Not me seeing the cover thinking this was yuri about two women who looked alike only to open the photos and be greeted by straight smut
Wdym "you need to inform your partner" ? no he doesn't ?!
What happened to bodily autonomy? We're just gonna throw that out the window?! What about safety, what if his partner was abusive, what if it was rape, what if he didn't know the other ? There's so many things wrong with that.
Give me the chance and I'm strangling that doctor myself.
THEY LIVE
the grin on my face rn
this was a rollercoaster of a chapter, i am SO GLAD for Lily's power (and her nice lil' cameo on idk which chapter cover recently)
Why can't lesbians be alive and happy, why must they go and sacrifice themselves for each other every time man I am crying i went into this blind and was NOT prepared to have my day end on doomed yuri
Still one of the best GLs out there, and the art is stunning !
Listen. I can NOT wait for them to go to the dungeon. These three together are one of my fave dynamics, they're so idiots-coded when together while being three geniuses independently.
Gotta go find that meme of them with their silly little hats that I saw a long time ago on Tumblr.
Man, I'm so excited.
3 who?
Maybe j, craftmaker and vision
Took me a sec lol but yeh, CEJ, HYS and YGE
Ngl the hypocrisy of author and readers not liking beta/alpha, alpha/alpha or omega/omega and the likes.
How're you repeating homophobia 101 while reading/writing homo media. Make it make sense.
Honestly there's a whole thing that could be said about replicating extreme sexism and homophobia in different flavors in BL manhwas but this in particular is such a cognitive incoherence. :/
(TMW I'm tryna read no-thought-bl so I can be braindead after a 8-5 but it's actually so harmful my 2 neurons involuntarily activate)
I don't really understand why they added the watch - it wasn't in the novel as far as I remember, or at least not as present.
It feels underwhelming to have key moments of the futur/ending being revealed early on.
Breaks the tension a bit too, because in the novel (if I remember correctly, it's been a while) there's still this uncertainty about wether Yoon Seo will truly survive or not (ofc it's romance so we know he'll survive, but there's still a bit wariness yk), how the end of the dungeon will go, etc.
And they're already showing the fight AND the conversation with the system ? Why ? It shows too much to feel like a teaser... If it was just the smut part, why not, but plot points ? Too much.
And i fear the side stories (if they get adapted) might seem redundant with everything they've shown.
Idk man I don't really know how to explain it but I don't vibe with this addition...
I 100% agree. I also feel it sometimes disrupt the flow (like the sex scenes were between pretty tense and depressing chapters) and why spoil like that when it’s gonna happen the same anyway? It’s not like they’re going to try and change what the watch show because what it shows is what happened in the novel anyway :/ so it add no purpose whatsoever except gratuitous spoil.
This is exactly what I’m thinking. I feel like the watch was just an easy way to get smut in there so that the audience doesn’t get “bored”. But decisions like that show you have no trust in your audience to pay attention and care about your story. Because the rest of the plot remains the same, I can’t help but feel like whenever that watch is brought up, the story enters some alternate reality not quite connected with the rest of the timeline. The characters don’t seem to care about what is shown on the watch until very specific moments, but then they forget about it right afterwards. So jarring to see, and just for a couple of smut scenes. That’s what the side stories are for!!
Why are so many people talking about "the end" when it is very clearly still in publication? Like, we're barely over halfway of the plot.
I also doubt it is doomed yuri.
The whole point of introducing that book and the whole "recreation" of the fairytale is to have a point of comparison. Fairytales, through the ages, have been used as warnings : "here is what happens if you do a and b, if you do not return x favor, if you decide to go this which way".
The tale of The Monster Princess shows what happens when one is unable to overcome grief, after promising requited feelings, when faced with someone who strongly expect love should be returned if they continue to give, and give, and give, becoming obsessed with it.
And here, Aurora, Eve and even Karina's parents (in a lower capacity) are actively working against that ending. Contrary to the Monster Princess Tale, where she had truly been abandoned by her family, Karina has people actively working toward her happiness. Where no one reached out to the princess, Karina has a family extending a hand.
Karina and Reshtoka are behaving within the patterns of their fictive counterpart, but even then Karina is (aggressively) distancing herself from the "princess" comparison. And Reshtoka has, I believe, the sens and the people around her that the wolf didn't have in the fairytale.
The characters are actively and purposely trying to dodge the doomed ending for the two FMLs. So it baffles me that so many people are crying to doomed yuri. It's just heavy (not even that much tbh) angst!
I know we're all traumatized by doomed yuri, and there are so great ones out there, but let's not cry wolf and discourage possible readers.
Also I came over from mangadex cuz the comments were pmo, someone was like "oh I came for the Yuri and there's none" like not every Yuri needs to have sex fr, let a gal have a yuri with real plot and development for fucking once.
Also, maybe I'm just pissed at the reactions because if this was mlm, I am CONVINCED that it would get much more credit than it currently has.
Idk I'm just sad because, while I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, it is a great story with actual development. I don't read het stories and I haven't really come across a lot of villainess plots so maybe it only feels new to me but I like the way this manga approaches what heavy responsibilities, abandonment and abuse does to a person -a CHILD- once kind and caring. And i like that the support and care are going back to that person even once they've changed for the "worse".