Revenge plot is interesting and I'm invested but ML is really boring and shitty with the sexual harassment and harsh attitude I don't find him charming and am not amused by him also the "kissing the foot tradition" thing was weird for the writer to add and feels like fetish bait. The FL feels like she's both infantilsed and also like she's being set up for girl bossing like she's babied by everyone except when it's about sex. Emotional complexity and nuance is thrown away in this revenge story in exchange for your regular one dimensional villains but they introduce so many of them and all of them have dark hair so it makes it confusing as all hell to tell the difference between the evil sister in law, evil stepmother, evil stepfather, evil mother in law, evil mistress and evil husband plus the plot moves really fast so they aren't established all too well. Plus the "ML giving mindblowing sex to FL" is overdone make him bad at sex or OK at sex and not hyperbolicly good at it because everyone has different tastes and "being good at sex" is about decent communication ( The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness was a manga that handled it really well) and these two have none of that for fucks sake she can't even tell when he's joking and is uncomfortable around him (also they do that thing where they bluntly state that the ML is hot because artist can't draw that plus it's used as an excuse for ML to be shitty) all their interactions feel so awkward and stilted and are so uncomfortable to read that I just wanna speed through them but I know that there's plot stuff there but I just want it to be over already but he keeps coming back.
TLDR: I hate shitty sexually harassment ML who "respects women" and I want a new one (perhaps a himbo) because I can't take it anymore.
Child lether looks horrible because the artist can't draw children it's obvious at close ups, child hands etc.
As this artist's simp, I'm saying yup, that's about right. But on the other hand ALL manhwa artists are like that. Instead of children they all draw DISGUSTING AF HORRIFYING MONSTROSITIES THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST, CRIMES AGAINST HUMAN RACE, ABHORRENT ALIEN MISTAKES OF NATURE. So I've stopped having any hope to see any pretty kids in manhwas in this lifetime. I'm recommending you do that too
What's worse is when they chibify them in an unatural way with a huge head and tiny body to make it cute but it just looks uncanny when put next to characters with reasonable proportions.
Don't forget they give literal toddlers and babies an hourglass freaking figure, when that's extremely gross and unnatural for anyone who has ever seen a singular child in their life! CHILDREN'S SKELETONS LITERALLY DON'T PERMIT AN HOURGLASS FIGURE, KOREAN PEOPLE, THEY JUST DON'T! It makes them look ill and deformed and like a zoomed out adult person with a gigantic deformed melon-shaped head (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I love the translator's notes and "meme"'s inserted at the end of every chapter. I appreciate the info on the translations and the liberties taken to make the story comprehensible. I appreciate the meme's because this is a pile of stink hot doodles with an art style equivalent to classic shoujo version of a lisa frank piece so having someone point it out immediately after each chapter is refreshing and relieving that someone else GETS IT.
I want the OG Mako to come back from the dead to take transmigration Mako's place and fix this shit. I know this is supposed to be self-insert as Mako but I just hate this guy. This ain't no true Yandere if his love was so strong and devoted he wouldn't want a substitute but only revival of the true version of her he would only want her not some substitute that doesn't even know him. He loved Mako because she cared about him and they spent time together. He doesn't love AU Mako but he needs some form of Mako like a bandage on a wound that will never heal. This feels ick I want him and OG Mako together.
I really don't like the priest/nun love interest trope for the sole reason that sexualizing/fetishizing a religious figure, especially one that's taken a vow of celibacy feels icky. Like one of this jobs defining factors is the no romance and no sex part. That's being treated like a bad thing because the writer decided "He gets beaten for not obeying his vows look how evil the church is that means he should be able to have sex because his religion beat him therefore he should throw away his religious values and beliefs for a girl who doesn't beat him" it just feels like such a cop out maybe if he was just a "holy knight I'd be cool with it but he isn't he's a priest and it feels like making something horny that doesn't want to be horny.
womp womp
Arguing that he should still stick with a religion/faction even though it "beat him" as you said because it feels like a cop out to you is stupid. He wants to QUIT being the priest anyways, he literally says he wants to step down from his position as priest, way before ML and MC even had the discussion of marriage. MC is not the reason he's not being the priest, it's the dynamics of the church.
Also, religious values and beliefs does not equate to the church. He can leave his position and his church and STILL hold his religious values, why do you insist that he stay in his position and continue getting beat because you don't want to "sexualize" him? If anything, you're the one putting the role of priest/nun in a pedastal and wanting him to persist despite the abuse.
No I'm just saying that the author doesn't believe viewer will want him to leave the church unless they do physical violence he has to be beaten to leave the church because the author doesn't want the nuance of "he wants to be a priest but also wants to get with FL.".
I don't mean the leaving of the violent church is a bad thing I just meant to say that making the church violent was the author's intention to make the viewer more willing to want the priest to stop being a priest "because that means he's going to get beaten" and not "he's changed his values and beliefs for this girl because he's in love with her" because the second option means we won't have slowburn and it seems outlandish that he'd put aside his way of life like that.
Religious figures whose whole point is "no sex" and making them love interest is weird and yucky because that position specifically is a choice and vow to not have sexual relations. I don't want to sexualize an occupation and I specifically don't want to sexualize an occupation that's sole value is not to be sexualized I just mean in general I don't like sexualizing a group of people who don't want it or want to be sexualized but here we have the author showing him shirtless and pinning a woman down to get the viewers all hot and bothered.
