pluckaduck's manga / #Tragedy(57)

wow. the premise insinuated a wholesome relationship (it was) and it was a pretty interesting concept. but did not expect the ending. totally missed the tragedy tag. wished it was longer.

ch 46. what the fuck is going on?? so we have mc who wants to abandon everything and feels no purpose in life. he meets an idol, who wants to commit a lovers' suicide for some reason. she is empty, like a fish who will drift along anywhere as per one's will. she is married to a weird novelist with whom she has an apathetic(?) relationship and he is connected to mc's mother (a character in his book is based off of her). and she has a mysterious past of her own. she's sleeping with mc's childhood friend/bully's father but she also has a weird relationship with the said friend/bully, who is strangely obsessed with mc. mc's teacher is a nutcase. she deeply longs for a purposeful life but is stuck in a tedious job and life. she takes care of mc for her own pleasure. so she's unhealthily obsessed and protective of him. mc's girl friend struggles with self-esteem and suffocating restrictions imposed by her family who wants to control her life. everyone is so miserable. ch 99. its so fucking complex. that friend/bully was actually in love with mc's mom but she used him. he forced himself to believe he was in love with mc bc of his hurt, thus becoming obsessed with "protecting" him. but no, he just didn't want to believe he killed mc's father bc of mc's mom. mc's mom was coerced by her own shitty mother to prostitute herself since she was 14 and that's what got her so twisted. she wanted to be saved or die with her lover but her first love, the novelist, was too cowardly and stricken with loss over the impossibility to take her virginity that he gave the cold shoulder. so ig that's why she tried to commit a lovers's suicide with her son, who was his replacement. the teacher was so obsessed with helping mc get away from the town bc she wanted it to be reciprocated; she wanted him to whisk her away. nagi is like the least unlikable so far.

i dont understand tho, why did the homeless man try to rape the girl once he saw the fireflies? she and the boy were eating and cooking the flesh of human corpses. ...I hope the two never lose the light in their eyes. ch 14. the art is amazing, I've never seen a manhwa convey so much hopelessness toward death, despair, tragedy, and sorrow in a backstory. you really can't help but cry for all the characters. it was this backstory that explains why the little girl hadn't forsaken her humanity ch 17. what the actual fuck. it really does send a message tho. death doesnt wait for you to obtain happiness, it'll take u away so quickly and unexpectedly.

desperately need more chapters. this is seriously good, like a piece of art. the only con- for me- would be the action scenes...it was kinda hard to tell what's happening, even when they explain it.

sad that arin still yearns for iza. sana, rather than being swept by the sense of meaninglessness and numbness, it's more like being drowned by that feeling. she is slowly losing her humanity, yet still remains human because she is fundamentally different from the red fox. the red fox in this sequel is slowly learning human emotions such as jealousy, or rather, deciphering it, and how his 'love' evolved from that of the prequel.

v20 ch20. damn im immensely curios about asha, like i know she's gonna oppose the mc one day, but even tho she's not the nicest and definitely wants to use mc for her own goals, i just like her a lot. sagara is def the most dislikable secondary chara in this series. ig its because her reason to destroy the cities wasn't as relatable as ghandava or maruna's reasons... but i do feel bad for her. the gods and suras are selfish, but not evil perse edit: asha u bitch. all my love for turned into hatred. even after knowing u were killing people, children included, with kubera's name, i thought "there was a reason behind it; she does it for revenge." but then u killed that magician, and then tried to kill ur best friend and teacher and said all those terrible things to leez that i just find you irredeemable. yes, i acknowledged that u wavered at the thought of killing leez, but ur atrocious crimes far exceed anyone's capacity for pity.

ch 2. what a solid beginning! ch 29. that plot twist! never saw that coming. so the alchemist who died figured that when he ordered the massacre of the ishibaal it was for another purpose?? now I'm questioning every interaction he had with the other charas. ch 41. dam the plot thickens, mc's father or whomever that is, is the founder of ouroboros group?? (edit: he's not, thank god) ch 61. truly i really cant hate scar. ch 70. really...did not expect that plot twist.

the storytelling is amazing, the angles, panels really conveyed the atmosphere and emotions of the characters, and the different types of love shown by these witches were interesting and their respective love interests were perfect for them. the first three were the most interesting. esp the first couple's; it was the most bittersweet. the second couple was interesting, the third one was unrequited love, but it was neat that it was shoujo ai. it was sad that lily wanted to die, but didn't want to either bc she couldn't forget colin and philipa. the guy ian, i felt that his personality changed the most, like it was almost jarring how a subdued depressed man who was indifferent to living turned into a clingy "delicate flower" who's so enamored with lily. and then his entire personality was to simp for her. almost felt like fanservice when the author included more of their scenes after their arc. yeah, felt that the side stories and epilogues were dragged. i admit i skipped some dialogue there bc i wanted to see phillipa and colin's conclusion.

sad