Like... for sure his older brother had more responsibilities, but did he have to gun him down while he, himself, fought for his own relationship? And isn't it hypocritical to judge his brother's love affair when his ex was bisexual? or is he just subconsciously traumatized thinking that his friend would suffer the same fate as he did with his cheating ex? then doesnt that mean that he thinks badly of his brother?? and the way it was executed was just showing qui yu as a hypocrite who doesn't really care if his friend is suffering or that his brother is in love. like, all the while i'm just thinking, "DID YOU THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A PROTAGONIST, YOU SHOULD HOARD ALL THE GOOD THINGS??"
also... the conclusion didn't have much of a resolution, it kept me hanging coz at some point, mr channing(ew) and Ian's love affair is more interesting. esp coz the story raised channing's concern like his son and what could happen if their parents also knew... like, even if he isba ceo, being divorced with a kid actually gives him a tad advantage. coz, he already played his "role" to be married and have a kid. he doesn't have to come out to the world, lol, just enough like qui yu. tsk... i expected qui yu to understand, but really... his major role for his bro and friend is disappointing. and his opinion just ended as a slapstick kind of thing... there's no sincerity for me.
in the end, it really is just about a mage with special circumstances. their origins say men have powers to protect women but the way they handled it is for cowards because they're not protecting the women AT ALL. They're just hiding the truth and leading it to discrimination and have seemingly only caught the ring leader and his men, not the nobles involved.
im sensitive about this because that's the reality being written in this fiction. the protagonist is abandoned and looked at with disgusting eyes even if she saved someone only because she had magic. and the other girls had to be reliant of men even if it's also men that benefit from them. it's misogynistic.
sure, eco can be "eco", but for someone who wants to protect and save the other women... for someone who wanted to find women like her, the story ended with a superficial happy ending that resolved absolutely nothing except deny her womanhood by being "just eco". It's so idealistic to think that she could live as "herself" when it means abandoning her womanhood just to keep using magic freely.
from a stereotypic skinny-ass npc side character-looking protag to a sanpaku-eyed oga tatsumi overlord real quick. the more his twistedness is revealed, the better i enjoyed his character HAHAHA. damn, he aged like fine wine, too.
and his patience and carrot-stick tolerance. this is so funny and weirdly wholesome and fits the setting of hellbound.
the ending pair weirded me out a lil, but well, Keko's cute ~ and theyre an unconventional fam made in hell anyway <3
what use is her reading passion of philosphy, history, psychology, and the like when her actions makes her uselessly flippant and uncaringly obsessed? a child's body does not excuse it since she is very much well versed with practical knowledge like hygiene, paper making, and cooking.
Even if one is obsessed with reading and clings to it for dear life, a love for reading still indicate proper theoretical skills in analysis and knack for observation. The way reading is portrayed here, she only has a love for words and not the content of what she reads because shs doesn't seem to LEARN from it.
But aside that, her character becomes likeable when Lutz is with her. She becomes less annoying and more levelheaded with her passion. She is grounded by the characters that scold her which makes the rest of the characters complementary to her idealistic and erratic personality. but... it stopped just when things got interesting for me...
please mark this on going instead
Adele has a nice characterization. she is active and isn't a pushover. she complements Felix. And yes, she has the strong independent woman feel to her. which highlights her flaw, pride.
she tends to make decisions for Felix and this happens because Felix can be romantically passive, but she go overboard with cutting him short or assuming his answer. she's impatient and the author fuels it with the lack of assertiveness in Felix's part. so, yeah, i guess there's a reason for Adele to take matters on her own because she's the type to want straightforward answers.
if i have a mjor pet peeve, it's ch76. Adele is going on about how Felix is indecisive and didn't listen to Noah about what Adele wants.
BUT! Adele didn't listen nor even care when Felix shared his reasons for being clueless. He mentioned his trauma yet Adele didn't take note of it. instead, she's still hung up over her own wedding proposal. it was an opportunity to show Adele's empathic personality to know more about Felix especially because of the ring conundrum during the first arc (like come on, she's not curious about Felix at all?). Instead, I see Felix pushed to the corner with a roundabout flamboyance to show Adele he loves her. yes it's also politics, but the direction the story went made it as if Felix's feelings are trivial. like, Adele shared her own indecisiveness and Felix understood those. but Adele just brushed Felix's indecisiveness as a weakness.
that's why even if Adele is really just a character who wants to be secured of her own love life (which is commendable), that ONE scene made her heartless and selfish instead.











thanks for the laughs i guess?? but what the hell is that ending??