Don't you think it's strange the author made the chuech violent and cruel? Don't you think it's strange that the guy whose main trait is "devotion" is going to leave his religious job? Why would the author use his abuse to show us shirtless shots of his abs? I'm mainly scrutinzing the author because why would anyone make it like this?
In the first place like the other person said he WANTS to leave the church to protect his family. He still seems to be devoted to his god but being a priest is troublesome in his situation. Also I’d like to add that most manwhas have corrupted religions with bad people as head of them anyway so it’s not far fetched that this one would also integrate that because it’s a “game” type storyline that is extremely common.
In the first place like the other person said he WANTS to leave the church to protect his family. He still seems to be devoted to his god but being a priest is troublesome in his situation. Also I’d like to add that most manwhas have corrupted religions with bad people as head of them anyway so it’s not far fetched that this one would also integrate that because it’s a “game” type storyline that is extremely common. (⊙…⊙ )
You overglorify the church. Church is not inherently good. I used to go to church a lot and the amount of people who think they're good people because they go to church everyday but are genuine assholes are a common thing. Am I less of a believer than they are because they continued to go to church and I didn't?
Just because you believe in God, it does not equate to morality and holiness in terms of attitude. A lot of people don't practice what they preach. Know that anyone can commit abuse, the church is not exception so it is not unreasonable to make a story like that. Look further into church politics and crimes and you'll figure this manhwa actually puts them in a less harsher light.
His main trait being "devotion" is not synonymous with following the people who make up these rules of the church. Additionally, it was not even the abuse itself that made him want to give up being a priest, it was the fact that they weren't letting him see his family. Those are not the rules made by a God, rather the church itself.
Your wanting of nuance of "he wants to be a priest but wants to be with FL" and wanting it to be "slowburn" is all opinion based. Some people might prefer romance to be more fast paced, some people might want it to be about FL aiding him in his escape from the church and the relationship developing as they work together.
I also think your idea of sexualization is too soon to actually determine it. Does it sexualize his position itself? Does MC think stuff like "He's sexier because he's a priest" or put priests on an inherently sexual position? If anything, they're trying to do the opposite from what we've seen and trying to escape from the position of priest. It focuses on him as a person having appeal, rather than the position itself. We don't see the other priest being shown as sex gods that everyone lusts after either. The reason she wants him is because of his personality of being respectful, which has been shown to not be something all priest share based on the church. We don't see his abs because "OMG an innocent priest being sexual is so hot!," we see it because it's the ML.
We've seen tons of dukes being shown as having sex appeal in manhwa, do the artist all sexualize dukes in specific? Think of these as just common positions that otome games typically want to fulfill for their MLs + the obvious fact that of course all MLs are gonna be hot and be shown as such. Their position has no bearing on sex appeal, it's the MLs themselves.
I think I got your point. Its about the symbolism of priesthood and many authors fetishising a symbol that shouldn't. I simply cannot view these symbols as romantic figures. Like for me, even if white haired ml leaves the priesthood, I would still remember his priestly background. Its a demasculinisation thing in my head. And his appeal for me was in his sombreness, his discipline, his fidelity to his faith etc and now it's all adulterated.
Again, those who disagree, please leave me alone. I just have a different sense of perception from you. I don't have to conform to your perception.
All these men are shit horny manipulative fucker, rich man with anger and trust issues and a priest nobody wants to fuck a priest the same way nobody wants to fuck a nun. I want a good fourth option or for one of the shitty options to get character development not rooting for the priest unless he stops being a priest. Was kinda hoping for shitty Duke to get character development that angst tsundere bitch and FL needs to get her stories straight or else she's gonna be in trouble. I think she needs to start wearing thicc glasses or mask at this point for protection.
"I'm gonna treat him like a I guy I actually wanna get with"
*5 secs later"
"I'm interested in you" " now I see you're wounded" "strip please"
Dude I totally agree, like the 3rd guy seemed like the best option BUT HES A PRIEST!!!! and that just feels sooo disrespectful BUT spoiler (up to ch10) below:
It seems like the priest doesn't wanna stay a priest so I do feel better about it haha
Yeah but still he's like hella violent and I don't think our main girl is cool with that.
LOLOLOL yea I forgot about that (I've gotten to the point where I forget the red flags in characters to finish the storyline)
I felt like the pacing for Jaehyuk from getting let back into the apartment and them reconciling felt a bit off. No clue why I don't know if it should've taken longer or shorter but it fel like something was wrong
I took a break from this for a while because I didn't like how entitled she felt to her husband's, her child's, he workers trust, love and respect.
just a quick question for readers. Has she run away yet?
She went to another country to stay a villa owned by her husband and he got lonely and kisses Leah and her and came begging her to come back home with him, and now he’s like a awkward teenager liking a gir, but he’s there and made a change and he’s great as of chapter 54
I thought the girl would get a monster harem as a way to get that "falling in love" wish to come true
I also wished she falls in love with a random nice guy or the yuri route. I hoped the "hero" would be shit at sex and she'd have to couch both the hero and the concubine through their first sex by telling him to be gentle and patient with her while praising and soothing the virgin girl. This feels like missed potential.
I thought it was yuri too