I might die on this hill but... This should be tagged as Horror.
Maybe even Psychological.
Despite all the colours, the tone of everything feels very lovecraftian. This is so creepy.
Dunno why so many Korean novel/manhwa writers like lovecraftian vibes.
Ok so its not just me lol
Not just you. I did first get downvotes on this, but most are upvotes.
I did expect this to be better story than it was. To me something was missing. It mostly felt like a lot of noise and that is it. There was supposed to be a lot of emotions in this, but I didn't felt any of it.
EDIT! Now that I think this more: In the end, kinda nothing got delivered, the original premise was abandoned for the weaker plot that barely worked - so the comedic energy from the start flatlined.
This was actually worse than I originally thought. The art truly did a lot of carrying.
"There was supposed to be a lot of emotions in this,"
Nothing of the sort was implied by the synopsis tho.
I understand it's not your thing but the story pretty much delivered exactly what it promised.
I never said that was in the synopsis, you made that part up in your own head.
I also already said "To me something was missing." so there is no need to be defensive, like I personally hurt your favorite series.
While reading the actual series: It tried very hard to bring emotions on to the story, so readers could feel it, but failed. The art was carrying, even when it wasn't comedic moments, but writing couldn't deliver.
Sweetheart, I'd suggest you stop asuming people's emotional state. Because I was neither defensive nor 'hurt'. XD I simply commented on and critiqued your phrasing. Which, if you say something "was supposed to be", then you are specifically implying info was given that it should be that way based on whatever you saw/read etc.. And yes, it in fact never stating it was gonna be emotional was EXACTLY my point.
You clearly completely ignored rest of my reply.
No synopsis never says, writes or promises what emotions you're supposed to feel. It's not the job of the synopsis.
That is why you're supposed to read the story.
But you're probably going to ignore all of this too, again, because that would actually mean we would have real conversation... Instead of you just reacting and not listening until the end.
You already started this "conversation" by not fully bothering to read my original comment, so I'm most likely wasting my time on this.
Hope it's okay if I share my thoughts! Feyren, it's totally fair that the story didn't deliver the emotions you were personally hoping for. That's your take and it's okaaaayyy!
That said, I don't think ReviewRaptor is trying to hate on your take! It's just that the synopsis and the premise establish it as a super lighthearted, goofy smutty read about two dumb dumb, a vampire and a happy go lucky human right from the start hehe.
Saying it was 'supposed to be' emotional is where the disconnect is, since the author never set it up to be a serious drama.
Fair. English is hard/ambiguous to understand and not my first language anyway.
My point still being that I never said I made the review because of synopsis.
If the story would have stayed as the goofy thing described and had not started to try to be more than that, it would have been fine and I wouldn't even have made the OG comment.
The story itself tried to change in a middle, making readers expect something more, and it couldn't deliver. It would have been better if it just had stayed on the track the story started with. That was the whole point why I even commented.
Now that I think this more: In the end, kinda neither one of the things got delivered, the original premise was abandoned for the weaker plot - so the comedic energy from the start flatlined.
This was actually worse than I originally thought. The art truly did a lot of carrying.
(I might have to edit OG comment to add this in.)
lol
And I know the novel is slow burn too, but could they have at least cut/speed run something. This makes me miss again OG mangas, they manage put so much story just in one chapter and keep it together.
Picture can say a thousand words, so please USE THOSE PICTURES!
There could have been so much more plot to this... But same time I'm actually happy there was some real plot and not just snake porn. Usually when BL manhwa have snake with double dicks, it's all about that and nothing else.
That been said, quality of the art probably would have suffered if this was a longer running series, but it would have been nice to get at least 20 chapters.
One of the rare times I have seen yandere male lead that isn't already fully powerful.
Just wait haha
Okay. *Sits down to wait.*
It's so rare that ML is so interested on a person they love that they figure out themselves who she is without her needing to explain anything. And it's also rare that author writes it in a way that shows he needs to put effort into it. Usually it's just ML's minions investigate and then randomly ML knows everything... Commonly when FL was abused.
But someone being abused doesn't mean it's the whole personality.
I kinda like it that ML has to do some parts that often are made to be just "women's job" (Or uke's job) in the relationship. He is willingly taking on and carrying on a lot of emotional burden. He is also doing that while being the king of the nation.
I just love it that it's not again women's job to carry the story. Even in many BLs side character women has the biggest impact of the plot, especially emotional side, and many people don't notice it. I'm not sure do even authors themselves notice it and accidentally write women like that, because it's just so normal - and same thing with most MLs.
Too often when FL tries to pair ML with someone it's clear that ML have feelings for FL, or it's some isekai shiet that FL things they should be together.
This time everything is so ambiguous, that it makes sense. There hasn't really been clear romantic feelings from FL or ML, even if there is some caring, pairing him up with a good person isn't a bad idea.
Uhhhh... Definitely agree to disagree. They've been pretty clear I'd say
saying that, meanwhile FL drool all over the place when she sees the black hair guy and ml being stoic, is wild!
I know I'm autistic and asexual, so I don't always notice these things, but damn... Saying they have been pretty clear about it being romantic feelings is a bit delulu.
We know because we know who the FL and ML are in this story, but we shouldn't mix our future knowledge with the characters and where those characters are right now.
Are you guys ok literacy crisis for real. We had a whole POV about her feelings for him, which sure i guess if you need her to outright say "i like him" you can call it subtle? And a whole story about how she's a muscle fiend so that's why she's like passionately wandering around i guess? Tho her dream is to be an RMT and she's gonna have other clients eventually.
Not to mention all those drooling instances were in ML POV where it's also been obvious he's a super unreliable narrator who's interpretation of her and her actions are wildly skewed. Unless that was missed too?
Not really from ML POV when she first meet him ML isnt there, when she get her first danse it wasn t on ML POV, when she welcome the brother and sister in the "salon"/guestroom ML isn t there
Now you are mixing "respect" with "love" she is greatfull to ML indeed, she respect him as well, he s kind to her (probably the first one who is kind to her in her entire life) so of course she will "like her master" doesn t mean in a romantic way dear.
All of this. And LIKE is the most ambiguous word ever. I like my friends. I care for them.
Some people that don't have shietty families like mine like their siblings, mother, father, etc. and even care for them.
Like is so ambiguous we even use it just as a filler world in English language.
like, I know what you mean XD I like your take about the "like" word XD
If this had been manhwa BL instead manga yaoi, the main thing he got from snake would have been two huge dicks and barely anything else. xP
I like that this is manga so that isn't the main focus.
The world building this seems interesting. I kinda wanted to see the rest of the world outside them and the mansion - but maybe that is the point, leaving us feeling that there is so much more outside. And intentionally characters don't step out from that invisible boundary, leaving us intrigued and curious.