
"If I can't beat him one-on-one... Then I at least want you to feel bad" Oh, I'm sorry. If people disliked Joowon for his possessiveness, there is no way in hell that they can justify Taku's current mentality. Never once I thought Taku as this perfect prince, especially now when what he thinks and what he says are two different things. He said that Haesoo's previous relationship had no power any longer since it's in the past, but Taku knows that he is completely incorrect since Haesoo and Joowon still are in love with each other (and at the end of the day, they are still connected with family matters). So he wants to make sure he has an actual relationship and slowly but surely push Joowon aside? Hell no. I'm not siding with anyone but he sure made Joowon look like an angel.

uh... literally EVERY character in this manwha is flawed. joowon is possessive and clingy, haesoo literally strung joowon along, and taku is immature with how he handles everything. im siding with the taku x haesoo ship, but by no means are either character perfect. even the agency managers are shtty, dude.

I also can't imagine an ending for Haesoo and Joowon as couple since almost all the plot was about Haesoo giving up with Joowon (which it is great) and coming to the conclusion that he needs time to himself. Taking that, I never expected Taku to lie and act the way he is acting after hearing Haesoo's thoughts.This is doesn't mean that it is imposible for him to be selfish but my problem is that he was thinking nothing but pushing Joowon aside and provoke petty since he doesn't have a secure place in Haesoo's life. He never once thinks on his feelings of "love" and even less on Haesoo's current state. If the story can make this couple work then great but, just as Joowon x Haesoo, it doesn't sit well with me.

No one won the argument in these later chapters. I feel a little bad about Taku's need to show off and Joowon seeing himself as a stranger thanks to this. But they both have a certain level of truth in their points, Joowon has no right to interfere in Haesoo's relationships and Taku should stop trying to compete with what Haesoo has with Joowon.
Want to read a good arc about a third party who wants to persuade the protagonist into being his lover since he has known them for a long time and doesn't want them to suffer the same pain they did before with the same person, despite the current romantic relationship that has been built in the progress of the manga? Well, volume no. 3 of Zutto Kitto is no good for you. Alex is been handle so badly that he doesn't even look like a best friend, he looks more like a boyfriend. Jin doesn't have moral conflicts nor the idea of how inappropriate he is acting. Hamura is going to be, once again, the one who has to fight for the success of the relationship despite being rightly jealous.
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, for example, has a similar arc with the same topics as this one but it's told so much better. It manages to get anxiety for the years that Takano wasn't in Onodera's life, the excitement of Onodera confirming that his love is so much stronger than he thought to the point that no other can compete and the shook of Nao's efforts to get his love across regardless of being one-sided. Zutto Kitto should learn, not to get the same final product but to produce equivalent emotions on what the story has told us. Disappointing.
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Your comment made my day gosh your so convincing plus everything you said were all facts..! I love how you took time to fully understand sekaiichi hatsukoi and successfully made a comparison to this manga.
Really... the author should try to learn how to stick to the untoxic way of dealing relationships (not clichèd in any kind of way) but in their own way of course.
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Aww OMG! Thanks! I was getting so mad reading this volume but when I started to see the plot in retrospect I was like- Wait, I swear I had read this storyline somewhere else.
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is no way near to be perfect but the story knows its characters and never lets them do something irrational just for the sake of fanservice (which I think it's the case for Zutto Kitto). Both stories have so much in common and it amazes me how badly this author handles it in comparison to Nakamura.
I like toxic ways as a plot-device but the other volumes never suggested that this would be that type of thing. It looked more like "forgiving yourself" and "always be there for you", not "I'm about to cheat on my boyfriend and it's his fault" LOL (⊙…⊙ )