RIP Yamauchi's love life. But hey, Ogasawara and Nashida are single, so...
I guess people who haven't had experience with cheaters are more open to it being used in a narrative than those who have felt that betrayal firsthand. I'm not against stories involving it, but I will say that having experienced cheating before, I don't enjoy that aspect of a story unless the author has something innovative to say about the experience, or presents it in a world where relationships are managed differently... which, looking at the raws and the fact that there's a beating and they get back together, seems like she hasn't. The resolution seems unrealistically simple and cliche with violence solving everything, following in the footsteps of most cheating manga I've read. It's like it's trying to be realistic in some aspects without being realistic in others, and it makes me feel disconnected from the story.
The way cheating is explored in Scarlet Beriko's "Jealousy" is more interesting to me - the setting is extreme (yakuza world), the roles between head, wife, subordinate, and male mistress are all blurry, and most characters aren't meant to be likable in the first place, so their behaviors are compelling in a train-wreck sort of way.
It's not just your partner cheating on you is considered as an experience. As a child who had a father who cheated on us many times, I still have a different perspective of the situation. I went psychological route that lust and love are separate entities and cannot be always projected onto one person, despite what the norm/society expects from "exclusive" couples.
Here for Jinwoo and Naeun tbh. The other couples are cute too, but it's refreshing to see some good female characters in a BL that aren't being used as complications or portrayed as evil.
Jinwoo and naeun are so wholesome I wish they’d get something more official
If there's love out there for a minotaur, there's certainly hope for the rest of us!
Jaewon is clearly the main character, but he's so g e n e r i c. His main character trait is "omg I like someone so much I can't deal!~~" and while that's relatable, it's isn't much for a reader to grasp on to. He dominates the story by being the POV character, but throughout the story, he meets very few challenges and goes through almost no changes.
Because of the amount time given to showing Junseo's backstory, and the sad nature of his past, the readers empathize with him much more strongly than with bland Jaewon. Junseo becomes the character we all root for, because we have been given the most information about him and the most reasons to root for him. He ends up transforming from a supporting character to protagonist by the virtue of his development being honed and focused upon for a greater time than any of the other characters. Jaewon gets more screen time and is the focus character, but it's all repetitive pining for Karam. Junseo's time is more personal, more nuanced, and ultimately more interesting, as he changes into someone who can move on from his past and into someone who can love another person.
This is why many readers are focused on Junseo's happy ending rather than Jaewon. Junseo wants Jaewon, and we, invested in Junseo, want Junseo to get what he wants.
Meanwhile, Jaewon wants to be with Karam, another character who has had a lot of story time spent on him, but again suffers from lack of development from that time. We've learned that Karam has a friend in another class and he likes movies... that's about it. He's been presented as a goal for Jaewon and that's about as deep as he gets.
The author is obviously free to do what they want with their characters. I think this comic is okay, and the ending is justified, but not necessarily well-crafted. It is unsatisfying to watch Vanilla-kun end up with MacGuffin-kun when he and Mint Dark Chocolate-kun could have made a delicious sundae, just saying~
damn I you made me hungry! I agree with you so much! (⌒▽⌒)
VANILLA KUN I CAN'T BREATHE THIS IS IT THIS FOR PEOPLE SATISFIED WHEN THEY GET A KISS ON THE CHEEK AND THEN GET MARRIED AND GET A VILLA AND A VOLVO WITH TWO CHILDREN Y'ALL GENERIC AND BORING I'm sorry my point is that I agree with you and the story had so much potential but now it's like a tamed straight generic white dude got his hands on it and said let's make it be a very bland romcom
dude, you just said it all
But the thing is that people aren't being like you, because they are straight out dissing the story and screaming the ending doesn't makes sense just because it didn't follow what they wanted.
But I disagree I don't see the problem with an easy love story, what's the problem with that?
it's a problem for people cause it's not satisfying, it's like asking why people prefer balck panther instead of barman vs superman, one has an involving plot and interesting characters while the other doesn't make any sense and is boring. That's the problem, people feel robbed cause they want to be satisfied with their attachment to a character! (mostly junseo at this point)
It's not about ships it's about story telling and people wanted more of it than just 's simple love story there you go, thats the problem, not everyone will enjoy it the same way you do, obviously , I won't take away your right to like how it turns out but that's doesn't mean people can't be annoyed for investing their time in something they wanted to feel better about ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ expextions does that, ya kno
Do you realise you are contradicting yourself, because I said that people aren't even recognizing the ending pair lakes sense, their complaints are all about how it doesn't makes sense and that's different than saying you don't like something.
For your other point how can you come and say all of that when you were dissing the love story for not being full of angst and just being cute.
people are complaining about it being generic and where did I supposedly "diss" the love story, I didn't write the post I'm just replying to your comment did you even read what I said, I said people don't wanna invest their time in somehting and ending up being unsatisfied cause of too little development which the main pair have. Too little development.
Wow.... Well said....
My comment was to the original poster.
And the ending is only unsatisfied because they got blind by a ship and only cared for one side completely forgetting that jaewon exist. I bet if jaewon suddenly at the last five chapter said he fell in love with junseo, these people will be "yeah right" even if it wouldn't make sense plot wise.
And for you people aren't complaining about being generic go read all their comments they are "the ending sucks"
oh my gOD FAM
I LOVE YOU
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUCCINCTLY EXPLAINING JUST WHY WE'RE INVESTED IN JUNSEO SO MUCH
you have all my kudos ヾ(☆▽☆)
i'm totally agree with you that Vanilla and Mint Dark Chocolate look delicious more than Vanilla-MacGuffin