A Good Day to Be a Dog

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A Good Day to be a Dog could've been so much more. Upon stumbling about this webtoon and rereading the first 13 chapters continuously awaiting the next, I was immediately drawn into its setup. However, once the romance began, it sort of fell apart? After 20 chapters, I realized that Hana didn't really have a character. I honestly cannot describe her personality. Same with Seon Jin. None of the characters really have a goal except Bogum. While the main romance became just pure fluff with no development, Bogum's backstory really saved it all and he became my immediate favourite character of all time.

"A good day to be a dog" is fundamentally a tried and true formula for romance stories, but infused with enough novelty to pique interest and win affection. It certainly crams quite a number of story arcs into its run. It's a shame none of them end up being truly exemplary.

So while my good will was quite high for this story in it's formative stage, I did find myself depleted by the end. I wanted to like it more than I actually did. The romance didn't pop enough when it got off the ground. When it was inevitably threatened in a rather half-hearted way, the ... logical side of my brain won out. I could see, and agree with the putative culling of their romance. I want to be taken on that emotional roller-coaster with the characters and fall in love with them, not be able to deliberate the cost/benefit analysis of them remaining together...

A clichéd romance story with superficial writing that relies on all the classic tropes to make up the rest of the plot besides the "turning into a dog" unique plot device. Characters are superficial and often don't seem to have a definite personality. The writing is like the author dragged and dropped cliché tropes and template plot pieces to make up their story. The only redeeming quality is the art which is decent but otherwise I found it to be boring at best and cringey / frustrating at worst.

Yet another example of 'this could be a 10 chapter manga if they just sat and talked ... through the problem like normal, rational people,'.

Unless you're easily impressed by mediocre writing, skip this. The author clearly lacks creative talent to craft something truly engaging, unique and without the complete support of established narratives, clichéd and tropes.