bro!!! i’ve always thought this artists style was pretty, but omg??? i saw someone had said this is short, like 7 chapters or so, so maybe the artist was given more time to work on each chapter- idk, but i can SEE the effort that was put into this. the art looks great; the faces, bodies, proportions, consistency… everything. & the coloring looks so good. i know they took time rendering everything. its so pretty. i am such a sucker for art.
i, like i imagine most others, do prefer high quality translations, but i can acknowledge the fact that i’m illegally reading most of these manhuas/mangas/manhwas. outside of actual paid translations (like through lehzin, etc.) & translation groups, many of the uploads we’re provided are translated as a hobby or passion project. they’re not always perfect, sometimes far from it, but under these circumstances i’m happy with what i get & i appreciate the effort. if it’s something i really can’t understand, i drop it & hope for a better translation; if it doesn’t come, there are hundreds of other stories. it just is what it is. i appreciate all the uploaders & translators. doing what the lazy, monolingual bitches like myself could never do.
every chapter i’m left one of two ways; screaming and throwing my phone across the room in disgust, or going “well… that wasn’t the worst thing jaekhyung has said/done…” i was expecting it to be pretty bad this ch, i’m glad it wasn’t… but, i also feel like this was a setup for the next few to be pretty bad. ugh. dan is acting delusional, but at least he’s aware, i guess. considering he was a virgin, and sex with jk is all he’s known, there’s a part of me that’s glad he was able to have a semi positive experience, but then jaekyung had to be drunk to treat him like a person, and i know this is going to make it all the more difficult for dan to get out, or, at the very least, set and keep boundaries. ugh x2. truly curious how the author tries to redeem jaekyung. i’ve come this far, so imma finish, but i find it hard to believe there would be any redemption arc for jaekyung that would.. fucking redeem him. like idek what he could do. maybe he could turn to alcoholism… i’ll probably be a jaekyung hater until the end.
thoughts so far: the art has definitely deteriorated over the course of the manhwa; i think it still looks good, but it’s nowhere near as detailed as it once had been, though there are still frames every now and then that live up to earlier chapters. honestly, i wouldn’t hold it against the artist. it happens. they’re very obviously talented, and i imagine with growing popularity & the grueling deadlines that so many web manhwas have, they probably don’t have the time to put their all into every panel. it still looks nice. the characters are still attractive, though, sometimes, the way characters eyes are drawn makes them resemble the girl lizard from rango. it’s jarring, but also really funny. i love rango. the next thing, i’m very stressed because of all the characters, and i have had a hard time understanding their actions. i have to remind myself that this would have been set hundreds of years ago, so as unrealistic as this story is, the politics of it all probably aren’t too out there. still, i am stressed. ray would do well with meditation and mindfulness sometimes. even with the stress, i enjoy the story. there are many manhwas set in a similar time, most of them nowhere near as interesting. last thing; i love christian. he my ride or die fr. he’s my best friend, he’s my pal. he’s my home-boy, my rotten solider. he’s my sweet cheese, my good-time boy. i know he isn’t end game, and i don’t necessarily hate jiskar, but i wish he was.
BRO WHY IS HE SO SURE HES EVEN GONNA PRESENT AS AN ALPHA?? LIKE ITS NOT EVEN A GUARANTEE??? ALSO, SPEAKING OF GUARANTEES, NO RELATIONSHIP IN GUARANTEED TO LAST, THAT DOESNT MEAN YOU GO INTO EVERY COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BELIEF THAT YOU’LL BREAK UP (unless that was your intention when you entered the relationship) i can understand him some, but i’m SO incredibly frustrated. he should have never agreed to be in a relationship if this was his mindset. he is under the belief that he is being selfless, but, in reality, he is being incredibly selfish. if this was such an issue, he should’ve been firm with his boundary and waited until his birthday. he’s insecure & needlessly dragging the seme along. i can only feel so much pity.
the whole “i’m going to make him love me & then abandon him too,” is so stupid, especially because he doesn’t even remember fully what happened. like what makes you think it was him who abandoned you? or that something else didn’t happen? homie followed you down from the mountain, and i’m assuming he’s in trouble with the child, who i think gave the white tiger his powers, for falling in love with a human- his punishment being in agony on the mountain, and the bet being a way for the tiger to redeem (?) himself, or try and fix the situation. i’m not sure. anyways, brown hair dude is acting stupid. they all are.
jaekyung even glaring at dan while the mans asleep… JK HE AINT EVEN CONSCIOUS LET THAT MAN SLEEP.
