pluviophiliac's manga / #fantasy wonderland(703)

so freakin’ sweet. i really like these characters! and the plot, too. (obviously, lol.) it’s new to me and i find it surprisingly entertaining; even though most of the translations are… borderline unreadable, not gonna lie. still here, though!! that should tell you something, i suppose. haha

whoaaaa. this woman is a LITERAL. FUCKING. QUEEN. (or empress, if we want to get technical.) mommy, step on meeee—i beg you. i’d even pay good money for it. (don’t kink-shame me, boo; i’m just kidding. well, not really... but kind of.) in any case: navier’s such a freakin’ girl-boss. does she even have ANY unfavorable personality traits…? anything she’s ever ‘done wrong’ at all? i mean, she’s basically perfect. literally so fucking cool and respectable and intelligent and admirable 100% of the time. navier’s always poised, always sharp, always socially adept… physically, she looks like a fucking goddess, too. ughhh, she’s just so goddamn exceptional. heinrey’s ABSOLUTELY her perfect match!!! they complement each other so well. their relationship is soooo precioussss, man... i can see why he’s so infatuated with her. why ANYONE would be, really. ‘cause, you know… same. i’d be, too! honestly, i’m low-key kinda amazed by the fact that his feelings haven’t been properly reciprocated yet. i’d be FAWNING over him at this point. heinrey’s a massive catch himself; if i had the option, i’d choose him over most guys in a heartbeat. loving these dynamics! i’m thoroughly LOVING this torturously slow slow-burn, too. ahhh, but it’s definitely worth the wait—i just know it. <33 the buildup-game’s been pretty damn strong and spectacular thus far! i’m always looking forward to the next chapter.

ohhh, this is quite different. i absolutely love it! i’m thoroughly enjoying this ‘slow-burn-that-isn’t-really-a-slow-burn’, and i’m really looking forward to reading more! our true ML’s a catch, that’s for sure. they’re going to be such a wholesome couple once they admit their feelings out loud, i just know it. edit: AHHHH, I LOVE THEMMMM. so glad i decided to reread it.

this is ACTUAL. FUCKING. COMEDY. GOLD. i haven’t stopped wheezing since chapter #1. seriously, it’s basically a ‘stop-i-can’t-breathe-help-me’ type of laughter at this point, and it won’t die out. it just keeps. on. coming. this is some truly top-tier, hilariously funny work of artistry at play here. it’s not often one gets a female lead like the weirdo that is the one and only geumja kim, lmfao. she’s an original; an ICON, and i absolutely love her to pieces. kyle’s amazing, too! but their chemistry, man… i legit, physically cannot handle any more of their weird, crude-but-strangely-wholesome banter—it’s killing me. my stomach’s aching from all the cracking-up i’ve been doing these past three hours, help.

ohhh, this is quite different. i like it! i have no idea who our true ML’s supposed to be, though, but i’m intrigued and excited to eventually figure it out. (i’m hoping for there to be at least a SEMI-wholesome relationship at the end of the day.) still, at this point in time, i never quite know what i should be expecting to see from these people. the different vibes of these ‘non-relationships’—as well as the overall structure and emotional complexity of each and every one of these characters respectively—are making this comic one rather enjoyable reading experience. i’m thoroughly enjoying this ‘romance-that-isn’t-really-a-romance-yet’, and i’m really looking forward to reading more!

whoa. this is fucking HEAVY, man… albeit in the best type of way. i don’t even know what to say. this is pretty damn dark; oh, so dark… but simultaneously, it’s so undeniably exquisite—genuinely enthralling writing. this is exactly what a graphic novel ought to be: art in the shape of words; a rare masterpiece. it almost has this… ‘dark maturity’ feel to it that just keeps pulling me further and further in. it’s intricate and pure and depressing and compelling and unique and delicate all at once and ughhh, fuck… the level of artistry’s strong with this one. not only is it beautifully complex, well-paced and so fucking well-written, but the art’s also out-of-this-world ETHEREAL… even my hollow heart feels heavy at this point. whatever the case: ’twilight poem’ deserves so much more recognition than it’s currently receiving, and it sure as hell deserves a lot more than a couple of nice words from me. the overall quality’s definitely not something one comes across every day… knowing that, there should be much more high ratings for this; much much HIGHER ratings. so much depth, so much emotion with these characters… i can’t stress this enough. and i CANNOT understand why it hasn’t gotten as much attention as i feel it’s earned. truly, genuinely striking. my emotions are all over the place right now. this is art! i wish there’d be a side story somewhere down the line, though. however much i appreciate the ending, i was informed of how lacking the manhwa’s ending was compared to the novel’s—which is somewhat understandable, now that i know the circumstances of said rushed ending to some degree… but i also won’t mind if this really is the end. i’m just so happy for soru to be at peace, honestly. and even more happy that she got to be with yato! ughhh, i love this match. good for them. <33

