if anyone has any recs for manga with nonchalant male leads like this one, pleasepleaseplease send
edit: BEFORE YOU SEE ALL THE REPLIES PLEASE HEAR ME OUT, I i dont have an excuse, lock me up.
ANOTHER EDIT: OH MY GOD EDITING THE COMMENT MAKES ALL THE REPLIES GO AWAY, IM A GENIUS!!
this was the og comment before i decided to start live-tweeting in the goddamn comments: i hit the middle-end of chapter 31 and the whole "when someone is an orphan, i feel bad, since its a story i know all too well" thing happened, i actually just got pissed off like DUDE STFU I DONT CARE I DONT CAREEEE. mc was kind of pissing me off the whole time, but like, dude, i know you dont know how agia lived as a child per se, but man have some self AWARENESS. I DONT CARE I DONT CARE I DONT CAREEEE STFU
ok so this is like, an objectively bad story, but oh my god its so perfect.
blah blah blah something about shitty ntr/coercion/mind control subplot blah blah blah blah HE CALLS THE RANCID BLACK HAIRED DUDE OUT AND ASKS HIM AND I QUOTE
"FOR HOW MUCH LONGER ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP TALKING LIKE A BITCH?"
AND PROCEEDS TO SMACK THE FUCK OUT OF HIM, like its so satisfying, like yes... ask these grimy ass "2nd male leads" for how much longer are they going to keep bitchinggg, i fucking HATE second male leads, and the ones in this were actually so awful so this was a satisfying moment.
this was so bad, like im not kidding, this was bad, like, actually not good, but SOOO good
WE NEED MCS LIKE THIS, JUST SMACK THE FUCK OUT OF THEMMMM
i just read the most recent "get my husband on my side" update, came over to read this update, and i actually got whiplash so hard i had to take a break and do breathing exercises
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)
you know what?? fuck you. i actually cannot forgive this fucker for the olive tree shit, like i love the story and im rereading it, but everytime they bring up the olive tree they burned i get so debilitatingly upset, like that shit pisses me off so bad, and like, sure he apologized, but like, that was NOT enough.
is the author fucking with me, i dont understand this at all, i know it hasnt updated in a while, but this is incomprehensible. is this some esoteric knowledge i wasn't clued in on?? whats going on right now??? plot where?? maybe im stupid
"its not a monster" you know, i might venture to say that the living plant hurling towards you at mach 20 with fangs and a stomach to gulp you into is actually a monster
i love this fucking manga so damn much, the human mind actually cannot comprehend how much i love this
if they fuck right now before even solving the relationship bullshit, im dropping this. mc was kind of pissing me off a little before with the waiting game, but if the mc has sex sober with a drunk off his ass ML before the ML even gets a fucking response, im going to actually lose my shit
this is the one time i wish the translations werent caught up bc i cannot stand to let this marinate, but also i cannot bear to read it as it updates knowing whats to come
I "read" the raws, and the only person who apologizes for the "miscommunication" is the ML, and even after that, the MC goes ON A DATE with her CHILDHOOD FRIEND. And... the mc family (drumroll) STILL DOESN'T APOLOGIZE OR EVEN ACCEPT THE ML. THEY JUST CONTINUE TO ACT LIKE TIMID ANIMALS. (btw, she goes on MULTIPLE dates with this guy and he acts HOSTILE to the ML) (and, the dates are part of the braindead family's plan to split the ML and FL up) oh my god i cant stand it.
One of the korean comments says it well:
"If you say it's okay after swearing at her in front of her and now you say it's okay, then you're just throwing away your dignity as a human being.
And why is the male protagonist a murderer and a criminal? The male protagonist and Nadia are now a family, but from the couple's perspective, isn't the family that kidnapped their daughter the kidnappers? They said it came from their own house, and the purpose itself was to kidnap and run away. In this world, it's easy to kidnap, confine, and abuse your own child, so you're just letting it slide? Aren't you going to explain? Are you just going to make the male protagonist the bad guy and wipe your mouth? If you're the ones who created that situation, you should have confessed that you heard rumors and misunderstood, and that you really kidnapped and tried to run away, and apologized. The writer is so pissed that he's forcing it into Chunhyang and then only blaming the male protagonist. How can they call themselves good people after doing that? If the family doesn't apologize during the conversation, I think I'll get even pissed and run away."
Another comment, (multiple chapters later) also puts it nicely:
"Those bastards are fucking ridiculous. They are full of themselves from head to toe. Instead of repenting their mistakes, they are ready to blame and criticize others. And even if Luke tries to suppress them like that, what can they say? Wasn't it a 'mistake' like spilling water? What did they do? What kind of story are they dragging out like this? They designed everyone around them as bad people who ostracize others, and they wanted to show the male lead laughing and bowing down to everyone while making it seem like he was accepted by his family, but it's too shabby.
And I understand that the female lead is a flower girl and is dull in relationships, but if she had been married to her husband, wouldn't she have realized something? Even if they're not childhood friends, is it normal for a man and her to go out together? And leave the girl home alone??? When she's lying down in pain?? Where did all those escorts go? You should have put more than five together. In the first place, when this incident happened, you were on guard on the rooftop and saw her get kidnapped, so you saved her. But then, all of a sudden, your husband??? What I hate the most is the forced Chunhyang story, but this cartoon has been forcing all plausibility into a forced Chunhyang story for some time now."
oh my god it doesnt actually ever get better. he NEVER gets a fucking apology from this family, once hes literally sacrificed himself for them MULTIPLE TIMES do they stop quivering when they see him, but not ONCE do they apologize. AND everyone (even outside the family and now including the fucking FL) misunderstands him and mistreats him oh my god i actually cant fucking stand it.
we nearly lost the plot, i thought wed NEVER release him from the brainwash, thank god its happening