Effy's manga / #interesting(21)

I LOVE this story and the art that goes with it. The romance story itself is also so wholesome and deep. It's genuinely on some Notebook-type level. My heart has exploded a million times over. ️️️️ SMUUUUTTTT, SO MUCH SMUTTTTT ️️️️ The smut aspect is written and illustrated so so well. It's far from boring and it's made incredibly rich by consistently changing the elements up each time or having new ones added. Not to mention there's a whole lot of it, the writer spoiled us. I also really like that while one character is more the 'masculine' one (or the top lol), it's just a tiny bit more and it's mainly only noticeable when they're intimate. Other than that, the characters are both pretty balanced between their feminine/masculine qualities, something that I LOVE to see since LGBTQ relationships are often depicted with one being dominantly feminine one and the other being dominantly masculine. My 2 qualms: RANDOM SEXUAL ASSAULT WRITTEN IN?! The romance between the main characters is morally sound, nearly healthily perfect, and develops from their emotional and physical bond with each other. Neither character is actually a stalker or any sort of sexually perverse criminal. Their love is genuine and the stalker bit is just a joke between them due to the story of their meeting. So WHY TF DID THE AUTHOR MAKE ONE OF THEM SA THE OTHER DURING THEIR FIRST ENCOUNTER?!!!!! IT IS SOOOO OUT OF PLACE AND DOESNT ADD TO, OR FIT, THE TONE OF THE STORY OR THE PLOT WHATSOEVER. It's completely misaligned with who the characters are, what their relationship is like, and it just never brought up again (again, PROBABLY BECAUSE ITS COMPLETELY OUT OF LINE WITH STORY).

I love this so much! There’s so many elements that set it apart from other omegaverse, Yaoi, smutty stories! I especially love the representation of a divorcee, a single parent, and family/relationship dynamics when one of the parties has a child from a previous relationship. This is so precious!!!!

Amazing storyline, written extremely well! I honestly loved this! Every component was, *MUAH*, chefs kiss! It all flowed together nicely as well :)

Honestly I’m… speechless. This was really really good. Props to the author. The art is amazing as well and really sets the mood. The two main characters, one looks disheveled, tiny and like a starved child (even though he’s the older one) and the other is tall, built and handsome. There are ‘romantic’ parts but because of the context, as well as their extremely different appearances, it’s still very uncomfortable. Which I think was done purposefully, as it adds to the twisted feeling of this story. Your humanity will make you feel bad for both characters at times, and even makes you wish they could have a normal romantic relationship. But their relationship is far from normal, and even in the end it’s hard to say for sure what they felt for each other. Was it truly love? Especially on Sangwoos end. Or was it solely just twisted? I loved every minute of this because of the discomfort and conflicting feelings, which is exactly why the author did so well with this.

Honestly I had expected to give this 5 ️s because I felt it was unique, interesting, a little twisted/dark, and the plot was well developed. There is noticeable, well paced, character development which I felt made this story high quality and strong. My reason for giving it 2️ is because the ending was extremely random and abrupt. It literally ends right when one character discovers that the other intentionally put his life in danger to manipulate him into living together and staying closely by his side. This was an important realization since it shows the extent of the toxicity still needing to be outgrown and changed, even with the growth there had been. So for the story to just stop right at a conflict point of the relationship?… It was like the author just got tired of writing 3/4 of the way through and just decided to write ‘the end’ after the last page they had worked on. Not to mention that there’s a whole backstory of essentially obsession and stalking that never surfaced in the relationship, leaving a large, important, and inevitable conflict. Bad way to leave a story.

Honestly, loved it. It’s def toxic asf and I wish there was a bit more development away from that into a healthy relationship but oh well, still fire!

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Okay all in all, I LOVE this whole ass story. You can easily tell the author put sooo much work into it. The storyline, and the art, is phenomenal. There are tons of panels that could’ve been made much simpler art-wise, such as scenes with pigmented, gorgeous sunset skies when they could’ve just been made the typical blue or whatnot. So you can tell the love and dedication that has gone into this. It shows, it shows! But WOW THE SIDE STORRRIESSS? UGHHHHHH. STOP. I better see a whole ass storyline play out with Do-Hyeok and Seo being endgame. Of course Do-Hyeok was suchhh a f-upped villain, but Seo really pulled the wounded child out of Do-Hyeok, and enlightened him to what it was really like for those that had been hurt by him. So… even with his past, I think they’re good for each other and will help each other grow. Obviously I’d be expecting a hella deep ass apology to Suha from Do-Hyeok first… but man I really hope we get a happy ending for this villain.

All I’m saying is… this better have a good ending I’m so on edge about the “consequences” that’ll come as the price to pay for the dragon derailing a predetermined fate. I hope it’s nothing too bad, they just deserve to be happy!

I’m utterly SHOCKED by the amount of hate comments and reviews this got?!!! It was fantastic! The art at the very very beginning (mainly for Siwon) was subpar, but it quickly became very good. Incredibly unique, creative and captivating plot. It kept me on my toes too! Ive noticed that most Lezhin “romance” stories are uncomfortable or psychological/twisted and don’t end on a completely happy ending, so I was happy this one did, it was a nice deviation from the norm. Also the BDSM art? WHOOOOOEY