TachibanaChiharu's Topics (171)

I'm pretty sure the author is trying to characterize Dojae as having antisocial personality disorder (aka sociopathy). But in a diet coke sort of way. I'm gonna be honest here, but his personality type is that of almost every high-octane top, who doesn't care much about others (aside from their usefulness as tools), except for his chosen bottom (which he is obsessed with). Look at most any serious Yakuza-type story. I find this to be pretty lazy. Both Willful Negligence and The Beast Must Die had semes who also seem to have ASPD, but better characterized. I find that The Beast Must Die does it the best, and is generally very well-written. Meanwhile, Willful Negligence is a guilty pleasure where the top is VERY problematic and the bottom is such a doormat he just puts up with it, but somehow I still like it.

The author also leaned really hard into stereotypes in this comic (euntak = crybaby bottom; dojae = high-octane top; hyobin = slutty bottom; hyuk = puppydog seme). It also irks me that there is arguing over topping, and that none of the characters are actually self-professed bottoms, yet 50% of them are forced to be just because. Euntak is forced into the bottom role even though he self-describes as a top in the comic. Hyobin is actually a versatile bisexual, but because hyuk is a puppydog seme, I guess that means hyobin is a bottom now. This seems a little lazy too. The author could've gone in a different direction with this to at least somewhat break from the stereotype, but no. If I was Euntak, when Dojae came crawling back to me begging to date, I would've made him agree to switch sometimes.

I think removing all the smut from this comic and making it ambiguous as to how they go about getting it on (while still getting it on) would've done this comic a lot of good favors. This comic is at its best when the characters are dealing with problems in their lives and just living their lives. Their relationship interactions would've been better if there wasn't so much focus on sex as a substitute for personal connection.

jooin is one of the worst written characters i've ever seen. i just cannot finish reading this series because of his nonsensical and counterintuitive behavior.

jooin refuses to state what he wants despite being asked directly by yahwi multiple times. they have a sex-friends-ish relationship anyway. then jooin stupidly lets some other guy live with him despite barely knowing him, who secretly has designs on breaking them up. cain is introduced so late in the story that you know immediately that he doesn't stand a chance, so every chapter and panel depicting the buildup of jooin and cain's relationship is a waste of time because everyone knows it'll go nowhere. jooin caused every bad thing that happened to him by his own stupid mouth and actions.

the argument jooin has with yahwi on jooin's birthday is the stupidest thing i've ever read. go back and reread ch65-66 and really pay attention to the conversation. yahwi overreacts to the hickey demanding to know what it was and where it came from, and then when jooin starts getting upset at being interrogated, yahwi steps off so as to not upset him, and then like two comments later, jooin yells at yahwi that "of course he [yahwi] would never care if jooin was messing around with other people!" when not like two comments ago yahwi was about to lose it because of the hickey. and of course after yelling a bunch of stuff at yahwi that yahwi never said and never indicated was his opinion, then yelling that they should never have met, and then storms out and immediately goes home, climbs in bed, and thinks about how he still likes yahwi and wonders if he'll ever get over him. yahwi just said a hundred times that he likes jooin and that they should date and that he'll treat him well etc etc. what in the hell, jooin? do you even have a brain? get it together! ugh!

there's a ton of other issues in this comic besides just how crappy jooin is. the fact that this is basically just a clone of the previous comic is not the least of them. but i just don't feel like creating an itemized list this time, it'll be infinitely long. this is more than enough. this author needs to take a year off comic writing and just read like 1000 other BL stories by other people so their writing will improve and they'll stop wasting all this pretty good art on trash plots and trash characters.

This is basically a much more immature version (in every sense of the word) of Personal Immorality. I really dig these types of mcs who are just total boneheads, who constantly get boneheaded ideas, and who execute on those boneheaded ideas, causing the whole trajectory of the comic to go sideways.

It feels pretty rare to read a comic that does comedy pretty well. The smut scenes are far less interesting IMO.

This feels like the comic version of the "I bet he's thinking about other women" meme (the guy and girl in bed together), where Seryung is thinking about their relationship or sex and Junsub is thinking about if he can milk a cat.

