In my experience, it’s very rare for a webtoon/manga/manhwa to ever write mental trauma properly. In terms of coping mechanisms, behavioural and psychological issues. They usually come out really cheesy, illogical or end up magically becoming better due to the power of love. So I’m very curious on how they will approach it, obviously I’m not expecting details equivalent to a psychologist major but I hope the author has really done their research.
Look regardless of research or not I also hope they did do their research but it’s hard writing an original story and drawing it so I wouldn’t be so harsh on creators
Absolutely, as long as there’s common sense I literally won’t be expecting that much. However, the internet is also free it won’t take too much time to research information to be able to write a story on SA trauma sophisticatedly. Especially if your story is going to be centered around the topic.
im kinda tired of people mentioning Research in regards to something that is so steaped in the personal. to write a story this raw and empathetic and thoughtful requires experience and perspective that cannot purely be gained from just Reading about a Thing in a psychology book. research can give u knowledge and ideas and is necessary for most fiction to be its best but it cant make you FEEL the pain or confusion or self loathing etc that survivors of abuse (of any kind) can go thru.
i dont know the writer's life or gender or sexuality but i do strongly feel they are pulling some of this from their own experience or soul and not just research they read somewhere or a few interviews with irl survivors (and considering the stigma it has esp wrt men esp wrt korean society, i cant imagine the writer was able to get a bunch of volunteers to spill their guts to them for a webtoon plot.) there's a saying that art imitates life. so it may well be that this is inspired either by their own life experiences, or a close friend/family member who went thru smth similar OR some combination which may or may not have been further supplemented by "research". just want yall to stop assuming like this writer could not POSSIBLY be using this story to work thru their own stuff rather than they only did lots of research thus they were able to make this story. (thats not how research works yall js). the story also seems to outright reject alot of common BL tropes for kr webtoons. which may be a coincidence or intentional. but its a big part of the story's charm and sense of reallism.
Your point is completely valid. But research isn’t just an academic term, that can only be used in descriptions of science or history etc. It means a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding. Generally, it’s very rare for a psychological BL story specifically, to be based on personal experience. However, it can be inspired by other’s who have been through it. And obviously you’d research into it or investigate meaning asking certain questions and details or if it’s too sensitive to ask you’ll find other sources to fix gaps. Otherwise, if you only know minuscule details, and don’t know the rest, it’s massive holes for a story.
The reason for why most stories in this genre fall short is because they’re not writing a (auto)biography, experience is important but can prove to limit your writing by being biased and narrow. That’s why research into other details and other experiences are important. They’re not writing a real-life based (auto)biography, they’re writing a story and most of the time it’s hand in hand with the mystery and thriller sub genre’s. Because of this, characters with mental trauma’s aren’t depicted properly and often have to be resolved by love or death. Sometimes in worse case scenarios the characters don’t even seem like they’re traumatised they’re just portrayed as ‘edgy’.
Also, experience really isn’t needed in stories that aren’t personal pieces such as memoir or autobiography. If experience was such an issue, how would authors write about dragons, elves, dwarves, magic, rebirth. Research is highly important beforehand so your writing doesn’t struggle trying to come up with ideas when you’ve realised you’ve neglected an aspect of your work due to assuming you can write it loosely based on your ‘experience’ such as hearing or reading some work that one time, but not extensively researching it.
Look I know it was for the sake of the plot but it really didn’t need to keep going on for SO LONG. At first it was cute and you’re so anxious to finally see the secret come out around the chapter 20’s but it gets dragged out for SO LONG that it honestly becomes irritating especially since the chapters itself don’t hold any value or depth (nothing necessary for the plot development) but to keep dragging on. At least make the second FL more insidious so it’d be more dramatic or something. Maybe even a second ML that tries to sweep the MC off her feet. IDK JUST GIVE ME SOME FLAVOUR.
This story is s t r u g g l i n g to pick whether it wants to be an aristocratic rebirth, a system rebirth or a murim story + interstellar dimension trading PLUS financing. It’s working out ok, but it’s kinda weird to read HAHAHA and makes certain concepts so far fetched I don’t even know what I’m reading anymore.
Yup... honestly it a chaotic mess of genres... but it is refreshing in it's own way?
Somehow it kinda reminds me of Cultivation Chat Group with all the exchanges/favors... is not similar to it... but for some reason it reminded me of it...
Lol. My impressiont oo
Sameee!! When I come back to this webtoon I get confused what genre it was... I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, but it DOES keep me reading hahaha
With how much they’re boosting him, mana, cultivation, able to buy and learn other stuff from the interstellar dimension (what’s next? MECHA? Finna come GUNS BLAZIN). He better be tryna fix a whole empire corruption and take down the corrupt emperor or be battling the demon race AND corrupt holy church
There’s a lot to unpack within the first like 10 chapters or so and it can be abit much and confusing especially if you read the summary first and was expecting for it to be immediately centric around Bira. If anyone’s planning on reading this I’d recommend to not skim through it and take your time. Because the beginning chapters are very much setting a huge stage for future massive plot points.
I’m so happy they took a different direction to Tae Gang’s character. Was worried they’d make him a chuunibyou prick.
Ain’t no way they downgraded the art this bad. Lines be looking shoddy as fuck and the MC went from looking his age (26) to looking 18 MAX. It’s still an ok read (despite the same concept every arc), but after season 1, I personally can’t look pass the downgraded art especially since it’s such a HUGE drastic difference for the MC.
The art is amazingly good and kinda bad if I’m being really honest, sometimes hands or anatomy is abit wonky in panels and I even double check if I’m still even reading the same story when I go into the next chapter. But the art is still quite unique and very pretty especially the face and hair.
I really liked the ending, but I almost wished it was a more vague open ending. Let me explain why.
Regardless on how it ended, they’re both selfish fools. The ML being that he was willing to do anything to obtain his revenge and the MC portrayed as ‘selfless’ but actually choosing to be oblivious so his current lifestyle wouldn’t change (being ‘loved’ by the ML) is a selfish desire itself. You can say he was a victim but once he found the protestor group there was many opportunities for him to learn more about the awful deeds and tragedies of social hierarchy.
I just feel like the impact of this story would’ve been better had, it ended with the MC finding his self worth and individualism. Which he kinda did but the catalyst had to be the ML coming back to find him, in a sense it felt like his only worth was the ML.
Not only that since they had involved social hierarchy, they should’ve continued to finish up loose ends, for example who is the king now? What did the rebellion achieve after? It felt like once we reached the end, everything was dropped and not needed anymore so we could just see the couples happy life EVEN though the ML was the whole cause of that rebellion and the MC was fighting a huge guilty conscious for choosing to stay ignorant. BUT ALL THIS WAS JUST DROPPED?
Still enjoyed it, but I do feel bittersweet.
Honestly, A for effort. They tried to portray her as this strong, different from the rest, heroine that knows swordsmanship. But the execution of it is C at best. Since it’s only early chapters I’m hoping more character development from the MC cos she’s one dimensional at best. Hopefully that don’t make her suddenly omnipotent and she’s so strong against other men but can’t compare to the ML in fights cos this isn’t her body, she doesn’t have the strength nor reflexes of her original body.
Something about this is kinda lacklustre and dull. It’s a pretty good read overall but idk. I think it’s because the side characters are very blandly written imma be honest. Hell I only remember Sherry’s name because she has blue hair and Janitor because his name is Janitor . Maybe I’m just being picky idk, but it looks like the next arc will be more interesting.