Responses
Wow really well said! I know how most stories rely on misunderstanding plot to move the story, but this one took way too long to be resolved. I agree how the situation could have been cleared up earlier if the characters made more concious decisions, especially Siwon and Jaehyun.
Damn... this is exactly the kind of manhwa I hate, and I honestly thank you for this good ass review such that now I don't have to read it. I really suspected a lot of these tropes from the beginning but I just had to comment that this is such a good review on it. Carry on, netizen!
I didn't hate this, despite the misunderstanding plotline lasting waaaaaay too long. The characters are well fleshed out, the art is appealing, the characters have expressive faces, and I really like that the character designs are all very unique (they don't just look like different eye colors and hair colors swapped onto the same base). Also, the comedy is pretty on point.
However...
As with many of the tappytoon titles, I wonder why they bother translating these R19 comics and edit/censor them rather than just having an R19 section where they can post the R19 titles in all their glowstick glory in English. This is why I don't sub to tappytoon but do sub to Lezin. If a title is R19, I want to see all of the dick-swinging action. Cutting sex scenes also cuts character development, and that is bad for storytelling, and unforgiveable.
Anyway, onto the content of the comic.
So, both characters have annoying aspects to them, not just Siwon (the uke). Siwon is insecure and unreasonable, although I can't really blame him much, having such a statuesque boyfriend making him constantly feel inadequately masculine. Yoonsung (the seme) is somewhat selfish and inconsiderate; he could be bothered to respect the fact that Siwon needs to sleep occasionally, and stop doing such cringy things in public, ugh.
Also, this is a good time to point out that in comic and anime settings, there is no way to judge whether or not a character is considered "hot" unless the other characters in the setting say they are. Most comics are drawn such that all characters are appealing to the reader/audience, but that doesn't mean the characters in the setting think so too. Siwon only had people comment on his appearance (saying he's 'cute', ugh, just what an insecure guy wants to hear) in the later chapters of this comic (not once in the first comic), meanwhile Yoonsung had people saying he was hot early on in the original comic (the Jaehyun/Jumseok one). And ofc Yoonsung is drawn with a huge, brawny, ripped-@$$ body, meanwhile Siwon is drawn to look like a shota. Siwon is totally right, there is a huge appearance disparity between them, but given how long they've been together now, he did definitely go overboard fretting about it. Anyway, tangent over.
I think the most aggravating thing about this comic (so far) is that this whole misunderstanding thing could've been avoided and/or short-circuited any number of times by any number of characters doing any number of things differently. First off, Siwon could've just talked to Yoonsung like Jaehyun told him to really early on. Or Yoonsung could've pressed him harder about what was wrong (and given how easily Yoonsung's able to pressure Siwon into other *ahem* things, seems like he easily could've). Srsly, they're both adults, they should've just talked. Siwon should just straight-up be a lot more trusting in Yoonsung's devotion to him given they've been with each other for 8-and-change years and I imagine Yoonsung's acted like a lovestruck mooncalf the whole time. Also, Yoonsung should already be aware of Siwon's feelings of inadequacy since they've been together for so long (this didn't just appear suddenly out of nowhere) and should always be cognizant taking measures to avoid triggering an overreaction. (srsly, just tell him you're voicing a BL drama - you are both adults, adults talk to each other about their work, this should've been known to Siwon since before Yoonsung even started recording)
Meanwhile, Jaehyun knew there was a huge misunderstanding pretty early on and could've done any number of things to put a stop to it, between yelling Siwon into silence, or sending him a text message that wasn't cryptic rather than saying "read the webtoon" over and over (esp after Siwon told him he didn't want to read it - you can't make people read things they don't want to). The lack of action on Jaehyun's part is the most egregious here, and reflects on his vaguely crummy personality. Especially given how much effort Siwon and Yoonsung went to, to help him and Jimseok get together, it feels a little shytty.