mignon tried to find him later that night. He (correctly) surmises why Oh works at the pit—for the blood he needs to survive—and how he obtains victims—by withdrawing a small amount of blood from any unconscious or seriously injured boxers, storing it in packets and refrigerating it for later consumption. He doesn't display any indication of fear or disgust over any of this.
When the two reach an auto garage, where it turns out the both of them live, Mignon's coach kicks him to the floor and orders him into "plank position," where he screams at him and beats him savagely with a wooden baton (implied to be from the time of Mignon's childhood and meant for this purpose alone) as "discipline" for misplacing his gloves. After his coach storms off, Mignon, collapsed in pain on the floor, only wonders if Oh had ever drunk his, Mignon's, blood.
Meanwhile, in his dim apartment, Oh contemplates his earlier mistake and realizes he’s low on blood packets. He decides to contact Master Woo. At the same time, at the pit, Mignon asks his coach to use the lavatory, to which he gets angry but grudging permission. Mignon rushes to the infirmary but finds Oh is still missing. He runs to the front ask Master Woo about Oh, who at that very moment is actually on the phone with him. Woo is amused to hear Oh perfectly describe the person who discovered his vampirism as the exact boxer currently fretting in front of him. On hearing his coach shout for him, Mignon hurries back, unaware of who was on the phone with Woo and still highly anxious about Oh's whereabouts.
According to mysterious "books" Woo cites, Mignon must be killed for discovering Oh's secret. He offers to make a deal with Oh: if he can expel Mignon from the pit and present Woo with one hundred blood bags as payment, all within one week, Mignon's life will be spared.
Back in the arena, Mignon's coach publicly punishes and humiliates him for taking too long returning. As Mignon's match begins, he scans for Oh in the jeering crowd but is heartbroken to see he is not there, either. His extreme stress and concern for "Doc" and what might have happened to him leaves Mignon "caught cold": sucker-punched and knocked unconscious very early on in the match.
Mignon awakes to someone treating his injuries. When he recognizes it as Oh, he darts upright and begins to nearly sob with relief. Oh, however, interrupts Mignon to inform him he must leave the pit and never return.
Mignon, who was shocked and is now in tears, swears he'll never tell anyone what he saw and offers to do anything if allowed to stay, even offering to "help" Oh with the blood he needs to live. Oh emphasizes it's a life-and-death matter for Mignon, who defiantly claims he doesn't care. Oh's calm demeanor breaks as he orders Mignon in uncomprehending frustration not to be a fool; in reply, Mignon confesses he's in love with him.
In the silence that follows, Mignon explains Oh was "the first one," the first person to raise a hand to him in compassion instead of anger; "[his] only one," and begs Oh not to abandon him. Oh listens with slight sadness, but only offers a brief apology for "confusing" Mignon before leaving him alone in the dark infirmary.
(MIGNON Master Version: The next morning, Mignon, surrounded by crumpled tissues and his face streaked with tears, sleeps huddled on a thin blanket on the floor while his Walkman plays a wistful love ballad. Mignon dreams the last image he saw of Oh the previous night: the doctor walking away as the infirmary door shut behind him. Mignon suddenly jerks awake with a gasp.)
During the day, Mignon jumps rope and recalls the previous night's events; however, this time, instead of frantically offering anything to Oh, Mignon inwardly vows to be the doctor's "hand."
Later, Oh passes through the arena to work as usual, paying no attention to Mignon being introduced with grand fanfare over the loudspeaker. Mignon fights a series of opponents with a new and more violent determination, sending all of them to the infirmary. The perspective switches to Dr. Oh in the infirmary, tending to an unusually high number of patients and drawing as many bloodbags as possible while struggling with overwhelming hunger.
After a few days, Oh, suffering and weak, muses how Mignon, instead of leaving, continued to linger, while the patients in the infirmary suddenly increased exponentially. This made him able to complete the one hundred blood bags for Master Woo with time to spare; hyper-focused on that task and unaware of who "provides" the injured fighters, Oh didn’t, and still doesn't, realize any connection between the two situations.
For the first time in days, Mignon enters the infirmary. Oh coldly orders him to get out, but Mignon seems unaffected; he only reacts, and with immediate concern, when he notices Oh's trembling hands. Oh angrily insists Mignon leave, but Mignon gently approaches him, noting his even paler appearance and cold sweat. Oh retreats from him, looking clearly afraid; as a strongly shown emotion of any kind, startlingly uncharacteristic for him.
