If the author attempted to write the MC as a tsundere, they honestly failed.
I certainly like the character stereotypes, but this MC just has a shitty personality, flying off the handle for no good reason any chance he gets.
It's been 26 chapters now and his behavior doesn't have a smidge cuteness to it at any moment.
I suppose if you like characters just treating others like trash without feeling a shred of guilt or bad about it, this can be a great read. But given I had to be raised by a person like this, it's VERY unappealing to have this sorta person be the main character. And i doubt it'll change.
I read 26 chapters only and while the base story is definitely interesting (althought it has really rushed moments and nonsensical randomness a lot of times), the MC's personality is just a total deal breaker for me.
Give it a try, maybe it's your thing.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I was worried at first but the author did a great job not immediately forgetting the dark interaction, tiptoeing between dark realism and comedy VERY perfectly.
The story is overall very interesting and the art beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. (I really hope his family isn't full of trashbags tho, I'd really like it if the brother actually cares for the ML and supports the change in character and the newly claimed life.)
Gonna stalk my inbox for this one~
I would say this comic might be among my perfect reads, considering it's so well balanced.
The art is great, the characters detailed and stay mostly in tune with what you know about them and the writing is very well done.
Both the characters are well written and something we do not see often as depicted here (in detail and with depth), maybe not everybody's cup of tea but for what they are, they are well written and depicted.
This story knows how to utilize emotions and make the most of it. Drama and cuteness as well as comedy is not overdone at any point and not used needlessly, making for a well balanced read. The trouble starts early and the later half is the satisfactory part of them being a couple. Then the story just blends out with a final show of their future and that in and of itself is not just well done but also something we rarely see: Have drama, let them get together and be themselves for a few chapters and then just make sure the reader knows that this is all there is. The rest is likely just as we imagine for ourselves.
And sometimes being left with that thought instead of having another season that rinses and repeats is EXACTLY what we need. And we rarely get that nowadays.
I would highly recommend this and I do believe this author will be thrown onto my fav author lists. Hopefully we'll get more such gems. :)
Definitely coming back for a re-read.
I honestly think it would have been better to throw a tad bit more emotion in there given Gren basically vanished in a blink.
The story skipped a bit too much I think. Would have been better to at least show how they drive off, what happens during the ride or where they go (a convo with gren or exchanging glances would have been VERY impactful), how Shin comes to realize Gren is now not around and then go through the process of ending up in front of the stone.
Felt like one of those shitty plot device characters that are just inserted into a story to make a character cry and get a level up. Just that there was no level up happening here. So that was really weird. XD
This is the first time I have absolute ZERO interest in such a workplace dynamic story.
And I usually inhale these by default. So that's a bummer. :(
The seme was supposed to be a certain type of stoic guy but that somehow completely missed the mark in the appeal's department for me, the MC is generic and the workplace/job absolutely uninteresting or even unappealing. The job and happenings are simply not interesting enough for me to read dozens of pages or even chapters about regular work talk that has very little to do with setting up the characters for their dynamic or relationship. The first 7 chapters alone could have been heavily condensed and not lost any important detail for the actual story.
The workplace abuse by that one cunt SO early on in the story is also not really winning any appeal points. That was really a turn off when reading tbh. :/
It's just not interesting on any front to me. Which is a first for work romance lots, I absolutely love those usually. But this one is just yapping too much and too long about the job which could have been condensed into MUCh shorter chapters.
Not a fan of the drag and unappealing and very generic character personalities, but you give it a read and see if it might be your thing.
It's not necessarily bad, depending on your standard for good writing or personal preferences, but I honestly think it's not good either. Mid, sure. But maybe that's just me.
Give it a go and see for yourself.
I am 8 chapters in and this writing feels like the lovechild of ChatGPT and a 14 year old thinking they just wrote the rough draft to an epic love story (but it's really just cliche tacky stuff we have all seen before).
And I cannot tell if it's 'localizer translations' at fault or if the story IS written like this. (╯▽╰ )
EDIT: Read further and it only gets more random and more rough draft-like, as if someone collected common cliche moments and stitched them together. No immersion or build up, just a collection of happenings we have seen elsewhere, just that here it makes little sense.
really not an enjoyable read or page flipper tbh. So I'll not bother further. Sadly. I really love these stepmother stories, so this was quite the disappointment. ╥﹏╥
I keep grinning and laughing because every time the name Kylo Gray comes up my mind basically autocorrects to: Kylo Ren.
And it does not stop! It's so funny but so annoying too. HELP. X'D
Me, mid chapter: Oh look, finally there is the moment of character develo-
Me, end of chapter: (⊙▽⊙ ) ....you motherfucker.
#FuckboyEmperor can't hurt you.
And yet my sides are hurting from laughing. Seeing him in a typical yaoi sex slave outfit you'd see in an Arabian Nights type beat story. X'D
I was thinking the same thing. It was so non-threatening seeing him look like an arrogant pretty boy prince turned omega bed slave that I wondered if getting sent to his chamber would truly be a punishment. I would be so bamboozled people would think I'm dissociating when I genuinely just think it was a fever dream.
ABSOLUTELY. XD
I'd probably be speechless for some time, but grin and have a disbelieving expression on, before letting out a nervous laugh.
Needless to say; I'd probably be immediately send to prison, if I wasn't in pieces right then and there.
I just hope he doesn't ACT like a bitchy Omega. Arrogance galore and all that, That would make him exceptionally annoying. (〜￣△￣)〜