there's a comment saying the seme unsettles them. here's what it is.
not even the s/m dynamic is what makes it weird, really. put it this way. imagine seme is an ugly dude and imagine mahiru as a woman.
isn't it so much easier to see now how predatory the seme is with how he approached his job to become mahiru's manager? and that page in ch 3 where he says "I have to be patient" while looking at the condom is literally how groomers and similar manipulative men think as they wait for their victim to be more dependent on them.
there you have it LOL still love the art though
I don't think the thing in ch3 with the condom box was him being manipulative-- like, the two of them had already started a physical relationship, so "he had to be patient" for them to have proper sex since mayo was tired that day (which is also why he thinks abt the condom later that day after they have unprotected sex again). There were def other moments of him being manipulative, tho, I just don't think this was one of them lolol
Also even if he was an ugly dude and mayo was a woman, this would still be a gray area of the "manipulative weirdo territory". Ogink's obvs not all there mentally, and he *did* play every card he could to his own benefit-- but he *was* (and is) genuinely worried about mayo (and mahiru). Like, he for sure has a saviour complex about it all (and it gets translated into their s/m dynamic too) but he didn't get the job on pretense just to get under mayo's pants, so I wouldn't say he's "predatory" per se-- just another blend of weirdo
bottom reminds me of uki.. so pretty and feminine but also cool with the piercings and stuff.
Lowkey how is this so good? I was expecting pure porn slop but I'm definitely not complaining. Art is sexy as hell too
For those who didn't get it, Mo kept every single thing he got from He Tian. Everything in the box is either a gift from Tian or just something he left for Mo.
Look at how the box has layers of tape on them. Mo probably kept reopening it and sealing it just to open it again. He has tapes on He Tian's face on the pictures because he probably thought he wouldn't see him again and seeing him in those pictures hurt.
I don't want to spoil myself on the story. Is this complete?
No
It’s on a break
aww he used his first profit to buy a nice mattress for mo (and him to roll around in) sweetest bf who knows what he wants (comfy sex)
It's not that type of novel but why are Sungjae and Yoojin such a bickering old married couple I love it LMAO
Cuz it's secretly that kinda novel (apparently the novel is actually gayer if you can believe it lol)
is so fucking insane and I love him because his character makes so much sense and he's so complex. He doesn't know how to regulate his feelings and his affection because his family never showed him how to. Anger as a reaction to things not going his way was taught to him through exposure by his sister and he's never even been shown love so how would he know how to express his own if not through overcompensation and distressed outbursts? Don't even get me started on his manipulative nature because of his fear of abandonment. God, he's definitely one of the best written bl characters I've seen and I've read at least a thousand of them.
Also a lesson for other readers who only see "problematic characters" and stop there instead of seeing their role and what their characters are meant to show about human experience. Tbf though, there really are a lot of problematic characters out there who's just there because the author needs something to forward the plot and they're almost never written as well as Yuri.
TLDR: I kneel to you Park Nodeok.
Yuki-san being agender/gender-fluid brings me so much joy. I've never read a manga with a character with that gender identity. There's also the transwoman that Yuki had to guard. Man, I appreciate this so much.
clocked that "twist" pretty much as soon as nimiya showed up so like chapters 2-4 was just waiting for anything else more interesting outside of that but nothing much really happened. seme just annoyed the hell out of me. maybe it would have helped to know more about why he's obsessed with hotaru but what we were shown was shallow and unconvincing so he just came off as incredibly self-centered.
liked that part where the author made it seem like nimiya and oono was a thing but other than that everything was pretty much expected as so it was kinda boring to me.
Yeah, that means Author successfully make him humanly as possible. Not everything had a deep meaning and reason, sometimes human just that deeply shallow like that.
the character can be human and "shallow". that doesn't mean the story has to be dull and boring which it was, sadly.
Well, that's your opinion and I respect that. But in my very honest opinion, I like this story and it's very interesting to see a character that just like that and doesn't need any deep explanation and reason why he is like that
Wholeheartedly second and agree with that. As a psych student, even I have to admit that we sometimes overanalyze and complicate things that are too simple and wind up doing the opposite— complicated shi up. Refreshing to see this kinda story frfr