although the art is beautiful the story takes too long to develop. It's not that great and makes itself sound super deep when it's not, super drawn out, there's too much useless dialogue that would be more fitting for a drama than a manhwa read.
Just super repetitive, the art carries the story. Eiser is also smart but pretty dumb at the same time, if you like the girl then try to get closer to her properly. He's always going on and on about manipulating her to do what's best for her but dude keeps kying to himself, if you're going to "manipulate" her at least be nicer about it. He's emotionally dumb. She's fiesty and has personality but though we constantly hear about her being wary and scared for her safety, someone like that would be wary of everyone, not just her husband? That's very weird, she has it out for him exclusively, she's not that smart. She's got personality but she's kinda dumb. They just all keep going in circles, needlessly and they are portrayed as smart but they rarely surprise us. Also, we don't need to see them fo every little thing and hear every single thought, it makes it longer. Eiser is the classical protective man who will insult you and your intelligence but really he loves u. Mf is toxic, I'm more interested in her lover, he's more rounded. I feel like Eiser was supposed to make us feel ambiguity by not knowing if we should love or hate him but Frederick's character does that better.
Wait what's Janus?
A monster or the dungeon's illusion?
This story sucks, doesn't live up to Candy.
The author built up tension only to ruin it with S/A, and although fans are very much used to authors putting S/A in their work and often call it out. The question remains WHY? In this particular story? Far as I can remember Candy and the professor were consensual all the way? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Enzo doesn't give top energy and he sucks at it too, MC should've taken the lead there, it would've most likely been better.
ML's personality sucks, he sucks in bed and MC is just overall more fun and interesting to watch, Idk, the author could have made a more charismatic ML, all he's got is a pretty face but overall gives mes the creeps, his creepiness definitely overshadows everything else.
To each their but I stopped reading after that first intimate scene, the whole selling data thing wasn't interesting enough, ML is a disgusting menace and he's forced onto the story not to forget he's a total kill joy. I find that there is close to ZERO chemistry between the MC and ML, at first the author made us believe there would be, but the more they interact and we see ML the more boringly streotypical psycho he seems to be. He's uninteresting and takes up space needlessly, the MC is so charismatic he should've gotten a partner that would be just that in their own way, not an uninteresting weirdo.
ML is a green forest atp.
This. Is. How. You write a story without S/A.
It's so good and healthy, and realistic but fluffy.
Denial is a river in Egypt and we're smooth sailing through it
The art has really been incosistent with season 2.
Either the artist is struggling with their health or they got an assistant with a different artstyle or both?
The story has good plot, the art definitely used to amplify the story's plot, I feel like as you read the first season and the author's previous popular work you get an idea of their artstyle, I'd say it improved in this story but kinda went downhill in the second season, almost don't recognize Guwon, sometimes it feels like sketches that were not very well colored and put together as a chapter.
Idk I thought the art and the vibe we so spot on initially, it'd be better to preserve the work's quality by letting the author serialize at a slower pace.
Stop roasting this boi, he has one or two sisters with his same gender that have had a lot of kids, so yeah it's possible for women to do that too. So he will most likely think Josh was with a woman. I don't remember if he starts to suspect the women in his life again.
I think it's poorly explained in the manhwa but basically Grayson doesn't remember the gender of the omega that knocks him out and even after that second situation since two genders were in that room he had quickly seens two chests, that's all he remembers in the novel, he just automatically assumes the woman was the dominant omega, he doesn't assume it's the male, probably because of his stature.
The way that bullet flew by mc’s face, it split the panel in half and it denotes a split in personality almost like he disassociated, even his eye color slightly changes, not only that he also did not flinch, I think strong responses sort of trigger another side of him. Idk y’all, this whole thing might be an experiment being done on a specific area instead of the whole world and Guwon probably knows more than he lets on. The plot is plotting but our main character is most likely not the innocent type, I think he might be some sort of agent or something and he might have simply lost his memory, imagine if he were undercover but the trauma made him only remember the civilian part of his life or maybe he was programmed to die but broke the hypnosis? Idk, there is something similar between him and Guwon, they both have a morbid darkness about them
They should've dropped that ugly ass haircut from the two previous manhwas and stuck with the long hair he has onbthe novel cover.
This haircut is deadass ugly, he just looks so corny on top of BEING corny.
Ugh, Dane deserves better, Grayson looks bad.
Instead of so many hiatuses the author should have just taken a longer one. Health comes first. I get that money might be a factor too. It's a bit much to have so many hiatuses
Give credit to the author for how well they draw expressions and communicate so much emotion through them. This was a good chapter art wise.
Reading the comments makes you realize why this started a fight lol
Dane looks good in any artstyle, Grayson looks underwhelming. Only time Grayson looked good was on the cover of the novel.
Mind you he is supposed to be gorgeous.
Dane is supposed to be a heartthrob and he is but Grayson, not so much.
