This manga was such a let down. There were so many ways to go about this plot but it chose the safest most boring route ever. The first couple are okay they’re the most boring ones (no shade). But the second one? The best friend and younger guy? The first part of the story built up the husband to be a caring man who lost his way just a little because of (only) WORK but nonetheless cares about his wife. But instead of making the young man a stepping stone into fixing their marriage/separate them in a healthy way, they made the husband an abuser. It’s such lazy writing because if they wanted to separate them instead of mending them, they could’ve just easily made the husband continue his character set up and let go of the best friend instead of further ruining the already lazy plot by making him an egotistical loser. Something his young female coworker that was interested in him mentioned during her encounter with the drunker wife (choosing between holding on and letting go). The author clearly chose the abuser route to either excuse the best friends lack of communication and weak character or because the author couldn’t properly develop a more complex relationship such as a extinguishing/small candle flame marriage.
Apart from that shit story line, why did they make the boy like the main character? He could’ve easily just stayed as a helpful assistant. There’s so many things you can nitpick and it’s frustrating because I wish I could find stories that break through the mold. This story was just a roller coaster of failed ideas and set ups. And to just be done with it, the author slapped old tropes into the storyboard just so they can be safe with it. The art is just the same as the story.
This manga was such a let down. There were so many ways to go about this plot but it chose the safest most boring route ever. The first couple are okay they’re the most boring ones (no shade). But the second one? The best friend and younger guy? The first part of the story built up the husband to be a caring man who lost his way just a little because of (only) WORK but nonetheless cares about his wife. But instead of making the young man a stepping stone into fixing their marriage/separate them in a healthy way, they made the husband an abuser. It’s such lazy writing because if they wanted to separate them instead of mending them, they could’ve just easily made the husband continue his character set up and let go of the best friend instead of further ruining the already lazy plot by making him an egotistical loser. Something his young female coworker that was interested in him mentioned during her encounter with the drunker wife (choosing between holding on and letting go). The author clearly chose the abuser route to either excuse the best friends lack of communication and weak character or because the author couldn’t properly develop a more complex relationship such as a extinguishing/small candle flame marriage.
Apart from that shit story line, why did they make the boy like the main character? He could’ve easily just stayed as a helpful assistant. There’s so many things you can nitpick and it’s frustrating because I wish I could find stories that break through the mold. This story was just a roller coaster of failed ideas and set ups. And to just be done with it, the author slapped old tropes into the storyboard just so they can be safe with it. The art is just the same as the story.