Ariest's manga / #Comedy(48)

A pretty solid webtoon. Funny and romantic with very likeable characters. No rapeyness or toxic semes in this one. FINALLY!

The story is solid and the characters well done. All throughout the story I was planning to give it a solid 4, but then in the last 10-20 chapters something happened that just put a sour taste in my mouth for the rest of the story... [Spoiler] I really hated how Jiho kept accepting the Producers advances towards the end. Like it honestly cheapened the whole romance for me a bit. Woohyuk had already confessed to him, and it was obvious Jiho felt the same way, but he ended up rejecting Woohyuk bc of the competition, which is like... ok fair enough. But to then accept the Producers advances towards you after that? When you're in love with someone else, and that someone else is lowkey waiting for you? That was just shitty (and totally unnecessary) So yeah. That's why it's only getting a 3 from me.

Art is really pretty and I enjoy the comedy aspect of this manwha, it's genuinely really funny. But I feel like the story has a major tonal problem. The story often touches upon really serious topics, like forced prostitution, rape and a loved one in a coma, but the characters and author just kind of graze over those things and proceed with the comedy, which I don't like at all. Don't include such serious topics if you're not actually gonna use them to develop the story or the characters, and instead just use them as the punchline of a joke. The MC's apathy also gets annoying after a while. At first his "I don't care" attitude comes across as badass and funny, but eventually it ends up being an obstacle to the story and the romance. We're at ch 44 and the MC still doesn't show any feelings for the male lead, on the contrary he keeps telling us he'd love to hook up with other people. It's very hard to care about the MC's hardships and whether he ends up together with the male lead or not, when he himself doesn't seem to care. The two main characters also don't seem very compatible outside the bedroom. All they do is fight, make incredibly selfish inconsiderate decisions and disappoint each other. Considering that this is first and foremost a romance story, it falls really flat in that aspect. 2/5