Jun 9, 2016
Thus review contains spoilers ahead.
When I was reading this manhwa I could hear Oprah's voice in my head like, "You get a sad back story, you get a sad back story, eeeeeverybody gets a sad back story" and it wasn't far from the truth.
Story:
This author takes melodrama to a whole new level. I understand the need for creating a tragedy to sympathise with your characters, but you know you're overdoing it when even their PET gets a three chapter background where it cries and experiences more emotions than a pregnant woman. There are two pets in the story and
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both of them had the harshest life imaginable.
Here's the thing, using tragedy as a plot device has its limits. Use it too little and the readers won't feel the impact, use it too much and it becomes laughable. We become desensitised to it. Having two people with disabilities live together is a very interesting concept in itself, it doesn't need cheap drama to strengthen its theme, which, at its core is two people overcoming their hardship to achieve happiness. But no, the author adds crazy jealous woman in love with the hero, a crazy jealous man in love with the heroine, attempted rape, suicide, an inexplicable illness that is suddenly flung on us, dragged out and cured just as quickly --anything even remotely dramatic you can think of, it's all there.
It makes me indifferent to the characters. They could get hit by a bus in the next page and I couldn't care less.
Characters:
Even if I put the melodrama aside, the love between the two main characters didn't feel real. It was this codependent mess of a relationship where she basically becomes his 'sight'. I wouldn't mind it if it was only in the beginning, but no this guy doesn't learn to cope by himself. He uses her as a crutch at all times and never learns to be independent. That's just not right.
Overall:
It feels like the author didn't know how to end the manhwa and took the tragic death route, but suddenly changed his mind in the last chapter and wrapped everything up with a time skip and a (dubious) happy ending on top. So there. Two points for the potential this manhwa had to be something good, but was ever able to meet it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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