Jieun's Favorite

a haunting exploration of the patriarchy, systematic oppression and exploitation, and the horror of girlhood. not womanhood, because these girls never got the chance to experience it. i love that the author doesn't shy from nuances, showing how the men and women who want to know the truth and want to escape the system are silenced as a result. how everyone else takes mental shortcuts to avoid confronting their own depravity and complicity. how the rapist doesn't care until it's his own daughter. how girls fight and betray one another for the dream of romance and oppulence and nobility. how girls love and defend and support each other whenever they can, even while dying. every chapter is horrifying and well-written, and the author is adept at making my heart drop the same way at the end of each.

from one writer to another, it's kinda hilarious that the author intended to base this on anne of green gables (wonderful series). i get how plot bunnies can get away from us, and how research and further contemplation on the subject matter practically force our hands to write something completely different. I've thought "it'll just be a quick fluffy oneshot!!! A would be doing this, B would be doing that... oh but then B would.... then how can A justify.... oh great now i have to plot out a total overhaul of the justice system" one too many times lmao

Nah I dont care what stupid metaphor the author tries to use, it’s impossible to feel like she’s the caged bird in this situation knowing she was perfectly happy to groom and use him for her revenge. So she regrets it now just because he didn’t use his memories to circumvent one ambush when he was a child in a war. It’s just too far-fetched to expect a teenager to prevent the death of his superior in a war that he wasn’t originally a part of, even if he did have his memories at that point. His path had diverged in the timeline same as hers had and how tf is he supposed to remember every little thing and be in control of everything when he was what sixteen? Seventeen? Be so fucking forreal. Maybe he was jealous of dietrich and wanted him out of the picture but even id that’s true, he only has so much influence at that point in the story and she was screaming at him for him for being a child in a war SHE PUT HIM IN. Not to mention, she should have reevaluated herself when she found out dietrich wasnt even dead.

She’s holding a grudge and being petty at this point and honestly it just sounds like she’s humiliated because she thought she had all the power over him but was wrong. She’s just butthurt she doesnt have all the control. Not to mention taking it out on the kid who did nothing wrong. She should have just aborted it if she didn’t want the responsibility of raising his child. She disgusts me. It’s not even that I think he’s innocent. They are both messed up and when they were villians bound for revenge together it was really cool, but now she wants to play the victim and act like he’s done some great crime against her for daring to be on equal footing to her. It feels like they put this scene that alludes to him assaulting her to make readers feel like she’s the victim but she literally created this whole mess in the first place. And then she kisses him on the cheek and cries about leaving him? I’m SICK of her.

this kind of Manga often shows an image that is really culturally bad for women.
often, they are worthless after a certain deadline.
They are stuck in a life of submission and owe their salvation only to the man who deigns to show them attention.

Honestly, I don't really know if the story corresponds to a manga. Let me explain: it’s terribly realistic, cold reality. It's a story about a couple who spent their honeymoon where one of them made a mistake and the other must forgive them. This is not a funny story. It’s a frustrated story of a perfectly imperfect human.

If y'all want more chapters there's a website called "mangajinx.com" and it has this and more stories/manga/etc. That's where I read sometimes

i wish the ending was more romantic which i guess was difficult but i can’t help but be so underwhelmed by the ‘ending’. the two people talking about death the most and they don’t even die together….or get to be together at all. it kind of just seems like all that build up was for nothing? what was the point of tsugumi popping up all the time like the bad guy.. but never actually doing anything besides talking shit? they just said “oh btw he might have killed kaname’s mom!” and then just moved on..? i loved the edginess and morbidity of this series!! it feels like there’s no real resolution to anything. shiina is still living ..? kaede has brain damage and kaname doesn’t get to be with shiina…. booo…

like be fr...when a random character rapes..or attempts to rape the ml or mc..should we just say it's his personality and move on....just like the third character we had in the story..I forgot his name...when he tried to do shit.. y'all were fuming and ain't no comment said it's just his personality.. please grow out of your double standards."SEX WITHOUT CONSENT IS RAPE"and it always will be...and If you saw consent in the sides...ain't no way we read the same shit... Please stop yapping these useless excuses about that being his personality..if you read the whole story..by the end they had good development...rough sex with consent exists and that's more his personality...

Crazy how some of yall think cheating is worse then
mental and physical abuse and oh wait...murder.