That old lady is sooo creepy and gross, but I'm so happy we finally get an old powerful woman antagonist in a manga. It's always always an old powerful man. This manhwa really does reverse a lot of gender roles and tropes which is why it's the most unique shoujo for me imo. (Ik it isn't tagged as a shoujo, but it def does feel like an action shoujo! Smth we never get!!)
My only problems with this manga are that it's very, how do I say this, stuck on traditional gender roles?? Like the whole "girls dress up" or "haunted houses are too scary for girls". I'm only on chapter 50 but we didn't even get to see the boys dress up in yukatas during the festival like so many other shoujo manga have done. Plus, the whole "lemme touch your boobs" scene in the bath house would be sexual harassment irl bc no girls do this at all...I only see this in like male gaze manga so it was disappointing to see it here. There were also waaay too many female rivals.
Other than this, I've been loving this manga so far, and can't wait for the anime adaption!!
I never thought about that! Tbh I've lived in Japan and almost all if not all are very into fitting in, thus me not realizing its a problem and the prominent gender roles. I've been reading this since 2020 and haven't realized this! I just thought this was an interesting comment!
It just feels for me like this manga was created in the early 2000s instead of current times lol
So i just read this start from finish rn. And i think this is just an EXTREMELY standard shojo manga, the only thing separating it from the early 2000s is that Lemon-kun is not an asshole and actually tells the FL shit without hiding which in case of something like Bokura ga ita, would never be the case. It really doing nothing new, it's not bad either. It's just a gateway into shojo for beginners ig. The gender roles might still be prevalent cuz I went thru some shit in College of all places so i wouldn't write it off. But anyway, the entire thing felt quite dated.
Again, not saying it's bad. It's just taking me waaay back. It's very similar to things I've read when i was younger.
Ya'll wouldn't be showering if ya'll were in a zombie apocalypse either I can 100% promise you that, plus it's dangerous to just go to a random river and get naked. Unless they can find a shower in a safer building somewhere.
Serious notes aside, why do these comments remind me of those 13 year olds on tiktok with the way they talk
But anyone else think the mother is kinda creepy for wanting to make her son look identical to her lover?? Just rubs me the wrong way. Ik they're aliens but it's still odd, imagine your mom says she wants you to look identical to your dad...
I dont think she sees him as his "son" more like an extention of her lover... which is also fucked up ngl
Yeah that's true
It's rly creepy and it's sad that it happens in reality too a lot of times :(
This way of uploading chapters is getting annoying, like we can only read half of one and wait for the other half??? Is there a reason to do this??
I was thinking like this earlier, but I am thankful we at least have chapters. Japanese mangá translators can drop them at any time, also the mangá artists or their companies
usually by uploading partially like this they can do a once a week update, so that readers don't have to starve for a whole month lol
Yeah it's quite obvious even the mother is being controlled by the author/system
Whatever grandpa, let's get you back to the retirement home
Also it's gonna be like Christmas again by the time season 3 is finished, or later （/TДT)/
Looking at the previous update dates, it's soooo inconsistent and some chapters have like a 2 month gap, this is so sad bc this is one of my fave BL I'm currently reading. Another day of wishing I had money and could understand Korean
This webtoon rlly hit me with the second lead syndrome, and I'm someone who doesn't actually feel that way this often!! Dowha is seriously my type even in his looks, give him a spin-off or his own story with me as the MC pls (I'm delulu)
Anyways, I loved this webtoon so much!!
WTFFF IS THIS ENDING. We still can hope for side stories, and maybe they'll get together then?? I've seen stories like that tho, guys let's please manifest this
If worst comes to worst, at least it's an open ending so we can make our own ending that they will eventually get together...it's waaay too much of a waste for a manhwa which breaks so many BL stereotypes (top-like bottom and bottom-like top) to end like this. Maybe the top starts helping out at the restaurant and then it develops there??? （/TДT)/