
I'm just thinking out loud...I don't dislike the ML, I just struggle to enjoy him as a character. We know some of his back story but he like, barely emotes, and his only development throughout the entire story is going from mysterious to less mysterious. I hoped the side stories would flesh him out more. Maybe it will but meh, doubt it at this rate. At least every other character is interesting, including obviously Taemin who's extremely likable.

I let this series cook way too long, I have so much to catch up on The backgrounds look so lackluster now tho. I wonder if it's a victim of mangaka burnout.

The lack of background is mostly to chase deadlines I think. There's also times when it's only sketches, which are actually not that uncommon when mangakas can't properly fo things when deadlines were close so you just got rough stuff published in the manga zines.
They mostly going to be fixed in thr tankobon releases.
Did we skip a chapter?
Right?!?!