This is gonna be a hot take and people will take this the wrong way but the way some of the comments here act as if the world is black and white is insane.
The story right from the beginning has shown that the leads are troubled and clearly disturbed from their past and is still carrying wounds and mechanism they learned from those traumas that they use to defend themselves from further hurt.
It's a fucked up situation, yes! Acknowledging that these two characters are in a state of pure dependence and toxicity is the go-to because that's what the narrative wants to portray but the way some people chooses to count and balance their action on who did worse and who is right is as tone deaf and cruel as the adults who fucked up these characters lives.
I am aware that it's fiction but I question some of the morals you have when you can't extend your empathy over a complex situation from actions rooted from their past as the story portrayed for the past 3 seasons. It is actually insane like do you not hear how you sound when you do that? The whole point of this was that they're both fucked up in the head and makes choices based on the wound left by the situations and people around them it isn't a balancing scale of which one is more toxic because that's clearly not the point.
They're acting like fucking lunatics? Guess what people with trauma and unfortunate circumstances that fuck up their mental game do! Some of you need to grow the hell up.
I love ML's with personality issues because I can write about how bad they are in my head to fill multiple essays about it but I am on my knees and praying to every god available and capable of hearing me to make the endgame MC X Governor.
I know they're probably gonna try to justify MC's mother's death at some point but I cannot stomach having MC be with a person still responsible for her death. If that's not possible I hope MC is successful is avenging his mother even if his chance of being with the governor is cracked.
ML is a very condescending, stuck-up, selfish, idiotic piece of sexual deviant and I'm gonna enjoy seeing him grovel down and eat dirt when he doesn't get what he want because of his attitude.
YESSSSS
OMG yes
It doesn't take much to get traction on BL series, you just need a very well drawn design and scene [18+] and people will flock around it no matter how obscene it might get (non consen)
What does take effort is writing a story that actually hits. Stranger in The Mirror isn't just AI x Human, it tackles topics of existentialism and what it means to exist and be sentient. It has hard hitting issues from PTSD and to actual well speculated psychological outcomes in very complicated situations (the side couple)
My favorite moment isn't when he finally broke the protocol, It was when he (MC) reached out to the Dalai Lama in the train and honestly considered his existence and purpose. What he was as a being that is 'aware'. There is much nuance is every character and you can have feelings over them and not support the actions they take but the fact that they're all feel like they're present and alive in this world is just SOOO much of a jump from qualities that this genre usually produces.
This story is the kind of thing that gets publish in books and discussed over what the grander scale of the narrative means. It's a breath of fresh air from the scent of cum, cock and balls that permeates in this site. (not that I'm complaining)
I was nodding my head up and down whole reading your comment, my thoughts exactly !!! This is an actual piece of literature
tell them, sis!
Dousey, the woman you are. You slayed your 3 chapter appearance and you will be missed, thank you for giving the mushroom a safe place to live but god imagine how tragic it is to be in her place and have the person that saved you from the past and you started looking up to become the executioner of your fate simply because you stay behind someone.
UGHHHH I'm so frustrated for her like Mr. Shan said there will never be a second her in the third floor.
This author made playtime with Hakdo and other really good and well-written series' so, I'm definitely seated they always had such a fun way of writing characters and dynamics and it's really shining for this series cause the gap in personality is LAAARGE. I can't wait
I know it's very much a slice of life type of progression BUT GOD !! THE UNDERLYING CHARACTER EXPLORATION FOR BOTH SATO AND YOSHIDA IS LIKE SOOOO VAST AND SO MYCH POTENTIAL SCENES COULD BE MADE WITH THEIR DYNAMICS AND A PLOT WOULD CARRY THAT SO WELL UGHHHH
either way they're so cute so it's not such a bad thing but GAAAAH I wish we could have a more impactful plotline soon TT
Throwing down her cheating bf like it's an easy feat and then proceeding to pull out the strap because she's just THAT girl? HOLYYY CRAAAPPP
She's a DIVA alright
She really is!!! As as straight f. This is kinda hot lol.