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I love the story between the main couple aka the gay couple. Very wholesome, very sweet, green flag all along. Nothing about the two make me feel like anything was lacking. Okay, maybe I thought there could have been more elaboration on how they came to terms with their respective feelings and how it blossomed yada yada but whatever that isn't my complaint.
What I don't understand is WHY write panels about a heterosexual love story, when I was promised in the tag that it is shounen ai/yaoi? For a second there, I actually believed the woman paired with the pink haired guy (i don't remember his name sorry) was trans and I was excited with the possibility.
I know I don't have to bitch about it and many people will be irritated by this opinion of mine but I HAD to rant because I am not here to read hetero love stories because I don't care even a least bit for them. Idk if this was the decision of the artist/writer's editor's who was too responsible for making them delete the 'steamy' scenes which according to them was too 'sexual' hence had to make it safer to consume.
It's weird for me and I am not saying straight characters need not be written in queer stories but if I clicked on a tag which brings me to a story which contains a queer story idk why someone thinks it's okay to forcefully shove a straight love story down my throat. You can mention it, this man is dating this woman, blah blah, congratulations, who cares? But to actually show them meeting each other, falling for each other, like naw.
I know this is a feel good story and all that, and contains experiences of people who venture their college lives and jobs but I still can't accept actually having to sit down and read a man and a woman falling in love (unless ofc they are trans and then I don't mind).
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.