My brain just sang: "gave up, my youth, for my, FUTURE. I just, want to, rise up, STRONGER!" (Social Path by Stray Kids ft LiSA). Coz damn, most Korean artists are really giving up the conventional childhood to train and get accustomed to a celeb life where every part of you is scrutinized (like most scandals are what celebs were up to during their younger days).
1. Ian overthinking and "never saw it coming"??
2. Back to back media exposure targetting him
3. Useless guide and villains popping up
4. Where's my bias man, havent seen him going OHM and say, hey ian, CHILL TF OUT
I dont know why most manhwas im reading right now seem to degrade character wise as chapters come.
Im just holding on to Debut or Die coz my man still keeps his personality and behaviors consistent (plus i know superstar at age 0 will be hella consistent given how faithful it remains to its novel)...even Millionaire feels lackluster. Sorry for venting, i just rated this high and now its just ... falling without much cohesion to it
I feel the same about Debut or Die lol. Luckily it has stayed pretty consistent and I’m excited for every update.
I’m thinking of dropping “The second life of an all-rounder idol” & “Once again idol” though :/
Oh wow, once again idol! I got lost in so many idol manhwas, ive forgotten about it for a while and idk why i lost that in my reading list. Just knew now that it updated some more. I remember liking it when i last read it haha. Did the new updates become stagnant, too?
Yeah it’s a bit stagnant. I don’t think it’s bad now, I’ve just lost interest in the story. I lose track of some stories as a result of not reading the updates ‘cause I’m not interested.
hahaha i get it
But im grinding my teeth for the pettiest yet most stubborn reasons that apparently all FLs just tend to have. Being a fool during vital occasions.
1. She's ever so obedient of her mother's wishes, hence her courage to go to the emperor and be with him. But being so obstinate when swallowing those orbs. The only pro is she gets to have a "closure" but not so much of a pro to contradict her devotion to her mother's wishes.
2. Always forgetting how much her husband cares for her and undermining the fact that HE has the experience in battle. Time and time again, "everything detail about you is important to me", but she gives no shit about dying (when the orb can solve this), about being his shield (when of all people, she's the weakest), and stubbornly uncaring of the ways other people try to protect her (doing as she pleases with the wraiths, having her own plans that can ruin the protection plans for her, uncaring about her husband's power and the other ways to collaborate with him)
I really really love the series, but these piled up frustrations and reading the last update makes me want to just vent more because it undermines the development during the last chapters. She was already peeling her ignorance away because she's got a whole political arc and scheming (which is super needed with how weirdly easy going this empire is becoming while corrupt nobles got smarts to be underhanded. Mukho, bro, so many ways to make use of it but somehow it just slips her mind as if her bloodletting also had her braincells dissipate.
yea especially since all her “scheming” seemed incomplete like she’d forget about it or plan itself wasn’t that good
yea especially since all her “scheming” seemed incomplete like she’d forgot about it or plan itself wasn’t that good
Leeching off of her misery HAHAHAHA and uh... foreigners as judge? Thats just sad yknow... and their stage is so lackluster, the second stage had more finesse with the props and role playing. kinda like BTOB's Blue moon for Kingdom. That was jazz inspired by lala land or so i remember. or as a Stay, the special stage of Stray Kids with that same jazz and bartender's counter for their rendition of Back door. (Im sorry for using real life examples coz i just expected more pizazz to it HAHAHAHA and kpop has so many flashy stages for reference
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Edit: kill me coz i swapped r&b with JAZZ... that bartender counter just brainwashed me. Let's use TWICE remixing Feel Special into R&B, they got some story going on there
I understand how its difficult for him to process his emotions, but i was disappointed that Euntak didnt point out the logic of their deal. It's besides the point that Dojae wanted to sort out his feelings, but he had the basic understanding that if he found Euntak predictable for liking his looks and saying it was Euntak who wanted to have a dating trial...Then what makes it so difficult to understand that part of the deal was to date with ONLY Euntak. I Even bookmarked ch26 coz Euntak spat facts at Dojae for knowingly playing with his feelings. But suddenly even Euntak doesnt seem to understand Dojae when Doaje jusr explained his disorder and when Dojae mentioned it, didnt go on to explain that the deal included being with him at least until the end of their third date.
