cassie3_3's manga / #meta(3)

The one thing I couldn't appreciate was the mangaka's afterword. Enzou's practically bashing Yato for crying because he's a "man" and not a "boy." As much as Enzou will attempt to say at the end that crying may be uncontrollable because they'll sometimes feel that way, why even try and question and criticize your own character for doing it? Just leave it at the fact that all your stories seem to have someone crying in it, regardless of the genre. I just found it unnecessary and ridiculous. After all, crying is an ability pretty much every human has. Trying to restrict it to only a few selected groups is what is truly inhuman. Leave the poor men of the world that need to cry alone. Nevertheless, I won't let this impact how I rate the story (since it's not part of the story). I just needed to point this out.

I feel like this could have been more well-developed in terms of plot and their relationship. I was hoping that Jihan could go through with his original plan to really see if how he felt towards Jae was was more than superficial because I didn't feel at all convinced that his feelings were authentic. I especially feel this way because his feelings up until seeing his face have shown nothing more than fondness towards his friend, and whenever romantic development did happen, Jihan was incredibly averse to it. When Jihan just decides to accept dating Jae, it feels rushed and like the manhwa-ga gave up trying to work out how to get the argument to a resolution. As for the plot: I'm not sure if they made the plot so ridiculous because the manhwa-ga wasn't trying to take the story seriously enough or if they were really attempting to make an effort to explain why Jihan saw Jae so weirdly. It was just too convoluted (or maybe just plain weird) to find funny and satisfying. Again, it just feels like the manhwa-ga gave up. I feel like the reasoning didn't need to be so intertwined with the supernatural(?) I think the story would've done well to leave it partially to the imagination. Not everything needs a huge background story. All in all: This story has a lot of potential but falls flat to make you invest and believe in the relationship.