Cof's manga / #Reviewed(10)

You know how the clock turns and days fold onto one another and events are indistinct and time loops in futility and bits and pieces find residence in sharp but submerged memory echoes sequencing a nostalgia so heavy it belies the monochromatic redundancies of day to day life; rendered otherwise precious. It is a genuine fondness of a shapeless dread. Dostoevsky's literature set in an indifferent Russian winter. A rigid someone's sincere smile. Coffee at the right ratio of bittersweet. I find this inexplicably warm. The heavy type of warm.

Mediocrity, an old heartbeat's resurfacing embarrassements and some open ended resolution that is typical of real life: a recycling/ed open-endedness. Had potential but. I think the profile cover had more to tell.

Bonus 0

On a finer morning day, freshly brewed coffee at hand, I brood over the makeup of our relationship and I trace newer shapes.

It had a great start off, substantiated with both narrative and a not necessarily creative plot but a well executed one. I found my interest in the whole of the story subsisting on that first reaction it managed to guarantee but then there was something amiss as it came to its conclusion. Perhaps it felt more like a bland closure that didn't refer back to the same ambition it had on prior notice. As well as some unnecessary instances of dramatic appeal. Like it didn't deliver on what's promised and thusly compelling me to respond to it. I would still admit to having liked what felt genuine about it and what felt gentle and that it was a time waste I welcomed.

. I do wish they were equally fucked up . The ending felt a bit lukewarm

Confused translation but the plot itself is refreshing within the omegaverse setting; A sadistic alpha that's guilt ridden and too ashamed of being himself and a full fledged masochist of an alpha whose mind is set on this coy predator. Should've been longer. 6

57 (end) Beautiful, wholesome, refreshing but I am at once terribly devastated that the S&M side couple had very little focus. We were teased and left with naught, I am afraid :')

Side 94 Taesoo and woojin are such an unexplored goldmine, both as individual characters and as potential lovers. The way Chunwoo was never set on enforcing boundaries and pushing for the validation he deserves while equally tapping into taesoo's insecurities and unscrewing them out of their tightly clammed up knot, I feel someone as forceful (but healthily so) as woojin would've managed to do just that. The brother's character was also great. The main couple.. Man, oh man. It's a clusterfuck. It's really a triangular piece blending together. The boundaries are nonexistent between the three of them. Even at the end, the mimed symbol of ownership is slapped onto the relationship as if a simple scratch in need of a bandage when it's a ghastly vacuum of a wound threatening of inflammation. Changing the piercing doesn't transport ownership, it's not a possessive claim. It's a festering insecurity. You can't erase his memories of his past relationship, you should simply be aiming to create new ones. The piercing should bother you, but it's not subvertible nor is it your way into his heart. (And this is not simply about that, this is the running theme, so much of it coalesced in there but not all. Such as the last sexual (straight up) assault on taesoo. Taesoo's ever unadressed trauma and insecurities on the part of Chunwoo. And I get it, Chunwoo has been completely worn down by Taesoo and he deserved better, but dear god, it was a bargain he understood and acquiesced to practically every time. The main couple are not terrible together, they equally require so much careful work. Ultimately, everything feels like it's been addressed on a surface level so that the mindless consumer is appeased with something more digestible. And perhaps, if there is any consolation, truly addressing these dynamics would've ultimately unequivocally seriously been a mentally draining read. It would've also been the brave thing to do.