After author used the disorder to clear things up, it boiled down to justifying his actions blindly or being worse as if to emphasize how ignorant he is unlike his initial behaviors. Dojae was even flexing his learned manners but doesnt understand the fact that the reasons behind Euntak's disappointment are based on those manners, too. Like why would Dojae suddenly be dense about the deal he broke and still claim he doesnt understand? And why is Euntak not as articulate and like a parrot repeat along the lines of "how could u do that"
I just feel like that arc couldve been better at calling back at their deal and im just frustrated at how this arc unfolded. (Just glad i didnt have to wait for chapters coz i feel like i'd snap lmao)
Im gonna drop at end of s2 just coz ive had enough of the heartburn. I see lapse of character coz the author was just as emotionally drained as I was LMAO but im a reader so it makes the nitpicking a little too easy. I was having a hard time with Euntak just getting worse in a way that he becomes oustandingly hypocrite coz he's the guy who also expected alot more considerations from Dojae when he's the one who doesnt have a disorder
You are soo right, the author keeps enabling and coddling dojae even though the way he is behaving is a huge red flag
I was really rooting for this manhwa but when "romance" was injected into it, everything just became trash. And this is not about the grooming thing coz she didnt groom him romantically or sexually, just the affection one would for a child she felt pity for. Instead, its the decisions she make now and who she has become.
She started off with a spine, holding a sword and stabbing the asshole to becoming the lowest piece of shit who sold her body to the devil (ie the mad dog) for her revenge while thinking about the flimsiest affection she ever felt and wanted to give him "if only she hadnt needed to take revenge". She tells him not to regret, lmao, bitch, youre saying that to yourself coz youre just as pathetic as before you regressed thinking u were better than the asshole, when in fact, your revenge has been taken away from your hands.
There are amazing main characters who doesnt have to stoop so low and compromising their capabilities for revenge. Characters who get smarter and more capable in balancing affection and manipulation, and with more control. She started from the top and crashlanded to being outright distasteful.
I THINK IM IN LOVE W U
Like the MC already is refreshing coz he's got a lot of bite to him. I was dubious of the white haired girl, but she's like an airhead simpleton who does as she wills depending on what benefit her (ie. That fragrance of strength lmao, what even was that...plus she's honeslty like a cat hahaha) but BURREN. Oh burren burren burren. I was about to spit at his 2d cannon fodder personality but he had some awakening there, good good good.
Now i'll just have to stop myself from cringing when another prideful, self persecutional, and angsty "adopted" outsider tryna stomp on Raon without much braincells to back her up.
U telling me she's like a daughter to the CEO but she doesnt call this pighead out on his BS? And i also didnt understand why yusung holds back on mr. Kim when he has been the ultimate villain here... maybe coz he wasnt aware or something? Then that's another heartburn for me, ghad. I atleast wished that the villain was actually competent but to me, it just seems like theyre letting him do whatever he pleases.
I think Yusung thinks that he just dont have strenght enough to fight Mr. Kim now.
He is just a trainee with almost none influence, but Mr Kim can make a lot of bad things happen to him rn, so he has to hold back for a bit, until he has the power to step on that disgusting bastard.
But he had a youtube informant section and knew how mr. Kim does some backhanded deals using taewon, he's being passive with him despite how heavy Mr. Kim influences their whole group. Also, Mr. Kim has connections but with how the author uses him, his power is almost always only because no one talks to the ceo as if its that difficult. I'd understand if the CEO was particularly biased towards mr. Kim but even mr.kim says the ex idol woman is like a daughter so he couldnt deal with her.
