buttcruncher's manga / #dark skin uke(142)

the official translation kind of sucks, it's not professional quality gyuwon is a cutie, i kinda wish they'd just have vanilla sex from time to time. or do more role play, gyuwon playing a stinker is hot. i read everything in about a day and a half so i must not hate it?

so melancholic!

i loved mogyun's character design and the cover art. the plot itself had potential? but the execution was ass! the idea of someone acting violently out of jealousy and immaturity, and having a problematic pattern of behavior well into adulthood is fine. a whodunnit is fine. the mind-reading felt like a cheap party trick and the story could have worked out without it. it was a super flimsy way to bring chamin and mogyun "together". none of the characters were particularly likeable. i actually really dislike chamin. usually if the main couple's story didn't work out i'd get invested in the side couple. didn't happen here. this gets an extra star bc i thought some scenes in the beginning were spicy. is this worse than a story that feels mundane with lackluster dialogue? no. but my feelings about all the characters were strong enough to make this overall story a boo for me.

i probably only really care about chapter 50 which is where owen the tanned baddie bottoms i wouldn’t consider this a true switch esp when the conventional twink bottoms most of the time

i'm ok with the main but feel more invested in the side couple story surprisingly enough. overall i like how the main characters look and act like men that just happen to like other men. taeseok and dojun's story mostly felt compelling, but it bothers me that dojun, who's topped his entire life, would seemingly give in so easily to taeseok. he says it's bc taeseok is straight, but really it's bc taeseok is a bigger hulk of a man. their romance was also very very sudden for me, one moment dojun's having a life crisis and the next moment he's soft and open and letting his freak flag fly. sidestory chapters (bc it feels like finding a needle in a haystack): 15-16, 41-42, 51-52, 71-