I'm going to write a fairly long where I'll give my opinion on this manwha.. It's nothing new to see a completely toxic gay couple in manga, with all the girls rooting for them. But I think very often when women try to write manga, they completely dehumanize gay men. First of all, this is a "romantic" story between a twenty-year-old and a forty-year-old, student and teacher. That already sucks. It's a relationship based heavily on dominance: the teacher has control over Kim Garam because he's in a superior position, and obviously, Garam will do anything to receive compliments from him, like all of the professor's student want. The dynamic doesn't change. The teacher remains someone who uses his power over Garam. Furthermore, the concept that "love cures everything" is a concept so perpetuated by us women that it makes me sick. We women are constantly taught that with "our love" we can "cure" these sick men. Well, you can't. Yet here, apparently, it is possible. The professor becomes docile overnight. How is that possible? Apparently, with the power of love. Of course. Furthermore, this back-and-forth is boring: Garam gets hurt, acts offended, they don't talk and it end or with sex or with the professor plays the piano a bit, Garam says "with the power of music, anything is possible," and this is repeated OVER AND OVER. After a while, it's enough. Furthermore, the cherry on the cake is that the professor completely doesn't realize he's a piece of shit. In the reviews, Jeffrey it was criticized when is behaver is not different from the professor: neither of them knows he's a piece of shit, and they justify their behavior. They said "at least the professor knows that he is evil" because he doesn't know what he did wrong. But Jeffrey is a victim of the professor, and he do all of that couse he want the respect of the professor. The professor is a genius, frankly a child prodigy, and very often these people have a lot of problems relating to people, but that doesn't justify anything. Even the fact that he's described as "non-human" leads to a complete downplaying of what he does. And I'm sorry, but I immediately made a comparison to the domestic violence women suffer. Men who beat women, just a bouquet of flowers and everything is fine. I also find the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus quite distorted. Orpheus turns away precisely because he loves Eurydice; this is one of the key points of the myth. But if we want to make a comparison, the professor never turns around to look at Garam, because he knows he's following him, no matter what evil he is. Initially, I was hoping the work would take a more dramatic direction, like the two of them being together, but with the idea that they were together not out of love, but rather out of an obsessive need they have. Because that's what it is: obsession. The professor isn't "healing." The only one who can stand him is literally Kim Garam; without him, as we've seen, he's completely alone. I was hoping it would take this more tormented direction: a victim who doesn't want to heal and his tormentor. But I think it'll end up as a great, squalid romance. Too bad. It could have been a beautiful work.
I'm going to write a fairly long where I'll give my opinion on this manwha.. It's nothing new to see a completely toxic gay couple in manga, with all the girls rooting for them. But I think very often when women try to write manga, they completely dehumanize gay men. First of all, this is a "romantic" story between a twenty-year-old and a forty-year-old, student and teacher. That already sucks. It's a relationship based heavily on dominance: the teacher has control over Kim Garam because he's in a superior position, and obviously, Garam will do anything to receive compliments from him, like all of the professor's student want. The dynamic doesn't change. The teacher remains someone who uses his power over Garam. Furthermore, the concept that "love cures everything" is a concept so perpetuated by us women that it makes me sick. We women are constantly taught that with "our love" we can "cure" these sick men. Well, you can't. Yet here, apparently, it is possible. The professor becomes docile overnight. How is that possible? Apparently, with the power of love. Of course. Furthermore, this back-and-forth is boring: Garam gets hurt, acts offended, they don't talk and it end or with sex or with the professor plays the piano a bit, Garam says "with the power of music, anything is possible," and this is repeated OVER AND OVER. After a while, it's enough. Furthermore, the cherry on the cake is that the professor completely doesn't realize he's a piece of shit. In the reviews, Jeffrey it was criticized when is behaver is not different from the professor: neither of them knows he's a piece of shit, and they justify their behavior. They said "at least the professor knows that he is evil" because he doesn't know what he did wrong. But Jeffrey is a victim of the professor, and he do all of that couse he want the respect of the professor. The professor is a genius, frankly a child prodigy, and very often these people have a lot of problems relating to people, but that doesn't justify anything. Even the fact that he's described as "non-human" leads to a complete downplaying of what he does. And I'm sorry, but I immediately made a comparison to the domestic violence women suffer. Men who beat women, just a bouquet of flowers and everything is fine. I also find the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus quite distorted. Orpheus turns away precisely because he loves Eurydice; this is one of the key points of the myth. But if we want to make a comparison, the professor never turns around to look at Garam, because he knows he's following him, no matter what evil he is. Initially, I was hoping the work would take a more dramatic direction, like the two of them being together, but with the idea that they were together not out of love, but rather out of an obsessive need they have. Because that's what it is: obsession. The professor isn't "healing." The only one who can stand him is literally Kim Garam; without him, as we've seen, he's completely alone. I was hoping it would take this more tormented direction: a victim who doesn't want to heal and his tormentor. But I think it'll end up as a great, squalid romance. Too bad. It could have been a beautiful work.