That thing where we don't think about the nuance of a character past surface level content we see on the screen, read it again, BOTH of them were abused, he's not purposefully being a jerk, he's unintentionally harming her because of his own perspective of normality towards abuse and neglect that he grew up with in the household.
I read this more logically in the aspect of gay relationship (cause Im still a single gay virgin)
I find it weird how people say this is fluffy and the seme is green flag. TBH, I see him more as a yellow flag (middle of green and red)
The beginning chapters were odd and annoying, I get that they already fix it and is being fluffy. But the premise on the first chapter of the side story?
Its like the ML is manipulating the MC to having seggs by seeing fault at his action. That is clearly not green flag. Also his redemption for trying to dub-con the MC at the beginning isnt fleshed out and just portrayed by staying away from the uke.
Also the premise of this manhwa is all about having seggs and naui (bottom) is just a typical slut bottom for their tops in manhwa's I already read. I dont care if this is just a fiction, but portraying a gay bottom like this isnt close to fluffy for me.
That's it, I just want to share my perspective since most of you all are seeing this in the shades of green.
If they don't talk in the next 5 chapters, I'm gonna consider jumping straight out my window <3
Is there SA before I start this and get invested? Is there SA in the future for anyone who's read the raws if there are any?
I spent like a week reading stuff with good communication so coming back to this might be giving me whiplash ;;
Swear this'll be like my 5th reread since my first back in 2020, like I cannot escape from this for more than a year without coming back. It calls me...ITS SO GOOD AND SO SAD AND I LOVE IT >:OOOO
I've read this a lot, very much love it BUT just skip chapter 11. It's not worth the anger and honestly, I dunno why so many mangakas need to have a side story about an antagonist who made one of the people in the main couple suffer. Like, he doesn't need a redemption arc, he was sleeping with a kid, abusing said kid and then stalked him to his school trying to threaten and hurt him again. No amount of backstory makes up for that :/
Really. You go on and on about being careful and then you rape him. I dunno how many more times I gotta like something and then they immediately being in a noncon plot that does NOTHING for the story omfg.
I remember when I first watched the anime, I tried reading this and never finished. I'm rewatching it again and decided to come back but after reading all these comments, I might just stay satisfied with the anime itself alone cause what do you mean after the dysphoria that Takatsuki experienced, she ends up staying a girl?
Detransitioning can happen, but it seems like from what I've heard, the journey for the ftm character is not handled well and what in the world do you mean someone gropes a child???
I recently reread this so maybe that's why I remember it so vividly but y'all...we got signs that this man clearly is composing himself. I don't remember the chapter but he had a moment when they first had sex where he nearly snapped out of the calm, gentle man he clearly is facading as half the time. It's pretty clear he's holding back most times they get intimate so I'm confused why everyone's surprised and suddenly screaming he's a red flag?
Yes, rawdogging is...a choice, but aside from that, I'm really lost on how we're all going full 180 and saying he's completely toxic. Bro just lost himself, I know we've been scourned by other bad semes but can we calm down a little and not jump the man after one chapter ? If it turns out he is toxic, that sucks but I don't think he's ooc here, he's just been able to stay professional, but it's clear that Taegun sees through his professional demeanor and knows he wants it less than just as a way to guide and more as an intimate act between them. This is dubious at best but there's consent on both sides, and I'd be more worried about the no condom or lube thing is Taegun was in distress but he seems fine with it. I dunno that parts iffy but that's about it.
these side stories are healing all the main story gripes I had PLUS my gripes with most omegaverse stories, I've never been so serotonin filled by updates that are just slice of life and going through the home life of the couple after they have kids its genuinely such a calming feeling
I don't think everything was a dream, the events that happened to the two of them were real and their meeting again and healing together was real, the only thing that wasn't real was hallucinations of the boy (himself, the hurting younger version that was trying to tell him to let go of the burden his parents left him with). His PTSD had manifested so hard that the tragedies around him, which may have been really unfortunate coincidences, fueled his fear of his writing being like a sign to die (kinda like the Death Note, obviously), the only other thing that wasn't real around here was that his writing affected real life, it never did, but his guilt of his parents' death and the burden put on him to carry their, or in his mother's selfish wish, his father's burden within writing, made him develop anxiety and the accident only furthered it sending his fear into a spiral.
The part that was a dream in the latest chapter was him seeing the boy after finding the lost book his father wrote, when he finds it, it's implied by the ending sequence that he sat down to read it, drifted off and dreamt that he saw the boy again after he'd fulfilled the boy's wish to let go and heal and finally acknowledged him in a soothing way, as in a way of self acceptance, rather than waving him off and subsequently waving off his past and suppressing the hurt it left him with. He hugs him, finally healing a part of himself and saying "Welcome Home" as a way to welcome the part of himself he locked away to try and move on. He wakes up happy, saying what a beautiful dream it was because he finally felt like himself, and he was content.
The seme...sucks. I read this before and rereading it was rough. By the time I'm on chapter 2, its unbearable due to the amount of manipulation and taking advantage of this dude is doing. Push and pull tsundere types have really always been a sore spot for me because it allows for "hard to get" plots where the pursuer's actions are brushed over because the the person being pursued will "give in" and like it. All while ignoring how most times, its pushing boundaries and not actually getting consent :/ as usual.
A comment below me explained way better all of the issues but like, ain't no one gonna read it cause let's be honest, I know most of ya'll don't care about what I'm blabbing abt rn
I wanna go back to who I was about an hour and a half ago before I read this.
Don't be weird about teens having sex, I'm getting second hand embarrassment from some of y'all screaming for them to bang