I love how it recognizes the impossible aspects in BL manga. Like, I think yaoi is a women’s genre because the male body is relatively more unfamiliar, so it’s nice to fantasize about the possibility of having amazing sex all the time because this or that organ “is designed that way”. It’s BS the same way women getting wet and horney as soon as a guy touches her is BS (which is why it’s hard not to cringe at straight or yuri erotica) yaoi is a nice way to escape reality and pretend things are easy, but I appreciate this hidden gem sorta breaking the 4th wall on what makes yaoi so popular!
Having read the novel version,,, this story like, IMO, kinda breaks down a little at the end and doesn’t have any real character development like the hour glass story (which I absolutely love). This is by NO MEANS a “copy cat”- it’s definitely very different and original, but it gets more reliant on tropes and the enemies being unbelievably dumb (rather than the protags being clever) toward the end that it was a pretty huge letdown for me personally. I personally liked “the villainess turns the hourglass” way better, but I’m definitely biased because I read that novel before this novel.
Where did you read the novel?
It’s on Wattpad, search the Korean name or search up the user “yourwebnovel” not completed though.
Also, I respectfully disagree with some aspects of this statement. When I finished reading the novel ‘The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass’ I was unsatisfied with the ending. It was so abrupt. It made me go ‘is that really it?’ Especially when I read the side stories... instead of a proper ending (side stores). it felt like another cliffhanger. I was desperate to see if there was more to it. But I couldn’t find any more chapters past 288.... Also, I don’t think character development is really important near the end of a story... because it’s the end. What more is there to develop? I haven’t finished reading this complete novel, but I am hoping that the ending isn’t abrupt as it was in ‘The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass’... But if I had to choose between these two MC’s as of now, I would have to pick Aria. Simply for the reason that she is not as Mary Sue as Elena is. Right now, it feels like everything is a bit too perfect for Elena, and Aria also has better character development. Also because while reading the novel and how it describes Elena... I sense myself getting annoyed by her character. I find myself in my head going ‘okay, okay, we get it you’re sooo perfect and you have this master plan blah blah.’ I felt as though she was a bit arrogant. Aria is arrogant, but in my opinion, not as much as Elena... IMO. Again, this is a bit unfair of a comparison since the story has not even ended, but my opinion will probably change once I read the complete novel for this manwha. Idk. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Spoilers for hourglass, FYI if anyone else is reading this...
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I can’t remember where I read it, so I can’t confirm the chapter count, but I didn’t really care for the side stories in hourglass too much either as I recall. I think they rushed mielles stuff at the end, and the downfall of isis was kinda predictable,, but the character development I’m talking about with aria is her development of self love that Asher helped her with by gently just supporting and respecting her. She was an unreliable narrator. She hated herself a lot and almost agreed she was evil and should therefore take her evil revenge in her new life, but through Asher she realizes her personality and origin don’t automatically and her evil, and that she shouldnt just accept that stereotype people gave her in her first life. She herself doesn’t change, but her opinion of herself does as she realizes that her assertiveness and cleverness can be used to help and make the lives of people around her better. Arias story was an underdog growing personal strength and helping those around her even if she called them “pawns” (pawns she cared a lot about and took care of by bearing her fangs at those who wronged ‘her people’) I think what I didn’t like all that much about Elena is that her redeeming points are only shown by like, other people complementing her, or her enemies just being plane crazy or rude (idk where you are but it was kinda cringey, Mielle messed up in hourglass, but og-Veronica was straight insane at one point) additionally, elena’s harem romance aspect made her feel really cheap, because ultimately her relationship development with any ML was really weak. I definitely liked veronicas battle with leabric, but that imo got cut too early. After that, all of veronicas opponents were too easy ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks! (≧∀≦)
I’ve known for a while that’s sooha isn’t actually smart, she overly relies on the ai too much. But if you reread from the beginning, like, why didn’t she just go back to the Forrest where her body was found? Her ship was likely there too, and lo and behold- it’s right there. She’s not worried at all that her gun went missing, and Murdoch obviously has an arc too. Like idk, I think the author wanted to tell certain stories at risk of making their characters kinda shallow/hollow? Like, Murdoch predicts when it’s gonna rain in an early chapter the same way sooha knows when it’s gonna be foggy. How has she not connected the dots? Also, now in ch 20, she can scan the entire mountain for the knights test, but she can’t go to the end he of the Forrest to scan for her massive ship that was originally sending out an sos signal to the bracelet? She acts like she has no idea where the ship could be. It’s not her fault the story doesn’t make sense, but if the author wanted to make it look legit that she’d need the knights order to find her ship, the author should have made her find its crash site, but the ship itself be missing so she’d assume someone took it. Like, the plot setup is so weak...
Yeah you’re right I didn’t really think of it until you mentioned it. The author set up this story with a lot of plot holes
tbh this reasons are also the reasons that annoyed the hell out of me from this story. she relies too much in her ai that without it, she's basically dead at this point. there's also too much plot holes that it's irritating
it's kinda like me with my reliance on calculators to help me with math ;w;
Can the new ml start loving and taking care of our protagonist already?? He needs so many hugs :(
yes, fuck the ex but please someone help Joyoon, my heart can't take this
I’m all about these female dominant relation ships. I hope the executive director gets with the other secretary!
Sooo dark and good I’m so excited to see more. I hope the two kids in the more modern day make it. They seem so sweet
I read this a while ago but it was “completed” without the last few chapters. I can’t believe it got even sadder/sicker :C
Why he would ask for clothes that disappeared instead of money to buy clothes or stuff to pawn. Why would you ever do anything but money?
I forgot what happened in the last chapter when I started the newly uploaded three and shot water out my nose laughing when I remembered. This webtoon is so gold. A+