queerdinosuar's manga / #Drama(89)

I really like the premise, but the main love interest is kinda manipulative and annoying. The side couple are honestly more interesting but one of them has had such a hard life full of being assaulted and sexually harassed in a way that feels unnecessary. Like the author is not having the characters actually deal with the real trauma that he experienced but is just piling on more and more fucked up stuff in his background. And the storytelling is all over the place. Definitely a tone problem between the two couples and it’s so hard to figure out whose POV the story is coming from since it just jumps around and transfers between them with no visual or verbal signal. And the 10 episode flashback just makes no sense in this story. I get you want to flash back but do it in snippets interspersed throughout the more interesting current story. It’s just weird to be back in time for so long with no indication for where it fits in the timeline with the other flashbacks, so I don’t know how the characters feel about each other in it. On top of the storytelling issues, there are character problems as well. The main character, Lin, is impossible to understand, pining away after his crush who it turns out confessed to him before and then Lin ghosted him for some reason. And it’s not just that and he regrets it now, he like keeps rejecting the guy he likes over and over for seemingly no reason. We have no understanding of his motivation and it makes no sense, just a frustrating problem. The side couple’s story is completely unresolved at the end of the series and I’m mad. after a series of non-communications and misunderstandings we still haven’t seen them talk anything out when almost everything would resolve if they just talked. But we don’t even know if they are together, what a weird, unresolved way to end the series.

I really liked it at first-very lighthearted and cute. Sort of a misguided attempt to get close to his crush by faking a wedding. But we soon passed the point where he really should have told him he wasn’t engaged, when any reasonable person would have communicated that and let the other person not feel guilt and stop putting so much effort into a fake wedding. And then the toxic behavior and kind of deliberately confusing mixed messages started and it was less cute. Now it’s just become another webtoon based on stupid misunderstandings and infuriating lack of communication- probably my ultimate pet peeve in these comics. Honestly the stupidity of this comic even made it hard for me to enjoy the happy ending. It was hard to overlook the frustration and the red flags of miscommunication from earlier are causing more problems later in their relationship. Shocker. Not worth reading in my opinion.

Damn this story is wild but so interesting. The idea of a love triangle between two personalities of the same person with DID is fascinating and intriguing and the author definitely followed through with the drama and intrigue. Honestly I was wrapt the whole time. The artistic representations of the psychological turmoil that Yura was going through were so interesting and haunting, so emotionally charged. The whole time I knew the solution was that they needed to merge personalities but I felt just as hopeless as Jinsung that it would ever happen. I think the writing overall was top notch for this one, between the emotions and the psychological aspects of the plot. And the side couple was awesome and intriguing as well. A playboy who tries so hard to be cool and collected and a gamer who sees right through him and manages to break down his walls. A concept and excellent execution good enough that it could have been its own comic. I’m just so impressed and happy about this comic, it’s definitely one of the best I’ve read.