i haven’t written a review this long in YEARS, i believe. brace yourselves. first of all: i thoroughly appreciate the emotional complexity, gorgeous art and character growth—which was EXTENSIVE for respective individual. there was nothing typically ‘black or white’ about this story. it’s different from all the things i’ve seen and read in the past… so beautifully haunting. second of all: this is just… a tragedy. a truly devastating tragedy, if i ever saw one. evonne (or lillian rue, as her true name was) ultimately lost everything she held dear because of other people’s blind greed & selfish choices. she had no voice, no free will, no way out—NOTHING. she was stuck, miserable & in pain, yet there was absolutely nothing she, or anyone else, could do about it. she suffered in silence, and her husband—whom she was so viciously protecting behind his back—never managed to understand her pure intentions until it was too late. instead, he doubted her. mistreated her. insulted her. karl was a poor excuse of a husband towards a genuinely good person who was barely surviving as it was. [P.S. i DO understand his behavior, though—knowing 1) how suspicious her behavior would’ve looked from his point of view, and 2) fully knowing that her father was a disgusting, monstrous piece of fucking shit with OPENLY bad intentions; a man who’d properly ruined karl’s (and so many other people’s) lives soooo, so many times in the past. that’s all i wanted to say. i’m not justifying or condoning his behavior—just clarifying it!!!] anyway. meanwhile all THAT was going on, karloi was in a constant state of existential crisis and depression; trapped within himself, always stuck in the past—the very past he agonized over, every single day without rest, for over a decade… and even more so after he married rue. karl drove himself mad. it was inevitable, though… not being able to save his savior, rue—the very person who’d so selflessly given him his life back 14 years prior—was probably the catalyst. he’d spent so many years looking for rue, only to then be told that she’d been dead all along… the one who’d given him his sense of purpose. then there was his ‘unwelcomed’ wife who constantly reminded him of the very purpose he thought he’d lost. he was just… broken. manipulated. puzzled. she was, too. they were both forcibly placed & stuck in their roles—albeit fundamentally differently. their miserable fates were always overlapped, but they were either magically silenced & unable to speak up, or they didn’t even know there was anything ‘there’ in the first place—fated to be left in the dark, delirious & confused. which one’s worse, hmm? imagine finally realizing, after suffering for so long, that your sole reason to keep on living was right in front of you the entire time… and you never knew. you never even DARED to dream of such a thing. instead, you felt so pathetic and guilty for falling in love with the very person you were meant to despise… and execute. but imagine putting your faith in that person anyway, despite the odds betting against you, and then experiencing feelings of such intense betrayal because of something that was completely out of either one’s knowledge & control… and imagine being unable to realize (due to magical coercion form a relevant third party) the true nature of your wife—who’s also, unbeknownst to you, a pitiful puppet who was forced to sacrifice everything for an ambiguous & ominous future; fated to lead a life worse than death… just imagine. i mean… i genuinely can’t. all i know is that i could FEEL the devastation & frustration though the screen. ughhh… talk about twisted a relationship!!! i just feel so bad for them. i’m feeling all kinds of things for these characters. it just wasn’t fair to either of them. they were ROBBED. brutally, emotionally and thoroughly stripped of their inner identities... ripped away from anything & everything that could’ve left a real positive mark on their lives. it’s just tragic. all i want for these two is a real shot at being genuinely happy with their lives by the time we reach the end. i don’t care how, when (preferably as soon as humanly possible ‘cause this whole thing’s just fucking brutal) or with who. just allow them be CONTENT, if nothing else… just content. that’s it. i seriously don’t know how much more i can take of this desolation… 80+ chapters of sheer misery, man. this can’t be ideal for my clinically depressed brain. sheesh… anyway. despite my melancholic, strange (?) & uncharacteristically extensive summary of the whole goddamn plot: I. LOVE. THIS. MANHWA. i love the dynamics. i love the dark ambiance. i love the not-so-subtle somberness & twistedness of the characters… and, in a sense, i love that devastatingly beautiful depiction of lifelong travesty and trauma. it was well-executed. (for BOTH parties.) the pain & negativity kept getting worse and worse the more i read—well, obviously. it’s definitely nothing like the wholesome, loving, sweet vibes i’m used to getting with comics within this genre… …but before i go: i just can’t seem to understand how or why the ratings are so low…? i’m genuinely baffled. however dysphoric the content may be, it’s still amazing, captivating writing. the quality kept improving by the chapter, goddammit... fuck, i really don’t get it. ughhh.

looks fucking HOT.

this. woman. positively. SLAYS.