I'm not sure of what to make of this trip down Harold's memory lane. Am I now to think "aw poor Harold" and forget all about how he organized for Dolph to be gang-raped and killed just to have him out of the way? As if just killing him wasn't enough? And even in the present doesn't get that he did anything wrong or hurt Hanyul in doing so?
So I get the character but not the author's intentions. I seriously hope that the mangaka (for lack of better) doesn't expect us as readers to now suddenly feel sorry enough for Harold that we think he is acceptable as a love interest. I mean that would be kind of sick. This just isn't that kind of story, nor quite the kind that can easily pass off dismissing what happened when it becomes inconvenient to the story.
Nah I think the author isn’t trying to garner sympathy for Harold through the flashback he’s kinda portrayed as a psycho even in the flashback in the “I’ll have him” part so that’s a relief. I’m sure Hanyul is gonna end up with black haired dude
I do hope you're right. It doesn't seem like it would be that kind of story, and Hanyul would as mentally twisted himself if he were to accept such a relationship in the end. So I'd really hope this is just the usual 'insight into the villain' sort of thing. The only other thing that worries me is the cover, which is slightly more suggestive of a triangle than the story should warrant. Sure Harold may be a driving force in the story, but wouldn't the cover normally have emphasized the love relationship and put Harold a bit further back (if at all)? Though it could just mean we're going to get Harold trying to do things, while they try to take revenge on Harold. A strange and weird sort of triangle.
I totally agree with you on the cover page thing, it might be a bit misleading. A lot of BL cover pages that have love triangles tend to appear like that but hopefully for this, that isn’t the case. Although I’m a bit hesitant when I say that because I was reading through the comments and did see some spoilers about Harold which I won’t reveal obviously but, like you said, hopefully the love triangle is not the case and Hanyul isn’t even considering that psychopath as a potential love interest.
I was really into it, with all the difficult emotions, hurt, betrayal, guilt and the two having met each other under the worst circumstances, Jeff needing someone to blame and be mad at, and Terrence just utterly miserable and alone. Yet perversely these two understanding each other better than anybody else. That was until the sudden kiss in ch. 12. That just seemed contrived. Not that I couldn't see it happening eventually, but not at that point, nor had Jeff really come to a point where I felt that him suddenly surprising himself that way would be natural.
A pity, because now I feel like the yaoi will force its way into the story rather than naturally evolve. A story I was otherwise very caught up in.
This last chapter confused me a bit. Am I to take it that Ayame had the habit in school also of saying one thing to everyone else, complaining about Shuu, bullying him etc., while sometimes when they were alone he could be nice?
Until now it seemed straight forward enough; Ayame bullied Shuu, but may have secretly liked him, certainly does now. How Shuu felt about him or Kaede was slightly less clear, but it would seem as if he likes Kaede as a friend, but is attracted to Ayame. But this would add a further twist if it was the case.
I like how in this story the alpha and omega dynamic is both there and not. Maybe because the MC is a late bloomer or a half-omega (whatever that means), he is far more dominant about being an omega than normally portrayed. It makes for a more interesting relationship. Yet at the same time we have both bound by the the whole alpha and omega chemistry, which makes it fun. Though at times I do feel for the MC.
So far we have only seen the problem it has caused Gok to be both (slightly) lycan and vampire. I hope now getting into a pinch his vampire instincts will kick in and help out, giving those two a nasty surprise. And not just having Lee come to the rescue. Sure Lee can come and help out in full vampire mode as well, and then carry off Gok, who by then would be somewhat hurt from fighting off 2 guys on his ownsome.
The plot is obviously leading to a triangle, which depending on how it is handled can be either good or bad. The fact that this triangle situation might be based on a mistaken identity (bro for MC) IMO doesn't help. Does the blond haired guy actually like older bro at all or are his feelings just a childish infatuation? Because the brothers are different. And if the blond guy only likes whoever because of a childhood memory how real is his feeling? Conversely, if his feelings for bro are real, then the childhood stuff, which may have started it, is no longer important.
Even then, with this kind of triangle the problem is always from the start that the guy in middle has to switch his affections from the one who doesn't return them to the one who does without making it seem like he is settling or emotionally shallow.
Blonde guy probably like the brother because the brother act all nice on the outside. But really, the brother is a cold person on the inside acting nice to blend in.
My prediction is that the blonde will try to use the MC to get close to the brother while the MC falls for the blonde. Then the blonde finds out the the brother is actually really cold and falls for the MC instead.
That kind of relates to the last part I wrote about the problems with triangles of this kind. Sure we can be deceived by someone, even someone we think we know and care about, but a lot of the times the person deceived is also to blame because they weren't really looking that hard. Is the blond guy into the brother for who he really is or just who the blond guy thinks he is based on mistaken identity and superficial impression of "niceness"? In other words does the blond guy really know all that much about the brother at all? Is his feeling not rather superficial and shallow based on nothing more than his own ideas of the brother without any real basis?
So how are we as readers to feel about his feelings for the brother until he "discovers" the truth? Can we respect them or do we feel that the blond guy has a childlike crush on a movie star?
I can only speak for myself and I say I would be able to respect and would even admire the blonde for liking a kind and caring person even if it end up being a fake personality. If you ask me, there is nothing shallow about liking a person that you think is kind and caring. It is when people don't care about what's on the inside and only care about looks and appearance that makes them shallow. But that is only if the blonde like the brother because he's kind and not because of his looks.