This is trash. All that just so he ends up with the toxic man, we shouldn’t have had Jo in the first place, this is unrealistic to me, unless it wants to push the idea that it’s fine to end up with a toxic partner. The problem lies in how it was written, I’m fine with any ending but only if it is convincing, this doesn’t make sense to me. He literally ends up with the villain who shows no growth, the man did a 180 very last minute into the story, it progressed in a way that lead us to believe Ian wanted to grow out of an extremely dangerous environment while deeply exhausted from loving someone whose very existence was dedicated to latching on to said environment and then the ending feels like it’s just some two regular dudes dating, legit wiped out the years of issues they hold and no mention of the consequences that would ensue. This story built itself up for some depth then got caught up with internet fame and the virality aspect. It just brought fans every chapter to argue and to get fanservice for each ship. Ultimately the author lost the reigns and the mature element was overshadowed with pleasing fans and making money. Good on them, but what a waste of time.
What is TJ whining about? You had this guy's heart in the palm of your hands for YEARS. It's not like you couldn't have him, you HAD HIM. And he consistently treated him like trash even till' a few chapters ago.
If he loved him enough he would've long realized he was hurting him and would prioritize his health and safety, he's just sad he's losing his favourite toy.
This is all about how Ian makes him feel and never about how Ian, the actual human being, feels.
Jo is younger and he just showed up but he's far more mature, whether they end up together or not, he showed Ian a stable relationship and overall stability, something he has been seeking for the longest. Ian's a pretty chill guy, Jo is a perfect fit for him.
TJ is just plain toxic and selfish. He needs to take accountability and mature before he can even dream of being in ANY kind of stable relationship.
This is a fictional story and there's many readers prone to being influenced by it, unfortunately people like these characters very much exist, in this scenario either choose your peace or give a chance to someone like Jo, a guy like TJ is why we say the bar is in hell.
ML just might end up becoming an actual traitor to the current king.
That might be what happens towards the end
No that was good, it dragged on for long enough, that's it, I'm glad that arc is ending. I hope we get extra chapters. But that was good. I'm just kinda wishing we saw what would happen because of Andrew's family situation
From what I've gathered, Incheol somehow was part of why Pyeonghwa lost both parents.
He was a child when it happened and he was put under the responsibility of the policeman.
I believe the policeman was supposed to manage the property until Pyeonghwa became an adult.
The messed up part is that Pyeonghwa (I could be wrong the translation is wonky) tells Incheol that he left the policeman's household right before becoming an adult.
Incheol asks Pyeoghwa why he left right before becoming an adult and if he left because the policeman had gotten married.
and Pyeonghwa tells him that he actually left and started to live on his own because he started to "be too much" and because he "was getting older".
That's when Incheol realizes what that means.
You start to see these shots of Pyeoghwq as an adult all beat up then with each panel pyeoghwa gets younger, at his highschool age you can see the policeman standing right behind him looking stoic, the younger pyeonghwa looks the closer the policeman grabs him and the more he smiles.
All throughout pyeoghwa looks more and more dead in the eyes as he ages, it's almost like all the pain and violence physically manifests on his face as an adult.
By the end Incheol is shocked and you can see Pyeonghwa as a child laying on the bed while being approached by the policeman who's come from work, the last few panels show Pyeonghwa looking at the policeman's cap as he takes it off almost as if he's taking off his mask, he approaches him and then door closes.
This all starts from Incheol trying to understand why Pyeonghwa lives like this by asking him directly.
In the end, it seems like Pyeonghwa was abused as a chi ld by the officer and it's partly incheol's fault since he played a part into why the boy ended up an orphan.
It explains a lot about Pyeonghwa's distructive habits and his hyperseggsuality, that's something that can happen to children who were victims of pdf files.
That's the end of season 01.
This story is not JUST about which guy the MC ends up with.
It's about so much more, it explores homophobia, poverty, violence, love and even race. Though it doesn't do it all perfectly, it shows a poor gay asian boy growing up with no stability.
The older he gets the more he craves normalcy and that's the two worlds each of the ML's represent.
I think this manhwa explores the question of "Can people really change?" Funny how it's most likely "No" for TJ cause he doesn't even want to, and it's a "Yes" for Jo because of all that we've seen happen lately. As for Ian, I feel like he's never been into the things he's had to do to survive, he's moslty stayed the same while trying to change the things and people around him.
Only thing I really don't like about this story is how confusing the gang storytelling is, a rich plot is always great to have but it's disappointing when it's made so complicated, it doesn't help that some characters that are supposed to be from enemy factions sometimes look similar. Tbh Ennead is also one story that I find extremely confusing, I could love it but it just gets into the thick of mythology I have never ever heard of and does a terrible job at explaining things, same here.
All in all, I hope y'all can stop diluting a whole story or your whole being even to who you "end up with", truth of the matter is the one you end up with in every scenario is yourself, that's the relationship that matters most.