Istg the authors using ai for some of these panels and backgrounds.
Like have you guys noticed, its never on anything extremely significant but always on things like exposition, kinda disappointing if thats the case.
Right?? Like the snake looks AI to me, the panel when kiddie FL and ML are in and FL is protecting the ML.
A wise man once said...
"A man who yearns is a man who earns."
Pleasantly surprised, I thought they were gonna make our mc just the corny "im just so nonchalant and adaptable that I have no trauma, and the exact same as when I entered.."
But nah the tower genuinely had an effect on her.
I DONT ACTUALLY HATE THE STORY BTW.
anyways,
I guess characters can only be as smart as the author lmao
Using any amount of critical thinking will literally cause the story to fall apart.
For every decision the author made, it never made any realistic sense to do.
For example, why hire a body guard thats a high-schooler with no prior experience, if MK really is as powerful as they say, making most of the people in a school paid actors shouldn't be hard, or, get teachers who will protect her.
Logically speaking there is no reason why you would choose our ML.
But, I still enjoyed the story, but it's definitely not very deep or complex.
One last thing, a mix between rational and irrational thought but I genuinely hate Doha, she's literally so annoying, the fact they try and force you to end up liking her is absurd, only in the very late chapters does she actually start to become redeemable.
Anotha, so everyone in this world is genuinely stupid, no way that when hundreds of people see Gabin get forcibly captured and then they attempted to kidnap her, they're just like "ah, its just one of her usual outbursts" if it was an irrational outburst, why would her grandma react that way? Why would she attempt to silence her?
Bro there's no way that her grandma could possibly have any leverage, she's made the most dumb choices ever and always gets saved by the plot, no matter how powerful you are, in this age you can't be as reckless as she is.
Dawg, like the reporter dying subsequently after looking into her actions, BITCH YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY YOU KILLED HIM, like that is a the biggest blunder of all blunders.
Uhhh if you read this all im kinda surprised lol.
All in all I enjoyed this most when I didnt think critically
5.5/10
This manwha has the most fitting art style ever it gives off such a warm and cozy vibe while also being able to reflect dark themes, and it feels so nostalgic too.
Love this series.
Only gripe is that the placement of chronological order of panels is sometimes confusing, I guess its the recap or something but idk, doesnt effects my enjoyment tho
Too many misunderstandings, story is kinda just going in a lot of directions a all at once.
Most infuriating thing is how both leads somehow can't communicate at any capacity, you'd think that literal best friends and two people that mutually like each other would be able to say SOMETHING BUT NO we'll get chapters of angst with no relief,
This is lowk just an writing problem, the author relies upon misunderstandings and a lack of communication to push the story along, if both leads sat down and talked for a bit literally every problem would subside.
:(
This is just my personal preference, but if your going to make an entire story with the premise being that crystal is a man, how come crystal never becomes more masculine in any aspect other than his physical features, what changes? Nothing does. He doesnt dress differently his hair doesnt get cut even though there was a scene that showed him alluding to doing that once he went to the east. Like if you changed the title to "Crystal was always a woman" nothing would have changed.
I know i sound bratty and annoying, but if your not going to make your characters become more in tune with their true genders, whats the point in making them seem like they want to stay looking and acting like the opposite gender. Because personally if I was either of them, I would hate being FORCED to be the opposite gender, I wouldn't ever grow to enjoy or "accept that part of me" because that part never existed, I think writing them to be so okay with how their genders were treated was extremely unrealistic.
I know my rambling isn't organized but a few more things
One, maybe I just missed this but I feel like the author just never resolved their trauma in a proper way, I feel like they kind of just let it pass by.
Secondly, the pace of the story honestly focused too long on Crystal not being woman, I personally would have preferred if it got revealed to everyone by chapter 30 or 40, because then we could have had more moments where crystal could get mor comfortable with being a man, and I know that they are pretty much Trans but that wasn't what I hoped for when reading this, I wanted to see a narrative of two people who were forced into being something they weren't finally be able to be their true selves and be accepted for it.
I am done rambling I know all of you actually like how they were Trans and averted that expectation but personally I wished for something else.
Crystal is comfortable in a dress.. thats his preference.
Yeah ik, my issue is that I already had a way for this story to go which is my fault,
Taking a step back now that I have sat on this for a few days, my take was a little hot headed lol, but I personally wanted a different story than what I read.
But if yall like the story thats good for yall
I didnt read the story yet but from what im guessing, the ML was forced into the role of a woman to the point that being one was his whole identity?
Where can you draw the line between men and women? Just because you appear more feminine as a man does that make you a woman? No.
So when people see a person who dresses differently then the stereotype, people automatically assume you're a certain type of gender SPECIFICALLY because they choose to dress a certain way. As example, a butch isn't a man just because they dress masculine, they still identify as a woman
(On that note happy pride month!)
the whole plot is that crystal is a man, does that mean the story is simply about a feminine guy having a romantic relationship with another woman or more of a self-finding romance. ('_'?)
(You can Ignore this comment actually lmao, I was just bored and started typing, I'll read it eventually and find out myself haha)
Men don’t have to be masculine
We js going in circles atp