Seems like the author is as indecisive as the mc?
100%
Yeah. I binge read this and the protag feels like he has "fuck my old life this is my life now" attitude. Which feels contradicting given how much emphasis he showed in wanting his fam to be there for him and how close he is with his professor...
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As for the romance.... weird weird phasing. It feels like the author is trying to make this a light reverse harem with multiple guys crushing on her but one after another and with end game guy. She gets cozy with guy1 then the story moves on to a new guy and so on...
He knows what he wants, no he doesn't. Someone is guiding him, he resists. Someone shackles him, he complies. The fck? It ruins the stubborness and wastes the frustration i felt towards his persistence over something when he goes on to fall back to basically losing everything after the ingenius "lets pretend i follow, but look at me actually fall off a cliff".
And the empty narrative about "whose body this is, who's in control" when it's just the physique that actually changed. Also if he even bothered to search his past self in the internet too. Or the fact that for someone who gives no fcks about other people's opinion, she gets a 180° fall and from who? From a classisist (?), traditional pianist who'd rather everyone plays like the composer and kills off any potential signature. Heck, the whole interaction was full of something and nothing at the same time. Big info was revealed but we've derailed from there. And she's just jumping from one boy to another as well, already cozy by romantic thoughts. Even Anastasia feels more convincing with her lack of interest towards romance.
Tldr, while he is indeed human. Complicated and self-contradicting...the pacing and direction is so messy that I don't feel like following his journey (despite my long rant and given how i care this much).