true enemies to lovers rec? not academic rivals to lovers. not bully x victim. not childish sassy banter. no they need to hate each other in the beginning!
idk how ppl can just dry swallow MULTIPLE pills. i’d choke and die
i hate when this happens but the art seems to have downgraded this chapter idk why it looks so bad and it really pissed me off because the story is too good for the art to be so chopped. i hope the artist knows that it’s okay if the audience has to wait. quality over quantity
i know the whole point is that they’re in the real world now but i felt so disappointed with the ending. we worked so hard and went through so much for 100 chapters and we don’t even get to see the characters actually have their happy ending. it just fades to white. i would’ve loved side stories but because the whole point is that they’re real now, i know we’re not gonna get any. the ending just feels a little anticlimactic and incomplete which is disheartening because the concept was very unique and interesting.
while this was very good, i somehow still can’t get on the chaerinxdeha (or whatever his name was) train. like i get it, they’re both og mc & ml but i feel like we didn’t get enough development and screentime from them two for me to feel connected when deha finally realized huisu wasn’t chaerin. also i would’ve loved to see more scenes of chaerin and her dilemma as a character who gained consciousness. i felt like we just kept getting the “tell me you love me without the script then!” line and nothing else deeper. granted, it is an important plot point but we only saw chaerin’s story twice within the manhwa and both times, she uses the same line. i just wish there was more depth when it came to her feeling tired and anxious about her world.
also, we never really got to see much of deha and his conflicts. like the whole “who are you?” would’ve hit harder if we knew who he was more and if we saw his interactions with chaerin. it just didn’t really make sense to me because this entire time he’s been “chaerin is chaerin” and we never got any scenes of him truly questioning his existence so when he snapped it felt very sudden and awkward. it wasn’t the gotcha moment i would have liked. it fell rather flat. it was just like “oh ig he realized chaerin is gone” ??? which doesn’t make sense because he’s the only character who was adamant that husui was chaerin. so to see him be the only one to remember the real chaerin felt a little out of place. and i know it could’ve been done because all the other characters went thru a conflict when they were remembering husui. so it just felt very sudden for deha to do the same when we never got to see him outside of the music room scene.
it just feels like there’s a lot of missing scenes. otherwise, it was a good story. sigh…
maybe it’s just because i hate overly righteous characters to a fault, but he’s getting on my fucking nerves like you wanna save everyone, you wanna give up all your shit, you never wanna rest, blah blah blah we get it. does he not realize that if he doesn’t rest, he’s going to fucking kill himself from over exhaustion and stress? and then what? now that he’s dead, he can’t save anyone. i hate foolishly selfless characters so much
this shit is so peak.
i’m actually very happy with our mc. she’s not a self insert or a mary sue. she’s very normal. quite ordinary besides the fact that she’s clever. she feels like a real person and that’s what makes this manhwa so enjoyable. she’s not foolishly selfless but she’s not some bitch. we need more mcs like her, people who aren’t one extreme. she doesn’t blame others easily and is very rational with every action she takes. if a third of female mcs were like her, i would give up my first born.
i binged this. homie is insane. imagine you kill someone and as they’re dying, the mf is smiling at you and saying “i’ll see you tomorrow” FAWK NO. how is this mf happy to die LMAO he’s crazy
hot take: this doesn’t need romance. idgaf about the ml AND the 2ml. i need my girl to escape and recuperate in a peaceful country
oh my goodness. poor original astrid i can’t believe she actually sacrificed herself when she barely even knew what was going on..and the fact she disappeared and no one noticed my girl
this is such a non issue and i know this is literally a magical fantasy setting but i hate how short her skirts are they look tacky imo
stone me i guess but i really don’t give a shit about mariarty’s revenge or her love story with alfie. maybe it’s because her backstory was half a chapter but i just didn’t connect with it, didn’t care and then the sudden romance between alfie and her. this manhwa is written really well but i just can’t get over the sudden romance between her and alfie. i get it, most of it was obscured so it could be revealed into one big mystery but because of that plot point, it doesn’t feel very genuine. it was like “oh and just so you guys know! they’re in love!” i would’ve been more interested if she was actually a cold hearted killer but no of course she had to love alfie and that’s why she hesitated. if she had just killed the mc by slicing her throat, i would’ve gave her her tens but of course she was in love and hesitated.
perhaps if this was written from mariarty’s pov, i would’ve cared more. i also don’t care that she wanted revenge on duke adler when it was HER country’s leader that said to protect the mana stone research shit and not their citizens. personally, i feel like it doesn’t make sense? like sure you’re mad at the enemy? but your leader literally sent your sister to her death by pulling troops out from protecting the citizens. so why are you not mad at him? seems a bit hypocritical. i’m not defending the previous duke but it’s like, homie your leader didn’t give a shit about you or your sister and that’s why the girl is dead lmao.
i do think a missed opportunity was writing out alfie’s character more. we didn’t really know him so i genuinely did not give a shit when he was revealed to be a cortina spy. maybe if we actually got to see more scenes with him, the betrayal would’ve hit harder but it was just one of those moments where i was like “oh shit? he’s a spy too?” ugh the story has been written really well but for some reason, this climax felt a little anticlimax. it’s still a good story but i hated the way ch 65-66 were written.