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in the wise words of peter griffin, it insists upon itself. For the better half of the story, we see the same kind of event over and over, "mc is a totally a pushover" "mc is actually le evil bad guy" "ml is craaaazy" "the hands! the hands!", its just this on loop...
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but occasionally we hear something interesting like "tap tap tap", or "you like me?? were so much more than that" so it keeps you going, but the end is literally just "yeah we crazy and we craaazy about each other", like what?? the dynamic isnt interesting, you pretty much already know by chapter 6 that theyre trauma bonded, so the whole SPOILERS
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the whole "my parents locked us in a room with scary movie and mirrors!!" really wasnt a big surprise, like, i thought we knew that, tell me something i DONT know. and the takers??? cheap. that was so unsatisfying, it might be more satisfying to eat dog kibble than to read that "big reveal".
I was so excited i wanted to know what the tapping was, since the manhwa was so obvious about the hands, i was certain that the tapping would be something else, something different, something even more horrifying. But no, its just the shitty ghost hands, again, oh my god. I read what, 62 chapters of a looping plot just for the payoff to be something we learned in chapter 2.
the "creepy" smiling in the mirror?? i was thinking, oh maybe the mc is an unreliable narrator, maybe the smiling is something hes actually doing and the one we see is the version he thinks of himself as. Nope, its "the takers" with their anti-climantic bullshit again.
The only reason im not pissed off at this like I am with lucky paradise is because this one at least delivers on the whole "porn with PLOT", even if the plot is underwhelming and they hit the same emotional beats as lucky paradise (none)