narutolvr's manga / #shitty male lead(6)

Tags say it all: girl who was teased in middle school goes out of her way to be beautiful in high school and falls for the first asshole she meets. She then spends the rest of the manga chasing after him, shrugging off him cheating on her, disrespecting her, and generally treating her like crap. And the one moment she actually stands up for herself, tells him that he's not worth it, and you start to feel there's hope for her after all...nope. It's gone. The story immediately goes back to him doing whatever he wants and her chasing after him like a sick puppy. What a great message for girls: if he's rich and handsome, it doesn't matter how awful he is; one day you'll change him! Next time, I hope the author can write about a girl who not only improves her appearance, but her sense of pride and self-worth as well.

Didn't like it. The guy was an asshole in the beginning and an asshole at the end and the girl selfishly chased after him like an idiot. And I'm certainly not taking his side, but if someone explicitly tells you to leave them alone and that you're a bother, selfishly trying to force your feelings onto them isn't love; it's an unhealthy obsession. I just couldn't find anything to like about this manga, unfortunately.

Between the tags and the comments below me, it's pretty clear how this story's gonna go. Girl chases after some guy who doesn't like her and makes it a point to choose a girl who needs a guy's attention to feel worth anything, all the while ignoring the good guy who actually expresses interest in her. And, of course, the asshole guy has a sudden change of heart when seeing that the MC is slipping from his emotional control and she takes him back in a heartbeat. Cool -_-. Only consolation is the fact that the bitch didn't get her way, but I would much rather her get revenge rather than just comeuppance. Only reason I marked this 2 stars is because I can't fault the author for this; this plot is used over and over again and it's not as if this one time was substantially more offensive than any others...

I liked it, despite the fact that the main guy was a demanding asshole. Not much else to say; it's a pretty typical HMR/HYR series complete with all the tropes: guy still in love with beautiful friend who is dating someone else (usually former friend of guy's), said guy falling for main heroine and being screwed over by the main guy and his crush, multiple girls after main guy because he's super rich (and personalities don't matter once your parents have money, apparently), etc...boring

I have mixed feelings. The story really pissed me off, somehow. Perhaps because I feel like the uke just kept giving and giving and only got abuse and 1 chapter of good treatment in return? And you know what pissed me off even more? The fact that, even knowing all that, I didn't hate this manga at all. The art and plot were just so addictive I wanted to keep reading Ugh!

"Jerk seme" is really the right word for these guys.