It took me a second to get along with the art style but honestly this is just as fun of a read as mayday mayday mayday was.
I like to say this series is like wattpad mafia boss romance but yoon yuno plays the straight man (the comedic definition, he is very much not a straight man) who is understandably freaked out about a mafia boss showing interest in him. Now I didn't think amnesia arc could be played in any way other than angst but this is still funny as hell.
I'm excited that we get to learn more about yoon, I thought his backstory was pretty interesting so now getting to see more about it is pretty fun
The costuming in this manhwa is so exceptional but I can't show my desi friends accurate desi clothes in a manhwa because I can't let them know I'm reading t h i s
Oh man I am living for the ml saying he wants the mc to be his own person first, that's my favorite kind of thing. A relationship isn't supposed to be your whole life and he's right that our mc is in it only because that's all he's known is take what you're given
"When I utter that name, I will surely fall in love" that line is absolutely precious, I love them so much
Tbh I've been kinda ignoring the whole talk about harem vs non harem but at least for me it depends on how a story treats it. In this story, Argio isn't jealous and it's kind of funny but kind of shows us that it's just the kind of story where we see a lot of mc sleeping with everyone. I think it's more down to taste what kind of story you prefer
Honestly imagine being the prince, like your dad thinks you suck so much you have to rely on bagging a pretty and prestigious fiancee to try and outshine a dude XD
This is the fabled love triangle isn't it? Like the actual one where each arrow points to the next vertex. Our boy likes douche, douche likes kiddo, kiddo likes our boy. It's an actual love triangle and tbh this is a great execution of it, I'm enjoying seeing our mc get fed up with the situation
Okay so let me preface that I am the first to over analyze trash so don't use me as your metric to read something ever. My taste in media is too self indulgent for that
I think something that makes our female lead work so well is that she's so pitiful. You look at this young woman with the sh*ttiest set of life circumstances and then the sh*ttiest luck and it's like "wow, that SUCKS".
But it's what she does about it that really matters because it's actually very enjoyable watching her surviving this situation and being weak to any sort of implication that she's loved or lovable. I love her for it, even handed the most rancid plate of lemons she's doing her beat to survive it and it's really humerous seeing her play the straight (albeit terrified) man to the other's very silly personalities. I mean, ok not silly really but their personalities are very exaggerated. It's all very fun to read
I guess what I'm a little interested in is how I enjoy this a lot more than the more serious versions of this same trope and I think it's truly because this manga doesn't take itself so seriously that it won't joke around. It's not some kind of straightforward romance, mind you there's nothing wrong with standard rom coms I just want to say this is a far cry from one of those and I enjoy it more for it
The absolute pain the team who makes this puts us through...
You know the storyboarding is masterfully done when a chapter with barely any dialogue has you on the edge of your seat for every panel
Bestie read him to filth with that one XD
He's very mushy, I agree and tbh I can see why as a friend you'd be really thrown off and concerned to see your womanizer of a friend in love with a man. It's hard to trust him and it's a valid concern when society's still pretty homophobic.
I appreciate that she immediately was concerned for garam, jaehyuk doesn't need the concern
Truly, he is the final boss of burn yourself to keep others warm and I love that for him but my man you need a sense of self-preservation
Man went to sleep with the best of intentions and got jump scared. Gaia system you absolute troll
Usually I don't care for this type of plot too much but ishino just saying it how it is every time is so funny to me, hope he doesn't change
Tbh it's interesting seeing ml walk away from delacroix and towards the pink haired crazy lady, maybe I'm imagining it but I feel like there's a comparison being made there. He's done a lot of wrong to lily but it's nice seeing them all grow so please let them have some time to heal apart author. They need it
I love the mc so much. Wish I could be a part of that esper harem she's accidentally making
"I have no intention of spending the night with you"
Well that child on the cover page begs to differ
It's giving the one reddit post where the poster was asking if they were homophobic not liking seeing their roommate with other men. Turns out he was in love with his roommate. That's this but add delusional thoughts and extra narcissism
I say this is the best way possible but this male lead reminds me of a friend of mine and I wonder if he was coded that way haha.... like I don't want to say anything but he's giving a bit of "social conditions that would not have been diagnosed at the time" and I think that's a bit nice
Listen, if you can't make gay marriage legal in the empire, what's the point of being an emperor...
Also this man is crazy, if I were his dad I would have more kids to inherit the throne because a kid that kidnaps another kid at the young age of 13 could not care less about the empire
Honestly I think what gets me about the comment section a lot of the time is that it's really focused on whether they're getting together or not and I think that's fine but I like living in the story moment and sitting here enjoying that we're seeing this guy get portrayed as vulnerable, emotional and on the cusp of a breakdown while he throws his authority around and I think that's neat
Maybe it's just me but the way this manhwa shows us emotions is so enjoyable to read, like you get "male lead running after fl" a dime a dozen but it's usually just about him suffering realizing how much he loves a woman, running after her and going "you can never leave me" etc etc fuzzy borderline yandere feelings
Here it feels like he's lost in a lot more ways, like we just saw a big emotional beat for her when she lives to pursue her own happiness, now we get to see a big emotional beat for him where he's conflating him finding Lily a bit with him being a proper duke and being able to achieve the things he wants to achieve
Sorry this is just a lot of talking I'm just in love with the presentation of this manhwa and I like yapping a lot haha