This is one of my favourite stories ever, not just BL but one of my favourite romance stories ever, and the side stories are just so mid. I read them ages ago but I'm still disappointed that they're literal adults and Yohan couldn't even get an "I love you" from Park Moogyeong. The mom subtly approving of their relationship is the best part of the side stories though.
I think "Form of Sympathy" kinda ruined Nodeok. It was a great story for a while but the side stories were REALLY bad, like, awful.
From the comments I thought it'd be worse. Sure, I'd love for authors to stop with the SA in BL manga but this was the tamest case of dubcon I've read in ages. Story would be better without it but I was expecting something that'd make me regret picking this up entirely.
It seems like Murakami was already getting interested in Mizuki without realising, I think that was implied when his friend thought he was really "love managing" him.
Generic plot although I want to see how it ends.
I'm not a huge fan of this work but at least Sanho and Gi Tak are entertaining, the other two were just cheesy, boring and sometimes way too dramatic. Also, I can't stand Inseo's character design.
100% real on all points. Istg I thought I was the only one who didn't like Inseo's character design since I've never seen someone mention it.