Aiko's manga / #Full Color BL(55)

One of my favorite’s

4.7, this was one of the first manhwa I’ve ever read and it’s been a while so my criteria for an adequate read is higher. It’s easy to take a break from this manhwa for a long period of time as it’s quite long and has a tendency to slow down in parts but it’s great story telling. There’s backgrounds for the two main characters that indicate their individual characteristics (beliefs, thought processes, devotion, desires, etc.) as well as their interactions with one another. It hurt me for sure when the ukes mother died which added to his emotionally and mentally stunted state. This stunted development of his made it unclear as to why it was permitted into his adulthood and propagated by his now partner. This aside, I do admire the love they have for eachother and any opinions I have on their behavior I see as a necessary part of the character, nothing that needs to be improved. It adds to their personality. Despite the seme being a green flag and the adorable endearing uke having a fairly healthy happy relationship (without the common SA rope trope), the ending was not satisfactory. The story comes across as a revenge plot thus setting an understandable expectation to audiences, only to end with what feels like a very diluted end where the mother gets a minimal punishment followed by them living back on the island in a very sudden way. I could reread this again but again due to its length and partial disappointing ending, it’d probably be less likely.

It was okay actually, nice art and everything but the plot threw me off here and there. Came together though

1.0, I’m not rereading this lol. No way. Out of 72 chapters, realistically around 5 or even more generously 10 ish chapters were without sex scenes. This entire manga is porn, a porn magazine with its main plot being poor-communication-based meaning if they had communicated openly and honestly from the beginning then this manga might be around 20 or so chapters total. Besides the blatantly gullible-getting-taken-advantage-of main couple, the side.. duo? Was so uncomfortable. I don’t even see what the dynamic was in having them other than adding an edge in a bad way.

4.5, I like that there isn’t any downright ignorant homophobia for most of the story and that for most of the plots caused by misinformation/misunderstanding was resolved with proper communication (unlike some mangas lol) but I will say I was a bit irritated when it came to the subplot of the sunbae being in love with the younger brother in the side couple because it felt super dragged out in ~ chapters 144-150 ish. But it didn’t diminish the story, I might reread again

I like it but I emotionally can’t handle the plot. I can usually finish most 90+ chapter mangas in a day but this one has about 50 right now and I took 3-4 days to read it all as of rn

4.8, Aiden really pisses me off being as miscreant as Manager Na and that other ass-hat slacker that got caught for embezzlement or wtv. Big ups for no rape (though we got very close in Aiden’s ‘biggest asshole of the chapter’ award moment) but there was still SA from the other models/offender. Granted, again I am aware that given the genre finding a manhwa that doesn’t have any SA or R*pe is damn near impossible but I’ll not lower my standards. Idc. In the end, they are sweet. Aiden mends his ways (as he fkin should) and Jowoon finds strength in himself which is why I’ll let Aiden pass despite being an orange flag. This is definitely one of those ‘he (1) fell first but he (2) fell harder’ type plots. I could reread this again.

3.8, I started reading it when it was still new and ongoing but stopped. Then I found out long time later that it was completed so I decided to reread and pick it up… Yeah I don’t know. I wouldn’t reread this ever lol, it’s quite long and the beginning of the main couple is a bit irritating since it builds on the foundation that the protagonist is a naive strong headed reckless omega, that is undereducated by his somewhat deceptive physician, who has sex with an alpha coworker repeatedly until they fall in love somehow all while causing dragged out misunderstandings. And the side couple was hard to get into. Hyanghyeon text on the other hand is a great story tho, really love that one.

Hilarious expressions, plot slays for the most part. It’s a pretty good one coming from someone who detests love triangles