First of all, it's manhwa not reality. Secondly, she doesn't actually have the shittiest childhood imaginable. There is no rape or molestation. Thirdly, not everyone responds to abuse the same way. My mother came from a truly horrible background and manage to land my father who was like an absolute prince. My mother always had a great sense of self worth, even if she doesn't always have the best self esteem. She was able to drag herself out of a deep pit of abuse, ignorance and poverty. And my parents gave us a great life, Not everyone reacts to things the way you may expect. Choi Ida not a real person but she's a strong character. The world could always use a few more strong women roles. Besides she shouldn't have to earn his love with confidence.
Nah, that's why Ida turned out the way she did; going around picking fights with random people under a pseudonym. Think of it as like a precursor/less sever form of something like MPD, and it seems like a perfectly reasonable outcome. Like the person above said, not everyone responds to pressure the same way.
And the MC didn't seem to have particularly low self-esteem either; rather, she was just going along with everything for the sake of her parents. Even if she did, it's not like you can't develop a better sense of self-worth. Plus some people (even prince charmings) aren't necessarily looking for partners with high self-esteem. So although HMR's manhwa are a bit fanciful, it's nothing so far fetched we couldn't imagine it.
you just used the argument that it's a manhwa and not reality and then went on to explain how a real person could get over their shit lives without a mental toll. Hypocrisy, much? I don't know your mom, why would you use her as an example? It's impossible to be mentally stable in situations like choi ida's. It's just shit story-telling, man. It's unrealistic "realistic" fiction. sure, she wasn't raped, but rape isn't the only type of abuse to leave a mental scar. I mean, she's basically a slave to that girl. Obviously that merits a toll on mental health, especially years of it. The fact that she is mentally stable is unrealistic and boarder line offensive. That's not strength. It's just neglecting an aspect of the story. It really got to me. I couldn't read the entire thing because it was bumming me out every time I read it.
Of course not everyone responds to pressure the same way, but everyone responds equally to the degree of the pressure somehow. My problem with it is that she seemed almost unresponsive to the fact that she was a slave to an abusive sociopath cunt and shitty parents. Think about it like this, if that bitch beat her bloody, what would her parents do about it? Fucking nothing. She'd have to take the beating. With no intention of escaping, even if she beat her every day. You're telling me that those piece of shit cock sucker assholes that call themselves her parents are worthy of her devotion to the family debt, of course they aren't! No, they hit her when she comes home late in spite of the fact she works just as hard, if not harder for that family than either of them. It was too frustrating for me. I might have been okay if they played up the drama that came with all that, but they act like that's a fucking normal response. Now, her fighting on the streets was the only reason I even got as far as I did. But she didn't do it nearly enough to keep me interested. Even worse, it was a shoujo with worthless bishounen characters taking the focus of the story away from the most interesting part. All in all, I guess I should've known better than to pick a shoujo manhwa. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
Now, I'm not gonna disagree with you on the sorta bland storyline lol. And I also expected her to fight more often than she did, but HMR/HYR stories tend to be like that I guess. Any kind of interesting plot point gets thrown to the side for boring romances. And the parents are always awful for some reason...
ah, hell. I'm sorry everyone. I just hate to see such a perfectly dark circumstances wasted on a light and happy story. I wanted to see her become twisted and psychologically damaged, make wretched decisions, and ruin herself beyond any kind of redemption. Like, maybe she joined a real gang and got involved with drugs and corrupt local politics, befriends a prostitute who falls in love with her because she thinks she's a boy, killed a guy who ruined the family business near the end, goes off the rail for the big finale and kills the bitch who made her life a living hell in a murder-suicide.
Now that, I would enjoy lol. Speaking of those sorts of stories, have you ever read Banana Fish? It's got that perfect darkness you desire but in a kinda shoujo/shounen (hard to place a genre since it doesn't feel exactly like the darker mangas, but is way more compelling than the typical lighthearted stuff) package.
nah, I usually skip right over manga tagged with shoujo when I'm in the mood for a deep storyline, although lolipop or a bullet was really good...it was more of a shoujo-ai than a shoujo though.
Yeah, but I really recommend it. It's more shounen ai than shounen. But I'll have to check out those two you just suggested!
huh...shounen ai...I'll check it out when I'm in the mood for yaoi. I'm a fangirl for all genres, but BL is...you know, you just have to be in the right mindset when you approach it, otherwise the amount of girl-targetted moe throws you off. I'll check it out for sure! Thanks for the recommendation!
This is the most aggravating and unpleasant manhwa ever. I read about murders and look up manga about childhood abuse for entertainment, and this fucking thing made me squirm with discomfort mainly because she lived the shittiest life imaginable and it's like the author refused to acknowledge that it should've had some serious deffects on her personality. Her parents expect her to pay back the family debt, like it's somehow her fault that her fuckwit of a father tanked his business, and even has the nerve to slap her in the face and tell her she has to be some twat's bitch for the rest of her childhood and adolescence when the only reason she hasn't run away is because her fucking family is indebted to them and her parents treat her like shit. The twat she's a bitch for is a sociopath that can somehow fall in love with the main character's love interest, in spite of obvious boarder-line homosexual sadist fetishism for the main character. I understand that she's supposed to have a shitty life, but it's impossible to be the character that she is and have that kind of a life without her having some kind of mental retardation. And if she does, it makes it all the more aggravating. Her only outlet is that she can kick ass, but she only kicks the asses of those who deserve it? Nu-uh. No, people with terrible childhoods have damaged psyches. She would've been a bully. The most cringe-worthy part of all is that this is a shoujo manga. In psychology, it's well-known that your childhood affects the kind of partners you pick. There's no way in hell this cinderella would ever get the prince charming who treats her nice. She wouldn't have had the self esteem for it.