I would have liked Ririko if she didn't keep the child actually. This manga meant to be a serio-comic but if you see it from the child's perspective it's traumatising. It was not her fault she was born and now she is being juggled around by irresponsible adults. I don't blame the MC or the ML for not wanting to take responsibility because that's how responsible adults do. Their lives are shit and forcing child rearing is not character development, it's like Indian mothers getting their sons married to tie them to their house and the wives and kids suffer.
Ririko could have easily @borted but she didn't because she is quirky like.....what the fuck? The writing of this manga is in shambles.
The writer is making the audience root for the two people to get together and raise the child as a salvation moment despite both of them not being qualified. Also the raising part treated as their character development, second chance at romance and almost salvation moment.
The emotions portrayed are good because it's from the adults' POV and not the child's. If it was from her POV we would have hated every single adult in the story.
The author is trying to capture humanity in imperfections. Which writing wise is fine I guess.
? the writer is actually directly telling you that both of those guys are not qualified did you just skip like... most of the dialogue? the recent chapter even has one of them and the granny talking about it. even the title says it - they're dysfunctional. that's the point. the author ain't promoting anything
Some of this author's Semes have psychopath traits like Yi Bin from blood link dgaf about anyone else other than Hwagok initially he even closely tolerated his son later he actually liked him and he even tolerates his grandkids lmao. He didn't gaf about his son-in-law as well. So yeah they write variety of characters but most of them are psychopaths.
Pil-Gyon might be the closest to actual psychopath they written. Like his "love" isn't love it's obsession mixed with trauma bond etc. Also the scary part about him that even exceeds Yi Bin is that bro isn't sincere with his emotions. He wants Nanmu's sympathy to guilt him into staying with him (unnecessary Nanmu is head over heels for his pookie wookie) so he manipulates the situation and Nanmu himself to gain it. We wouldn't even know if it it wasn't Pil Gyon's father's dying flashback would show him smiling like that and then quickly changing his face pretending to be pitiful. So we know half of the shit this guy does is an act but it's lovable because he will never hurt Nanmu and Nanmu loves him to death so the obsession evens out.
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP THE ART IS SO GOOD OKFGDSDJLUFF