he’s a ten but he's a murderous mafia boss with the most putrid, grey dick this world has ever seen
dan needed this. homie needs the wakeup call. it’s tough being in love, especially when you’re aware that the person isn’t good for you, or good in general, but it gets so much worse when that love you have for them starts to dilute & manipulate your view of who they are. he was well aware that jaekyung was an awful person, but now his brain is doing backflips to try and justify all of jaekyungs nastiness. he’s working himself to the bone to get a gift for someone who hits him, screams & curses at him, and who takes pleasure in raping, assaulting & humiliating him. he really hasn’t done anything remotely nice to dan for any reason that could be considered “pure,” he always does things with other intentions, never with whats best for dan in mind. there are many bls like this, and, i’ll admit, i still read many of them. but oh my god, it gets so frustrating. honestly, i think this CAN be realistic in regards to abusive relationships; a meets b, b is charismatic towards a, a falls in love, b is abusive, a can’t wrap their mind around that & continues staying with & defending b. i’m sure that there are situations irl where people still fall in love with someone who is abusive from the immediate start, but in situations like dan’s it’s hard to believe he would- even while acknowledging that this is a work of fiction. i guess the overwhelming power imbalance makes it more believable, but still. i have so much empathy for dan.. still, he needs this wakeup call. again, this is a work of fiction, but in real life sometimes people NEED harsh wakeup calls, because people like jaekyung WILL NOT GET BETTER. i know how this story end, they’ll end up in love, but in a perfect ending my boy dan is r u n n i n g for the hills. stories like this should be labeled as horror imo. change the tone of this manhwa a little bit- instantly a horror. i dunno, i could suspend my belief a little bit if it was labeled differently, but such is life. sorry for my old person rambling, i’m still gonna continue reading, but you can absolutely consume media while criticizing that same media. and my ass is gonna be critical. doc dan, my boy, ya gotta run bruv.
honestly, i don’t care at all that this manhua is super cliche. it’s cute & silly, and sometimes that’s exactly what i want; just pure fluff. it’s needed to balance out some of the vile things in so many other bl’s.
bro i don’t fw the harem genre i am someone who loves to read/consume media w a main couple… with that said BRO PLEASE BE HAREM I KNOW ITS NOT BUT PLEASE LET MY MANIFESTATION CHANGE THE ENDING
how ml gettin ma boys pants off but not his shoes..? like are mc’s pants so loose that they just slide off over the shoes? are mc’s feet freakishly small compared to the width of his legs? are they spendin like 5 mins struggling to get mc’s pants to go over his shoes? or, probably most funny to me, are they taking his shoes off, then taking the pants off and then putting mc’s shoes back on his dogs?? these questions plague my mind.
I feel like the way the artist draws the characters is a style thats becoming especially popular, but the way they choose to color is very unique. i really like the way the artist bends, as well as the vibrancy in the color choices; i absolutely love mute coloring, but i think they way they blend + the contrast between colors makes everything look so lively. additionally, the artists facial expressions are so good! so expressive. i’m not sure who the couple is going to be, but i’d be very interested to see an mc be the more possessive type. recently there has been an over-saturation in manhwas where the ml is absolutely psychotic and the mc ends up falling in love even though they’re being actively abused to an extreme. i love fluffy stories, i also do love angsty stories, but sometimes things can be quite repetitive.
i feel a bit bad saying this, but it seems like the artist doesn’t have a style of their own… the art is kinda all over the place. there are panels that look like they could be from totally different manhwas. also, sometimes the art looks sooo good and then literally in the panel it’ll look sooo bad. it’s very much a turnoff ☹ i’ll keep checking back occasionally, sometimes art improves or becomes more consistent as the story progresses. plot seems cute at least.
*edit: i don’t think the artist is bad at all. the cover is beautiful. but i don’t think they’ve developed their own style. like the cover is awesome, they have some panels that are really cool and have a similar vibe to the cover, and then there are other panels where characters are very crudely drawn and the proportions are extremely off, and then there are some places where characters are drawn well but it’s like the artists style completely switched up, like the panel when mc is looking at ml’s application- the application picture looked like it could’ve been from an entirely different artist. the art just doesn’t flow well. it has me wondering if this is the artists first time illustrating. as someone who does art, i totally understand that drawing and illustrating a manhwa are totally different. it’s way difficult to illustrate where everything flows, the art and proportions are consistent and where the characters look natural. i really like the cover, and there is definitely some promise, but as of now its hard to get into the story. the art switch-ups are jarring sometimes
how is this mfer getting even worse..? i just know the author took so much inspo from painter of the night, bc neither of the other ml’s in their manhwas have been like this.