And now we even have some mystery egg going on, distracting yusung again to deal with other things to unravel some hidden plot from his past life, making Mr. Kim an annoying pebble in one's shoe.
if i read correctly, she isn’t the daughter. mr kim said she was *treated* like a daughter
Yeah, thats what im saying. "Like a daughter". Which makes it contradicting that mr. Kim still retains his seat when it seems so easy to oust him with all his worries about the ceo
omg, read your comment wrong!! yes, you’re definitely right.. but i’m trying to rationalize the way people have treated mr.kim by thinking most of the shady stuff he’s done doesn’t seem outwardly wrong to the director, and anything that would he’s doing in secret. also, with yusung being just a trainee he can’t do all that much to someone in power aside from what he’s been doing, which is messing up the plans mr.kim had to take advantage of the trainees. yusung isn’t really in a position to use what he knows against mr.kim in a lot of ways because i think most would see him as crazy.
I think yusung could utilize his youtube expose. Irl, so many staff even use anonymous accounts and trend (even when theyre fake) so i thought he could do the same. If not yusung, the ex idol redhead couldve double checked on the ceo coz mr. Kim often says the CEO approved this and that. Even with this attempt to ignore that yusung won the polls... but then we just jump to a different plot point of that Egg account hinting more theories on Yusung's regression. It just felt like Mr. Kim is even helped by the rest of the characters to fulfill his role coz otherwise, its easy to knock him off his pedestal ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Maybe the author just wants a typical villain.
Which is not necessary, in my opinion, I like to read stories when there's not a really evil person against mc and it's just mc improving himself and achieving his dreams with a few troubles here and there, but nothing too big. The plot is centered aroud mc becoming a better person, I really like this type of plots.
But, I'm sure a lot of people find this type of story boring.
Im also for bettering himself. But yusung's overall life and past has been ruined by Mr. Kim's interventions (and Taewon's poor decisions, but Mr. Kim basically trapped them...) and Yusung has been trying to clear these obstacle. I just feel like Kharby or that cat meme with straight lips and judgemental eyes coz Yusung's group would have had that arc of bettering themselves and conquering external conflicts like having new fans, competing with another group's better skills, or accidents...than a petty antagonist who can be sued as easily as Dora saying Swiper no Swiping QAQ this is also highlighted when mr. Kim sees the ex idol, "like daughter to CEO" as a threat and alot of opportunities had gone by to suppress mr. Kim but ut just doesnt happen. Instead, the story moves on to another plot point which is still about Yusung tryna make sure no one leaves, so overall, the goal is to remove the threat which is mr. Kim.
Im going round and round HAHAHA but I like the overall story, I just need the protagonists to get a grip because my brain just latched on the desire to do something about Mr. Kim instead of dropping it lol
I had a really bad heartburn witnessing how our little guy was getting bullied and even more when Zhan had to deal with that mfing aunt and cousin. But I was comforted by our little guy's determination to confront ALL his bullies as much as when Zhan finally moved out.
And honestly, even if it broke my heart that Zhan has yet to overcome his low self esteem, I was also proud of our little guy knowing when he's being thrown around by how Zhan treats his confession and reminding Zhan that he wouldve be so easily appeased by being called "baby" LMAO. (Also, it was another one of those "he could be fcking Bisexual, stfu " complaint in my heart when Zhan was trying to dissuade him ngl. I took that personally LMAO, but I calmed my heart just as quickly coz our Little guy is brave and resolute)
Body wise, yes. But i expected more from this old man. OLD man in his lasting toddler body ☠
aside from 100 Girlfriends (which still has its own iffy soulmate shenanigans, but he did pursue them with more seriousness) how difficult is it for Mangas to have relationships NOT imposed on them? Oh ~ polygamy is legal? marriage is a FREE FOR ALL! And the fact theyre all kids at the end of the day.