In a panic, Oh tries to shove Mignon away, but he rebounds, stumbling, and begins to pass out. He faints, but Mignon catches him just before he hits the floor and pulls him back up, steadying him and bringing him level with Mignon's throat. When a dazed Oh regains full consciousness and sees where he is, his fangs bare involuntarily.
Now clearly terrified his extreme bloodthirst will cause him to kill Mignon, Oh desperately struggles to escape his grasp, while in turn Mignon tries to hold Oh still, fearing he'll faint again. Oh tires quickly and soon gives up, weakly demanding to know why Mignon will never listen to him before passing out again in his arms.
Mignon realizes what's wrong, but while holding Oh, the closest blade he has available is his teeth. He bites the inside of his own mouth and feeds the dripping blood to Oh through a kiss. The moment Oh tastes it, his eyes, now shining bright red, open in shock.
Instantly awake, Oh grabs Mignon by the collar, lapping up the blood from his mouth in a crazed frenzy. Mignon, initially shocked, briefly pulls Oh back to see the doctor straining for blood through his fangs like a rabid animal.
Even this doesn't frighten Mignon: with a determined look, he lets go, and when Oh immediately returns for more, Mignon holds him still to lick every trace of blood on Oh's lips and chin into his mouth so Oh can consume as much as possible.
This evolves the "feeding-kiss" into a particularly passionate kiss where blood is occasionally swallowed that both, but notably specifically Oh, enjoy beyond its health benefits. When the two finally break the kiss to breathe, they're both lost for a moment, until Oh reacts with sudden shock and an intense, quickly spreading blush. He crisply pulls away; we see (though Mignon does not) that he is embarrassed and deeply angry with himself.
Mignon clasps Oh's hand before he can walk off, further disconcerting him. Mignon passionately apologizes, considering the situation all his fault. He says he doesn't need anything beyond mending their connection back to what it once was: Oh treating Mignon's injuries and briefly talking with him.
After getting no answer, Mignon despondently assumes his pleas have failed again. However, Oh promptly pushes a cotton ball into his mouth, instructs him to bite until the bleeding stops, and the two wordlessly agree to move on.
Later, Oh goes to Master Woo about Mignon, asking for more time for him to sort out his life. Master Woo advises him not to get attached, emphasizing the fleeting nature of a mortal lifetime. After their conversation, Oh sees Mignon fighting in the arena, reflecting on their ephemeral connection as the timer approaches midnight.
At the car shop, Mignon works as a mechanic and inspects a beneath a car's hood, displaying expert knowledge and skill. In the very next scene, now at the infirmary, Oh suggests a wide range of possibilities for a day job; however, Mignon (who has been shown explicitly never to lie) dismisses all of them with the usual, precisely-worded excuse that he's not good at anything "else."
Oh turns to further argue Mignon’s claims, but seems for the first time to notice how Mignon gazes at him. Flustered, he returns to his work and tells Mignon to get going so as not to get his coach worked up. Mignon says his coach has been quiet ever since Mignon's winning streak; surprised and amused, Oh wonders why Mignon would bother winning since he once said he liked losing. Mignon, distracted, explains it's because Oh needs blood.
After a long pause, Oh turns back to ask Mignon what he just said. Mignon, unsure of Oh's reaction, explains how he promised Oh he'd help him.
A stunned Oh is clearly putting the pieces together between the infirmary overflowing with K.O. victims and the "winning streak," but Mignon, seeming not to realize this, just clears his throat awkwardly in the silence and says he's headed to a match. As he reaches the door, Oh thanks him, stopping Mignon in his tracks; Oh continues, telling him "don't get hit too much" in his next fight, and to win. Mignon slowly beams and agrees with mock-formality before rushing off.
During the fight Mignon can't stop smiling, regardless of how many times he gets punched, as he remembers his encounter with the doctor, thinking Oh must have been impressed on hearing about his string of victories. When he remembers with a start that Oh needs blood and told him to win, he immediately comes to his senses and beats his opponent to the canvas in five savage punches with a fierce brutality that shocks even the crowd. After a brief pause, Mignon is declared winner by knockout; as the end bell rings, we see Oh sitting alone in the infirmary, his head in his arms due to some strong emotion.
In the arena, the crowd cheers deafeningly for Mignon, a sort of new arena celebrity, as he laughs deliriously, his thoughts totally fixated, as usual, on "Doc," his unique motivation for such a meteoric rise. Meanwhile, up in the stands, a trio of men studying him decide he's the perfect boxer for a rigged match.
The next day, Mignon witnesses his coach from a distance talking with several slick-looking men holding a suitcase. Later, on the walk to the pit, Mignon's coach tells him he must lose his final upcoming match purposely by winning the first round and losing the last two, the last by knockout. Any hesitant questions Mignon asks are shouted down.
