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I’m in pain, actually sobbing. I just finished reading after work and I am so devastated. I’m so glad phos got a happy ending. I think I need to reread it again to do a whole in-depth analysis but my god, it was so fun to follow this manga. I remembered being introduced to it back in 2016 when one of my artist friend drew phos and got me to watching the anime and ever since then it became one of my favorite mangas, and so far it’s going to be the first manga I’ve had a physical copy of. I can’t wait to become one of those oldies and show this manga to my children/grandchildren

I knew he was red flag but this is a bit too aggressive no condom, no consent, ik that dude’s got chlamydia or something with his manwhoring

Drawing the baby with noticeable clavicles that baby starving

OOOHHHMYFYCKINGGOD THE REAL TRUE LOVER IS HERE??????? AND ITS A CHILDHOOD FRIEND TYPE???? Fuck I’m such a sucker for friends to lovers to strangers to lovers but also the “I want to be you so much that I envy you/love you” eats- idk who I’ll root for but I really wanna know if this is a novel so I can speed read it

I love the angst in this- I liked that the CEO wasn’t overbearing or that the bottom wasn’t naive and coquettish. There wasn’t a lot of sex scenes that are thrown randomly and the pacing was good. On that note, the ending.


It was a happy ending, which I really like because both of them deserved a happy ending (top having been ostracized by his family + no personal connection because he was in a foreign country, and bottom bearing the weight of the elder child + growing up as working class, struggling aspirations that stemmed from monetarily gains). The ending fucking sucked tho- wdym we only see a time cut of 2 months, of them just walking on the beach and stealing a kiss????? The gong/top should’ve worked his way back to the bottom/shou’s heart by coming to his shoots/films, having dates with each other, explaining their situation to the bottom’s brother, etc. also the ending their relationship hidden from the world is kinda ironic considering that they met/got together from fake dating and trying to spread rumors of top/gong’s gay relationship publicly. It would’ve been nice to circle to them fully embracing their relationship by being public but ig not how the author want it to end ://.

Side story: I like that the author is doing a retelling of folk stories, I think it’s very cute and I really like alternate universes- but the ending was just so abrupt that I feel people would feel more frustrated about the ending than to actually enjoy the side stories.

Genuinely scary just how often mangakas/webtoon artist have to take hiatus because of deteriorating health- there was a study, or at least a pattern found from what I remembered where mangakas in Japan have the life span of up to 50s because of how strenuous the job is (mentally and physically). Please be patient and give the author a smidge of kindness

I absolutely love how well the characters are written in this webtoon. I can’t wait for this to finish and become one of the special webtoons that I’ll hold dearly in my mind

Minjae hella ate this chapter!! I’m glad he was able to tell Andy off, but it probably didn’t do much to minjae’s mentality. I hope heechan’s able to tell minjae abt the USB, or at least destroy the contents permanently. Maybe heechan telling minjaethat he saw minjae’s private affairs without his consent might push their relationship backwards- I feel like despite minjae acting indifferently, he probably wouldn’t want the thought of heechan seeing him like that

let’s applaud the author for such insanneeeee are improvements- such a banger. The ending was bittersweet, I know that dooshik and jooha both lived afterwards (according to the author’s twt post) and it’s nice to know that the koh twins survived. Ok now that I e said that, imma talk about some issues I had w the ending- or just in general.

Ending w pilwon; I did not like his ending. I think with how the author drew gore for other scenes, they should done something similar for him- pilwon dying from the cliff was too peaceful of a death for his character and it feels unfair. Also his ending was hella rushed- we only knew he died from the newscaster and daehui, I think it would’ve been nice if it was shown how he died, last breath n all lmao.

Koh twins; I’m a lil confused on their relationship- like are they just bros or did they fuck each other?? Cause daehui was hard when daekwang was being gangbanged- I don’t remember previous chapters before ch 70 sooooo

the amnesia; idk if it was just me or others feel the same but it honestly felt cheap to do that route- especially on the last ending scenes, you telling me he was amnesiac for less than 3 chapters and call it done? Wack- also the implication that IF jooha hadn’t fallen of the ice and remembered everything- he would’ve remember little by little of his memories of him and pilwon and mistake dooshik as pilwon (bc he thought he first met dooshik in the restaurant, when it was his first meeting with pilwon). That fucking sucks- imagine having dooshik see it happen and CANT tell jooha their memories together bc it’s associated to so many dark memories he wants to hide away.

Omg this is the same author for raion!!! Another banger manga, I love that is was very cute and funny, and it was very light