The author is really focusing on the wrong things here.
MC died as a kid, the moment his friend (ML) died, that’s why mc act like such a kid in front of ML every single time, so much that it feels inappropriate, cause he never grew up since that moment, forever stuck.
This could have been a great chance to tell a story about growth, about letting go, about coping with loneliness, about learning to respect people around you and ultimately most important, respect yourself.
But nah, we got a story which predatory feels in intensified, 2 main leads that is ultimately incompatible but just too stubborn, too stuck in their own head to ever see the other person clearly, and even important side characters. Every single one of them is oozing selfishness in a discrete way. What a let down, everything feels out of place.
It gives Lolita book, the pdf was inlove of his gf of adolescence and only remind the young her in his memories which make him a pdf later on
Imo, the closest between the two is probably the selfishly blind obsession. But ultimately unfair to put the 2 together.
Yaoi, and BL written by girls and woman are rooted in the erasure of power imbalance created by gender, through that explore other power imbalance within personality, sexuality, social status,… and even sexuality and the embrace of sex. That’s why it is considered to be such a problematic spheres, because it is a journal of self reflection and self discovery through a fictional medium.
Lolita is a widely and massively debated work, and not because of the greatness or the lack of, of the content within. But rather because of the ambiguity within the author intention, and the mass interpretation of it. Resulting with, in my very personal opinion, it greatest value, the self reflection of the audience/reader during a specific phase/period of their life while completely devoid what the book and the author initially intended to offer. You can see yourself or a person current belief through their views of Lolita, fascination, uncomfortable, infatuation, absolute disgust, or disdain,…
While my view on them have both pointed toward self discovery. But ultimately, aside from both being created under patriarchy (like everything else cause we are living in it lol), Yaoi/BL is an effort to dismantle specific aspects of patriarchy for self discovery, and Lolita, is heavily entwined with all that fester within patriarchy.
Though, just my personal take on it.
The first half of this really feels like an anti-teen pregnancy ad campaign lol
And kids, this is why you shouldn’t have unprotected sex *my brain spamming while reading this
If anyone just came in reading because of the title. She doesn’t hide her power (?), she just kinda punch people as she likes (not an issue tbh), but she is also not enjoying life, nor is it peaceful.
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ML is Lou (Lu), he is a demi-god, he already knows her, cause he is the one who help her with magic to disguise as a man, she just doesn’t remember.
Andert, her real brother is also alive, iirc lost his memory and working for the enemy (?)
Probably a more correct title is, the dumb girl who seek revenge for her brother, became a war weapon and somehow became a hero, now again is making terrible life choices and live in a stressful life due to said dumb decisions.
Idk, if the title is a promise of the premise, then it’s an outwardly open lie.
Thanks for that,I'm not going to be reading this any further.
I was searching this up to see if it has novel or something. And according to google, the author and artist is Takbon, same with their other work Spring Fallen Classroom and Two Fools.
On this, the authors are input as 拓本, KENAZ, 极直社???? This story is also not 2000 released, it’s a 2020 released, finished in 2022z
Victor is shown to be a child who said to be a monster, probably due to his genius mind and capability that the average person can’t understood, can be seen through his experiments, bring back the dead to life, potions, creations.
Henry is supposed to be human, outstanding appearance, charming demeanour, composure in all cases/lack of obvious expression, good at socializing (business, lovers, …). We can dissect and understood him better through the reaction of his parts, “heart”, “head”, “dick”.
“Heart”, his heart is tied to Victor, even when the body is somewhere else, his heart urge and lead him back to Victor, established since the beginning and throughout the series. However, that heart is not strong enough to erase doubts of the mind, no matter whose mind it attached to, Adam or Henry. A devoted heart that makes him want to clean, cook, take care, and more for Victor, however prone to damage from loneliness.
“Head”, is the most complicated component of Henry, through dialogues exposed his high EQ, great analysis skills, very logical, almost abstained of emotions, from Victor words, as if V became a lab rat. A common trait of those minds, are doubts, doubts that usually manifest as cynical. Through the dialogues within this series, we can coined a few traits from Henry’s head.
- Thrills seeker, a dopamine junkie, he let things happens as long as he deemed it interesting, and dropped it the moment it’s not. Including chasing the main actress.
- He found Victor to be very interesting, he can’t stand the idea of not seeing Victor’s face/reaction, even during sex. He think lying V, pathetic V, crying V, … as cute, or interesting, this included when V feeling secure, loved, happy. He almost seems to yearned to consumes all of Victor like a ravenous beast.
- He seems to think his mind has complete immunity to emotions, especially love, deeming the love potion V made to be a sham potion. But as established before, V is a genius, if he believes that is a love potion, it should be. You can’t fill a water bottle more if it is already at max capacity, how can Henry fall in love with Victor, when he can’t love Victor anymore than he already has. This proves that he is blind towards his affection towards V.
- “head” mentioned “nothing can be changed, no matter Henry knows about V planning on killing his sex partners or not”, this means 2 things, he doesn’t care (enough) about his sex partners, whether they are alive or dead, to impact his actions, AND, it cannot change what leads to his death. If you consider the first thing he ask V when they first found him “do you still resent him”, we can assumed this is a question that bother the mind.
