stressedpenguin's manga / #disappointing(7)

Hmm. That was kinda disappointing I was expecting it be be kinkier since the uke fantasizes about getting gangbanged bur the closest we get is having sex in a locker and some light edging. Also thought there'd be angst, like at all, since the seme is supposedly afraid of touching people but that never comes up except when the story wants it to. 4/10 that felt like a whole lotta nothing

D....did he kill the ex??? Wtf was that whole scene?!?! The first half was cute since the guy just seemed so earnest and the girl, while a bit annoying, was spunky and likeable. And then turns out the guy stalked her?? And honestly it felt like he was trying to tie her down like pushing her into a marriage and being manipulative. That creeped me out. 3/10 for the disappointing stalker reveal

what a cop out ending tho... they built such an interesting mystery only to say SIKE IT WAS A COMA HAHAHAH :/ The last half had so much potential even if the first half was just horny but then they just went the coma route. So lame. 6/10 i guess

Years ago, a meteor stuck nearby our MCs home town. Over the course of 20 days, it rained so much the town was completely submerged it what is now the 20 Day Lake. Everyday, our MC dives under the lake, searching for something even though shes not sure what Update now that I've finished it. I feel like there was a more compelling mystery that could have been told with this premise. I was already less invested in whatever memories she was missing when she was four because... that's pretty normal? Lots of people dont remember anything from 4 and earlier. And then the revelation that what she was searching for was her memory of wishing on a star right before the meteor strike... and that doesn't get explored really. Did she blame herself the whole time, and that's why she has this fixation on the town? But that doesn't make sense because she doesnt remember the wish. So why was THIS the memory shes been looking for? Its so... uninteresting to me. I feel like there were two potential stories buried in this premise, neither of which were told. One would be a more episodic story featuring different previous inhabitants of the town and they visit the girl at the lake and tell her stories about the place she didn't get to grow up in. There's less of a mystery and more of a reflection on times past and times present. The end would still be an photo exhibition of the town and it might be more impactful. The second possible story is the insurance guy angle, where we uncover what really happened, that it WAS a satellite, and we debate the worth of dredging up this old tragedy. Do the previous inhabitants deserve compensation for their loss, or is better to leave it as an old tragedy and let people move on. Again the photo exhibition can still happen and be a satisfying conclusion. There's a lot of elements to this story that I like, but regular amnesia about the time you were 4 isn't really compelling to me. Lots of thoughts on this one I guess. 5 or 6/10, just a bit disappointed.

Initially really liked this but wound up feeling apathetic.... Season 1 reaction: FINALLY an intense, supernatural, shaman mystery with a cohesive plot, complex characters, and good pacing!! Gonna wait till more episodes before I continue Update ch 50. Well that kinda... sucked. The last 20 chapters are just a series of character's jumping back and forth between locations, proclaiming things and then immediately undermining those things, and me feeling frustrated that nothing seemed to have any consequence in the end. To make myself feel better, here a bulleted list of everything I found annoying. MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE LAST 20 CHAPTERS: . . . . . . . . >>Characters magically appearing in locations. By that I mean, Eun Cheon will be at the shaman learning place or whatever with Do-Rim. He leaves and runs into the murder mafia guy, gets kidnapped to a random location, and then seven pages later Do-rim just appears. Nothing to indicate how much time has passed, or how Do-rim found them. Like was it forensic investigation? Divination? I would assume divination at this point, but it frustrated me. >>The two ukes getting constantly raped by the incubus fucker right up until the final battle. Eun Cheon is literally half naked cuz the demon was raping him two minutes before Do-rim shows up for the final fight >>Do-rim promising to save Eun Cheon at least twice, and then immediately failing to do so, at least twice. >>The cut away scenes shaman people being like "their fate is inevitable" and "it's doomed, they're doomed" to convince us something bad is going to happen and then none of that happening >>Jeong Mok being REALISTICALLY a traumatized child who just wants to save the only family he's ever had in his life but NARRATIVELY really fucking stupid and frustrating. Mr. Murder Brother was really fucking noble resisting the incubus and suffering to keep everyone else safe, and Jeong Mok undermines ALL of that. >>The conflict ending with a Deus Ex Eun Cheon's Mom. This whole story has centered around DO-RIM's ancestors and DO-RIM's powers even when Eun Cheon was technically using them. Like, it's DO-RIM's family the incubus has a grudge against. We've built them up as something formidable, especially the Divine General. And then they all just die in one sword swipe in a single chapter and Eun Cheon's ancestors pop out of his ass to save the day. First 30 chapters are an 8/10. Last 20 chapters are a 4/10. Overall score... 6/10?

The way that relationship happened was very... forced?? Everything about this manga felt forced. I wish this had dedicated way more time to the seme understanding the uke's disability instead of slapping that in the final couple chapters. The whole conflict with the girl was just weird and forced and didn't do anything other than villainize a cartoonishly bratty woman. 3/10

Darn. Promised a masochist ML but only really delivered for a few chapters. The plot wasnt interesting enough for me and the characters' traumas were never given sufficient weight 3/10