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As much I was excited about the return of Dear Benjamin, and having an ending, I’m kinda glad it was rushed. I’d forgotten the story, so when the comic returned, I decided to read it from scratch and it’d only taken me two days. The story is that GOOD.
But girlllll that art style change was jarring. See, I respect the new artist and their work, but I’m sorry, the characters just didn’t feel the same anymore. Of course, it’s a different artist and expecting the characters to look exactly the same is unrealistic. However, I wished they’d have put in more effort to capture the essence of the original designs. The writer could have at least found an artist who had a similar art style to the original.
The new character designs are missing that rawness, that raggedness. Not only that, the anatomy was off putting. I’ve never breezed through sex scenes as fast as I breezed through this one lordddddt! And I don’t know if it’s just me but the chemistry just seemed to have disappeared.
This comic had me giggling and kicking my feet all through the EARLIER sex scenes because the chemistry had been through the roof! The way they both wanted it and couldn’t help it. Ugh! Loved to see that, but then...the new artist merely drew them in sex positions and expected the readers to swoon. This felt like those poorly drawn porn oneshots by amateur artists.
Anywayyyysss let me end my yap session right here.
Overall, this comic is one of the best things I’ve read.
ikrrrr. it hits different, completely different! The vibe was just not "IT" anymore.
It was really sooo unfortunate such things happened! The previous art was really meant for this story like a match made in heaven...
yeah true that i prefer the old art, either way, i am honor the new artist works, they've worked hard..
The feminization of Hyesung is insane. Like what do you mean auntie? AUNTIE?!!! Girl, who’s translating this???
not just hyesung, all omega parents are referred to as mothers even though their gender is male. alpha parents are always called dad too. for example, chowon’s “mom” is a woman but since she is an alpha, they call her dad. also dojin’s mom is a male but they still call him mother.
Mom is almost bearable. I understand it to some extent because birthing yada yada yada. I specifically had a problem with them calling him Auntie. Now that’s taking a STEP. There’s literally no reason why he should be referred to as that. Only if he identified as a woman, which I don’t think he does. (He and Dojin are a gay couple.)
This is a problem because it ties into the feminization of gay men that is prevalent in BL spaces and their inability to see gay relationships through a heteronormative lens. Eg the translator.