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Personally, I really like the friendship as a friendship and wouldn't have minded that it stayed that way IF the story wasn't relying heavily on classic BL tropes especially in those last few chapters. Escpailly the takeout girlfriend.

The ending only felt abrupt to me because they were setting up a confession that never came. If the author never intended this to be a romance... I guess you could still argue it is, but because every romance story has a confession, not having one or at least an equivalent act becomes disqualifying...

Anyway. After centuries of romance coding everything, we've all been trained or hardwired to read romance into everything. It's why characters that dont remotely interest or genuinely despise each other get shipped. People are just like this.

Authors have to actively counterbalance tropes that are romantically coded to temper their readers expectations, not lean into them. At least half of us shouldn't be expecting a BL when it's a story about friendship. I prefer platonic relationships and think it's a shame that intimate male platonic relationships are so rare in stories of all mediums. I would've love this story if it was clearly about that.

But it wasn't. This was just bait ╥﹏╥

Overall the story was pretty sweet about found family and cats and all, but the dad actually putting his family millions in debt for the sake of cats (which are among the best hunters in the world) is infuriating.

And the way the cats treat Yukiharu, even towards the end, is just mean?? And selfish??? The poor kid

The plot had something sweet going but the cats man...

I thought I'd seen every stupid excuse under the sun but apparently not. This one takes the prize for most incomprehensibly stupid contrivance (￣∇￣")

I'm really close to dropping this. Items just shallow drama after shallow drama

Theres kinda.... too much plot and the plot is bad...

But actually ima be so stressed its gonna explode the whole time

I know that's jot how bullet works but my brain be like that

Kinda have to appreciate it. The ending paid off everything the story set up. The two semes had complete degradation arcs. The devil was actually a twisted, corrupting force instead of an uwu jim just a fuckable twink. There were themes.

Idk. I kinda appreciated it.

Yall out here complaining about the uke or his psycho ex but I'm here pissed at the staff

90% if the problems could have been prevented or reduced if the staff, the idol, and the public had any communication at all. I'm not even talking about the romance shit. It was obvious MC's company cares and listened to him, but they didnt fucking tell him he had a dangerous stalker? They didn't put out any PR announcements like "as always, please be careful with food gifts and never consume anything that has a broken seal."

Then on top of that, Mr. Zero Self Preservation Skills didnt just... tell his staff he doesn't want anymore contact with the psycho ex?? He doesnt have to explain why but like, the staff could try to limit his exposure to him??? Especially the manger?? And Mr. Perfect Bodygard didnt say anything either? Just a quick "hey manager, as his bodyguard who's got an eye for danger, my client seems obviously uncomfortable with this guy. We prioritise the safety of our talent, so let's not keep putting him in the room with someone he clearly doesn't like."

Basically, the staff were fucking incompetent given how many crazy psychos were attracted to this wildly famous idol, the uke doesnt have a single self preserving bone in his body, and the seme was the only mostly competent person for still having security follow his client even when he was wrestling with his emotions. I have zero interest in watching this clown show continue with a THIRD stalker

Nahhhhh bro not the pedo groomer getting no consequences and the uke AND seme feeling bad for him???

I really liked the seme for noticing something freaky was happening to the uke, but then he was like "that's hot" to finding out the uke sleeps with this creepy pedo older man???

Wtf?

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE LAST 20 CHAPTERS. Just to make myself feel better, here's a list of everything that annoyed me:
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>>Characters magically appearing in locations. By that I mean, Eun Cheon will be at the shaman learning place or whatever with Do-Rim. He leaves and runs into the murder mafia guy, gets kidnapped to a random location, and then seven pages later Do-rim just appears. Nothing to indicate how much time has passed, or how Do-rim found them. Like was it forensic investigation? Divination? I would assume divination at this point, but it frustrated me.

>>The two ukes getting constantly raped by the incubus fucker right up until the final battle. Eun Cheon is literally half naked cuz the demon was raping him two minutes before Do-rim shows up for the final fight
>>Do-rim promising to save Eun Cheon at least twice, and then immediately failing to do so, at least twice.

>>The cut away scenes shaman people being like "their fate is inevitable" and "it's doomed, they're doomed" to convince us something bad is going to happen and then none of that happening

>>Jeong Mok being REALISTICALLY a traumatized child who just wants to save the only family he's ever had in his life but NARRATIVELY really fucking stupid and frustrating. Mr. Murder Brother was really fucking noble resisting the incubus and suffering to keep everyone else safe, and Jeong Mok undermines ALL of that.

>>The conflict ending with a Deus Ex Eun Cheon's Mom. This whole story has centered around DO-RIM's ancestors and DO-RIM's powers even when Eun Cheon was technically using them. Like, it's DO-RIM's family the incubus has a grudge against. We've built them up as something formidable, especially the Divine General. And then they all just die in one sword swipe in a single chapter and Eun Cheon's ancestors pop out of his ass to save the day.



I dunno. I feel kinda let down considering how much I loved the first season. The ending felt rushed and mismaanged