Warehouse
Okay so it wasn't a tragedy but it would've been better if it was lmao Ik this is a famous one, took me a while to finna read it, and honestly it's rlly interesting lmao at least like season 1 and part of season 2 It's like a psychological thriller type thing and I was actually Hella engaged in how dohyun was tryna escape and deal with sungho, cause dohyun is rlly clever and I couldn't help rooting for him even if he's a lowkey shitty person. I really did want him to escape, but then you veer into the backstory and it becomes less of a psychological thriller and more of a psychological romance and that's where it gets boring. I think the backstory was rlly interesting and I can see how they were both messed up and how dohyun was super shit to sungho, but also sungho's revenge is so excessive which obvsly cause he's psycho, and see I was expecting psychos, so if they both died it'd be nice (killing stalking style) or if they were both twisted and stuck together that woulda been like alright, but ya lose me when they seem to like face 'punishment' and repent enough in the narrative that they can have a fresh and romantic new start, which felt rlly off-putting lol, like no author adding highlights to both their eyes does not make me forget the fucked up beginning
Don't Mess with The Yakuza! ~ Broken in by a Crime Syndicate Deputy Leader
LMFAO???! this is definitely a new author and their first work, the characters are Hella cliche and shallow caricatures, the story is so goddamed rushed omg, the paneling is also cramped and composition is generic, the art has a mimicked feel. Obvsly I couldn't get into it at all and didn't read past chapter 1, normally I wouldn't leave a review but that first chapter was so frickin funny it was like a bullet train speeding past any Characterization or basic development so it can run you over with smut The extra star is for making me actually laugh out loud when they just started boinking outta nowhere
Into the Rose Garden
Iffy about this one cause it seems toxic but also I wanna try cause of the art lol Why do I do this to myself OKAY I GOT SPOILERS and yeah this is some toxic shit but I'm glad ik cause I can go into it this prepared I wasn't prepared This is brutal man, I'm tearing up. Kloff is fucking crazy goddamn, honestly I don't like him at all as a person. Ppl who get pressed over 'wearing a mask' or even his whole 'why smile, do u secretly like it is peak idiocy it reeks of self-righteousness and misogyny (even tho aeroc isn't a woman but still). Being regretful abt it doesn't mean anything he's sick in the head fr Yeah this fucker is abusive as hell, what a psycho. It's scarier cause he acts perfectly normal usually woww that's kinda realistic to irl serial killers. Yeah kloff is really gross, his mindset his behaviour, it's textbook manipulative and possessive and abusive, so the 'romance' feels icky Despite it all the story is interesting so I'll give it that, I do want to know what happens next even if literally every single character is shitty on some level except rapiel
The Cell
Fuck I messed up, I should've stopped at chapter 0 but I was curious and now I care about the main character and got invested, he's just so likeable and cute why does such a warm person hafta go through this Damn ik objectively this story isn't going to go well but ughh one can hope
Waiting for Dawn in the Arms of a Beast