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- When “head” speak, he rarely ask questions, he just describes, from V’s word, like he is reading V’s mind. But he asked “Do you still resent him?” and “Do you want to know the answer now?”. I assumed these are the questions that consumed Henry before he died, making his dead inevitable. He wants to know if V resent him, and he was thinking about his answer to V. Personally, it sounds like “Did it make you stop loving me?”, “What can I do to appease you?”, “How can I make you stay?”, “I don’t want to lose you”, “I can’t lose you”.
- To add to it, after waking up, the “heart” returns to V side, “dick” is out and about, need to be succumbed to return. However “head” just ask that question and very easily came back with them, even with the event, he went with them a bit too easy. Then why did he ran away? Similar to why he was on that trip right after noticing V closing the door after seeing his escapade, only to die haunted by the question of whether V resented him? If he is as calm as he present himself, when “head” are awake without the influence of “heart” and “dick”, he could have waited for V to wake up and ask his question. But no, he RAN away. “Dick” wasn’t even the one who first to leave, it was “head”.
- “head” set up and forced V to accept his love for “dick”. This seems to be genuine. Henry’s mind appears to care for V, wanting him to have the love of 3 persons, even though they are all monsters V created. This was done without the influence of Henry’s “heart”. This proves to a certain extent, Henry, while alive, was selfish and jealous when it comes to V. We can even think that V loneliness and isolation also came from Henry, who might purposefully did it to keep V all to himself.
Last, “dick”, there’s nothing much to go about it, as it just now exists on somebody else body. But it obviously easily turn on by V, love being inside of V, have a hard time getting it up to other people, unless under influence, be it long term stimulation, or mental stimulation.
Generally, in a way, Victor and Henry was the yin and yang to each other, a very fucked up yin yang, but are, nonetheless. Victor is a genius with monstrous capabilities created by his talent and mind, while emotionally as human as it can be. Henry, while appears normal and charming on the outside, was a monster on the inside, who capable of playing with rules of the human society, while morally grey and cannot understand the normal healthy restraints of a human.
The demise caused is mostly based on Henry, and his selfishness. Henry was V only family left, but V was also Henry only family. They are both gifted in different ways, and are left without proper guidance.
This story is interestingly quite complex with a lot of potential. However was focus on the wrong aspect, and wrong story telling techniques. Diminishing it to nothing but a fucked up smut. What a shame.
Thanks for reading my, maybe more than 2 cents of characters analysis hehe
tysm for this omg.
I loved your essay, A+!
Omg I love u… I’m so sad u wasted all ur analysis on some bullshit manwha but I 100% agree with ur take. A shame that the story telling is ahh, Mary Shelley rolling in her grave rn
I understand the disappointment of smth not being completely of ur taste, as in having preferred if this story's genre is taken seriously and isn't smut. But to read ppl diminish the author's story as fcked up bullshit sounds extreme. Everyone agrees that theres complexity beneath the depravity of the comic but when it's portrayed as an erotica suddenly it's a shame? I don't understand the need to calling someone's work as "wrong" when they clearly wanted to portray the story beyond a supernatural mystery even if it's wrapped in comedy and gratituous smut. This isn't a pwp, you all sure made it sound like one though.
Dude your essay had better pacing and nuance that the manhwa
I swear you wrote better than the author
Confusing. MC was looping 2nd June, beginning of summer semester (?), some loops MC is wearing short sleeves, cause duh summer is hot, but some loops he is wearing full on jacket (?), then time stop looping? When? And it’s now apparent cold in June and MC need to wear warmer (?).
From checking on the author’s works on Novelupdates, even highest rating novel series Untouchable Lady was not as popular as this series in webtoon/manhwa terms. And I think it can be tribute towards the artist that adapted it, Baek Ji Young.
A wonderful story can be lost through adaptation process or in translation, but good visual narration skills with amazing art can bring a mediocre piece to live, especially when creative re-arranging are allowed.
We can’t judge this series as a whole due to its similarity state of the miscarriage child of the artist. But the charm of what we had now is undeniable. And I guess, all we can do now, is mourn the grief with the artist, a piece of work, a mental child that never got the chance to fully developed and came to be.
Justice for the artist!
The novel of this is really good, especially the yearning and suffering to be together is so good. The writing fluctuates, was pretty bad in the first 2-3 maps, even the author admits that her writing is not great to begin with, but had an idea that she just want to make it into reality and was surprised how much praise she got. But the writing got better later on and stabilized near end.
The novel peaked in the middle going to the end, with a pretty soft blow ending. Glad they are getting a manhua adaptation, but man does it did not do the novel justice. The art is pretty, the visual narrative skill is lacking, it definitely lacks the great horror visualization. It’s at times like this I wish this novel got the same adaptation art narrative advantage as GSGW.
M saying all this cause this used to be one of my most fav novel years ago, and wish it manhua could also peak and moved the heart of the audience like the novel did.
Agree with this!
Like title, hostage situation, amnesia, personality disorder, jumping between shades of red flags.
Seme said first time kissing uke make he puke, like kissing a dog…. :) good for you buddy, not everyone in this world allow their dog to kiss them.
Is the official translation posted by AkumaKira really official? The translation is so bad, pronouns mixed up, words that’s bite each other and doesn’t make much sense.