If that was the case, rather than shallow, I'd say it's naive.
This is the kind of question where it very much depends on the person and situation. If a person is no more nice to x person than he is to y, and x doesn't know anything personal beyond that he is a nice person, then x's knowledge and acquaintance of that person is fairly superficial. If x feels that he or she likes (in a romantic way) and cares about that about that person, then x does so based really on their own feelings and not because x knew anything about the person in question.
Plenty of people are nice. Or can seem that way when we don't know them too well. It is easy to imagine that another person is all things wonderful when you don't really know them, and only get to see the nicer side of themselves that they generally show publicly.
But just why does he like the bro? He thinks he's nice, admires him as his professor, and thinks the bro is his childhood hero. Does that sound like love? 2 out of 3 are more hero worshiping than loving, which leaves nice. I'm sure he would also add handsome and all those other things. But just how much time will he have spent with bro as his student? I guess what I'm saying is blond guy has pretty much decided to be in love with bro because he wanted to be.
If your reason for liking someone isn't for their looks but for their personality then you're not shallow. Cause by definition, shallow is someone who only cares about looks.
They're not getting married. They're not even dating. Their feelings for each other is mainly admiration and not love. You can know a person for years and not know who they truly are if you don't grow closer together. But because you like a person for their personality, once you know that they're not who they pretend to be, you stop liking them. That doesn't make you shallow. That just means you're human. We're not all knowing after all.
I don't know the reason why the blonde guy is interested in the bro because that hasn't been revealed yet. But if the blonde guy likes the bro because he think the bro is kind then by definition the blonde guy is not shallow. The blonde guy likes the bro base on the information he think he knows about the bro. He didn't just blindly choose to like the bro.
That is over-simplifying it. Think of those confession situations that so often happen in mangas and anime. A person "confesses" to another when they have barely spoken to one another, if at all. Why? On what basis? Certainly no real acquaintance or knowledge. What they like or are in love with is their idea of what the other person is like. It isn't necessarily because they just cared about looks. But because they were willing to create a fantasy out of the other person on what they knew that fit into their idea of what they wanted. Like somebody being cool, or smart, which may be true, and then they just fill in all the rest of what they imagine the person is like (because they "like" them) rather than admitting they don't know. It is like wanting an ideal object for your affections, but without knowing anything about them. The two don't go together.
It is one thing to admire and to generally like someone for being kind. There are quite a few people who are kind. But to feel something more than that, stronger, I'd think a person should know something more about someone, not to mention personal about them. Otherwise, despite liking someone for their kindness, (if it is more than a casual interest and blond guy's certainly was) then it has become a fantasy of the other person that a person has created.
Being shallow isn't always choosing someone for superficial qualities, but also for lack of depth of reason. And blond guy's emotional reasons for choosing bro lack emotional depth and knowledge. Sure people might get together not knowing much about each other, and not for the best reasons, but normally a real emotion, one-sided or returned, is based on real knowledge of another person- good and bad. Not just that they are generally nice and kind in their public lives.
Dude. We're not talking about other manga here. We're talking about this manga. So stop pushing your bias of other manga into this one.
Obviously enough, the blonde guy has not confess yet. Which means he isn't like those stupid romance confession yet. And we still don't know what his reason is for liking the bro. It could be as you say that he has this delusional fantasy of what the bro is like. Or it could be that he's trying to get closer to the bro to know who the bro truly is. We don't know because that has yet to be reveal.
What I'm talking about is whether or not the blonde is attracted to the bro because of who the bro is. If someone act nice, kind, and caring and you see it and like it, that's not delusional. That's because you have proof. Which is DIFFERENT from you just having some fantasy about someone without having been or even talk to them before. If it turns out that they're just acting and that's not who they are, that doesn't mean that you're delusional. That just means that you were fooled by their act. Which makes you unwise. NOT shallow.
I don't know how you draw the conclusion that someone is shallow for liking or admiring a person for who they are even if you're fooled. Cause being shallow has NOTHING to do with knowing the truth. It only has to do with what you care about. If you care about who a person is and not what they look like, you are not shallow by definition.
Honestly, you talk about not having delusions of someone until you get to know them first. Yet you yourself are having delusional out come of this manga without knowing what's going to happen next. You're doing the same thing as the characters you hate.
I think the blond like the older bro base only on how hot he is...or something like that ╮(￣▽￣)╭ that my take on this story. and yeas the blond guy is kind of annoying me for using the MC. if he like someone "soo much" he should just make the move on him on it's on and not use other people.
it only the start and I already don't care or like the blond creepy dude
（￣へ￣）sigh well that just me.
I suspect that the teacher has an agenda, which involves getting close to the the kid and thereby the father. No doubt because of his parents death which he somehow blames on the dad. But I can't think it a coincidence that the dad lost a wife around the same time too. So either he was to blame for all 3 deaths, which plotwise I consider less likely, or either the wife or someone else (if anyone) was to blame.
The question I have is more how will all this tie in with the yakuza angle? Since if I understood correctly the dad didn't get involved with them until after his wife's death. How will the current yakuza lover and soon to be vengeful lover sort themselves out?
I can't explain, but somehow when reading this chapter there was something, some undercurrent, that gave me an unpleasant vibe. I have a bad feeling about whatever is about to happen with Ed, McQueen, and that guy. It may be hot but I don't think it will end up in a good place.
Cute story. Couldn't help noticing though "England-Beethoven's hometown" Golly, of that was a star example of dumbass student comments. So typical!