apwepuee's manga / #drama(5)

(free on webtoon) didn't really care about the second couple

naru and sungjoon are two peas in a pod of insufferableness. they could've actually gotten together if this were a different genre.

i thought mc would be more clever but seems like all those years of studying served absolutely nothing. sunghyeon is also dumb af for sticking with a guy who was just screwing him over back and forth the whole story (if you can even call it that). i liked how haemin's manipulation tactics were written, and soohyun's not that bad of a character if you read the story far enough. i'll admit that's what kept me hooked for a while, but i despised everything else.

another day where i give 5 stars to a manga with deteriorating relationships bcs of 'accuracy and realism!!!!' (i will never witness anyone having an authentic long term soul fulfilling relationship irl as they are all doomed to fail within 2 weeks in our immediatist dopamine addicted generation)

i found the story interesting at the start, but it eventually became like another one of those melodramatic k-dramas where i stop taking it seriously midway. in this case, that moment was when chisoo's personality took a complete 180 for no apparent reason. it was good that the two main characters split up after everything that happened, but i couldn't care about their ending. jungkwon and kangjin had more chemistry with the other characters than with each other, and they're both very... complicated. people are throwing a lot of shit at jungkwon, but personally, kangjin is the shallowest character among all of them. his motivations revolve around being fatherless and acting recklessly for the sake of love, with literally no external factors being affected by the terrible decisions he makes (seriously, it didn't even look like this guy attempted suicide at the start) despite being involved with the alleged most dangerous man among the gangsters in the city or something. i just couldn't like him at all.