aranara's manga / #romance(17)

i was squinting at this for a long time because i don't always like stalker plots. i really was angry at the characters in the beginning parts, didn't like the rape stuff(and honestly it's the only thing keeping me from being absolutely in love and obsessed with this), and the way rindo just lets anything happen and is still cool with people after, but this grew on me a lot, and i love them together. i love the way that amane's mental health is treated humanely(as a very mentally ill person myself) and that he's given them room to change as a person, and he actually does show character development. i'd recommend this a lot, just be wary of the dark undertones throughout

overall liked this a lot, very cute, and the conflict/drama was mostly interesting and well done, but some of it, mostly the parts with hajin saying he would make dokyung jealous on purpose, and push him away to test if he still loved him, really annoy me, i hate that behavior/trope bc it's super unhealthy and immature, but eh, it happens irl too; and also the way that everyone was super ambiguous with jaehyuk for like the entire story until the very end infuriated me. like there could still have been conflict to drive the story on if hajin and taehyun had been clear with that brat about absolutely anything, and not just let him run around unchecked and violent everywhere. anyway, decent story, cute couple, mostly good supporting characters, and i love hajin's parents so much.

i find the sex worker to lover trope a little annoying, but sometimes there's diamonds like this one in every trope. the art is so nice, the seme is so kind, gentle, RESPECTFUL, and skillful. the uke is adorable, and his insecurities are super relatable. i also really appreciate the fact they didn't vilify his ex, and that they worked out their past!! the expressions are also 10/10, the sex scenes are just absolutely phenomenal

i have very meh feelings abt this manhwa. the art style is not my thing at all, not a fan of this... overdone.. type of korean yaoi body/faces, but the characters' designs were fine. the story was good, but there's so many smaller things i am annoyed with, like the way all the abuse was just allowed to happen, chiwoo's mom(and the teacher and like.. every adult tbh)being complacent, and then just telling that asshole to "keep his distance" after crippling her son AND THEN the cops don't get involved and the school just sweeps it under the rug and everything is fine. like there's acceptable/plausible unrealistic stuff in fiction, and then there's bl plot unrealistic.. lol. the story drags a lot after the big climax, i struggled to get through the last 5-10 chapters, and i really only finished it because it would have irritated me to leave it unfinished.

this was such an emotional rollercoaster, and i went into it wholly expecting irredeemable, tragic ending, heartbreak, but i was floored by what we got instead. the story and characters were so well thought out and fleshed out, the character development throughout the story was so good, and i really love the way that the characters were different from their past lives, even though a lot of the things that happen and many of the personality traits are the same, they still are different people who lived different lives. the only things i didn't like about the story were 1) miscommunication/lack of communication, like especially when the poison stuff happens, the fact that the uke never tries to explain that he was controlled or like definitively say his true feelings/intentions. i just. AAAAAA it drives me insane, but it's a common trope so i can't fault the author. and 2) the way the seme is so abusive to his fucking son over the uke's attention, and how it's just not treated like an issue at all. very weird not a fan of that lol. but overall, i loved it so much

i can't even put into words how i feel about this manhwa. i adore it so much and i want to roll up in a blanket and live in a little mind palace with jeoh and seongrok i adore the story and the way that their characters are. they feel so real

i really loved this, the whole plot is really good, and i think it's really sweet and cute, and a stoic gangster who plays an mmo with a cute innocent college boy is a really adorable dynamic. i want to give it 5/5 but i have to retract one star bc of the confession chapter. the fact that there's almost a rape scene, and then they just talk for a few minutes and it's okay and then they have sex is just. bad writing. absolutely illogical, and they literally write both sides saying that if it had been too rough that the uke would have run away??? he was about to rape him how was that not too rough wtf. anyway i had a good time reading it before then, and it still ended nice, that just killed the vibe really bad.