I’ve never read anything this good in my life. I don’t usually reread or rewatch my favourite shows/comics and if I do, on very rare occasions, there’s always a gap of a few years at least. But with NME, it’s been about 4 months since I first read it, and I’ve just finished reading it for the THIRD time. I can’t even say that I’m exaggerating - day and night all I’ve been thinking about is NME.
First, thank you SAGE for helping with the translations and capturing all the nuances and everything. The cleaning up of the pages is so well done too. Thank you!!!
Second, I just want to specifically mention that I have SO MUCH FAITH in BDK that they’re going to continue executing this story so damn well. Call it blind faith or whatever, but I’ve read this three times and each time I’m picking up new things etc and it’s just mind blowing. There’s so much love and attention given to all the characters, no matter how much of a background role they seem to serve. Everyone drives the plot and contributes to something. No character is pointlessly introduced for the sake of “filling up a scene”. There’s so much conflict every now and then that makes things difficult for the characters to resolve. It’s incredibly reflective of reality - nothing is easy. They have a lot of soul, personality and character in them that you just know that they’re carefully thought about. I really appreciate that coming from someone who studied comic and story writing in college. A lot of stories have “filler” moments or characters, which isn’t necessarily wrong, but it kind of reveals how the writer could be struggling to bridge a certain gap between one story point and another.
But BDK is so intentional with everything that it’s so impressive. What feels like a filler (nothing really, tbh) is revealed later that it’s in fact, not. Story writing, comic panelling, it’s all hard work. Sleepless nights perhaps. It’s effort on top of effort. I’m not saying other authors out there aren’t putting in the same amount of effort, but I just want to particularly commend BDK because the story writing genuinely blew my mind away. Dialogues aren’t just speech bubbles, they all carry personalised weights of the characters that speak them. Nothing is copy pasted in this story. That’s how fantastic it is.
If the genre or trope or visuals aren’t to your liking, I still think this is a story worth reading, simply because it’s so excellently planned out and created! Lots of love to SAGE, BDK, Heejae and Garam!!
I’ve never read anything this good in my life. I don’t usually reread or rewatch my favourite shows/comics and if I do, on very rare occasions, there’s always a gap of a few years at least. But with NME, it’s been about 4 months since I first read it, and I’ve just finished reading it for the THIRD time. I can’t even say that I’m exaggerating - day and night all I’ve been thinking about is NME.
First, thank you SAGE for helping with the translations and capturing all the nuances and everything. The cleaning up of the pages is so well done too. Thank you!!!
Second, I just want to specifically mention that I have SO MUCH FAITH in BDK that they’re going to continue executing this story so damn well. Call it blind faith or whatever, but I’ve read this three times and each time I’m picking up new things etc and it’s just mind blowing. There’s so much love and attention given to all the characters, no matter how much of a background role they seem to serve. Everyone drives the plot and contributes to something. No character is pointlessly introduced for the sake of “filling up a scene”. There’s so much conflict every now and then that makes things difficult for the characters to resolve. It’s incredibly reflective of reality - nothing is easy. They have a lot of soul, personality and character in them that you just know that they’re carefully thought about. I really appreciate that coming from someone who studied comic and story writing in college. A lot of stories have “filler” moments or characters, which isn’t necessarily wrong, but it kind of reveals how the writer could be struggling to bridge a certain gap between one story point and another.
But BDK is so intentional with everything that it’s so impressive. What feels like a filler (nothing really, tbh) is revealed later that it’s in fact, not. Story writing, comic panelling, it’s all hard work. Sleepless nights perhaps. It’s effort on top of effort. I’m not saying other authors out there aren’t putting in the same amount of effort, but I just want to particularly commend BDK because the story writing genuinely blew my mind away. Dialogues aren’t just speech bubbles, they all carry personalised weights of the characters that speak them. Nothing is copy pasted in this story. That’s how fantastic it is.
If the genre or trope or visuals aren’t to your liking, I still think this is a story worth reading, simply because it’s so excellently planned out and created! Lots of love to SAGE, BDK, Heejae and Garam!!