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alright folks i spent the last 6 hours reading this until 4 am local time but in essence i think i really like the story up until the moment leading up to their first kiss (the one after they went clubbing together). after the confrontation and the secret of inseob and jenny blew over, the plot started to progress very similarly to killing stalking and i aint impressed babygirl this is not what i signed up for

if i can write some alternate endings:
- inseob did leave to america for good after burning all evidences or maybe kept some but maybe just for jenny
- after he left wooyeon met up with him again in the US in front of jenny’s grave, in a way to also get a closure about what happened (why did he become his manager, whats with the fake id etc)
- obviously knowing very well that inseob is a stalker wooyeon didnt take it well like the original plot, but also at the same time inseob realized wooyeon’s true nature
- if they do end up together, honestly can see it happen in a slowburn way because they are hella attracted to each other
- but if they dont end up together, well at least their situationship wont have literal bodycount

guys im flying to tokyo for halloween in 2 weeks so im rewatching the shibuya arc

and knowing the death of gojo at the end of jujutsu kaisen, hidden inventory + shibuya arc just hits different on this rewatch

(number one, is gojo the real protagonist of jjk? lol)

on a serious note, i think that these arcs have foreshadowed his death, demise etc?? because the way it was set up …

the flashbacks of everyone being asked: what is gojo satoru to you, the backstory of gojo+geto&their separation which serves as the foundation of the ideals they upheld as older adults later on …

and then furthermore, as we have established on the end of S1 gojo can (later did) very easily could kill the elderlies who ran the jujutsu world but he didnt … he chose to pursue his own ideals and in his own anti-establishment ways, become a teacher so he can make sure a certain continuity … so that he doesnt have to be the only strong one (almost as if he knows how lonely and isolating it is to be the strongest huh)

his emphasis on saving people … on teaching … on community … i dont like gojo all that much before, i wasnt that crazy about his death during gojo v sukuna fight scene, but damn its really hitting me hard now

this is going to sound crazy but this manhwa has grip on me more than 5 years later after i finsihed. i remember i started doing muay thai / boxing because i think taemin is so cool and honestly i like his original design much better?

also secretly i never really like woojin that much - i think taemin’s boldness and kindness would be such a good match to the original siwon, who i felt like never get the proper closure or ending he deserved

i think about what makes this series so special and beyond the unique premise, on point humor, and nice expressive art, i think it boils down to me liking the trope of abel who has so much love to give and the lonely dragon prince who all his life just wants to be held (and loved) </3

this story has so many layers of intrigue to me

at first i was interested by the premise of a female lead who’s smart and cunning enough to escape prison twice, and yet despite the notroiety you can see how much she cares for other people / how compassionate she is

and then i was intrigued that the man who was ordered to watch her prison transfer turns out to be the man she idolized (a war hero!) during the war and clung to during those darkest times

AND THEN when the twist came and turns out SHE was the person he clung to as a sole surivivor of the hometown he abandoned … by that time my jaw was on the floor

they were so meant to be … i swear they dont make romances like this anymore sjdhdhdhdh the sheer big brain energy of having the hero / villain secretly idolizing each other

the angst of having to lie to the person you love the most …

the longing of wanting to just be held just once

AHHHHHHHH (๑•ㅂ•)و✧

tsunade did something in my teenage brain that changed the course of my life (i’m a girl)

read this inbetween naps on a lazy sunday noon so the whole thing does seem like a fever dream to me

the art style reminds me of dear door and story wise i like how you’d never really expect the twists that come. the characters are so blunt and very magnetic in that way

and i grow to love the mc so much through the duration of the story as we peel off the layers of his past

only wishing for the best for rin though - he’s such a major bitch but having unwanted pregnancy from a hatefuck is not it

what ultimately bothers me about the twinkification is how now both male leads just conform to the standard of beauty of every bl ever with very masculine and very feminine pairing in a way that looks rather heteronormative to me. abel before was interesting to me when he was so buff and thug looking and yet with the gentlest of heart, i’m gonna miss his old self for sure but after the most recent chapter at least we got a reason why being in a different form works for him now due to so many people having tried impersonating the old abel

jooin’s character arc is even better than i expected

jooin has always had this immaturity about him and yegyum this intense insecurity, but in just one chapter we have seen glimpses of how they have matured as a person and basically getting their shit together. man! i cant wait until they reunite and runoff to another tropical beach but in the mean time im going to try to enjoy the ride!