cassie3_3's manga / #editor(6)

(spoiler-y review) "But hey... Hitting those kids... It felt pretty good, didn't it?" ......holy shit...... -- -- -- The mutual confession (not Jimmy's lone confession) was pretty underwhelming... It was like the manhwa-ga was having trouble trying to flesh it out and ended up just doing the stereotypical "I knew but was scared" like what? After that, it was cute, but that one part was just so weird. Dominic's outburst never gets resolved--and I mean that the story leads you to believe there'll be some kind of character arc with Dominic that will tell us (since it has been a recurring problem in the story) and why he's so hostile towards Jimmy, but we never really find out, which ends up making the whole ganging up on Ethan weirdly pointless. But, wow, I was pleasantly surprised with the "plot twist." Usually, when authors slip in their title to show its meaning, it's either hit or miss--it was either obvious or not. And, this was not as obvious as we thought. If anything, we could also use the title to mean a myriad of things that occur in the story, and that makes it that much better. Regardless, it was one of those rare times I was surprised and content with how they ended this story. (Usually, in my opinion, BLs don't come to a satisfying end). This webtoon would be a fantastic way to get into BL.

It was heading in the right direction... before it did a complete 180 & decided to go full-on stereotypical yaoi mode, thereby discounting what would have made for such an interesting development story for the main couple, especially for Masumi.

THAT CH. 2 SCENE WAS SERIOUSLY ONE OF THE MOST ROMANTIC MOMENTS IN YAOI WHATTHEHELL.

The sex scene that took place after Shou-chan burst in honestly rubbed me the wrong way. I get their relationship is complicated, but for Kaji to always be unnecessarily violent is extremely frustrating. The 5th chapter low-key doesn’t make sense. They barely made any significant progress in their relationship, in the sense that they literally don't just sit down and TALK, even though Midori is literally hyping this moment up since the beginning (and Kaji is saying that he'll answer it all). All they do is--surprise, surprise--fuck. I have a sneaking suspicion that all their problems would have been fixed if Kaji could do just that, but I guess they wouldn't have been able to milk this out to 5 volumes if they did. In the end, the most pressing question, in Midori's case, is never really elaborated upon, and we're forced to make up our own interpretation based on Kaji's vague answer, to which doesn't even seem to have a clear correlation to the question Midori asked. Honestly, this last installment should have ended after the 3rd volume, as it would have actually made for a nice ending. The 5th chapter was undoubtedly a horrible way to end it.