At the infirmary very late that night, Oh wonders where Mignon could be, as he's never missed visiting Oh before. Oh considers Mignon may have indeed left the pit at last, a possibility that leaves him oddly stung. Staring into space with a cigarette burning down in his mouth, he bitterly congratulates himself for fulfilling Master Woo's deal.
Oh becomes aware of the crowd cheering Mignon's name. He steps outside to see that Mignon is indeed there, having only been fighting in a lengthy series of matches. Oh approaches the ring more closely as he watches Mignon actually fight for the first time, seeming almost entranced.
Mignon notices Oh watching him and is so surprised he gets punched in the face, though he quickly recovers. He frets that Oh may have wanted to see Mignon's winning streak for himself, in the one round he's supposed to lose by knockout. While he repeats over and over the instructions his coach gave him, in the end he's unable to stop himself: he blocks each of the would-be winner's punches as if by instinct and sends him to the canvas with an astounding over-the-back spinning axe kick.
Once he's able to stand up, Mignon is declared winner by K.O. to a rapturous crowd and to Oh, who can't stop staring, his jaw actually having dropped.
At the end of the night, Oh closes the clinic to notice Mignon waiting for him, who rushes over to ask if he saw him fight. Oh, despite being newly affected by Mignon's proximity, coolly denies it, but Mignon calls him on his untruth, having seen him there. Oh, who begins making his way gradually back through the building and up to the street, haltingly comes up with an excuse which Mignon sees right through. He teases Oh in response, following closely behind.
The two pass the walk by very clearly flirting (which Master Woo notices and chortles at), with Mignon virtually giggling in delight at each of Oh's dry clearly-not-very-annoyed annoyed remarks. At the street, Oh parts ways with Mignon, pausing mid-crosswalk to tell him to get going. Mignon, aware the strange course of their relationship has seriously changed, slowly smiles; he calls joyfully to Oh that he'll see him tomorrow.
(MIGNON Master Version: A look of surprised yearning crosses Oh's face momentarily as he stares at the brightly beaming Mignon in the striking red corona of the changing traffic light. His expression quickly shifts, however, to one of resigned sadness.)
Oh returns to his apartment just before dawn, where he drops his bag to the floor and collapses into bed, fully clothed. Staring at nothing, he clasps a hand around his shoulder: on their walk, Mignon had playfully nudged Oh into one of the corridor's walls, but gently caught him with one hand before he could make contact. Oh sighs and goes to sleep, still holding his shoulder.
As morning breaks, Mignon rushes enraptured back to the auto shop, but his smile quickly fades when he opens the door and sees his coach with the baton, demanding an explanation for why he didn't throw the fight as ordered. Mignon is beaten and slapped but doesn't answer until his coach asks him the question directly; he can only answer the truth, that he didn't want to look bad to "the doctor."
Just then, his coach gets a call from the mafia enforcers demanding their money. He obsequiously denies any fault and puts the blame on Oh, claiming the doctor bribed his boxer.
Mignon, in horror, denies it and, desperately apologizing, begs on his knees that Oh be left alone. When he sees nothing will work, he makes a break for it in an attempt to warn Oh; right before he makes it to the door, his coach threatens him that if he wants his "Doc" to live, he won't take another step. With no choice, Mignon obeys.
In an alleyway, Oh is beaten by a group of syndicate enforcers who demand he bring them "the money," which Mignon's coach claimed Oh had, by the next night. Oh brushes off the beating when they leave, already almost completely healed due to supernatural regeneration. As he walks past the front desk, Master Woo asks a silent Oh what made him so obtuse, and advises again not to let Mignon "complicate" him.
Later, having been unable to leave the entire day for fear of Oh's safety, a sleeping Mignon awakens to hear voices. He knocks on a door, telling his coach that someone is looking for him. When there's no reply, Mignon opens the door to find his coach, all of his belongings, and the syndicate's cash bribe gone. Realizing he's been set up to take the fall for the missing money, Mignon quickly makes a run for it, but several syndicate enforcers chase close behind. One of them throws a wrench and strikes a sickeningly hard blow on the back of Mignon's head, turning half of his silver hair red in seconds with dark, ever-expanding blood.
Despite his injury, Mignon manages to escape and runs, barefoot and bleeding heavily, to the pit and the infirmary. Oh turns at the sound and, in horror upon seeing Mignon, takes his face in his hands and asks what happened. Mignon explains everything: how he didn't know the fight was fixed by the syndicate, that all he cared about was impressing Oh, and that the enforcers think Oh was the one in charge of it all and he has their money. Mignon pleads for Oh to flee with him that instant, as the enforcers are on their way.
