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Tatino March 21, 2025 12:44 am

Already I love this story for representation purposes along with the fact that younger tops with older bottoms is definitely a genre worth hyping over. Not to be negative but I fear somehow the younger guy is going to get hurt by the older and sooner than later he is going to see the wrong in his ways and old thinking (maybe get lectured by his sister) come together and the couple will live happily.
I am just guessing and NOT saying this is how it will go but just that most stories written in this theme exactly goes this way.
Relationships are hard and especially queer relationships in countries where it is frowned upon due to rigid patriarchal norms which preach heteronormativity.
I write this not to spread negativity but to expect or wish there were stories in this theme where the younger person wasn’t constantly getting hurt due the older person’s unhealed traumas. Older people with years ahead of experience than us might seem like an enigma from afar but nearing them we see ugliness slowly seep out but then we are too far stuck in the muck to get out.
All in all I like this story. I love that the artist added pop culture based queer signs here and there. I love that BL which usually has a bad reputation among the general public for being “fetish content” subverts the stereotype and actually acknowledge queer people and their struggles.
I am just hoping this story subverts the trope of the younger man getting hurt by the older man somehow because he wasn’t in the same place or just couldn’t come to terms with his feelings. But then again internalised homophobia/biphobia is a hard struggle. Fingers crossed.

    iluv March 21, 2025 12:51 am

    holy yap

    Gomi March 21, 2025 4:43 am
    holy yap iluv

    dun come towards my fellow yappasaurus yap you nonchalant fiend!!!

    Bruh March 21, 2025 12:30 pm
    dun come towards my fellow yappasaurus yap you nonchalant fiend!!! Gomi

    LMAOOOOO

Tatino February 25, 2025 8:29 pm

The art of this Manhwa is beautiful and I have checked the same artist's work to determine the fact (that for me personally) they make beautiful characters, great line work, though myself being not very well-versed with art, drawings like these is quite in par with my personal taste.
But reading works like these is when I realize not everyone who are able to draw are good writers. I believe, they rack their brains to come up with a theme/idea for a story and they cook up story boards and I am sure it takes up a lot of time and energy but end up writing a story that doesn't make such sense with characters of minimal depth.
Being tagged with yaoi/shounen-ai we come expecting two men falling in love with the added benefits of drama which either binds them forever or detaches them in the end (whatever may be the sub-genre, horror, psychological, slice of life etc).
So the least we can expect is to sense chemistry between the love interests and sorry to say this, this story lacked it to an embarrassing degree.
I have nothing against morally-grey characters but writing characters takes a lot of time and actual interest to read up on and study human psychology; this is where a lot of artists fail.
The characters were half-baked, the romance was bland and the plot (even though a well-thought out theme) badly executed.

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