Sometimes I praise things because they appeal to my subjective experience, be it in the sense that the art style is attracting or the story fits my desires and, well, sexual preferences.
Now this is insanely good, the story, the art, the consistency, it's a masterpiece no matter how you look at it. I've read a lot of BL Manhwa and Manga, and if i'm honest, I don't remember most of them by the next month because of how little they actually impact me, remembering a korean name is truly an achievement to me (especially given how generic manhwas tend to be in a general sense).
I'm not finished with it, but even if it has an ass ending, where nothing is resolved, I would still call it an masterpiece, of that I'm confident
One of the things I'd like to say stood out to me the most is the paneling. The artists know this is supposed to be scrolled, so you get dynamic shots of things getting revealed as we scroll down, or the effect of intercalated rain drops that appear to be moving, so, so good, why limit yourself to small panels when you can explore this medium as it is?
The dynamic of being the most sincere with someone when you are disguised, and lying to them in your true clothes is chilling.
I don't think it's nescessary to always focus on contradictions, but this story is obviously focused on the relationship, so you get Ha-kyung describing things as they should procede in a story, and they do, but he feels for it all because that's not what he actually wants, it's beautiful. It's concious of the movement of the plot, the characters know how they could affect the curse of actions, but the contradictions imposed by their own narrative of romance makes them follow the opposite.
I read this thing way too quickly, and I would love to be more in depth about it, surely re-reading it after reaching the latest chapter
One realization I just had is how the ring mirrors their relationship completely, a plastic, supposedly meaningless object that stands in for an "actual" item, a "plastic love".
And, similarly to an expensive ring, the first thing that comes to mind is to sell it —a transaction— the same way Ha-kyung claims their new relationship was built upon his debt.
But I don't think he'd actually sell the ring, and maybe that's the point.
You know what I wanna kiss your hands
You wrote everything that I came here in the comments to write (+ you dot down things that were complicated for me to verbalize ...like the rings... it's a complex matter)
Like I appreciate you
I appreciate a fellow reader who knows how to approach this art ie the manhwa
it started to look like a metaphor for bisexuality, probably not intentionally
what are they gonna write about for a whole new volume? we haven't gotten anything meaningful for awhile, this whole arc literally changed nothing...
if you dont wanna read it then dont why yall gotta be haters
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY, what the hell is this supposed to be? there is no world where an author after 25 chapters would in his right mind write this, let alone an editor aloowing it. What the actual fuck
thought he killed himself, this chapter took turns and turns
these new chapters are probably the best the story's ever had, it was becoming vinegar, but right now it's on the tracks to be wine.
Jaekyung has more depth in 1 chapter than in the last 50 or so, it's insane the jump in quality that happened.
I find it interesting that even the panelling changed, there is much more transitional panels with actions that might have been considered "unescessary" sometime ago, yet this change of pace with very intropesctive approach makes them believable, we are dealing with characters with much deeper real human reactions, and so it fits very well.
I do find however that jaekyung's ghost was a bit cheesy, it's an overused metaphor and it could have much more personality, its appearance etc. I know we are repeating the BJ arc, yet this feels fresh (maybe because it's been sometime since i read the latter? might be so).
I would the story to take this approachfrom now - however, I'm no writer- it'd be an interesting twist getting the redemption arc (read Jaekyung getting what he deserves), but instead of just "I've been rejected and now I value the one that values me", a long psychological journey in which we see all through his eyes, and finally deciding by himself and not others judgement to be a better person for Dan.
I'd like to get a total focus on his psyche, but let's see how it goes, I'm happy as long as it's fun.
Kin dan appearance as a child looks very bad, it's like you are trying to maintain a "mature" (more on teen side tho, he's a twink) beauty on a child's face (please don't misunderstand me)
I love this, so happy it ended well.
so happy it ended well, but so sad it ended