Oh only stares at Mignon in silence, not reacting no matter how panicked Mignon becomes. After a long pause, Oh's eyes narrow; he takes his hands and gaze from Mignon's face and dispassionately tells him he should have killed him the day he discovered Oh's secret, now ordering him to leave and never return.
Mignon, who was staring in shock, now drops to grasp Oh's leg in desperate supplication, promising Oh he can do anything he wants to Mignon later if he only runs now, but Oh savagely kicks him away, snarling as he demands how he is supposed to survive on the run without a blood supply and telling Mignon his "help" has, along with Mignon himself, been nothing but a burden.
Mignon, now fallen to the ground, still can only stare at Oh, who gets louder and crueler, regretting aloud that he didn't "drink [Mignon] dry and sell [him] off piece by piece," declaring viciously that no one would have missed a "stray" like him as Mignon starts shedding tears. Oh declaims with shuddering disgust any pity he ever showed him or "cheap sentiment" that may have existed between them. At last, Mignon—totally destroyed emotionally and weeping nonstop beyond both his knowledge or control—crawls and stumbles back from Oh, then flees into the night.
Now alone, an agonized Oh throws a chair in rage with an anguished sob, but quickly brings his breathing and demeanor under complete control as numerous mafia enforcers arrive. He keeps his back to them and emotionlessly claims to have "what they want." His calm façade wavers momentarily when one of the enforcers wonders aloud about "that Mignon kid," at which point Oh turns to them with a look of fury, but he claims to have killed Mignon for his disloyalty. Oh extends and locks a box cutter as he claims he will kill all of the men as well. The mafiosi laugh, proclaiming Oh will soon be dead just like Mignon’s coach now is.
Both parties are suddenly interrupted by Woo opening the infirmary door, dragging an enormous sack, which he asks Oh for help bringing in. Seeming like a doddering old man, he claims he won't interfere with any "business" he's interrupted once he's done and on his way.
At the door, Woo quietly tells Oh to find Mignon and leave the men to him. Oh begins to protest, but Woo merely hands him some zip ties (as the infirmary lock, broken at the start of the series, has not yet been repaired) while shoving Oh out of the room, causing the enforcers to exclaim in anger.
Master Woo informs the men he is there to take care of a pest problem. At his feet, the contents of the sack spill out: crowbars, hand saws, and many other other assorted tools that could be used as brutal weapons which Woo previously kept stored under his desk. At first we hear the gangsters laugh at the old man's "delusion," but their laughter soon turns to shocked screams, sounds of slaughter, and hysterical begging to open the door, which has been secured with the ties.
Meanwhile, in the rain, Oh runs through the wet streets of the entire district calling for Mignon, but soon begins to find he's doubling back to areas he's already searched. He finally stops when he finds himself back at the district's distinctive red skyscraper where he first began.
A numb Oh slowly makes his way back to the pit using the same route he usually crisply takes on his daily commute. In the hallway with the same wall Mignon was careful to protect him from touching, Oh catches a scent on the air; he turns toward it to see a half-hidden, motionless Mignon collapsed inside a small recess currently under construction. Oh rushes to the barely conscious Mignon, choking back a sob before he kneels and pulls him into an embrace.
An emotional Oh apologizes repeatedly, telling Mignon that everything he said was a lie in an attempt to keep Mignon away from him and therefore safe. Besides his immediate murder, the only other likely outcome for Mignon if the syndicate found him would be his forced servitude to them for the rest of his life. Oh buries his head in Mignon's shoulder and tearfully tells him he couldn't bear to think of him in that even more brutal and violent nightmare because, he confesses to Mignon in a whisper, he is Oh's "one and only" as well.
Oh gently asks a now quietly crying Mignon to come with him, but Mignon suddenly grabs Oh in a desperate embrace, sobbing. Oh is shocked at first, but soon leans back to hold Mignon and comfort him through his tears.
After a laborious journey, Oh manages to reach his apartment carrying Mignon on his back, who is now drifting in and out of consciousness due to his long-untreated head wound. As they finally get inside, Oh stumbles and both fall to the floor. Oh immediately checks on Mignon, but he shows no response whatsoever to the doctor. Oh seems to suddenly realize the true severity of Mignon's head injury as he remains unresponsive to the doctor's increasingly desperate calls.
