reconnect

Is this dropped or what? I miss arte

With each chapter I am more and more amazed by the author and creator, who is one and the same. It’s not often you see a good story with such beautiful art which is all done by the same person, and not two separate people. I have so much respect for them.

Regarding the cheating concerns, Serena and Frederick never had sexual intercourse, he is more of an emotional support for her than anything else. She is still young, and if you consider the setting and time period of the story, her behaviour is nothing that strange. I’m confident that if people read the first 20-25 chapters they will change their mind. It’s such a shame people don’t get to enjoy this story because they judged a book by their cover, or in this case, the first few chapters.

It’s not often you see a comic with this level of craft, especially romance, which is although a core theme of the story, it is wound in extremely delicately. To try to explain it simply, it is like reading a story of the lives of two characters who slowly fall in love, rather than reading a love story of two characters. Nothing in this story is rushed, the pacing is impeccable, and I feel like the creator’s confidence has grown throughout; they are now confidently taking their time to go through the details, knowing the worth of their own work.

There is a lot to learn from a work like this, for anyone else interested in the art of storytelling. Although I easily connect with characters, it is not often I do so entirely on the merit of the skill of the writer in making a character appear human, and known to us, the readers. The depth, the flaws, the good bits and the bad, motivation, emotion, all of this has led to a perfect character understanding.

Whilst I cannot speak on the plot until the work is finished, so far it is not lacking in any way. This is not Attack on Titan or Death Note, we are not here for anything mind-blowing. This is life story of Serena, the fact the work is named after her demonstrates that what the author wants to communicate first and foremost, is her story. With a story which is on the simpler side like this, what matters most is connection with the characters, pacing and character likeability. Given the fact Serena does not come off very likeable in the beginning, it is understandable why some drop this. But remember, we all have our ugly moments, and imagine if someone showed only your worst moments to someone, and they judged you based off that? With no context? It would feel rather unfair.

When I first read this story, it only had around 18 chapters or so released, and I too was not that impressed. However, we never judge an artwork which is unfinished, so why should we judge this story prematurely either?

Whether people give this a chance or not is up to them, but those who don’t are the ones who will be missing out.