
this got boring super fast idk if i’ve grown out of this genre of BL/GL but this felt kinda shallow. i just got uninterested in everyone around ch 30 and read it until ch 50 (cuz i hate leaving stuff incomplete) but just got so bored i dropped it. the second couple was so pointless like u don’t HAVE to make everyone in a friend group gay. tbh it felt a little like the author just made this up as they went along. i see how it might appeal to other people just not for me

Saaame! I’m at ch41 & I don’t think I can continue but like you, I also like to finish things.
People like Yi hyeoek and I do too but at this point, he’s annoying. Just because he confessed to Inseo doesn’t mean Inseo has to feel the same way & the whole “you can kiss me and we can have sex but we can’t date?” thing is exactly as it was when they started. The only change is that Yi hyeok has figured out that he likes Inseo.
He suggested the whole let’s just pretend it never happened and he starts crying and whining about how he’s done & can’t pretend anymore. It’s exactly as Inseo said about if they break up when they eventually date, they can’t be friends anymore. Them pretending ur never happens is similar to them breaking up.
Yi hyeok didn’t even last 2 weeks of “going back to how things were”

fr like that whole thing was part of why i dropped this, it felt like forced angst for some reason? i was also annoyed at inseo tho cuz like u don’t wanna date him u don’t wanna be his boyfriend but u wanna do everything couples do AND you don’t want him to like someone else? he wanted to keep yi hyeok to himself without solidifying their relationship and when he didn’t want that he got upset at the assumption that yi hyeok was with someone else. they were both creating unnecessary problems that didn’t even make sense and ig thats realistic to *some* extent but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s interesting

no words just no words are enough to explain what this manga means to me. i found this at the age of 16 (4 yrs ago now lmaooo) during the pandemic when i was dealing with coming to terms with being gay in a deeply homophobic country, i hated myself so much, and i felt so lonely. being a lonely queer teen, with no one around me who was like me, i thought there was no way out for me. this was my life and i would spend the rest of it hating myself for being the way i am and never truly getting to be me. this manga changed my life. it gave me hope that i could find community too, i could be loved for who i am too. i could love other people for who they are. this is something everyone should read at least once, especially those struggling with queer loneliness.

this is genuinely my favorite manga ever i think. i reread this every 6 months or so. i just love every perspective and how realistic this was. it’s not a sunshine-and-rainbows story, but it’s not pure angst either; it’s like life. i especially loved seunghee and suhyeok’s story, maybe bc i relate to suhyeok a lot. i don’t understand why ppl think seunghee had no personality since we get a pretty detailed explanation of why he is the way he is in the beginning, and how he changes as the story progresses. i love so much about this story. i love almost all the characters (pedo guy excluded obv). inbeom and seunghee’s friendship is so meaningful to me. inbeom isn’t your typical “irredeemably horrible bully” that you see in so many mangas. he is very flawed yes but some of the feelings (“now i know i’m the bad guy and people don’t change”) he suffered from resonated with me. i know its actually a pretty long manga but i truly wish it never ends every time i read it :)
every chapter i drop in to say i love seungha