I want to know how is it manipulating or where is the manipulation going on. (I am not trying to be mean.)
Yahwi is exploiting Jooins feelings for sex. Textbook manipulation. Cain "tricked" (the author paints it as a funny hahah trick when it's more serious than its painted as) join into sharing his house for his own personal needs. if this was replaced by a guy doing it to a girl, this would've received a whoooole different reaction. You see how creepy that is if you switch the roles? They're constantly playing the "who is better" game to win a stupid little spat, invovolcing join in their whole mess, constantly toying with his feelings.
ohh Thank you
Character depth:2? That's a lot
Where do I even start with this dumb fucking story. Oh lord. If you un ironically like this, I am asking you to go see a shrink. It's chocked full of rape and manipulation which is painted in a positive light.
Let's start with the characters. They're boring and shitty. There is no character depth. NONE. What are their interest, hobbies, pastimes, what do they do after school? This story time and time again fails to bring flesh out the characters tees, and give them interesting personalities and hobbies. Even if they were all intentionally hobby-less you can do a lot with just that. But the author didn't. Even if they did have a hobby, the author fails to even gesture towards a single instance of such, besides jooin liking photography...?
Jooin has no personality. He truly has none. He is a meek pushover only designed that way so Yahwhi's predatory advancements can come off as "sexy", "hot" and excusable. Yahwi is a predator, r@per, and an assaulter. He purposely feeds of joins desperation to haves with him. He is emotionally behind, and lacks basic empathy. That would've been all fine and dandy if the author would've commented on it. But they didn't. If you like him, you like must also like sung woo. At that point, I'm checking your computer. And can we touch on how weird Cain is? everyone is saying "well at least he isn't as bad as cain ..."please read for a fucking minute. Just one. He purposely does shit to get the upper hand. Everything he does is to make sure he can get with jooin. He is a mischievous, dirty little bastard. He purposely does shit just so he can achieve his goal. Fucking weirdo if you ask me.
The plot is cheap and feels very episodic at some points. They sex, one gets mad, they get into fight, they have sex. Or, they don't have sex, they argue, then they do have sex. The same damn thing. This book is a hot mess. The plot is all over the place. Events just pop up suddenly without any real connection. It just feels like the author wrote a story around a specific scene they wanted to draw. Everything is loosely connected, and this story is honestly very shitty.
Character depth: 2/10
story telling: 1/10
style (not in art, but in writing): 0/10
art: 7/10
plot: 0/10
conclusion: 100% dropping.