Btw, just in case anyone missed this: Koga isn't horrified only because he's humiliating her in front of the class, but because he's calling it a love song. So on top of being bullied, she's worrying about her feelings bring revealed/ misunderstood, due to the songs name being something Aya said to her.
Awesome, I don't care if it ends in a polycule or a fight to the death, go get your girl!
Genuinely hilarious, that this manga tries to paint itself as feminist, when it's anything but that.
"See! Look how evil Amihama is, being so brutally blunt, that she's mean!" Meanwhile the story never shuns from being brutal towards her"She reminds me of an animals" "She's so fat" "She dresses poorly"
"Look how pick-me-ish Amihama is!" Like the story isn't literally constantly asking you to pick the kind feminine woman, while putting Amihama down, because of her appearance.
I'm not saying Amihama is good, misunderstood or even normal. If I, in real life, worked at this workplace, I would hate her and love Honda. But this isn't real life, this is a story someone wrote and drew. They made Amihama a caricature of a rude person, then made her fat, loud, sexually liberated and unfashionable to gross you out.
Then they drew a younger, polite, quieter, beautiful woman, which you're supposed to obviously pick over her.
Wow, the ugly fat woman thinks that a man likes her, when he was actually just using her! Isn't she gross? Anyway, back to the model, that nearly cries tears of joy, when she receives a pretty shirt from a business partner.
I don't normally care about this stuff, it's pretty common in the lowbrow mangas, but c'mon! What does this story think it is, to lecture me, about how a proper woman should behave, when it makes such an insulting caricature out of its main character!
"It's just a joke!" Alright, who's it aimed at, what makes it funny and what is the author trying to say about the world through it?
HYPED HYPED HYPED HYPED HYPED Love that the mc isn't the nervous shy lot, or the quirky girl, give me that toxic situationship in all it's glory. Also, the artist is the same one as the one that did Villainess maker, which was another manhwa where there was a big kill or fuck tension, so they're right for the job.
Gang I'm reading along the good translations, and seeing you all here hating Derek is making me nervous lol, what did that ahole do this time
THEY DON'T WANT TO MISS LUNCH TOGETHER, EVEN IF IT'S ONLY ONCE IT TWICE A WEEK
Cute dumb guy type is an enigmatic cool guy,
enigmatic cool guy's type is a smart chill guy,
smart chill guy's type is a beautiful effeminate guy,
beautiful effeminate guy's type is an outgoing social guy,
outgoing social guy's type is a popular capable guy,
popular capable guy's type is a reserved quiet guy,
And finally completing the circle, reserved quiet guy's type is a cute dumb guy.
This might seem like pointless info, but if you go in the opposite direction, you can see that the person who likes them is always almost the opposite of the person they like. Truly tragic. If someone wants to play matchmaker and find a way to pair these people off, in a way that doesn't change their toes completely, feel free to do so under this comment.
Positives and negatives so far (imo)
Positives:
- The shading is really interesting, I like the mix of gray and skin tone, it gives it a unique look.
-The design of the two main characters is pretty cool
- Now and then, some really cool panels pop up, like the one with Won replacing the dead student in the dream sequence
- The brown haired friend also an interesting character. I can't wait for him to go apeshit again. I kind of wish he was the main love interest, but he's not tall and ripped so there's no chance of that happening
Negatives:
-Shrinkwrap abs. I hate looking at them, can't we as a civilization move past this? Ripped people don't look like this, even people who specifically work out for sexy abs don't look like this. It makes everyone look like Liefeld's captain America
- The pacing is all wrong. Like think about it, what happened in this chapter? What new information did we learn? How did the story progress? I guess they made eye contact, which is something, but c'mon. The author already established that the mc doesn't like Won, why waste so many panels just on the mc looking angry
- Won is kind of generic. I do like that he's genuinely just a horrible person that wants to see the mc suffer, instead of pulling the "I'm never going to let anyone hurt you (by hurting you)". The manhwa has been hyping up how weird and powerful he is for 11 chapters now without showing anything, so if he's not Zombie Jesus or something, I'll be pissed
- Repetitive dialog. "Stay in my room, you'll be safe!" "No, I won't! And I don't like you!""Stay in my room, you'll be safe!" "No, I won't! And I don't like you!""Stay in my room, you'll be safe!" "No, I won't! And I don't like you!" WE KNOW, YOU'VE ESTABLISHED THAT ALREADY
-The tone is weird? On one hand, it tries to be like killing stalking, in the way that it doesn't pretend to care about morality. It's a story about a man being horrible and that's what you're getting. On the other hand, the way it constantly draw attention to mc's red flustered chest makes it feel like generic smut. I guess since the series is new, you can't really know what they're going for yet. I wonder if they're going to fall in love at some point, or if it's going to be 60 chapters of toxic smut with other people trying to get in the way and ending with murder. Idk.
- Actually back to the sex scenes, we all feel secondhand pain when he's bleeding out of his ass right? So I automatically assumed that those panels were there to show that it isn't meant to be taken as sexy, but as horrific. But, there are so many bleeding anuses, that it's just a kink of this specific manhwa right? Like if you wanted to convey that it's painful, one panel of it, or maybe even just some blood on the ground would do. This is not me judging it, it'd be silly to judge this sort of story on morality, but this just another example of the tone being unclear.
Overall, there are better things to read on here I think, even if you enjoy some darker stuff
She said I can fix him and for the first time I absolutely believe her
Considering that each chapter has like five close ups on the boy's chest, I propose, that was if we gave him a shirt, this story will finish ten chapters sooner
I don't get that comment saying it looks unfinished, it looks wonderful! It's very detailed and stylish. The story is pretty interesting too! The only issue I have is the paneling, it's a bit bland and makes the reading difficult. This will probably get better with time though. Otherwise I love it!
Babyboy what's the game plan here? He's going to yandere his way into her heart and then be like Surprise! I'm super rich! I hope it's at this moment that she remembers him preaching to her, about how it's okay to buy so many flowers while you're poor ( while she was leaving her job to go to another job ) and kicks his ass
You read the chapter and think: Hmmm, that was fucked up! But luckily, I'm aware of the fact that I'm reading a story with morally dubious lead. He does horrible things to horrible people, because he himself is a horrible person.
And then you read the comments and people are talking about how she deserved it? Be fr right now. She didn't "deserve" it for what she had done, she wouldn't have deserved it if she had SA'd people prior this and she wouldn't have deserved it if she shat in a church or something. Because guess what, you can't "deserve" rape, you weirdos. It's never a justifiable act.
I don't need my serial killer high school yaoi protagonist to have a moral code, because he's fictional, but c'mon.
Omg This is so nice, I honestly didn't even think something like this existed. He doesn't lose his weight and there's no feederism kink. AND he's the seme! Usually they try to put chubby characters into the "cute hamster" category, but not here. Everyone really likes the character, multiple people have s crush on him and he's considered both cool and cute!