
The drama of this scene is greatly diminished compared to the novel where she didn’t know who the author was at this point, the duke still distrusted/didnt care about her, she has been greatly beaten, the guards found her on their own after like a week where she had dressed in shabby commoner clothes and had bought a hobo kit and used hit potatoes to stay warm. Like, she was so much more pathetic here and genuinely still trying to run away at this point in the novel, but I think they’re trying to give the duke, cliff, and the princess a bigger role in the WEBTOON, and allowing the duke and cliff to actually be redeemed I guess? I was okay with them being punished by the author finally using their own personality instead of acting like lize be the punishment as she greatly decreased their reputation

I showed Leo’s apologizing scene to my husband and he literally was like, “that’s you.” I’m so into how realistic this is. Like, maybe their personalities are a bit extreme opposite ends of some kind of spectrum but they stay true to character and act like a couple actually trying to work it out when given the chance. I think Leo’s still gonna fuck up but he’s clearly really trying, and tbh, JJs plan worked so he clearly knows Leo well

I can tell people hate Leo but he’s so sheltered and such he doesn’t know how to treat people right. It’s not that he’s actively treating them bad, he just doesn’t see that he’s not treating JJ well, ut it’s clear as day to me that he loves him and just assumed he never had to say it. On the other hand it’s obvious JJ is just insecure and too quite to say anything. This is such good drama, they both have so much growing to do and I’m here for it. I thought they were gonna tease Leo in an accident/ almost dying way later, but maybe next time it’ll be way more serious

I started reading this manga around the time Michael first was introduced in the Hong Kong arc (over a decade ago), and then I dropped it around the time Sudo was first introduced. Just binged it and WOW is this a fever dream toward the end! This could have ended chapter 87: all enemies are dead or caught, asami realizing and admitting he loved takaba, takaba finally getting respected enough to be allowed to go to such a dangerous environment instead of being treated like a child… then nah, secret agent arc lmaoooo and I agree, everyone looks like a twink now

Frfrfr, my personal mini tragedy is that I find the Finder boring as fuck now. Well, that might be a bit of over exaggeration, but still.
Like the communication and fluff is well deserved, but there's just too much relationshippal (not a word, I know, I made it) fluff, I tire of it.
Also it feels like AY started to treat it like checking off the boxes for all kinds of tropes.
After the tone has been set at the beginning, I really was hoping for the deeper drama, the angst, the complicated, the hot but heavy due to unresolved emotions and emotional constipation sex, and it was that for a hot sec, and then it just turned to action - sex - fluff.
I wanted it to go deeper, like when Asami was consoling Akihito after the policeman stuff.
There's a few fanfics that actually do a better job at continuing character's arcs and plots in general.
Like, I dunno, at risk of getting cursed up and down, I just feel like it's so bland now, and Akihito looks even more like a girl, and Asami just kind of became a same-faced slab of stone.
It's a bit sad to me, is all.
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.Just reread this and I have to say, it overall declines hard when Norman’s suicide squad is introduced. The ideas are all great, but something about the tone or like, the believability of the story shifts with those four characters. Like, their introduction very starkly marks a point in the story where, “yeah I could believe based on what we’ve seen in the story that these children could do these things” ends and, “oh okay we’re just gonna use magic now.” Begins which is fine! Just like, feels like kinda two different writers