queerdinosuar's manga / #Showbiz(37)

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.

Such a cute story. I hope Junseok gets treatment for his anxiety as well, because man that guy needs some help. I’m glad they have each other though