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I’ve loved this story ever since it started getting released, but I’m getting kinda fed up with how naive and oblivious everyone is. Like what kind of stupid and ridiculous logic lands you with the conclusion that Nohae is in love with Dobin? Just how? I know Yeong is supposed to be this innocent and airheaded dude but geez, come on. Are you even trying to be rational or are you willingly aiming to be annoying? This absurd “Nohae is just sleeping with me to satisfy the app!” act is starting to feel like an excuse to drag out the story, and that’s just a bit disappointing. Including unnecessary drama that drags out a razor-thin plot for like 15+ chapters rather than actually develop the story is such a cop out, and I can’t say I’m impressed. Also the fact that each chapter is significantly more expensive than an average Tapas chapter (438 ink for each chapter vs. the average 300-350 ink for most webtoons) makes continuing to follow the story so difficult. I’m getting kinda bored.

This manga is so bizarre. It’s as if it were stuck in 2012, in some kind of weird time-loop. The story, development, humour, art, and general feel of the manga just screams mid to late 2000s yaoi. Thinking back on the anime, it’s weird to think that they’re both the same story being created by the same author and artist (not that the anime is anything stellar anyways). I can see why it’s appealing to some, just like how Koisuru Bokun is somehow still popular in 2020, but reading it just feels so weird to me. I don’t really follow it and rarely check the new chapters, but whenever I do, I get the same feeling of “is this actually being released in current time?” Maybe it’s just me, idk, and honestly no shame to anyone who enjoys it, but it just feels like it’s so odd that a story like this one – with this kind of “cheap and generic yaoi” development and messy chapter continuity – is alive in 2020 and getting as much praise as it gets.

now you keep that ring on YOU COWARD

still love you haebom~

I love that they’re bringing up the possibility of undoing bonds, since it’s something that is rarely ever mentioned. But it does feel really weird to find out that it’s possible for the pair to be undone in the first place. I’ve read so much omegaverse in the past and the fact that bonding with someone meant you were “tied to them” forever was a pretty consistent driving point. There’s even a manga I read where the whole plot was about a paired omega and his struggles with being in love with his beta friend, because him being bonded didn’t allow him to have sex with him without throwing up. Idk, it’s pretty cool to know that Utou will finally date someone, but it feels as if the stakes are severely lowered when you introduce the idea that “it can be undone”. Sure, the doctor said it’s a dangerous produce and whatnot, but it doesn’t have the same feel as him remaining as a bonded omega, despite how sad that would be.

The art is quite... different? Colouring aside, their faces look slightly altered. Not in a bad way, but it definitely stood out.

I’ve always been a huge fan of this manga and the story it presents. I even rewatch the OVA once every few months because I can’t get enough of it. I’ve defended its heavily-criticised art style since I was 11, and stand by it’s messy/confusing story to this day. But whenever we get an update, which is every 2 or so years, I get very sad, because following the story is becoming increasingly difficult. This leads me to re-read the story in order to understand the new content as easily as possible, but this tedious process of revisiting every single chapter is making the experience a bit dull. I used to enjoy my re-reads of the manga, since the story is fantastic in my eyes, but every time I restart it, it seems to have lost some of its charm. I don’t know what it is tbh. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s become too repetitive, or maybe a tad too predictable, but there’s something about the manga that doesn’t make me as happy as it used to. I suppose the best course of action would be to stop re-reading it before I start to get sick of it. But this really sucks for me since this is perhaps one of the few mangas that I’ve been the most excited about since I started my BL saga nearly 10 years ago. I began to get a bit lost during Shinobu’s story, but eventually got the hang of it. However with the latest chapter, I’m completely lost, and more than I’ve ever been. This is depressing to me, and honestly pretty shocking. This means I’ll have to read most, if not all, of the manga once again, and hopefully understand where the story left off. I just hope that one day, the story will be finished and someone will decide to clean up the translation properly, just to make sure that this iconic manga doesn’t get lost to time.

This isn’t BDSM. This is abuse. I’m so fucking tired of seeing so many people grouping those two together, as if non-consensually tying someone up and sexually abusing them is somehow considered BDSM play. Non-con play is a thing, but that’s always consensual and discussed beforehand (or it should be at least). Stories depicting toxicity, rape, abuse, torture, and mind break are not BDSM, they’re just toxic stories. You’re free to read that if you like, as there’s nothing wrong with having different preferences, but don’t label it as BDSM. The community is already tainted enough by misinformation and misconceptions, so the last thing it needs is to be grouped with stories about unhealthy relationships.

This whole manga feels like a fever dream lol. I can’t say that I completely understand what’s going on anymore, but the way that things just randomly happen all the time is very amusing. I’ve never really been a fan of the story, even in my younger BL days, but I still like to check in on it to see how the plot’s going. It won’t age very well, and it already screams problematic in 2020, but maybe one day it’ll get to the point where it doesn’t feel like the story is still trapped in 2008.

P.S. The OVA opening is fire and I will love it till the day I die.

I can’t even lmao, this was sooo bad! The art was cute/hot and the description was extremely interesting so it had potential, but yikes! The execution was so bad! It sounded so appealing but the story was so very bland. The characters had no depth or development, and the story felt rushed and awkward. Hell, we don’t even know how old Yeonwoo is! And oof, the portrayal of BDSM was pretty awful for the most part (although it got better towards the end). It’s a pet peeve of mine to see stories use S&M play for quick and kinky sex without exploring the dynamic at all. Kind of undermines the whole point of BDSM :/ However based on how it improved towards the later chapters I’m hoping that the writing will improve in season 2, but man! I’m so sorry and I know I’ll get disliked to infinity but it really wasn’t good lmao

It’s been a few years since I’ve revisited this story and I’d honestly tried to forget how sad the ending was. Even though it was very fluffy and romantic, the fact that Kyon will eventually die and leave Lucaon alone is so depressing that I can’t even process it that well. I know that realistically Kyon wouldn’t be able to become a Royal Blood like Sihan did, since you have to be strong-willed to survive the transformation, and that isn’t something Kyon is exactly excelling at. So like yeah I get that this ending was the most realistic, and the author’s choice to avoid that topic was probably to prevent us from overthinking it, but I can’t help but overthink it. It saddens me so much that it’s been bothering me for like 3 years since it ended and I don’t think I’ll ever get over it :(