chapter 52

This ending is very typical of the manhwa. there's always 50 chapters plus of drama and 1 chapter of resolution. （￣へ￣）

Hi, Elise! Thank you so much for all your effort! It's thanks to you that most of us can read the manhwa without really knowing the language and go through various experiences.

As for the manhwa, well, a couple of chapters ago I kind of predicted how it would end. I mean, it's a safe trope the experienced readers have come across so many times. I am not surprised, neither am I convinced. It all started to kinda shift after Sun-Yool's "confession" about Heejae's trickery behind Jisuh's back (and I literally mean everything: the way Jisuh took it, the way Sun-Yool played along Jisuh's revenge plan, the revenge plan itself, they way Jisuh has finally parted with his abusive ex etc). It's kinda naive and foolish to expect a manhwa to be a psychological guideline for difficult situations, but the tendency of not solving anything in the end is kinda worrying. I mean, it's common knowledge that manga in Japan is an industry, and a very demanding industry with very strict rules at that. As in any industry, the creators don't get much actual creative freedom, as their creativity is valued in the extent to which the publishers can earn through the mangaka's work, and that's the bottom line of if. It's no art, but an industry. So throughout time, some readers (myself included) came to terms with the fact you can't expect much of the Japanese yaoi manga, because it's main reason it to sell well (the publisher's have figured out the best celling tropes quite a while ago, so the readers can do so, too).

However, Korean manhwa had an image of a more creative, less standardized one... or should I say used to have? Because some authors (like the author of From Points of Three) have started to use the same safe tropes, cutting down realism and/or creativity. To a certain extent this manhwa seems like a psychological essay about complicated relationships and gave somewhat persuasive (I'm not using the word "realistic", because in reality I've never stumbled across a really complicated relationship, so it's all my mere fantasy and understanding of how it would look more real that fantastic) vibe, but with the cause of time the author has started to gradually lose the degree of persuasiveness. For me, the end was totally predictable (I called it the safe root, because the author has avoided the need to give an actual solution to the situation, but instead has invented excuses for not solving the situation at all. Like, Jisuh hasn't actually learnt a thing: he barely scraped his way out of one abusive relationship, then he immediately fell into another complicated and strongly manipulative relationship, he went totally out of his way for the sake of revenge which didn't satisfy him at all, and shortly after it all Jisuh excused himself in another shady relationship with a person who started with lies and betrayal... Where's the character's growth? What's the lesson Jisuh had learnt? Well, he's definitely a masochist, because he stubbornly gets into something unhealthy knowing it's unhealthy. Okay, that might be his comfort zone. But were the whole 52 chapters worth explaining the reader that Jisuh's a masochist who needs to be restless, hurts and humiliated?And don't even get me started on how nothing has been resolved between Heejae and Sun-Yool. I mean, they didn't give each other any credit whatsoever, that I start question how the hell those two found themselves in any sort of sexual relationship in the first place. I mean, c'mon, they obviously didn't want each other, no passion, no a single glimpse, they could've just had a one night stand with the very same empty after-taste. Why bother depict them together? What brought them together? Of course, the author has excused themselves of even attempting to give any valid explanation at all.

Then there's the name: From the Points of Three, - however the reader sees only Jisuh's point of view (I can't really relate to flashback about some details in Heejae's past as his actual point of view in the present time), and the readers don't get to know Sun-Yool's point of view, like, at all (I can't relate to a couple of chapters that the story has followed Sun-Yool more closely than before as his actual point of view in the present time either).

So what's left there is: a very misleading title, lack of persuasiveness in portrayal at the end, lack of a development/outcome at the end (the end isn't even an open end, it's just a regular cliffhanger). I don't know what made the author rush the end so much, but Heejae/Jisug could have even been persuasive given more time/events for development, Sun-Yool/Heejae could have more explanation, too. Perhaps, this is the main reason that brought me to a total confusion. It felt that the author didn't really plan everything through, or they were rushed and pressured by the publishers (like in the Japanese manga industry), or the author got lazy all of a sudden and just decided to end it however.

Sorry for taking so much time and space with my thoughts (I was genuinely interested in manhwa at the beginning, but then it all started to drift apart).