well shit's manga / #It was okay(1)

If you’ve read mission save the hunter (novel and manhwa) , then i dont recommend reading this LMAO like i see the vision the author has but it felt so shallow and rushed. It took 86 chapters for a semblance of chemistry (if u could even call it that) between the couple and given the dynamic (sunshine traumatized mc x manipulative fox ml) it would have been an easy banger but something about the way the artist adapted the novel into manhwa form that just feels so lacking and amateur? Pacing was rushed and by the 4th dungeon it felt repetitive, read comments where big details of the story were left out and im just?? Why????? And sa hyeon’s character development was just odd and jarring bc youre telling me this guy loved yiseon all this time? He mistook it as obsession? Thats so lazy bc There was no hint of that at all LMAO the tension was there but it was not romantic it just felt ominous and foreboding. 80+ chapters of that and nothing else. Jesus. The constant blushes they put on yiseon does such a disservice to his character bc it makes him feel like such a flat and shallow character who has zero backbone and inner confict. Youre telling me this guy was the same guy from earlier chapters??? Alright.The world building was insanely lackluster and there was no sense of dread or actual Risks in the dungeons’ time limit/difficulty. Everything is just lackluster!!!! Side characters felt like its being held back by an invisible string bc they had so much potential to be bigger players in the story but? Theyre just the jokesters most of the time? And conveniently enough they dont interact with the couple’s moments at all?? Thats such a shame and puts into perspective at wow!!! Mission save the hunter really spoiled us to filth with the adorable couple moments from other characters… WOW!!! Evrything in this story is a sad unseasoned chicken… The thing i especially hated about this was how much potential it had that im gonna assume was cut bc of the adaptation. The theme of grief, survivors guilt and ptsd with the dungeon/hunter atmosphere was so light hearted, it made whatever the hell the team and yiseon is going thru not that big of a deal bc well. No rules abt the world building is established i guess lol people can do this and that and oh they have penalties and thats all about it. AND HILARIOUSLY the friends that yiseon is grieving so much about? We only know one name in that friend group. ONE. JESUS. How are you gonna establish the weight of the mc’s grief when u dont even name the people hes grieving??? Yeonseo from msth had 1000+ ppl who died and author still tried to include at least 5-10 names with distinct characteristics!!!! Shit had me grieving WITH him. It just felt so lazy????? It honest to god felt like reading a first draft of a work. And i have to make this distinction that MAYBE the novel is way better in portraying this than the manhwa, and thats whats making the story feel so bad bc no fucking way a story can be the lazily written lmao the visual translation from novel to manhwa was just straight up ass. I hate that i spent 3 days readinf this lmao. The only good scene in this story that left a satisfying mask is sa hyeon on his knees realizing the weight of the situation between siheons suicidal urge and feelings for him are not as what he expected. The potential with the “manipulated is the manipulator” trope was done (i felt) so hastily. And sa hyeon’s character development/reflection arc was fucking short???? Just a scene later and mc is taking him back in???? What happened to chaptwrs of all that grief and survivors guilt???????? If youre gonna invest that much chapters in the character’s trauma, make it make fucking sense??? And if the theme is healing thru grief by reconciling and giving yourself the chance to make new connections, then theyve also done it poorly bc majority of the story is just sa hyeon “manipulating” yiseon. The other members are in the back burner And the fact that only in the last few chapters is when the talk of Therapy is brought up is insane to me LMAO. The more u pick thru every plot hole of the story, the more the story crumbles . Im really gonna just be pissed at the manhwa adaptation bc im sure ( i hope) they left out a lot of nuance from the novel. Its like eating a nothing sandwich. Mission save the hunter’s way of talking about grief and survivors guilt while also balancing the couple’s development and growth is making it so incredibly hard to read other works with the same theme or trope bc if that author could do it then why cant you if youre not just a completely incompetent and lazy writer!!!! U can really feel that msth’s author spin on the topic is so personal and closely related to their own life experience with grief bc man………. Shit was heavy… and even made ME conflicted with its conflict. At the end of this story it makes u wonder WHY did it have to be a dungeon hunter trope, put this plot in a regular slice of life drama manhwa and it’d be fine. Thats how lazy the fantastical world building is. It doesnt add anything to the theme???? Msth’s big conflict was justifying death for the sake of justice and that was so stressful bc there is no right or wrong answer. It was eye opening, it had u THINK. This shit had me FROWNING and NOT wanting to think!!!!!! Anyway its a 2/5, unremarkable characters, lackluster worldbuilding and non existent plot. You would hope that at least one of the three things that make up a story of this trope (world building, mc likability, ml chemistry) would save the story but no it didnt bc it didnt have any one of those!!! Cant remember or even be emotionally invested with anyone in the story. Whoever that commented in msth that that story reminded them of This, youre a fawkin liar!!!!!!!!!!!