ArtemisFowl's manga / #time travel(2)

I think this was a really smart, in depth look at why relationships can fail. It’s often not for anything dramatic and black and white, like cheating or abuse, but instead for the simple reason of one or both parties failing to treasure the other person as they should. In this case, it was Jinwoo that stopped treasuring Candy in the ways he had before, and had started taking him for granted at some point. I think the author also tries to point out an error (at least to some degree) that Candy makes in the relationship (read Candy’s journey through the extras). At first I didn’t agree with it; but upon further reflection, I think that although Candy truly wasn’t in the wrong, things could have been fixed had he communicated his feelings explicitly and verbally. Not the feelings of love, which he did; but every frustration that he let go of was just building up inside of him and didn’t really do any service for either of them. If he had communicated those feelings, Jinwoo would have realized what was happening to them and likely changed (as he did when he realized what he had “thrown away”) as a result.

Summary: Some kid (bright, beautiful, smart, créme de la créme de la créme and whatever else fine words you want to use) from 2048 decides* to travel back to the ancient past of 2008. A kid (from 2008) has the hots for this guy and keeps on clinging to him. We'll see where the author takes this, if I ever come back to read the end for curiosity's sake. Wow...the author tries to make this funny, but the main characters are so awful that it's impossible to laugh. It's not that these characters are the most morally egregious, or have made complicated and complex decisions, but that they are truly are the most annoying. They both have awful attitudes; one thinks he's hot stuff, the other seems to pass all of his bad and selfish behavior off as a small joke. Ugghhh it's pissing me off. I think that the author should have some props for creating something, but this is super annoying. *decides, meaning that he got stuck in a time machine that his crazy science teacher built in the middle of the school (and was somehow in an unlocked classroom despite the science teacher claiming otherwise) ~Chapter 5