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Underwhelming, clanky dialogue, over explanations, reactions that don’t fit, poor use of panelling… usually what has for these types going is either the tension or sex, but here neither are present. Just bad

Find it funny how it ties back to how yeseol said “your truths are jokes and your lies are serious” cause at the beginning it clearly seemed like a sly joke when he said they slept tgt with “you just gonna toss me after sleeping with me?” But later on was serious with “no we didn’t”… cute detail

Perfect example of slop manhwa . The story is minimal, the characters are fine, and it’s mostly just sex. While it’s debatable whether one can consider their beginning to be in a weird grey area where it’s mayhaps SA, it’s fine if you like lighthearted, not plot heavy smut with a cute romance.

Slop rating of 7/10

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If yall want spoilers
They parted their ways. Both looked back as they did but neither saw each other, and they also decided to not see each other or at least that’s what it feels like with both sayin “thank you” to each other as if they’re parting. They have an awkward hug and leave. It’s very bittersweet, Satomi is getting over Kyouji and Kyouji is being an adult and not chasing back. I think.. guys.. the next work won’t be related to this story and this is the end, they had a thing and then they didn’t anymore, and that’s all.

I wish the characters were more fleshed out, I know the author usually does “porn with a side plot” but cmon. What do we know about mc? That he had a dog? Okay… his personality? He just smiles and goes along with everything.. at least the ml has a personality that all other characters in the authors story which is being a pathetic, wimpy kid in a way who is good to the mc but is pretty rude to others. I wish the author just tried to actualise a story instead of drawing so much smut, all their stories are like this :/ their artstyle is good so I don’t know why.

Anyways the story is cute I guess, I like the idea of the pathetic ml who is subservient given how he sees any love interest as a correlation to his childhood, ie, he has major abandonment issues, I could guess he had a bad childhood from chapter one with the way he was being all over the mc. The mc is so boring tho. Like boiled chicken, cmon, give us personality, backstory anything that isn’t just being “in love” with the ml.

I liked the abo au better than the main sorry cause at least it had a plot, and I wanted to see more of it esp with the comments and how they get thru it. The ml seems the type to become more “psychotic” to outsiders, so that’d be fun, but so far we haven’t seen this. But I can guess most of the plot cause the author regurgitates the same concepts in all their stories.

5/10, but as smut with little plot 8/10

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Same old same old, we get a hinted at sex scene between the side characters while the main characters have only kissed 400 CHAPTERS AGO, wtf bro, years of following and it’s nothing

Just waiting for Sayeon to actually fuck up, like think a sacrifice of her “friends” actually dies, unreversible, and having to deal with that confrontstion of not always being able to “know” or to just reverse time.. lolol

It has nothing that sets it apart from other manhwas of the same premise, it’s just dies-comes back-fight against evil-has a powerful male lead to help her- end like? Her struggle was easily resolved, it all seemed convenient, boring. Would not recommend for those who don’t want to waste their time on just anything.

My two cents on their relationship is that Kyouji at first innocently picked out Satomi to be his teacher as a serious joke but then got attached (we only have 2 chapters but they were talking for months in the story plot) and started to weirdly groom him? Satomi was just a middle schooler so he got attached pretty easily to a strange and weird older guy that paid special attention to him, especially at the time of his youth where kids crave that. At home his family is kinda just “there” for him, and at school he isn’t particularly interesting and nobody really cares about him.

Then after lowkey traumatising Satomi, Kyouji decided to distance himself from him, probably because he wasn’t sure what was developing and didn’t want to “mislead” the kid, but ultimately decided against his better judgment and re-entered Satomi’s with a new tattoo that was a punishment. Obviously, I think he planned this sht out. Re-entering Satomi’s life as it takes a new direction, with words of affection and basically a branding that he knew Satomi would hate, he purposefully came just at this moment. Not to mention, this was all purely on Kyouji, he is the one setting the terms. Hence makes my grooming point even more valid.

Then after sometime later, Satomi hating that tattoo starts getting a job that is pretty hard on him, yet his will to get it off and “cut” Kyouji off is strong. Kyouji on the other hand is kinda there? He’s like a dog, he comes whenever Satomi calls, he buys whatever Satomi wants, he talks back whenever Satomi texts first. Satomi has a high bond to Kyouji through being imprinted on in his childhood, and the tattoo. Kyouji has nothing, we don’t see his pov on Satomi, but it’s clear his strongest motivation to stay is something hidden.

Anyways, Satomi gets confused about this whole ordeal, their relationship only exists on Satomi’s turn, it’s superficial, and unless Satomi initiates, Kyouji will never cross the line. Hence when he set the boundary of “once you get your gift, we won’t see or talk to each other” and Kyouji agreed, he got scared that his decision is too “drastic” and instinctively hugged him to keep him. Kyouji obviously knew this would happen, let’s not forget he’s the adult here, he knows and has experience with relationships. He isn’t dumb and knows how to push and pull.

Satomi then cringes and realises that this superficial relationship is being kept up by something deeper than just the tattoo and gets confused, leading to uncovering that it’s “less than love, deeper than like”, a weird in-between where it’s dependent on their weird start, him thinking this relationship would be more developed with Kyouji out of yakuza, superficial talks that lead to nowhere but keep him around, and Kyouji’s ability to keep Satomi around his finger.

Satomi confused af, asks Kyouji “what do you want from me?? What are we??” And Kyouji, in a typical situationship fashion, responds vaguely with “whatever you want me to be to you”. This makes Satomi think, that if he were to ask Kyouji to be together, would he actually say yes? Which spirals him to conclusion that there is at least some form of like there, confirming it to his friends. He then asks Kyouji to meet up to “confirm” something, that being, if he were to ask Kyouji to stay forever with him, would he agree, and how far could he push Kyouji to prove the “whatever you want me to be” point. This comes with him asking him to leave yakuza, which sadly he got a no, but asking him to stay with him forever and always, which he got a yes. Kyouji obviously loves this, and again there is some feelings pushing him to be at Satomi’s beck and call, when he can just leave the moment Satomi calls, without even telling anyone. Also him repeating “confirm something” clearly anticipating some kind of realisation from Satomi.

Anyways, we also finally get a glimpse of Kyouji’s thoughts on Satomi, in the text he sends to one of the guys, referring to Satomi as ♡, and even just not explaining who he is, as the other knows very well who he’s referring to, despite Satomi not being introduced to any of the guys since the last time (middle school), so it’s evident Kyouji talks about Satomi in certain context for the heart to not get weird reactions. Also him getting angry with the reporter, I highly suspect cuz of Satomi, he wouldn’t care otherwise, but he bothered Satomi and is clearly trailing him now, so he needed him gone.

This diverts HEAVY from my usual reads but there’s sumn about it that’s so mesmerising, like the plot is so fucking out there I can’t help but want more