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I love how the constant onslaught of war and weight of protecting an entire nation by herself wasn’t enough to make the saintess give up, but an average life under modern capitalism was

Dropped it because I realized they’re in high school. How fucking hard would it be to set this in college?! I hate authors who do this so much ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

Reaction to mana deficiency highlights the difference in experiences between new and old hunters.
So mana deficiency is a very severe, established medical condition. The primary symptoms are mental instability, headaches, weakness, self harm, and potentially suicidal tendencies. I think Seo running out of mana and all his teammates thinking it’s so novel and cute at first really speaks to how new hunters truly have no idea what the Revengers and old hunters had to endure and how difficult it was.
The level of shock and horror when they realize he can’t be healed to restore his mana really highlights how different things are. The are in an S class dungeon but they weren’t mentally prepared for the risk of death.
Seo and Dorim exerted themselves to the point of mana deficiency almost constantly for most of the time they were in the great dungeon, and it was likely a common experience for the others, which likely explains a lot of the suicides in the dungeon.
Dealing with mana deficiency on top of trauma must also be incredibly severe. If it’s directly blamed for the deaths of two Revengers, they either must have done it very soon after getting out of the Great dungeon or they must have gone into other dungeons after. We don’t know when mana potions became commonplace.
It also really speaks to Seo’s strength of mind that he was able to endure it for so long, and remain functional afterwards.

I really like how they actually tackle the trauma that hunters inevitably go through. There is also a generational gap. In most cases they just portray them as toughened, but not with particularly human reactions.
Hunters with the new upgraded system, abilities, and strategies can’t comprehend the struggles of the first generation. Out of only 4 survivors of the great dungeon, all of them had suicidal tendencies, two succeeded, one is incapacitated, and the last is just barely holding on. It’s apparently common for current hunters to turn to substances to cope.
I think a big factor is that nobody knows about the time stopping ability. It took them 300 years to clear the dungeon, so you can only imagine the accumulated trauma.

Ah yes the classic battle robot that looks like a prostitute/sex doll. It’s obvious what the author’s priorities were. It’s always so disappointed to enter a rich, unique world and concept, only to realize most of the focus is going to be on fanservice.

I had no idea where that pirate arc was leading, but I ship them so hard now
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As far as I’m concerned this drama is all on Chaeheon. He made out with someone who was hammered, so forgetting/not understanding what happened is one of the less poor responses he could’ve gotten. He pounced without confessing or building up a romantic rapport, so there was a lot of room for speculation （￣へ￣）

TW SA.
And another “femdom” that’s essentially just sa at their very first encounter. Fl and ml get into a fight, fl overpowers ml with hypnosis and brings him home. It’s very obvious her hypnosis prevents him from moving and he tells her to stop repeatedly, but she just giggles and goes on anyway. Don’t bother, it’s really gross how the entire situation is trivialized by the fl. There are some people in the comments who seem fine with it, but if the roles were reversed they would be screaming bloody murder.
Femdom is supposed to be about confident and assertive women, not sexual predators. Its disgusting and disappointing how trivialized sa is when it happens to men (even in fiction).

I legitimately despise this ml. I don’t necessarily think the fl is that dense so much as she has a lot of things going on and just doesn’t have the bandwidth to notice other stuff. She trusts him as his friend and she doesn’t have similar relationships to compare it to. This happens to women all the time, they trust a guy friend and don’t recognize the signs until they have to reject their advance, often causing the relationship to fall apart.
He manipulates, lies to, and gaslights her whenever she tries to probe about anything. He’s had plenty of chances to confess, but he seems to prefer to puppeteer her into a position where she can’t refuse rather than risk rejection, because he knows she wants to be free.
He knows exactly what the rumors and him gifting the necklace have done, and will continue to do, making it harder for her to avoid being connected to him. He knows why she’s angry but chooses to trivialize and ignore her response. He skillfully redirects to avoid dealing with the conflict. He is honestly just as insidious as Yuri once you really dig into his behavior, just in more outwardly subtle ways.
It’s just becoming increasingly obvious that all the support he gave her was just lip service, and that he was always less concerned about taking off her leash than being the one who is holding it. It’s clear that he views her more like a cherished pet than a partner. Sure, he wants her to happy and safe, but he doesn’t tolerate it when she wants to behave in any way he doesn’t like. When she does that he doesn’t respect her autonomy, but trivializes her and obfuscates until he no longer has to deal with it.
It’s extremely common for FLs, no matter how old, experienced, or worldly to be infantilized by the author, but even if she’s too dense to notice his feelings, that doesn’t mean she deserves to be manipulated, gaslit, and trapped into a one sided marriage again. It’s not like the ML is violent or abusive, but he’s such a horrible, disrespectful, selfish partner that it’s ruined the story for me. I think it just really hits home because you see this type of personality in real life, and actual relationships that involve a person like him almost always implode.

Chinese manga will literally do anything to avoid having the abuser take genuine accountability for their actions. This bs amnesia arc just gives him a do over. He gets a chance to not be horrible to Yan, so his character development is acting like a decent partner. The bar is in hell. Because of his abuse and negligence, Yan almost died, which is ironically what gave him this opportunity to try rewrite their history. And now even if he did wake up and want to leave, he lost all of his powers, so he is completely vulnerable.
If you look really close, no matter what abuse occurred, the end result will always go with what the “reformed” abuser wants, usually because the victim caught random feelings, is dependent/can’t leave, or arbitrary plot forcing. Even if the abuser recognizes their wrongs and feels guiltY, it’s extremely rare that they actually apologize, or respect the wishes of the victim. They usually just give them some slave while they skulk around still trying to get the ending they want.