I've put this one away for a while after their flashback but now finishing it in one go I've so many thoughts. The author def knows how to build a complicated story and layered characters, all characters were pretty likable in their own complicated ways even the antagonists themselves.
however, taking this into consideration it felt so anticlimactic for not a single one to be actually held accountable but worse with every single antagonist being excused and justified that they had a reason for being objectively shitty ppl. chairman is just pitiful like Geon, poor prosecutor was just in love, reider has trauma himself so ofc it's understandable that he made Geom's life a literal misery... etc makes you think what was even the whole point of Lee's entire revenge plan when barely any one of them got a real punishment??? just to escape his life while -more or less- forgiving them for everything they did?
there's no absolute logic in that. author should've rly learned a thing or two from the pawn's revenge and even Je-oh didn't have as much of a hellish life as Geon.
Also, the sex/rape scenes left a very unstomachable lump in my throat, they were executed too much in fetishy way rather than having anything to do with it being SA. The way every panel was drawn and executed made me so uncomfortable and I don't usually even care after reading over +2k story, alot of which were old yaoi or straight-up pwp.
I wish this story hadn't had a single sex scenes and we just goy Geon's thoughts and agony in words,
I've put this one away for a while after their flashback but now finishing it in one go I've so many thoughts.
The author def knows how to build a complicated story and layered characters, all characters were pretty likable in their own complicated ways even the antagonists themselves.
however, taking this into consideration it felt so anticlimactic for not a single one to be actually held accountable but worse with every single antagonist being excused and justified that they had a reason for being objectively shitty ppl. chairman is just pitiful like Geon, poor prosecutor was just in love, reider has trauma himself so ofc it's understandable that he made Geom's life a literal misery... etc
makes you think what was even the whole point of Lee's entire revenge plan when barely any one of them got a real punishment??? just to escape his life while -more or less- forgiving them for everything they did?
there's no absolute logic in that. author should've rly learned a thing or two from the pawn's revenge and even Je-oh didn't have as much of a hellish life as Geon.
Also, the sex/rape scenes left a very unstomachable lump in my throat, they were executed too much in fetishy way rather than having anything to do with it being SA. The way every panel was drawn and executed made me so uncomfortable and I don't usually even care after reading over +2k story, alot of which were old yaoi or straight-up pwp.
I wish this story hadn't had a single sex scenes and we just goy Geon's thoughts and agony in words,