Here's my full review of the manhwa. I just finished it, and I have a lot of thoughts.
I honestly only started reading it because I found it on the home page and saw that comedy was one of the tags and I love comedy manhwas so I thought 'why not?' Uhm... THIS WAS NOT THE ROMCOM MANHWA I THOUGHT I WAS SIGNING UP FOR.
I usually try to avoid this stuff at all costs and my heart actually sank when I first found out that Taesoo and Chunwoo had that kind of relationship. I don't usually read plots with unhealthy love triangles and this amount of angst, but honestly, I kind of loved this. The story is very realistic to me. It shows how relationships can be extremely multi-faceted. The portrayal of loneliness and trying to overcome trauma was very impactful and overall, I just really liked the characters. Now, after saying all this, I would also like to say that this story really fucked me up omg. I need to read a lot of no-conflict romance mangas in order to recover from this.
Other final thoughts: I really love the main story plotline. While I did feel incredible frustration and pain reading through some of the character's choices, none of it ever felt unrealistic. The characters were really human. The epilogue and sides, however, are a completely different genre and vibe. It leans into slice of life where plots blur together and nothing is really too serious for too long. While it is cute, it got boring to read after a while and now I am just waiting until they drop more shit about my boy Woojin. When he's not in the chapter I lose interest ngl sjflsdjfa;slj I just really want to see him and Yitae interacting more. To me, their relationship is one where they both really like each other, but they would never in a million years say anything to the other, which is my cup of tea. That's the kind of romcom that I want to be reading right now.
Oh well, I haven't really done my opinions justice in this word vomit of a review, but I just have a lot to say about this manhwa and I am too lazy to form a cohesive essay.
Hyejin is so silly for that. The two of them have such a girlies relationship it’s so funny
The best friend and boyfriend hating each other is one of my favorite dynamics pffft it's so funny
Right
Is it just me that feels like it would defeat the purpose of their development? I know it isn't that deep, but I feel like Hitomi developing theriomorphosis is too easy of a fix to their problems like he would just suddenly understand Kamiya without having to work through anything.
They're really cute but Hitomi also needs to recognize that his mindset of being okay with Kamiya breaking him is really unhealthy
Yep I think so too, it will become just another fate furry omegaverse (ー_ー゛)
I mean he did say that he was really simple minded and even if it seems dysfunctional from the outside, a relationship in which one person is really obsessive and possessive can actually work out when the other person WANTS and maybe even needs that from them. It's definitely not a peak healthy relationship and there's some therapy to be had for sure but I don't think it's the worst thing ever. I agree that him getting the condition would be too easy of a fix though
And I know it's a smut and in the first chapter itself we got some dubcon moments, but seriously .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·.
I want some fluff, some non toxic story like tadaima okaeri maybe, i want them to have healthy communication and much more.
Specially I like both the mc even though they need some therapy for sure. I opened the manga without cheking genre so i know I am at fault ಥ_ಥ for wanting some fluff buuuutttr a girl can dream you know ( ꈨ ˙ ꈨ )
I feel the same although it would be really interesting if they both had it but because of Hitomi's insecurities about not being enough if he gets it too it would almost confirm his insecurities by showing he had to change physically to be enough instead of resolving the insecurities and issues through proper communication and relationship growth.
I would argue that Hitomi is actually just as possessive and obsessive as the seme he just doesn't show it as agressively and a lot of it is more inward thoughts
Yep I 100% agree with you, let's see what happens, I just want happy ending with communication.
All the more reason that they could actually work out lol
the protagonist is so trans-coded with that dialogue about being their true self online as a girl
It says 'ongoing' but it has been a couple years since update. The comments are all saying that the want more, too, ahaha. I just want to know if it's finished before I start reading it.
I think it’s completed, the ending was pretty much case closed so unless side stories come, there isn’t more to it
Thank you!
The original plot is so great and has so much potential, but dude the execution suckedddd. Everything after Sayama revealed that he knew Yuuka was Yuuto was so unnecessary.
I feel like I loved the vibe of the piece more than the piece itself. The art style is amazing, I adore the color palette, and I am always a sucker for summer stories involving the sound of cicadas. I think the small references to the book at the beginning and end were written beautifully.
That being said, I don't particularly love the main couple. Someone mentioned in their comment that it felt really rushed and I completely agree. I don't feel an emotional connection to the characters or their relationships, and there is hardly anything deeper that we can see. For a short piece like this, I can understand that it isn't going to dive too deeply, but it made the characters feel flat.
I am also never a huge fan of the "dating the sibling of unrequited love/ex" trope. It can be done well in some cases, but even then, I don't love it. This case was not done very well, we hardly see anything that would suggest Namwoo's attraction to Yeoreum. It's just hard to believe he could genuinely fall for Yeoreum like that without making him into a replacement.
Sorry, this is a really long critique, but I like seeing if people share my opinions or if they have counterarguments to my claims. This manhwa can still work, it just isn't my cup of tea and I feel like the execution could have been much better.
You've very nicely put what I think after reading this, totally agree. I don't believe the excuse of the story being too short to show the sincerity of Namwoo's feelings, because I read short stories that show deep feelings.
I was not expecting to enjoy this story so much, especially since it is incest. It's honestly really good in my opinion, but I didn't read it as a romance. I read it as a messed up horror/drama type manga. I didn't connect with the characters on any deep level like I would with typical mangas. I think that's why chapter 7.5 caught me so off guard because the mangaka suddenly makes a huge shift in tone and it becomes a cutesy romance. Oh well.
This is not well-written in fact, it's kinda bad. but I still liked it ahahaha.