It’s 8.21 am and I’ve spent the entire night reading this manga. What I feel right now is awe and a sense of deep loss. That’s how profound and incredibly well done this manhwa is. As expected of jeongha sensei who wrote fools. I have honestly enjoyed the wild rollercoaster ride this manhwa offers. First off, the art is beyond gorgeous. The character designs are superb and the characters themselves are very richly designed and full of depth. Haesoo is exquisite. He is extremely complex, tough, bratty, scared, powerful and so very beautiful. There’s layers and layers to his character and the more we know the more we come to fall in love. Jowoon seems like an asshole but he’s so much more than that. There’s undying determination, immense fortitude and courage as much as there is brashness, and crassness. Taku for his part was an absolutely incredible character full of intiquing concepts. He was kind, considerate, mysterious, accommodating and so very satisfying. His journey of discovering love was powerful and so very human. Talking about the plot I’d have to commend the author for depicting such intense, such human side of things. There’s no fairytale qualities to this. There’s real raw gritty world and the multiple difficulties and harsh realities you gotta face when you’re in a difficult relationship. The taboos of being stepbrothers, the dynamics of separation, showbiz world and how it can go all wrong, these were all explored. Inability to communicate love, being afraid to be alone and lonely, how you fight your personal demons, achieve growth and love yourself as well as find your beloved: these are all depicted so powerfully in this manhwa. One of the most satisfying aspects of this story was how deep the dialogues were and how much angst, drama, romance, sex and life in general were woven together so well. We don’t doubt that this could be a real story for a second. The sex scenes were absolutely spicy and a treat for the eyes and heart! I’m still not over how haesoo and taku ended things. But I’m so proud of how haesoo managed it and resolved it. I’m so amazed at how haesoo and jowoon are finally able to be together after all those years of efforts. I fully do believe that taku got his happy ending. It’s a wonderful refreshment to see his ends being tied up. The reconciliation with parents and how that works out is also really satisfactory. It’s beautiful seeing how haesoo and jowoon connected so many things from their past dreams and realized them into the present. This manhwa is definitely one for the ages, a must read and a work that needs to be truly celebrated. In all aspects, this manhwa has some feeling whole and complete, albeit the bittersweet ness of the end. It’s like haesoo says, it’s when you finish a story and you feel like something is missing. For me that is a partner by my side. This story makes me so sure that I will find that someone too️
Love or Hate(Yeongha)