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I love it when a BL story uses the Top's POV too!
The ML is twisted but I can't help but feel sad whenever people degrade themselves like saying he's a whore and sex doesn't mean anything. You'll only end up hurting yourself and others.
The writing is really good! The MC isn't a pushover thankfully and the author is giving the ML a reason to obsess over him which is a driving force for the story to continue. I'm sure we'll get even more past memories and I'm here for it!

I really do like stories such as these. Like from beginning to end, it tells a coherent story and the writing was pretty good for a oneshot.
Obviously it would've been so much sweeter to see an actual teacher who cared and helped blondie with his issues and gave him a future perspective and showed him to be happy in life BUT this is not the type of story told here.
It's about grooming a minor and passing it onwards, from being a victim to becoming a predator yourself.
I appreciate that all the descriptions make it clear that this is not a loving and mutual relationship but abuse instead, the smell going from pleasant to bad, the metaphorical bruises left by the "bigger" hands & that even the MC acknowledges he has no one else to rely on. Overall solid 4/5

This is legit making me so emotional, it truly was a journey! It was a beautiful ending but I would've loved to see more active healing of Yiseon, like therapy and how his future will look like.
I hope there's gonna be extra, I haven't read the novel so I'm not sure if there's more story to follow but I'll remain hopeful.

I love exposition like that btw, with the "traces of the sun reaching far and wide", such a nice and meaningful detail!

So this chapter had better pacing again, I hope that they circle back to the original plot now seeing the guy who was responsible for killing Raon.
I mean character development is important but I kinda want the story to get back on track.

Also can we just talk about how ugly their training outfits look? Just why? Raon was wearing such a nice outfit at the start of the chapter, can't that be the default uniform or something xD Pls?

My god the amount of heartache I felt while reading this, seeing Sangwoo's thoughts and their relationship develop, you'd think I have a "masochistic streak" myself haha
My only critique is that the ending was too short, I would've loved to see more now that they sorted it out and I felt like Sangwoo should've been more honest and actually voice his thoughts for once, it makes it seem like he isn't as willing to give his everything to their relationship although he's been a mess over the situation just as much as Jaeyoung. He should've told him that he thought about moving with him, how he was struggling, sad that he missed the drama opening and so on. I guess that all comes later so I'd love some side stories with Sangwoo being more open.

This Manhwa does something truly unique and beautiful, it's realistic and doesn't pull its punches when showing the struggles someone in a same sex relationship or just being in love for the first time, can face.
It's been years now and it was a memorable journey, it felt like a rollercoaster reading this from the unpleasant first meeting to their attraction to each other forming, Sangwoo's inner struggle, their intimacy and Jaeyoung's wild & unpredictable personality.

That's what I love about slow paced romance stories, you'll truly experience their relationship and form a connection to the characters. At least it's much easier for me in comparison to something fast paced or stories going straight to smut. (nothing wrong with that tho).

Anyways this makes me so sentimental and I will forever love this Manhwa!

Read to chapter 24 and Ill drop this now.
Honestly the premise could be good and I like the art but it feels so rushed.
I came after the first episode of the Anime but couldn't stand the art style and it was kinda trashy (in a bad way).
This story could be so much getter if they developed the characters better, this feels like they took only the highlights of the story + some in betweens and went with it.
For example, that professor could've had more scenes, more scheming but instead revealed herself after a lame attempt right after that moon drinking promise, it felt so pointless. Should've kept her and not made her the obvious spy.

Ray is a war orphan and was rescued by his master, would've been better to see him down and depressed at the start of school after all those battlefield horrors he saw and then his friends made an effort to get to know him and cheer him up, then it would make sense for his mentor to be like "you changed in just 3 months"....we literally never saw the change tho! He was always cheerful and we barely saw one fight with them and that was 3 months of friendship growth?

I mean you can make the pacing faster in the later half but at the start, you want to flesh out your characters better and set a foundation so people can understand their motives through previous established traits.
It's such a disappointment.
I've stumbled across many manga because of Anime that looked trashy at first, for example:

My instant death ability is so overpowered
That one has such a simple premise but is a joy to read and takes their time with the characters journey + some background chapters

The reincarnation of the strongest exorcist in another world
Yet again, interesting story and good execution, it focuses on a few main characters and does something with them, can feel a bit rushed at times but I still love it

Both Anime of these manga are pretty decent too, the Anime for this one feels horrendous tho, it's a shame. There's probably a light novel for this and that may be the only good one to enjoy this story.

I had a thought, maybe Mingwa has mistaken smut with actual character development or romantic growth....if this is supposed to be a "classic romance story", how many chapters will this be? There's already 46 with absolutely no romantic development, just violence.
I've seen soft BL's with no sex scenes whatsoever that have better character chemistry.
Hell I've seen better written toxic tops!
For how many chapters are just pure sex, there's absolutely 0 chapters of actual love (excluding Dan but even that was literally thrown in the trash, no pun intended).

It's likely that the captain was in love with his friend but never got to tell him how he feels so now he has the doll and all his shared memories to hold dear, that's incredibly sad.

Also will they be explored more in volume 2? No spoilers, I just wanna know if we'll see more of them!
This volume has been much shorter than expected, isn't the second the last one already?

Ngl I feel like this story is getting better with each chapter. Their sexual chemistry also works better now that we've seen some background on them. I really like the MC and it helps if the ML isn't just psychotic for the sake of it (*cough* story writing of Jinx).
Hoping for more character dynamics being explored and a good story to unfold.

Found the raws, this has 2 volumes with 12 chapters and it's complete.
I can provide sites for Korean/Chinese raws and know where to buy the Japanese version as PDF, DM me if you speak any of these 3 languages and would be willing to pick this up!
I can try to clean and typewriter the panels as long as someone provides me with a good translation (not mtl).