ugh, the thought bubble of "should i play along" being probably for the ML but also ambiguous enough (at least for me, i could just be dumb w typical speech bubble conventions) for me to wonder if it's MC,,,, and the way the suit was placed under him but with the sleeve over his neck like a hold,,,, ive rlly never seen smth like that stylistic choice omg
lowkey the silver-haired little girl's outfit eats. like her pigtails r so cute LMAOOO
tbh seeing ML's relationship with his sisters make me think about how MC's relationship with his brother had so much potential, and i'm not saying my opinion is better than what the author chose to do with it, but i just can't help but wish they took a deeper route w MC and his brother.
imagine how fire things would've been if the MC's brother wasn't going to spiral into that deranged obsessive trope. i honestly think doomed relationships are so well done when it doesn't focus on smth like objectification or a type of possessiveness based on that, because those things make their relationship kinda boring since that ultimately means that relationship was always toxic and not smth i'd root for if they lived another life. bc we can see that the brother had a sense of overwhelming selfishness from the start, but it was never really balanced out with a sincere sense of love for MC, or at least anything emotionally deep for MC, so i don't gaf about their past relationship or their current one now, or how the brother's betrayal would feel or even MC's since the brother has never been a good influence on his life. like the brother is such a 2D villain who has no ounce of redeemable interactions with MC, that there's no emotional turmoil as the reader. it' unlike how we understand taeoh's anger towards his sisters, the sisters' coldness towards each other, and the dad's mental and behavioral spiral, as well as how tragic that they turned out so strained and toxic to each other despite the reality that they only turned out this way due to the cards that they were dealt with.
tragic relationships, especially between childhood family bonds are always SO good when you can tell there was always a genuine sort of intimacy between them, and how good they could've been for each other if their lives were still overlapping, but due to circumstances they just cannot be together in any way. especially when it comes to siblings. idk, i just feel like. the brother being a piece of shit even before the betrayal just made me have 0 emotional investment in him, and his reason for being upset was MC leaving him behind made him SO boring bc wdym ur last thoughts were about MC not following your orders?? like bro ure dying, ur brother is clearly going to be TRAUMATIZED by this, and you are in deep shit and so are your friends because of you, and that's all you can think of? like i get that it points to him being a shitty and irredeemable character, but those characters aren't the ones that we are going to care about because there's nothing to be invested in. there's no potential positive networth to his interactions with anyone in this story, and we don't like him enough to care if he ruins his own life, that i just wish the author went a different root with him. like if the brother had insanely complicated feelings of remorse, regret, but also anger and guilt for what he got MC into and what he and MC did to each other would've made me so investedddddd.
i love the casual absurdism that transcends mainstream styles. like holy shit, the teeth thing??? for a common trope of sacrificing a body part for weaponry, ive never seen bullet teeth before. ive also never seen such a clean censorship of gore with a graffiti like style of using legit words (BRAINS) in that panel when depop gojo slashed the dude’s head.
i hope there’s some overarching plot for the returns. ive seen ppl say alternate timelines, but then there r probably tons of worlds out there where he wasnt able to return in the first place, or they never met, or a universe where there shouldnt be alt universes. i wonder if instead it’s a spiritual phenomenon that rlly does just rewind the single timeline of their reality, and it takes its payment in smrh such as encrid’s health or maybe the stability of the reality itself. but given this type of plot, it probably wont go there and instead the phenomena will just be rhat encrid happened to be special or resilient to crossing into death or smth.
lowkey if her mom was gonna spend so much time trynna call, why tf didnt she send a text earlier
i wonder if the betrayed demonic cult leader and/or the divine physician’s master who mentioned wanting to repay his life of bloodshed are related to the cheon dude from the modern world (the strongest dude/grandfather of the sharp eyebrows boss)
one of the few stories ill reread over and over again, tbh.
THE WAY I SAW THIS IN MY UPDATED NOTIFICATIONS AND I DIDNT EVEN THINK ONCE ABOUT THIS PLOT, AND INSTEAD MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS "this better be luffytaro." LUFFYTARO I MISS YOU OMGGGGGGG
who fucking thought of this like wow what a fucking prompt and execution
"why are you the only one who's hapy?" got me losing it, tbh.
i LOVE it when artists are cinematic. they speak more with their artistic choices versus the plot (fujimoto and his work w csm kinda reminds me of this, too), and i think it speaks so well when we follow this type of MC. like when in ch12 the backdrop suddenly becomes all TV static, and we just see nothing but MC's flat stare and the words of his coworker, like holy shit i could FEEL that. like when you're SO done and angry and you can't even do anything about it, and all you can hear is the ringing in your ears with the only clear audio and visual being the fucking words coming out of someone's mouth, like i could HEAR that white noise.
bald on bald crime, tbh. also love the moment the manhwa described kim naho's dad, i instantly KNEW that he was the falsified narrative that cops use to justify their interrogation techniques, especially if they were a korean cop from an older generation.
weirdly enough, for an abrupt ending that sucks ass, it's still somehow as satisfying as it could've been for smth that got cut. cuz like, they both got the endings that they deserve: the damn pushover of an MC at least gets to watch their roles get flipped where ML is the one who feels embarrassed while MC does NOT gaf, and ML doesn't even get to feel satisfied in messing w MC cuz he confessed to everything LMAOO. like, at least MC didn't get forced into a rushed relationship the way this seemed to be going.
blondie is such a loser, wtf. like who thinks like that
tbh, the way he repeats that hollow mountain is dead with the name in quotes, lowkey is making me think they did a cop out and bi gwang just broke the Hollow Mountain mask, and killed his persona but let the dude live. which, imo, is actually preferable, bc im all for the “friendship is magic” trope, tbh
ML suddenly became a lot less annoying and it’s bc he’s so stupid, it actually caught me off guard
can someone spoil to me what happens to the rest of idris' knights and what was up with the prince's and idris' hinted childhood friendship? bc i cannot read anymore of this (i stopped at the end of s1). mostly bc i'm reading the comments and apparently the ending doesn't feel satisfactory. while i can totally get that in real life, after so much abuse and seemingly never-ending tyranny, it's probably believable that the victims are just happy and relieved that the prince is dead and gone, regardless of whether or not he actually got dished any karmic justice for all that he's done against them. like revenge isnt even a priority anymore underneath longterm conditions of severe abuse- you just want nothing to do with them atp. but i personally cannot read that type of ending after reading that entire first season of just plain (and pretty explicit) abuse and humiliation against not only idris, but the rest of the order. like i just wanted to know what's up with the prince and idris' old friendship, and how the rest of the knights turned out (rip ivor, tho)