Hold Me Tight was junk and so is this. It has every same problem that HMT did. Unlikeable characters, a noble attempt at a non-romance A-plot, that is somehow executed nonsensically, lack of grounding in the reality of the setting, no chemistry between the leads, with a dubcon at best (or rape at worst) initiation to the romance subplot. Save yourself the headache, skip this, skip HMT, and skip Till Our Lips Touch, which all have Nabit as the writing credit. Instead, read "My Bias Appeared", which only has Nabit credited for art, and is written by someone else.

I looked it up on amazon.co.jp. There are only 4 compiled volumes out so far. Vol 4 has 5 chapters (ch17-ch21), two sides ("Kuroji and Harutsugu" & "Tsugumi's maid"), and an afterword.

It appears that Megumi & Tsugumi is still ongoing as of the QPa v143 release in Nov 2023, containing chapter 30. So it's going to be at least 6 volumes if not more...

Oh great, another 5 month hiatus (╯°Д °)╯╧╧

Jaehyun - pink haired, main character who has a crush on Woojin
Woojin - orange haired, charismatic oblivious dingus
Seungha - black haired, Woojin's roommate who Woojin is sleeping with
Seungtae - black haired, the guy that's been msging with Jaehyun for 7 years and who is in Woojin's class that Woojin keeps trying to hookup with and failing
Woon-myung - white haired, waste of space later in the comic

At no point does Woojin hookup with either Jaehyun or Seungtae. During the story he's hooking up with Seungha (his roommate) and trying to hookup with Seungtae, but failing. Woojin even tells Jaehyun a hilariously misinterpreted story about the two of them (Woojin and Seungtae) ending up in a hotel room together.

This story is pretty average. It does some things well, and some things badly. Overall it's an okay way to spend your time for a middling amount of chapters. The main place it does well with is the pacing; I never found the story to drag or be so boring I was constantly looking at the clock wishing I was doing something else. But not everything in the story makes sense, and some of the character motivations are convoluted or unexplained, which really detracts from the plot/story.

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Woojin is really the confluence of all issues in this comic. His relationship with Jaehyun is written to be unique among the male people Woojin knows, and this implies it should've been a story about how Woojin realized he was in love with Jaehyun, and them getting together eventually, but it wasn't written this way. Woojin ended up deciding he liked Jaehyun way too late in the story, after Jaehyun had already hooked up with Seungtae, which didn't even move the needle. This makes Woojin liking Jaehyun pointless since it can't affect the story, and only serves to apply stress to Woojin's relationship with Seungha, placing that relationship in limbo, and now you're not sure if Woojin likes Jaehyun or Seungha or Seungtae, or what exactly.

Woojin also doesn't really grow out of his childish lifestyle within the story (yet), and so it feels like his character arc is incomplete.

Jaehyun and Woojin also never really have a frank conversation where Jaehyun tells Woojin that he (Jaehyun)'s gay, and that Jaehyun's known he himself was gay since HS, and has had a crush on Woojin since HS. These two are basically best friends and Woojin is literally the last one to know that Jaehyun is also gay.

Also, I'm not even entirely sure that Woojin like-likes Jaehyun. It's implied in a few places at the end of the story, but we never get anything from Woojin's perspective to clear any of this confusion up. He may've just had an intense bout of jealousy come over him since Jaehyun's never dated anyone before and has always been emotionally available to Woojin up to this point, but now, maybe no longer. We really did need 2+ chapters of perspective from Woojin to understand him better considering how critical he is to the plot.

Not really related to Woojin, but.... Woon-myung, the white-haired guy, was introduced way too late in the story and was just a total waste of space. Jaehyun/Seungtae already had their adhesion before WM could even make a case for himself to Jaehyun. He then ends up pinging around with the other main cast throughout the rest of the story but contributes nothing to the plot. He doesn't even get a love interest of his own. He's just some albatross the author now has to deal with because they put him in the story and now have nothing for him to do, no role to fulfill. The author could've placed him as Seungha's new bf, to cause a little more drama in Woojin and Seungha getting back together, but nope. Nope nope nope. It's also never really clarified how Seungtae and Woon-myung seem to know each other... the author makes it a big deal that they've re-met at the end of one chapter and then the next chapter is a different scene, and it's never really clarified. The author just had no idea what to do with this guy.

As for Jaehyun's sins, why did he delay hooking up with Seungtae for so long when it had been implied for quite a while before Seungtae confessed that Jaehyun had developed feelings for Seungtae? It just feels like more time-wasting. This is really the biggest Jaehyun-related issue (aside from him never having 'a talk' with Woojin).

