If you love the hyunjae yoojin ship you will LOVE this arc, this arc sold me on their chemistry it is AMAZING. I hope the manhwa does it justice cuz I'm so excited
Spill it pleaseeee.
I will include you in my every prayer
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Pls what chapter is this in the novel
Hi there, this is around chp 180 to 181!
I'm not the person ur referring to but this arc really is good. I'm gonna spoil EVERYTHING in this arc so be careful I mean from the roof to the basement floor so BEWARE
Shj is laying his chin on hyj's head as hyj confronts shj why he isn't invited. shj saying "you don't need an invite because your my item" and then in the birthday party itself, shj and hyj having a heated fight before shj becomes a gentleman.... And then some circumstances happen and 1/3 people sing happy birthday for shj and the only one is hyj who bought the cake...? (Wasn't a cake but they had to make do) and lit a candle in a Korean convience store lol ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Yes you covered my favorite parts, plus shj changing hyj’s contact name to partner and symbolizing the shift in their relationship
Thank youu
Omg thank you. I pray for your bed always comfortable, and your food always be delicious
Thank you. I pray for all the traffic lights always on go whenever you on the road
The want to strangle Ruby reminds me of when everyone wanted to strangle Eunyung and look at that now Nah give her a little bit of time wanan will cook
I was under the impression it was a shounen AI from the author's doodles lmao idk why
Am I crazy reading this from S2-> S1 -> S3 is working out WAY better than I expected in terms of enjoying this story thoroughly. I know it comes with the caveat of knowing information ahead of time in S1 but man idk it just feel so much nicer to have everything contextualized
If some of you guys are like me and took a break because the flashback was taking too long i actually recommend you actually start season 2 and then go into season 1! I think the transition from Brian -> Ian is a lot smoother than the opposite. season 1 ends with Ian feeling compared to (and since we all dearly love Ian we sympathize with him more and miss him) But season 2 has a really good ending that I think perfectly segways into the introduction of season 1 without leaving the reader distraught. :)
I think lore wise for rereaders this makes a lot of sense, but storywise and for new readers I think reading s2 first really harms your overall experience with the story and characters. We get to know Ian first to reinforce the idea that is isn't Brian, something exteremly important to Ian's story. Everyone around him treats him as Brian- their motivations and relations to him are due to seeing him as Brian; however, Ian is not Brian- he's just simply Ian. The reader learning to love and miss Brian before they ever met Ian would make us no different then the characters Ian is fighting against in the story, simply searching for traces of a dead man in Ian. It does a great diservice to him as a whole since a large part of his arc is rhe disconnect he feels with Brian and his struggles to make people see him as himself rather then Brian. Honestly, I think the transition of Ian -> Brian is a bit jaring/sudden on purpose as a reflection of Ian's own feelings on the matter. Like us, he's suddenly thrown into this country he knows nothing about and has to slowly learn the truth of his past life.
On one hand I totally get what you mean, and I definitely feel like reading S1 will get you attached to Ian so you feel like you’re reading a completely different POV with season 2 (And I really like this perspective!)
On the other hand the caveat is along with the distance comes rejection. The main sentiment I saw was “bring back Ian, we miss him” And with season persisting on and on with a guy we know Ian doesn’t relate to, people will just not care and stop engaging. I was unfortunately one of them until I started FROM season 2 and now I truly appreciate Brian on his own merits.
Though I will say, I think the biggest contributing factor for the rejection was that season not being finished. Now that it is hopefully new readers should be fine breezing through the flashback as they know Ian will return while understanding Brian’s impact on shaping the world and his relationship with the brothers.
I’m honestly just mentioning this more for people like me who a) read through the story and already love Ian for who he is b) paused the story during season 2 because they weren’t as sold on Brian yet. Personally I think it helps to get a fresh start with Brian and relate to his storyline better, and still understanding Ian’s plight from the initial read
I read this till the middle of season 2 and paused till the season ended, but now I realize I forgot everything Does it matter if I go from S2 -> S1 -> S3?
Cuz the first time I will admit didn't care much about the flashback at all. So I'm thinking if I start from S2 I'll read the flashback more thoroughly and I'll still be able to understand the plot
Season one is basically about Ian meeting Sol and his country. Season two is the back story about Sol and Brian (Ian in his past life) and how Brian died, and well uk what season three is about. So I'd say it doesn't matter. You'll just know the backstory first.
I read both a long time ago, and now I think I'm going to read season 2 first, then 1, because that way, you feel like you understand everything better and in the right order. When you know their past lives you can understand better Sol behavior and why he is so smitten of Brian
Is there romance in this? I wanna read but if there’s an endgame couple I really don’t want :<
I don’t think so, since all the “romance” here is really just platonic
no but i srsly want to romance mc
I really like this manga but I’d love some discussion on this, can someone explain to me why the world-building has it so that sexless people die young? Was it to make Hinase’s choice more urgent? Because I feel like the themes of sex and gender still resonate if that was an option. Maybe it’s to be more realistic? But the fact that’s just the absence of any non-binary identity while choosing a sex seems so odd. I really so like this story for touching directly upon gender in such an interesting way but the author’s intentions here are confusing me.
1) It is likely that all sexless people die young because they face the same issue with Hinase which is dealing with excessive amounts of female and male hormones which causes many complications and fatal if not treated. It's vague what being sexless or what the manga calls it "genderless people" have to deal with when it comes with endocrine issues and how it differs from intersex people. I never read all chapters so I don't know if intersex people were ever mentioned or even exist in the manga.
2) It was definitely a choice to make being genderless deadly so it is likely for a cause of urgency because Hinase might have never chosen a sex or a gender without this possible cause of death.
3) I'm not sure about what you mean by option. Do you mean choosing to remain without a certain sex or not identifying as girl or boy? Perhaps both. It's hard to determine what is realistic as everyone has their own definition to what is the norm or real. The author could have a very different idea on being realistic from being from Japan. To me I don't think it is realistic because it is fiction and uses its own logic. But it's genuine in its own way in demonstrating how transitioning may feel like and how faucets in identity or sexuality work.
Both but I think the latter works best in this story, i just found it interesting that the author never considered any characters of just not conforming to either gender (even with a binary sex!) I’m pretty sure enby folks live in Japan if I’m not mistaken (though I’m not sure what the differences are versus non-JPN folks on how they are presented) but I can see how people reading the story can be mislead, though I enjoyed it. I don’t think the author was malicious by any means, I just think their world-building has some merits of criticism lol.