I think the female characters are really likable but the male characters in this lack some depth (in my opinion). I really like the ML but he is a bit boring to me, I think his “tragic” backstory being so minimal exacerbated that. Him and Oze just don’t feel realistic to me while the two female characters have their shoujo quirks but feel like real people somewhat.
BUT this is kind of awesome… because I feel usually this is the treatment female characters get in a lot of shonen (zero character depth) so in a way it is refreshing ….?
Curious if anyone feels similarly?
THIS WAS CRAZYYYY two mentally ill gay people is like a nuclear warhead
this author is the S tier expert at sex scenes but this action scene was like ♂ “die” ♂
100%
I kept thinking the whole time the author seems to have trouble creating anticipation, and tension for violent scenes.
The attempted murder explosion thing got swept under the rug so fast I forgot it even happened. And this, a younger brother attempting to murder his older brother, a VERY dramatic situation, has no insight into the character’s psychologies so Heonjae is explosing his true feelings. But WE DON’T EVEN REALLY CARE bc we never got to have his context…
There’s show don’t tell, which works great for sex scenes, but…
idk whatever guwon does he’s just a cutiepie to me. go ahead kill everyone honey you’re doing great
Go Guwon Go!! You're doing great Guwon!! (Kim Kardashian's voice)
Kim Kardaaashian *insert that makeup influencer voice*
this is the fluff before the storm
i wish this story was just dead dove with heonjae but i just know jingi will be redeemed or some shit
Fuck Jingi, give me more heonjaeeeeee droolllls
what will be his deal? im afraid he’s going to be super ikemen emotionless cool second male lead. i dont want a love triangle but … i am putting my guess here now
I think he will fucking die if Guwon catches what he is doing right now
Rape fetish much? weird ass predator behavior
… but he’s not as horrible as wookyung!
i feel insane reading everyone sympathizing with minho and giving him some baby treatment saying he is completely innnocent - he is a bad guy! with bad habits! that’s what makes it interesting to read! i definitely think sadistic beauty is more complex in its characterization (it is significantly longer…) BUT this is an interesting (?) gooner character study of a horrible person being put in a horrible horrible situation.
he didn’t deserve it, nobody does, but why can’t like 50% of the readers acknowledge the greyness of his morality?
all in all i really like the characters this author creates. wookyung in this, though, is the most boring lonely suffering from success rich handsome rapist CEO archetype. he’s way more interesting as a morally reprehensible switch. minho is so interesting and deeply relatable as a self flagellating hater who just externalizes all his insecurities.
does anyone else feel the same as me ?? i feel like there’s a strange mass hysteria where nobody has reading comprehension but i am Literally on Mangago.com so wtf am i asking for.
and fee free to disagree with me thanks for reading xoxo
I want to talk about my thoughts and see if anyone agrees. The beginning dynamic is SO good and I love Seo’s characterization. I feel like the story really loses its way after the midpoint after it’s gone from enemies -> office situationship. I enjoyed the push and pull and romantic buildup but as the characters became more vulnerable it had a way of ‘taming’ Seo which completely changed his original characterization and thusly the entire romantic dynamic. Also the kidnapping plotline was crazy the story felt sorta rooted in reality (other than the insane dick size) so the random 2 day abduction that resulted in no emotional duress for the victim was really jarring to me as the reader.
I just felt the latter half dragged on. I feel like by adding all these problems to the protagonist it led the relationship into a classic yaoi dynamic which just destroys Seo’s character as an argumentative guy who is difficult to get along with. I understand it’s supposed to be him developing and understanding himself but it pretty much neuters his character.
Does anyone agree or have similar thoughts? I was just pretty disappointed at the end but the beginning was seriously so awesome.
I totally agree :(( I binged the first season a few years ago and then last year finally came back and finished the whole thing and I was soooo disappointed by the last like 3rd of the story. The initial dynamic was so good and it was fascinating to see the emotional struggle between the characters. But then suddenly Youngchan starts to get more aggressive?? And pushy?? Even though his whole storyline is about how he's a sweet guy but people find him intimidating/scary because of his size?? They had so much tension at the beginning but by the time we get to the end of the story it's mostly intense smut scenes that feel out of character and underdeveloped.
And yeah the kidnapping storyline..... "big strong man needs to save his defenceless little guy" is not where I wanted this story to go at all. I miss when the characters felt like adults. Yeah they were petty and there was a lot of over the top silly shit but what really stood out to me was that both of the leads felt like and were drawn like adult men with jobs and independent lives. Seo in particular felt like such a real, emotionally repressed guy. I miss that version of him and what the story could've done with his character. And I really loved Youngchan too but by the end I started to find him kinda intense and uncomfortable.
Exactly. I really liked the first season but it gets kindaaa boring midway
Exactly!! Especially to your point about how they’re drawn as well - looking back at chapter, you can see how the artists depiction of Seo becomes progressively ‘cuter’. I just love subversions of romance tropes and this suddenly became very binary in a disappointing way.
Omg real the side stories
I mean in the side stories you can notice that even more I could not finish them tbh
I skimmed past them I can’t with the character assassination of my boy Seo