in chapter 5 and im not impressed

Youre tripping

well everyone has different taste and pace in reading, I was like that too. I just kept on reading and it got better. If you wanna look at other perspective I'd say this two is a famous introvert and extrovert clumsy getting to know one other and giving love a try. You never know

I understand, not everyone can have good taste

honestly the novel does have much better flow / pacing than the manhwa but i would call this less being a good judge & more having a personal sense of taste esp since you said you don’t like this type of MC. jiwon’s self esteem & mental health are very bad and they are not getting better any time soon. this just might not be for you and That’s OK!

honestly thank you for being understanding of my point of view but i didn’t like the MC not because of his mental health or even self esteem. i think having that kind of flaw is very important to a main character. however, i do not like it when the author make it as the character’s whole entire personality. plus he is only thinking about the love interest all the time, it easily make the MC so uninteresting and boring, in my opinion. that’s why i also ask should i continue reading or not because if he still doesn’t have any personality on the next chapters and his life only revolves around the love interest, it’s unfortunately a skip from me.

i mentioned his self esteem and mental health because they’re pretty significant factors regarding his personality! ^^;; again, i prefer the novel so i can’t really answer for the manhwa specifically but i wouldn’t at all say jiwon has no personality other than jungwoo. he’s developing an interest in someone for the first time & jungwoo is the first person he’s ever come across to treat him like a person (one that he even thinks dislikes him at first) instead of simply Famous Han Jiwon, The Nation’s Grandchild. so these factors all combine - he’s interested in him but made uncomfortable by how they interact but also is quick to give up because of his timid personality. (it’s also very much a mutual obsession). Ball is ultimately a story about someone with a really un-normal life trying to find and navigate through an attempt at a normal college life & normal attempt at a first love! it sounds like this might just not be your kind of story, so i think in this case id recommend dropping it.

i fully agree lol. the mc’s personality is one dimensional and the pacing is slow yet uninteresting i don’t see the appeal of this at all

woah I kinda sometimes relate to this sorta thing like "get a life bro make it more interesting" something along those lines too! esp in harems. but the thing is I can't skip it—for the life of me—from curiosity, ur brave mah friend

one dimensional, exactly, thank you! that’s the word i’d use to describe the MC. i have found more and more webtoons with one dimensional main characters lately and that would turn me off so bad because sometimes the story seems to have potential. but you can’t really expect the reader to stay hook up on the story if the subject who is leading and turning the plot is so goddamn uninteresting.

yeah exactly like even tho you are timid and shy, you still have a life. what do you do for fun? how do you reduce the stress after talking to people? since you have no friend, what do you do at home? how about siblings, is he an only child? and i remember he said he takes photography now to reduce his anxiety i believe? like okay cool, but freaking show us???? like the author just tell us with text the reason why he’s taking photography, instead of showing us how doing it really helps his mental state. im on chapter 9 forcing myself to read it bcs a lot of people seems to defend it, and i have NEVER SEEN HIM TAKING PICTURES WITH HIS CAMERA?? everything else seems like an after thought to me and the only important thing is the MC thinks and meets and talks to the love interest 24/7. get a life bro seriously

it might not be my kind of story i just think it’s a shame because i really don’t mind the premise plus it seems like the seme is a good guy, which pretty rare in webtoons. but the main character is a main character because they move the plot with them, and it’s practically impossible to care about the plot if the MC is one dimensional. like i get why people are loving this since it’s so easy to get lost in the sauce aka just focus on the romance (which i think it’s totally fine). but i wanna see MC’s life outside the love interest bubble. did he ever consider therapy? what about the trophies he won? did he have any siblings? you got what i mean? it’s just so frustrating that this kind of execution is popular and loved like i wanna see these characters have a life outside of the love interest buble!!

i get the point you’re trying to make and do very much agree with it generally because these details do very much matter in storytelling, but ultimately this is i think specifically an issue with how the adaptation is being conducted (which i do agree w because as cute as it is i’ve lamented several details the manhwa has snipped out or adjusted before) because the novel does very much go into quite a bit about the details of jiwon’s life, history, backstory, etc. ^^;; for example: he doesn’t really have anything he’d consider a hobby except for photography (which if i remember correctly he picked up during rehab) because he spent so much of his life engulfed by gymnastics. he has no siblings - which is in fact a minor plot point i think the manhwa did actually mention - and did consider therapy, but it didn’t quite work for him. his trophies if i remember correctly as well are all back at his parents’ place, they don’t mean much to him (past the fact he won gold at the olympics, which exempts him from the military.)

for a lot of things, these details take time to unfold & be addressed, but they are there & he does have a life past jungwoo - even if he doesn’t consider it as much of one as his life’s timeline pretty much gymnastics consuming his entire childhood into the beginnings of young adulthood -> injury -> giving up and recovering -> college -> meeting jungwoo & his friends right after he enrolls. maybe i’m just not the right person to have this conversation with because i’ve read the source material so i do know where Ball does in fact address these things & how it does it at least in novel form LOL one of my biggest criticisms of the manhwa is that it doesn’t portray jiwon’s perspective and inner thoughts, as well as the details involving him and his life, deeply enough because the novel digs super into it. i do get the points you’re trying to make, though.

Yeah I'm having the same thoughts, its a little bland imo & mc feels very flat to me. Im so distraught though because I really like the art style;; ┑(￣Д ￣;)┍