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..
Currently on chapter 22. First and foremost, the art is GORGEOUS. Chef’s kiss. I wanna eat it up. I want it up my ahh—
This story contains some really dark themes and I must say, the author does a pretty good job handling them. I was pleasantly surprised. We have one of our main characters, Louis, who was a victim of psychological manipulation and as far as realism goes, the depiction of it is done really well.
However, I’m a little squeamish about the age gap between Louis and Kenny. (Rahman and Ye Xing as well.) Kenny was in his late teens when Lou was a child, and what makes it even worse is that Kenny was a figure in Lou’s childhood so it gives it this predatory-ish vibe to it, you know. But I have decided to give it grace since the characters aren’t depicted to be unreasonable assholes.
And Ye xing. I love Ye xing with my whole heart. Rahman, I’m watching you. Better keep that third leg in check.
Isaac Lakaitel, you’ll start coughing in three days.
While this story has its flaws, overall, it’s good.
Had the potential to be good... then it just wasn’t. Loved Zigril’s character design, he’s hot as hell, and I’m sad they had to waste all that by making him a dirty r*pist. There’re plenty of other ways to make a character an asshole people! is not one of them! The other MC is sooo naive I couldn’t stand it. Why are you acting like a teenager as a full blown adult?? Dropped!
Agreed
Urgh. My biggest pet peeve is naive MC or ML, like Jesus you’re 20+ acting like a child.
It’s honestly so upsetting. Why do some authors do this???
Y’all crying morality in the comments are so funny. Like... this manhwa was a red flag from the very first chapter. It’s literally built on inc.estious relationships so it’s so weird that y’all suddenly surprised that Horus is in love with his uncle who saw him grow up. What did y’all expect? Seth’s parents are siblings. His former wife is literally his biological sister!!his biological brother is obsessed with him!!! HOW YOU GUYS surprised that such things are even happening? The selective morality is so hypocritical. If y’all really cared about moral correctness, y’all wouldn’t touch this manhwa with a ten foot pole. Not defending any actions in this, but y’all just making me laugh.
not to mention that its just very common in egyptian mythology like literally if you’re clicking on something with the tag “egyptian mythology” then what else are you gonna expect
Gagaggagagagaggggghhhhhh this had me on a chokehold also bc I have dyslexia so reading this shit was hard asf and I almost had a fucking stroke but ANYGAYS FOR FUCKING REAL
But Horus' uncle *didn't* watch him grow up... That's what I like about them: that no one can say Seth "groomed" Horus
If anything Horus has been obsessed with Seth ever since he was kid. (weird... but ehem Egyptian mythology)
The part where Horus is shown going around his mother’s temple looking at Seth's hieroglyphics shows this.
I feel like Horus was so enamored by Seth that he was willing to take Seth's affection in any form, be it parental or whatever. Horus looked at him as Seth the guardian god. He idolized him. And I think Horus didn’t know how to place these emotions he suddenly started to feel at that time. He said it himself that he didn’t understand why he chose Seth over his mother, and technically the entire Egypt lol, despite the horrible things he’d done.
My conclusion is, Horus needs friends his age.
Exactly, LMAO. Give Horus a whole school year of friends his age. Guy needs a social life. XD XD
Omg Levi really turned Erwin into his housewife so that he would depend on him only. This story is messed up
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.