The category is: misery porn!
The characters aren't even characters but stereotypes of sociopathic gangsta ML and fresh of the boat MC, who at least shows some fangs and tries to escape (and his attempts are the only thing that makes this kinda interesting, because it's so rare, that MC doesn'troll over and just take it).
I predict either chasing arc or murder- suicide. I hope for MC suiciding and ML rotting, because he magically can't live without being a cancer on MC's human rights (some magic woo woo about ML being aura vampire sucking water energy out of MC).
IMO, why people can't distinguish the characters:
1) people don't pay attention to details, all these people are different and I had no issue with knowing who is who.
2) I think *the biggest reason is there is there is no usual childish tiny uke/ big mean seme trope*. They are all adult men and artist portrays them as adult men, including their faces. It's adult story with adult artstyle and it shows that this is very rare in manga/manhwa scene (I mean there's plenty of stories like this, just they are not easy read slop and are rarely popular.)
3) They are all average handsome adult men, so they are kinda similar, but not identical because handsome features need to be specific to be considered handsome.
4) artist let's them grow and change, ie dye the hair, grow tall etc . It's so rare in comics, that when it happens, people are surprised and confused, because woojin didn't have his hair blond and spiked in high school and choi isn't a natural redhead (he's Korean, so duh).
I personally think that the artist could work some on drawing faces from profile view and could lean slightly into caricature, to make the differences bigger, but genuinely I think when it comes to art, I think that amid clip studio 3d slop this one shines through as the artist has actual drawing skills and doesn't do another copy catted manga-big-eyes thing, but goes their own path. I only wish they had proper time to draw and produce high quality they are truly capable of.
Ah, as for the articles and rumors- we're talking about South Korea, idols are killing themselves over a dating rumor or minor DUI situation, because they can't stand the pressure cooker there.
The societal pressure is at least a bit realistic plot point. It's just it's badly written.
There's is something absolutely wrong about hiw this story is written, it's not about the tropes, but about the story beats and structure itself. There is no tension. No character inner conflict, they don't seem to be actual characters, just stand ins for a BL tropes.
Like they are all over-exaggerating and not reacting enough at the same time. It also feels like a baby's first story posted on watpadd at 15. Mustache twirling villain, mcguffin pregnancy, characters that stumble over their own shoelaces upon a plot.
Main characters have no agency and they just accept what happens to them. That makes them boring and isn't good way to create tension. To be fair I laughed at this chapter's plot, with villains big speech. Like, would he break into a Disney villain song next?
I have no idea what is happening, but Moscareto is genuinely good writer. It seems either she has a bet to write the shittiest story to get out of a publishing contract or something. Or she left the writing to the artist.
I want more babies....~~~~~ gimme~~
ThonI must admit, this is likely one of very very few mangas/mantras that the artist has stricken great balance between their style and actual baby-ness of the babies, so they don't look like creepy bug eyed aliens and are in fact super cute.
There was a moment in thus story when it was good sci fi and could easily go i to mindfuck body horror.
But ni, nevermind, it's just another flamvour of a harem story with way too much sex.
'I want abortion, but early miscarriage would be bad.' MC, who is clearly a schizo.
WTF, who thinks like this? Who writes this? Moscareto, you are better than this shit, what happened, did you rot your brain to the core with too much porn?
The only way this doctor's behaviour is acceptable, if she snuck some pro choice org leaflet, but can't talk about this shit in the open.
That being said, I don't mind misery porn in my fiction, I just hate lazy worldbuilding and misery porn just for the sake of it. He can't get abortion right now? Cool, it's omega vers, we know this work differently there, just explain it why exactly he can't get abortion, is it law, is it biology, is it ultra Christian hospital he went to or simply there's admin stuff and the nearest appoontment can be made in a month? Like, dear author, don't be lazy pos and give us some kind of worlbuilding that we the Reader can get something tonunderstand what why and where.
Because this- it's just things for the sake of things. This is no plot, this is just boring, lazy writing.
So Geayson isn't some kind of masterminding psychopath, but bona fide spoilt idiotic nepo baby who was never told 'no, bad Grayson' in his life?
He's just too stupid to function like a human being?
That's actually hilarious.
I don't know, this is just the epitome of mediocre, the plot pote but not in n interesting way, things just happen one after another, the main characters are such boring people, barely characters, to be fair, flat and almost with no personalities, side characters are not even really characters, just robotic tools used for exposition (why show anything, when a side character can bluntly ask about it and explain everything). The writing and dialogue is serviceable, because it is, but just that.
The art is nice compared to a sea of a webtoon slop, but even art is just... flat.
Idk, the side story is better, if only just because the ML has actual character .
Really just meh.
If 'The Washing Machine Tragedy ' by Stanislaw Lem was rewritten by fujoshi.
(Read his story, he predicted this one so many years ago, it's hilarious)
The issue with slice of life stories is that without any stakes, conflicts or personal journeys there is nowhere for the characters to evolve to.
At the beginning the conflict was for the newcomer to be accepted, the child to be named, the couple to get together. There was a conflict (will the other guy be gay enough), will the armourer rat adjust to the country side, even if the lost dad will mess around. There were some stakes.
Thus very moment? It's a cute story, but they got together, everybody around them pretend to not know, don't know or are happy for them and accepting and the child is still nameless and a charcterless ( given how long ago Ho moved in, she should be learning to walk and talk, she still looks like an oversized beanie baby). We're 3 seasons in and they didn't even talk about potential names.
The main characters barely have personalities, they seems unafected by their experience (Ho was in the army, he saw shit, he knows stuff and he doesn't even show it in his life, not even good ribbing about always folding or ironing his clothing perfectly), Haebom is just there, his whole personality is the greenest flag that ever greened. He has no flaws (and no real character too).
This maybe the greenest story with amazing art, but it does feel like it run too long. The issue is not it's slow, the issue is the story doesn't seem to go anywhere, has not actual plot or theme or even premise, only happenstances told in chronological order.
The story is great. Character development, it has actual plot that makes sense, nice pacing, good writing... it's really refreshing to have a story that's actually has well matured storytelling.
The art tho... I would really want to know what the hell was the artist's and/or their editor thought process on this one, because whatever happened stripped the artist if everything that made their art great.
At the very beginning the art is very light, colors muted and people are on the realistic side. It really fits the slice of life, more realistic and mature story But then around chapter 10 artist stopped developing that style and changed lanes into the generic manga/webtoon style.
And it's painful bumpy ride up till the end. I don't begrudge the artist's right to change, but this should be done in a sketchbook, not on a live organism that is weekly webtoon. That kind of change should take place between projects. This one looks like the artist was figuring out stylistic rules anew with every face they drew which end up with wild inconsistencies in design and at some point I wasn't even sure if the characters are even still the same people.
Only now I realise the artist is still active and does comics- except their style is so generic (even if they are better artist than good 95% of manhwa pencilers out there) that it fades into sea of webtoon art slop. It's nice to look at, but just so boring and uninspired.
I only hope it was only artist's personal decision, not pressure from the publisher.