In some kind of dream or vision, Mignon opens his eyes to see the arena lights above him. In an inner monologue, he admits the ring has always scared him, due to the pain of the blows he might receive. But, he continues, the pain wasn't so bad after he met Oh: as, win or lose, he knew he would be going back to him. And that afterward, Mignon, as mere flesh and blood—the very materials that Dr. Oh fixes, shapes, heals, finesses, and simply gently works with in his own delicate hands—belonged now to the doctor in a way, which gave Mignon great comfort.
Mignon is now lying alone in the center of the ring, with the bloody gash from his injury in reality staining the canvas. His voice starts to falter; he wishes he knew a word for this feeling and that he could have known it for just a bit longer. As he goes quiet, the image of Mignon goes out of focus and fades to darkness.
At the last moment, Mignon hears Oh calling his name and wakes with a start.
In Mignon's mind, Oh now stands outside the ring. In reality, we see Mignon lying unmoving in a bathtub as Oh, kneeling, removes his fangs from his neck.
Mignon's body undergoes a rapid transformation: he bleeds from his ears, mouth, eyes, and even pores while Mignon, in his mind, sees visions of his childhood self, his coach, the street alongside the water he runs on, and, above all, Oh reaching out a hand to him. Mignon lets go of everything holding him back, and, trailing blood behind him in the empty ring, takes Oh's hand.
In reality, Oh gently pulls Mignon upright in the tub of his own blood. Mignon's hair darkens swiftly from silver to black; when he finally opens his eyes, they are the red of a newborn vampire.
Later that night at the apartment, Oh gives Mignon instructions about his new life. Mignon, shown a guest room, insists that he sleep together with Oh. Oh tells him not to be "silly," confused and seemingly wounded when Mignon demands to know if Oh wants to be with him, as he always wants to be with Oh. He claims that sleeping in the same room is the minimum of what people who care about each other do.
After a brief pause, Oh blasély declares swapping rooms as the solution with no further discussion. Mignon, looking angry for the first time in the series (but also, and far more, petulant) shoos him from the guest room, loudly declaring he doesn't care when asked if that's now his room of choice and shutting the doors on an uncomprehending and disheartened Oh.
Later, Oh calls Master Woo to request a day off for Mignon to acclimate. Woo mentions how the transition must be very difficult—for both of them, he specifies to the surprise of Oh, explaining how getting used to a presence of any kind must be difficult after many years of solitude.
Afterward, Oh asks a sulky Mignon to come into the hallway and informs him that they will indeed sleeping together in Oh's room. After Mignon grumpily drops onto the bed, Oh opens up to him and tells him that it's been a long time since he's had anyone close: as everyone he loved kept dying before his eyes, he eventually decided never to let anyone into his life again, at last explaining why he was so determined for so long not to feel anything for Mignon. He continues that it's not that he doesn't care for Mignon; it's that he doesn't know how to let him in.
Mignon, chastened, sits up and apologizes for "throwing a fit." The two hesitantly share their first non-blood-transfusion-related kiss, and Mignon promises Oh that he'll do his best to make him feel as at ease as possible with such a radical life change.
Mignon then bodily lifts a shocked Oh, gently lowers him to the bed, and, while leaning over him, pointedly asks with a smile if Oh will "let him in" [Editor's Note: a suggestive phrase in both English and Korean]. A flustered Oh interrupts Mignon's beginning forays into close physical activities, wanting to know exactly how that phrase is meant in this particular context, but Mignon persuades him to lie back and trust him as the two begin an intimate night together.
The next day, Mignon and Oh arrive at the entrance to the pit. Mignon, who will be there as Oh's assistant, asks Oh if anybody inside might recognize him even with his new appearance. Oh assures him that the only thing they pay attention to is the fighting.
Once inside, Mignon regards the ring for a long moment, then decisively turns and walks away.
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Characters and Voice Cast[]
민용 Mignon｜오민혁 Oh Minhyeok
오영원 Oh Young-One｜김민주 Kim Minju
조폭 외 Gangster｜민승우 Min Seungwoo
심판 외 Referee｜정의한 Jeong Uihan
코치 외 Coach｜박주광 Park Jookwang
우어른 외 Master Woo｜이규창 Lee Gyuchang
Credits[]
[Music Director] 전용현 Jeon Yonghyeon
[Director｜Writer] 뿡빵뀨 (Bboong Bbang Kkyu)
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Wiki Link[]
- An overview article on the entire series Create the Mignon Wiki! for total coverage details!
External Links[]
- Official Author's X Account
- Official Author's YouTube Channel
- Mignon Master Version and Mignon original 12-episode series on Heavenly streaming service
- ↑ https://x.com/marureviere/status/2006257887967076403