Goshhh I miss Hjyj interactions so bad, btw for anyone who wants to get more food of them search up their ship name on pinterest, I promise there are SOOO many fanarts of them. It’s absolute peak what artists were cooking in 2019
Even during the pandemic they were cooking HARD
Give me their ship names
I literally just search hyunjae x yoojin maybe I'll find something new this time.. I'm hungry ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
I mainly use hjyj but I think you can just look up "hyunjae" or "yoojin" and a bunch will follow lol
honestly just search hyunjae, doomscroll on suggested pics of him, then let Pinterest's algorithm do the rest.
the fanart has never left my feed for 7 years now.
Lmfao to Hyunjae just yanking Yoojin with his chains Can’t wait for the arc to escalate hehe
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.
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 love the birthday arc but they cut my favorite scene where I believe both Hyunjae and Yoojin are on the beach and Yoojin looks at Hyunjae wet and pulled-down hair and thinks he looks so human for the first time </3
And the part where they're flying towards the land and yujin looks at him from above and hyunjae smiles at him and yujin goes, don't smile like that it'll make me fond of you AAAAAAAA THEY REMOVED THE GAYMANCEEE I SWEAR IF THEY REMOVED EVERY GAYMANCEEE FROM THE NOVEL I WILL NOT SURVIVE THEY'RE MARRIED WITH A KID PLEASE
actually...idk what's going on w the new season but it's so bland compared to the previous one (which made me pick up the novel btw which is fucking fire) they've trashed the gaymance and even the emotional scenes feels so childish
Yeah
Yeah, I have no idea why, but they seem to have tuned to Hyunjae's moments in favor of humor...it makes no sense because like if they read the novel they KNOW how prominent his relationship progression with Yoojin is, regardless of romance. In the novel, the birthday arc felt like they were progressing somewhere; here, they don't feel any different, even with the contact name changing.
Genuinely, why the hell are you cutting off Hyunjae + Yoojin moments in an arc that's supposed to be ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP CHANGING. It actually infuriates me.