In rooting for my boy Lloyd! Falling in love with the same person twice even when they died and came back to life as a different gender, having a different name, face and all that is romantic to me.
Soooo was his mom abusive and neglectful or something? Cuz why the fuck did she leave him unattended and hungry outside in the cold for this creepy old man to groom him?
I was thinking about something the other day and how I generally tend to dislike stories where there are too many characters to follow and I always chucked it off to me wanting to focus on the adventure of one main character but at the same time, I mostly dislike the "chosen one" narrative so, it just puzzled me that I couldn't put into words my own taste in shonen....
Anyway, reading this story and loving every character design and the detailed backgroud stories as well as the development of so many characters, I've come to realise that there is a way to do this that I love. I just don't like it when stories marginalize MC and take entire arcs focusing on other people while MC is nowhere to be seen, I like to see the bits and pieces of everyone's stories developing at the same time and this story perfectly fits that. Of course, the main focus will always be Iruma but everyone else have their moments in which they shine
well-developed charters that align with the story's main plot and interact with each other, making it balanced!
I've seen this plot so many times but I still love it and always look forward to the big reveal. I think that in my 20 years of reading manga, there has been maybe 2 stories max that actually surprised me by revealing that the servant is indeed the servant and not the master disguised as the servant.
I don't even remember which stories did this but in one of them the "servant" was hiding his identity but not as the master, just the master's relative (I think nephew?) and the actual master did not get angry because MC fell for ML and not his initial husband. I wish I could remember which story this was.
Sometimes I like a story but also wish for it to end because it gets tiring to read. This one is one of those. I like the characters and the plot but this is sucking my energy....
Well it ended in Japan with chapter 42 i think
I feel the same for Koisuru Boukun. 10ish chapters would be ok but when it drags on an on it feels like the story loses the spark.
It's just for the mangas though, webtoons are ok with high chapter count.
thanks for the info :)
This story is making me hate Taeha more and more.....so, he sees the guy losing his mind and having a panic attack over a loved one's death and he just casually tells them that it's their fault basically that he didn't look for her and that is why she is dead. Also, I see Taeha apologists in the comment section talking as if Hawon was wrong for running away. Are you for real? When did Taeha ever give Hawon any reason to trust him? He kept pushing him and never giving him a single assurance. He clearly was after the wikileaks which is why Hawon wanted to still have leverage because once he hands them over then his life would be in danger...
I'm going to admit something: This story doesn't bother me because it is toxic, it bothers me because it is toxic AND the MC is just an innocent cutie pie. I have mulled over why some toxic stories do not bother me and I think that if both parties are kinda mental, it makes it okay...obviously in fantasy and not reality....but even in fantasy I cannot stand a toxic ML and an MC who can never and would never adapt to the toxicity. The example that I think of first when I imagine a toxic relationship that I ship is from the tv series Hannibal, I just shipped Hannibal X Will so hard and that shit was beyond toxic. If you know you definitely get what I mean.
This story just makes me so sad for MC...if he never met ML, he would've led a completely normal happy life
I will always be uncomfortable when a story has the premise of a character going against their morals (he clearly said that he wanted to be able to face his family and this goes against his beliefs) to get money and save their loved ones....However, it makes it a little better when seme didn't do uke dirty behind the scenes and force his hand (like make him unable to get another job). So, I hope that at least this remains the case. If we find out that the job MC was supposed to get and didn't was influenced by ML, that'd be really shitty. There is just something about ML's eyes that I deeply mistrust and I've seen too many manipulative semes in similar stories.
Also, going from 0 experience whatsoever to bdsm is one hell of a jump. It's not necessarily the worst thing ever, it's just very abrupt because people usually explore vanilla sex and stay there for the rest of their lives or want to explore more