Honestly, this isn't the best story, but it's nowhere near the worst. I think it's a pretty ok way to spend the time needed to read it. Ymmv ofc.

This story is a good example of why you should ignore the rating and just give a story a chance to prove itself. This is probably this author's best work to date, of the stuff on mggo at least. The writing in it is top-notch. And yes, there's a death in the story, but it occurred before any of the events in present-day so it's not like you don't see it coming. I find this a silly reason to give a comic a low rating, especially given how much it adds to this story. Anyway, the point of this story is to explore closure and how to move on from events in your life that shatter you. It does a great job at accomplishing this. Ignore the rating and give it a chance.

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Suk/Kiwoon are 3/5 for me - problematic, lack of grounding in reality, and no reasonable engagement with their sexualities.

Suk being interested in Kiwoon immediately feels like it came out of nowhere and he had no thoughts about being gay or not, just rolled with it, which I never find very realistic in any comic. Kiwoon, you think is straight at first because he seems to hate the attention he's getting from Suk, then when Jaeha appears, you think ok, maybe he did have gay leanings after all with Jaeha, but then later Kiwoon flat-out says he was not interested in Jaeha like that at all, so then you're left wondering if he really can ever be interested in Suk -- is he gay/bi/etc or not?

Meanwhile Suk goes after Kiwoon hardcore and Kiwoon legit seems to hate it for the first half to 2/3 of their story (season 1, ch1-38), and at some point you have to wonder, when should Suk have to accept that Kiwoon is not gay and not interested? At some point, right? Otherwise he's just a creepy stalker who needs a restraining order. But then Suk successfully badgers Kiwoon into a relationship which doesn't feel very good at all. It didn't feel like Kiwoon really chose it, more like he just gave up trying to get away from Suk.

I also really don't like Kiwoon's treatment of Jaeha. Yeah, I realize they got into a fight and Kiwoon was hospitalized. But the actual fight, how it started, escalated, and came to blows was never really shown in the comic, so we're left guessing about the specifics of it. It felt like Kiwoon probably started the fight with his misinterpretation of the situation, thinking Jaeha killed one of the cats. Jaeha was not there to get into a fight at all, but to get help for the cat. So if Kiwoon started the fight and or escalated it into a physical situation, then really, Jaeha was just defending himself? Because of the lack of clarity in this situation all the way to the end of the story, I can only help but think that Kiwoon started a fight he couldn't finish and then cut Jaeha off later in the story while never owning up to the fact that he, Kiwoon, started/escalated the situation due to a misinterpretation. Feels kinda crappy.

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Hyun/Jaeha are 5/5 for me - working through trauma and past failures to engage in order to slowly resolve their issues and come to a place where they can meet in the middle and grow a bit.

Their part of the story is chapters 39-96 which is way longer, but it's much easier to read than the first part because you can tell from the beginning that the two really do want to be accepted by each other but that certain things keep getting in the way. These two go through proper character arcs, unlike Suk and Kiwoon, which is largely why this section of the story works so much better. Hyun needs to learn to express himself more clearly and frequently and honestly, and Jaeha needs to stop letting his pride get in the way of trying to connect with Hyun and accept the help that he so desperately needs. And to be fair, the help that Hyun is providing to Jaeha isn't even really Hyun's -- it's his parents' money, apartment, etc. He's just sharing what help he's been given by someone else with Jaeha.

I don't have a lot to say about these two because I think the author wrote this relationship much much much better than the first couple. On the one hand, it does feel like maybe their part of the story is too long; on the other hand, it does take a while to work through the kind of trauma Jaeha has had in his life, so it feels more realistic that it takes so long for them to finally meet in the middle. I'm fine with it, and I hope the author is able to finish the story someday ("to be continued" at the end of ch96).

After reading today's chapter (86), I have to seriously wonder about the idea of....
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pairing Cirrus up with Skylar. Like, Cirrus is legit crazy. I'm not sure Skylar really deserves the duty of having to put up with this unstable person or to bring Cirrus back from the brink, or back to reality, or to help him learn to behave like a normal human. A bit much to ask of a teenager. I want to see Skylar happy, not saddled with the duty of having to recover someone he isn't even interested in at this point.

I don't even know what Cirrus needs. Maybe a dad who gives a crap and actually tries, and/or a psych. I am not sure if finding someone who genuinely loves him will be enough. *scratches head*