So we are chapters in and we already have sexual assault twice. Great.
While this was well written. I left this manhwa hating both characters. They are truly too toxic for one another to ever be a real couple. Cirrus is manipulative, cruel, co-dependent, spiteful, has abandonment issues, and is emotionally unstable. Skyler is violent, volatile, avoidant, apathetic, painfully insecure, self-absorbed, and weak willed. I honestly felt so unnerved by both characters’ backstories and while well executed, the lack of any closure for both these young men, means they use each other as their source of “comfort” from reality and while heartbreaking is in no way a healthy way of processing. I wish this was longer because honestly these two need additional fleshing out characterization wise, yet the reality is the author is right to end it this way because realistically there would not be a neat resolution to their respective trauma. Still it left me unsatisfied, and even angry that this will still be framed as “romantic” when all I see just see is a tragedy. I’m terrified of both of them and terrified of them being together.
Was it confusing for anyone how chapter 5 they’re in a dressing room setting, exit it see the pap, then by chapter 6 are already is the ML’s apartment. I’m so confused when this transition occurred.
Would been nice if we didn’t of course have a drunken sexual assault within the very first chapter. But we just couldn’t have gone without that of course cause how possibly could a smaller pretty top not be a manipulative creep like they AlwaYs have to be in order to “convince” their larger bottoms.
Forcing yourself onto someone isn’t “cute” and the ML’s whole rational for manipulating the MC is gross.
In actually male tigers have nothing to do with child rearing in the wild and are essentially sperm donators
Truly one of the most beautifully written and drawn BL’s that I have seen on this website. Top tier.
So like had the Mc never showered naked? Even if his parents may have not told him of his fated love’s name, there is simply no logic that he would not have seen this name at any point in his life.
I know ultimately BL and in general many comic genres do not take heavy topic seriously given in this specific case often times it’s the equivalent of narrative porn, but something about this manhwa has me so annoyed with the blond CEO’s unseriousness in seeing someone being sexually assaulted, witness their suicide attempt, and even completely understand the triggers but still decide wouldn’t it be funny to hehe make this person emotionally unstable because it would entertain me is so disgusting. And the weird thing is I can acknowledge how greatly he’s helped the ML and in the next be an unnecessary source of instability. What’s worse in any other context we know this very behavior would be rewarded with in fact ML and blond ending up as a couple because mental illness is cured by sex in BL land.
I genuinely hope Gen-Chan had the opportunity to find love outside of Takurou. Takurou lived a full accomplished life, had a first love, moved one and luckily was reconnected. Gen-chan deserves more than being an end of the road “prize”. Granted it’s Japan, so living a conservative life of expectancy is the norm, but this doesn’t mean just because Takurou succumbed to familial/societal expectations it’s still ultimately an excuse. Not that I don’t enjoy this but I hate when they do the trope of the two older gays getting back together after years and it’s always one who just stayed single alone all the years. It’s not even remotely endearing to me it’s just sad.
The exposition in this plot is not consistent at all. Just before MC knew exactly who his uncle was from somehow absorbing memories of his host body as well as having the knowledge that his uncle was the source of his lack of monetary funds. Yet chapters before MC had no knowledge of why his host body had such little funds available to him as well as in this chapter MC assuming his who his uncle was only after being provided outside information. It’s not consistent at all.
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Welp just finished the most recent chapter in the novel and just as you’d expect from your typical BL of course the prince proceeds to rape Abel as Abel sobs for him to stop on literally the dirt because we just had to have that. I’m truly exhausted by this genre. Literally can never have something nice.
I won’t lie to you. Grandma is my favorite character. I would die for that halmeoni. Thinking of you grandmama up above. Actually no wait, I can't invoke my grandma’s spirit over my porn stash.
I like this author but they somehow always make problematic plots come across as “whimsical” and it’s kind of messed up. I know it’s partially the art style. But really we have a gay teen bullied and abused by his crush, the crush is “cheating” on his secret girlfriend, bystander girlfriend observes this all in highschool this very tumultuous relationship and her youthful understanding sees this as “passion” rather than the toxicity that it is only for her to mature and still romanticize this relationship that she witness even as this misery a trois equally know better but still seeks one another. I truthfully wish the black haired boy had moved on he deserves to much better. But then this wouldn’t be “romantic”
Clearly this isn’t for me. I don’t find any of this funny. It’s actually sad. Noeul deserves so much better and ultimately for some weird obsession of friend x friend trope he’ll choose the worse option of Yeoreum despite this man being actual garbage. How is this “sexy” and “entertaining”, this is draining and sad.
So this is a supposedly a 31 yr old MC who acts this much of a piece of shit? Yikes. Realistically Noeul should have cut ties with this bastard ages ago, who treats someone they care about like this for years which such little emotional respect?
