The story is great. Character development, it has actual plot that makes sense, nice pacing, good writing... it's really refreshing to have a story that's actually has well matured storytelling.
The art tho... I would really want to know what the hell was the artist's and/or their editor thought process on this one, because whatever happened stripped the artist if everything that made their art great.
At the very beginning the art is very light, colors muted and people are on the realistic side. It really fits the slice of life, more realistic and mature story But then around chapter 10 artist stopped developing that style and changed lanes into the generic manga/webtoon style.
And it's painful bumpy ride up till the end. I don't begrudge the artist's right to change, but this should be done in a sketchbook, not on a live organism that is weekly webtoon. That kind of change should take place between projects. This one looks like the artist was figuring out stylistic rules anew with every face they drew which end up with wild inconsistencies in design and at some point I wasn't even sure if the characters are even still the same people.
Only now I realise the artist is still active and does comics- except their style is so generic (even if they are better artist than good 95% of manhwa pencilers out there) that it fades into sea of webtoon art slop. It's nice to look at, but just so boring and uninspired.
I only hope it was only artist's personal decision, not pressure from the publisher.
The story is great. Character development, it has actual plot that makes sense, nice pacing, good writing... it's really refreshing to have a story that's actually has well matured storytelling.
The art tho... I would really want to know what the hell was the artist's and/or their editor thought process on this one, because whatever happened stripped the artist if everything that made their art great.
At the very beginning the art is very light, colors muted and people are on the realistic side. It really fits the slice of life, more realistic and mature story But then around chapter 10 artist stopped developing that style and changed lanes into the generic manga/webtoon style.
And it's painful bumpy ride up till the end. I don't begrudge the artist's right to change, but this should be done in a sketchbook, not on a live organism that is weekly webtoon. That kind of change should take place between projects. This one looks like the artist was figuring out stylistic rules anew with every face they drew which end up with wild inconsistencies in design and at some point I wasn't even sure if the characters are even still the same people.
Only now I realise the artist is still active and does comics- except their style is so generic (even if they are better artist than good 95% of manhwa pencilers out there) that it fades into sea of webtoon art slop. It's nice to look at, but just so boring and uninspired.
I only hope it was only artist's personal decision, not pressure from the publisher.