It's not surprising that many korean readers are disappointed. I have X acc about manhwa with many korean mutuals (with some popular manhwa they talk bout everyday). but many of them already abandoned this manhwa. wet sand was trending in 2022, but after that many Korean readers have already left. that's why there are just more inter readers on ridi and sns author.
I’m not surprised, especially when the manhwa was marketed as a noir to KR readers who are very familiar with Korean’s brand of noir cinema. I don’t doubt many of them feel that even if the endgame is what Doyak wanted, the execution was lacking in the stakes and consequences that is prominent in the genre.
Yeah, that was their expectation about this noir manhwa genre. Even many Korean readers supported TJ and the ending already with TJ, most of them were still disappointed. Korean readers criticize the writing was really bad after season 3 and the climax it's the ending, they said the author failed and couldn't seem to show that TJ was the ML bcs lack of execution of writing
It’s interesting how the fans here in mangago only focus on the pairings because if you go to Rdibooks and read the reviews of KR natives, even the shippers of the endgame ship are mad at the author for rushing the story and making the endgame development half-baked. Actual criticism beyond just who won the ship war, and many of them hoping that for Doyak’s next work they’ll be an artist with a separate writer.
See: https://ridibooks.com/books/4795000363/view