Not the worst thing ever but to me it was somewhat disappointing. It was interesting and entertaining at the beginning, but about half way through it became incredibly boring and bland.
The beginning part where chaeyoon and suho were constantly bickering and had an ongoing somewhat rivalry were fun. Great chemistry, and I personally love rivals to lovers. The exploration of the traumatic things chae yoon went through after he was exposed on tv, that was also well done. As well as suho realizing he had been insensitive, and coming to terms with the ways he has hurt chaeyoon
But around chapter 20 these elements are essentially absent from the story. Instead we have that random childhood friend that’s in love with chaeyoon. And we have both of them failing to confess their feelings, postponing them actually getting together. Oh also sex scenes. And a boring ass water polo match I couldn’t care less about.
Also it’s frustrating how soon chaeyoon developed feelings for suho. He immediately started to like him. I understand he had a crush on him while they were in high school, but it would have been nice for their dynamic to develop, for them to have multiple interactions, and for them to slowly develop feelings for each other again.
Sports anime makes me care about the matches because the characters themselves love the sport and want to win (this is a generalization of course plus I’m def not a sport anime/manga expert lmao). In this manhwa its a practice match, and there’s the creation of the external “losing will send suho to the USA” to create tension for the match (and this doesn’t even make sense). Water polo is completely irrelevant to the story. Trying to make the climax a match was a huge mistake. During the entire manhwa, the water polo team was sidelined. I don’t even remember any of those losers names, faces, or personalities. All are irrelevant flops.
Like most shorter series I’ve read, this would have been much better if it had more chapters to flesh out the story. And if the author wanted to write a sports oriented story they should’ve gone all out and had multiple matches.
At least the art is good, and the beginning is pretty solid. Anyways this is reminding me I have to catch up on blue lock chapters lmao
Not the worst thing ever but to me it was somewhat disappointing. It was interesting and entertaining at the beginning, but about half way through it became incredibly boring and bland.
The beginning part where chaeyoon and suho were constantly bickering and had an ongoing somewhat rivalry were fun. Great chemistry, and I personally love rivals to lovers. The exploration of the traumatic things chae yoon went through after he was exposed on tv, that was also well done. As well as suho realizing he had been insensitive, and coming to terms with the ways he has hurt chaeyoon
But around chapter 20 these elements are essentially absent from the story. Instead we have that random childhood friend that’s in love with chaeyoon. And we have both of them failing to confess their feelings, postponing them actually getting together. Oh also sex scenes. And a boring ass water polo match I couldn’t care less about.
Also it’s frustrating how soon chaeyoon developed feelings for suho. He immediately started to like him. I understand he had a crush on him while they were in high school, but it would have been nice for their dynamic to develop, for them to have multiple interactions, and for them to slowly develop feelings for each other again.
Sports anime makes me care about the matches because the characters themselves love the sport and want to win (this is a generalization of course plus I’m def not a sport anime/manga expert lmao). In this manhwa its a practice match, and there’s the creation of the external “losing will send suho to the USA” to create tension for the match (and this doesn’t even make sense). Water polo is completely irrelevant to the story. Trying to make the climax a match was a huge mistake. During the entire manhwa, the water polo team was sidelined. I don’t even remember any of those losers names, faces, or personalities. All are irrelevant flops.
Like most shorter series I’ve read, this would have been much better if it had more chapters to flesh out the story. And if the author wanted to write a sports oriented story they should’ve gone all out and had multiple matches.
At least the art is good, and the beginning is pretty solid. Anyways this is reminding me I have to catch up on blue lock chapters lmao