finished reading season 1 and i have a lot of mixed feelings. the story itself is really interesting, there’s some world building and an actual plot, a complex one on top of that (something that’s not really common in BL webtoons), but all of it feels so… underdeveloped and rushed here. and the story feels really, really dark, but the art style doesn’t really match that. there are some intense moments when they fight with anomalies yet the art style falls short on delivering the tension: the color palette is too bright and too lively, and there aren’t too many details in the drawings (anomalies, backgrounds, environment; everything looks more or less generic and pretty forgettable) to really leave any kind of impact on me. like i feel the artist doesn’t have enough skill and/or confidence in drawing such things, and it really takes away from the atmosphere. the sexual assault scenes also feel underwhelming. like it’s clear the mc gets raped/sa by all these people yet i don’t feel any of the emotions he must feel. i think it’s yet again partly the fault of the art style being too “light” for a story with such heavy subject matters. other than that, it feels like some things from the novel were left out, so i guess i’m gonna first read the novel and then maybe finish this webtoon, because i really have a feeling that the story itself has so much potential but it’s the adaptation that kinda fails to deliver.
finished reading season 1 and i have a lot of mixed feelings. the story itself is really interesting, there’s some world building and an actual plot, a complex one on top of that (something that’s not really common in BL webtoons), but all of it feels so… underdeveloped and rushed here. and the story feels really, really dark, but the art style doesn’t really match that. there are some intense moments when they fight with anomalies yet the art style falls short on delivering the tension: the color palette is too bright and too lively, and there aren’t too many details in the drawings (anomalies, backgrounds, environment; everything looks more or less generic and pretty forgettable) to really leave any kind of impact on me. like i feel the artist doesn’t have enough skill and/or confidence in drawing such things, and it really takes away from the atmosphere. the sexual assault scenes also feel underwhelming. like it’s clear the mc gets raped/sa by all these people yet i don’t feel any of the emotions he must feel. i think it’s yet again partly the fault of the art style being too “light” for a story with such heavy subject matters. other than that, it feels like some things from the novel were left out, so i guess i’m gonna first read the novel and then maybe finish this webtoon, because i really have a feeling that the story itself has so much potential but it’s the adaptation that kinda fails to deliver.