Damn this is so good. I haven't felt this excited since I've read Dungeo Meshi. The worldbuilding, the character designs, the plot and pacing are all excellent.
They are soo precious. I've been putting this away for YEARS because I wasn't ready for a typical romance with a tsundere bottom and your typical hypermasculine top. But them? I love how Seonwoo is really, truly emotionally mature inside out. Like he knows himself well, knows what he wants and likes the things he likes unabashedly. He's like truly the anchor in the relationship. With Taemoon I love how he slowly loosened up, be his authentic self, and started getting in touch with all of the new feelings and emotions. It's so adorable.
I like that there's no major antagonist in the story, it doesn't need it. Just two adults trying to make it work, giving concessions to each other and having good communication. Love ittt
Soo this is a novel adapted to a manhwa. I wonder how much details were omitted in order to fit the chapters quota, since I've always had a feeling that they gloss over quite so many details. The story of how Hyunje came to like Seungmin–merely from a recording of his stage play which lead to him believing that Seungmin is innocent no matter what–feels a bit unsatisfying to me.
What is the moral of the story? That it's okay to burn yourself in order to protect someone else? That you don't mind having a nonexistent career and have others hate you because of a rumor, but after several years someone conveniently made and investment company, signed production rights for a drama, cast you because they believe in your innocence, because you did the right thing in the expense of yourself? At the end I don't think there is much character development shown for Seungmin (or maybe there was in the novel, but I couldn't really see that here).
Hyunje is your typical rich, succesful, and emotionally stunted ML. I'd also love to see how they both affect and influence each other beyond the "I never know love so I don't know how to love." It's a bit of a missed opportunity bcs both of them clearly has their own flaws and weakness, like Seungmin is logical and stubborn while Hyunje lacks the gentleness and romantic experience.
I love that last side story... I didn't even expect that one.
I loooove them, such a power couple. Would love to have more assertive and confident MCs (or bottoms)
I like how the author expressed instagram feeds over time!
The Berlin depiction is on point, I wonder if the author had lived there for some time.
The author stated in their note that they never lived nor studied there, just visited!
I love it trulyyy ;-; I feel like in this sequel you can see the maturity of Aoki and how he guided Manabu who was younger and less experienced romantically ;_;
One of my favs, the writing and pace is just soo nice and all of the side characters are well-written and memorable
Since this is based on a novel, the actual source material matters a whole lot more. I have a suspicion that the author either 1) has a really rigid and conservative ideas about what constitute as "romantic" or 2) just learned about the omegaverse genre. The worldbuilding was quite vague, like some people are against suppressant (which is weird, it's like if people are against contraception or period delay pills) but also alphas can just intimidate others without repercussions.
And as other have mentioned as well, the constant "no i dont want to force you, take your time its okay ill be waiting BUT ALSO can we do it here and right now?" is annoying. The author really thinks it's romantic...
But the actual comic adaptation is pretty nice, I enjoyed the art and the other side characters are also interesting, like the aunt and the security team.