pluckaduck's manga / #dark(39)

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.

gawl go to hell. tho, first time I'm curious about the bully antagonist. ch 16, that took a turn i didn't expect. completely blindsided me. and damn, the author has a way of making me feel some emotions for that bully, mrerly because he had some interesting backstory. ch 18. nah, nvm. he should go to hell. but still, pretty conflicted. wanna support both pretty boi and the mc, but nevertheless, gawl(?) is kinda beyond redemption. it really is all about perspective... like that bullied freckles- he actually a flaming misogynistic pig when he's playing video games. ch 25. depressing and heartwrenching. i wanted mc to be happy with yoohee, but author gotta pull another twist like that to blacken the mc even further. seriously, if all villain origins were told like this, i would be cheering for the, to no end. ch 27. the plot fricking thickens! ch 31. the plot thickens once again! damn that Mephisto is a cunning devil. he tricked all the key players, and basically orchestrated mc's descent into corruption and hatred, thus winning his bet against god. there was def some foreshadowing before tho, I just didn't notice. and knowing Faust's ill-fated love for yoohee, makes it sadder. anhow, loved that the author made the bullies(except for galhwa) humane and gave some backstory, instead of making them monsters without remorse. they're all a bunch of punching bags for galhwa ch 45. galwha is a genuinely terrifying villain, bc he's so unhinged and violent and so strong. the plot is soo god, like it's unpredictable- the direction the plot takes is exciting as the mc is undergoing lots of chara development. ch 50. oh my god. i was like "hehehe, that POS is finally gonna die" but then beez-whatever comes along...! on the other hand, jinoh is protagonist level chara for sure; but what a horrible irony that he was "friends" with silhyun(?). ch 66. i was like "this is great! friends reunited!" but now they're enemies... anyway this is one of the more consistently interesting webtoon to this day. ch 68. galhwa seemed humanized when its revealed that he still cares for this one person.. his father's secretary. and he's a genuinely caring and loyal guy too... i don't know what i was hoping for... mc ruthlessly killed him, and then galhwa likewise tracked down the artist mc is indebted to... they're both irredeemable demons now. ch 71. jinoh...you sweet thing...such maturity...! both sihyun and jinoh's hatred is justified, and when i think about it, galhwa is too. its weird bc he has been so horrible and evil for no damn reason, but this hatred transcends time... ig he just subconsciously knew he hated mc. Ch 80. What an ending! Despite everything mc went thru , I really like this ending, bc it meant they passed their tribulation, and galhwa had some closure before he died. Ig mc and galhwa’s entanglement has nothing to do with their previous lives…galhwa just had a lot of rage within him, and all this misfortunes wouldn’t have happened if his dad didn’t interfered. And the tragedy of their previous lives would have never come to light, bc they wouldnt have gotten involved with each other. Their past life shown how weak the human heart is, and their second life really showed how strong forgiveness is.

ch 11. wow. this is good. like the events keep culminating into this climax, the hints were dropped throughout the story, my tension keeps rising. like i kinda had an inkling he was kinda a psychopath, so it wasn't a surprise, but I'm very interested as to how this confrontation will unfold. ch 35.5 holy shit. srsly tho, the ajin demi-human powers is rather simple to explain yet also very fleshed out, but it's ingenious how they use it in many different ways to fight, etc... and now this crazy "transportation" method? absolute nuts. also, the villain, sato, is freaking scary despite looking like a nice granpa, like homelander scary except he doesn't have any weaknesses ch 52. wowowowow the author is brilliant in pulling off these twists leading us around by the nose and then catch us completely by surprise. god, sato is freaking terrifying i literally stop breathing for a sec bro ch 86. great ending. jesus christ sato is srsly terrifying, all that effort and it was almost fruitless and they were ready to give up... also, i kinda like that the origin of the mystery of the demi-human is still kinda vague and unknown, but its allusion to human nature is done quite well, considering all the shit in this story.

so twisted. the narrative itself was weak tho. the author really knew how to draw these expressions, like the kidnapper is super creepy. never understood why hayan was kidnapped tho...he was unrelated to neither the victim nor kidnapper no?

just rating based on my impression of the kdrama. one of the few kdramas ive watched, and it's freakig amazing