I wonder where the readers' feedback Mingwa talks about came from. I wonder if she checks pirate sites like this one. Because I think many people over here have clearly pointed out the strengths and weaknesses of this story throughout the years and maybe those comments could help her improve her writing. Because we know her art is good and that she's great at drawing confort and fluff. But, if she really wants to write about toxic and serious themes, she NEEDS to start building the characters' backstories and inner monologue/thougths early on in the comic. What made this comic an often frustrating read and what made the top seem irredeemable for some fans was precisely the poor early character characterisation. We knew nothing about Jaekyung's backstory and inner thoughts. Heck, we knew next to nothing about Dan's inner thoughts!!! You cannot give depth to a story without that. You can't grab your readers like that.
Like most authors Mingwa absolutely loathes illegal sites. So I can imagine she sticks to the opinions of fans on sites like Lezhin. They are definitely more tame over there compared to us degenerates. She doesn't give a shit what we think in the slightest .
When you mentioned how she should build up the backstory early on...I can see how that may seem helpful but in most cases when the authors take too long to build something up it loses momentum and some of the readers get bored. Imagine reading 5-10 chapters just about Dan's backstory and then the same amount of time on Jk's backstory before the main plot was even introduced. I like Mingwa's work but that would have me running for the hills. That's almost a full season just understanding how they came to be the way they are.
The main issue I have is with the ending. It was rushed but somehow I knew it would end this way. That's sadly what happens with burn out, you want to hurry up and get it over with which sucks for the readers.
this is the best comprehensive summarized criticism I've seen, and you're right.
Thank you :)
So... Neokinema's Ghost is alive (though apparently not very healthy) and he's the lover of Neokinema's boss (but also apparently his employee)?
I've reread this one countless times in the past 10 years. I just love it so much. Would LOVE to watch this as an anime.
The special went in a completely unexpected way to me but it was silly and made me laugh
I say this because there is no romance (so far). Only mostly politically-driven noncon sex.
If you look at the definitions, this can, indeed, be considered yaoi. But not BL.
- Yaoi: media focusing on romantic OR sexual relationships between male characters.
- BL: media focusing on romantic, emotional, and often intimate relationships between male characters.
are those your own distinctions, or did you get those definitions from somewhere else?
when I was newer to BL way back when, I thought it was shounen-ai vs. yaoi - both had romantic/intimate relationships between men, but only yaoi would have sex scenes. and that was because of how manga sites used their tags.
I couldn't tell you where exactly, but then I read somewhere that Japanese fans wouldn't make that distinction along those lines (shounen-ai being literally, [underage] boy love) and instead, BL/boy's love was the umbrella term that included everything that would be considered shounen-ai and yaoi to english speakers. they would just use "adult" or age ratings (r15/r18+) to indicate if it had sex in it. meanwhile yaoi was a doujin term whose English equivalent might be "pwp" because it was fan/derivative content of an existing work that was focused on sexual relationships between men and not much else. if you go on Japanese sites, officially published and fan works will both use BL, while yaoi is more so for fan works.
all this to say that I don't think the "love" in "boy's love" isn't so strict that master-peace wouldn't be considered BL, especially when that's used as a tag to indicate that it's got an intimate, non-platonic relationship between men in it, even if it's not necessarily romantic.
This is what showed up when I googled it.
Indeed, the authors made at least some changes to the original season 2 plan. A couple scenes shown in the season 2 preview ended up not in season 2. Not sure if they will come in season 3, but we don't see the white haired prick talking to Yeonjo and we don't see drunken Yeonjo coming all over Hee-ryang for sex in his final episode. Interesting
which I can't read but, you know, I looked at the pictures. And it's a very open ending. Like. It feels like there is more coming. I'm almost certain there will be a third series. BUT even if there isn't, that goodbye did not feel like a last goodbye at all. Of course I don't know what they are saying to each other because, again, I merely looked at the pictures. But this feels very much like a "see you later". By merely looking at the pictures, it feels to me like their current relationship will stay as is. At the very least, we can write fanfiction of what comes after this. Or am I completely delusional?
The bottom of the last page says "expect sensei's new work to be released in 2027!"
so fingers crossed!
Yay!! Thanks
This is so sweet
so sweet it's giving me diabetes