Daytime Star

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Daytime Star is your typical Cinderella story in modern Hallyuwood, shown in rose-tinted glasses for the perfect webtoon equivalent of your average opposites attract (SES edition) K-drama.

As a romance, this manhwa was meh. The story and characters for that matter, couldn't be more typical- but I do appreciate how the FL can stand up for herself every now and then. It's such a shame we couldn't get more of that because we need the ML to save her at every panel.

I would've easily rated this story a four because while I enjoy it, I already have had enough K-dramas where the rich and much ... more accomplished ML helps out the hopeful and sincere but gets the short end of the stick FL (bonus: it is never really explained why such an "extraordinary" ML fell in love with an average FL). What made this story fun for me though is how funny it was, at the most unexpected moments no less. I feel like the author wasn't really taking the story seriously when they were writing it and I like that, I like how they revert to caricatured chibis for dramatic effect. I especially like the deadpan ML chibi, I think it's what made the typical jealous scenes that I normally wouldn't find funny hilarious. I like how the characters' deliver the most unhinged lines from time to time too and then get embarrassed after. The cherry on top for me, a close second to the ML's chibi, is the actions the FL takes- which was honestly so embarrassing at times that it made me drop my phone and scream to my pillow to end my misery. What can I say? It's the comedic element of this story that really made me stick around through the end.

Of course, the more it neared the end- the less we got of it, but for what it's worth- I haven't read a romance with hints of comedy for so long and I am a sucker for rom-coms. While this didn't rom-COM the way I wanted it to, it rom-COMed enough for me to not feel like I've wasted my time bingeing 77 chapters. I also appreciate that the author didn't stretch out the serious moments for too long. Nonetheless, I don't think I've laughed so hard at a manhwa the way I did with this recently. Maybe my humor is shallow or my life is at extremely rock bottom that this is the thing that makes me laugh now, but I believe laughter is a difficult reaction to garner and if the story was able to do that for me on more than two occasions, then it's not a completely bad story.

This manhwa hands down is one of (if not) the best adult idol/actor manhwa.

Daytime Star didn’t contain any unnecessary drama, and instead focused on the evolution of the main characters’ relationship. (The only drama in the manhwa was involving her ex-bf, which was very minor and collectively wasn’t more than 5 chapters).
The hardships both the ML and FL faced were realistic, and were all resolved throughout the manhwa, fitting its perfect length and ensuring it doesn't feel rushed.

Its very nice to be able to see a ML who is a green flag occasionally, as lately most MLs are toxic and very pushy towards the relationship. ... Kang respected Yura without forcing himself on her, something which happens in many famous manhwas and passes by unnoticed or marked as “hot”.
Yura on the other hand wasn't an annoying, pick me FL and didn't immediately and unrealistically agree to start dating Kang (i would have though because i am unrealistic)

The art is super gorgeous and the side characters are lovely.

This is a self-insert comic. And not a good one. Rather, this is on the level of telenovelas or Harlequin novels. I’m not being hyperbolic, that is exactly the level of content you can expect.

The story is about the protagonist’s actress career, but that’s secondary. The most important is that there are hunks, and that they are giving her attention. The plot is dime a dozen, the characters have no depth, it’s the usual “all important people are beautiful” writing, simply a land of fantasy that tries to pass of as real life. There's nothing about the characters that makes you say "wow, interesting, I ... wonder what will happen to them in the story, now I'm invested". Of course, nothing except "I do want to see more fanservice of those pretty people, damn".

There is just simply nothing interesting about this title unless you’re a middle aged woman in mood for some daydreaming. Sure, nothing wrong with that, but just because the comic fulfils this fantasy of yours doesn’t mean the comic is *good*.