July's manga / #Webtoon(264)

Ugh, another trashy BL webtoon. I didn't like the work by the same author called Hide & Seek, and this one is quite possibly even worse than that one. I don't know why they even bothered to use a K-Pop setting because it has nothing to do with that industry at all. There's supposed to be 7 members in the band, but they're all so unimportant, that we never get to know their names and no one has any personality. Also, everyone basically looks the same. Why even bother having a 7-member band if you're not going to utilize those characters. This could have just been a K-Pop duo and not much would have changed in terms of plot. Dumb as hell. Avoid.

Very average webtoon. The premise is interesting, but the plot quickly falls flat. Art slowly gets better as artist gets more comfortable with panel layouts, but it's not the best art I've seen. The female lead is dense as a brick and the male lead is unappealing. They fast forward to romance levels very quickly and it's boring. I'm tired of webtoon authors not properly developing emotions for their characters, life is not a highway, you can't just jump to the "good part". People don't fall in love so easily in real life. Honestly, I'm still bothered by the concept that red threads mean death, because in my culture, red threads are auspicious and mean fated love. It's sort of melding Asian culture with Western culture (the threads of death from ancient Greece), and I don't like it, personally. Pick one thing or the other, don't do both.

Absolutely awful webtoon. The art is alright, not the best, but absolutely wasted on this trash. The story (or lack thereof) is that two childhood friends become friends with benefits by exploring each other's bodies every night. It's very gross and disgusting, not romantic at all. And it's not because I haven't read other stories with dark or disturbing themes, it is just done in a distasteful manner. The female lead acts like she is so pure but she's leading the clueless male lead on. The male lead seems to be mentally delayed... It really reminds me of this TV drama I watched a long time ago where a guy fell in love with a mentally challenged girl and they had kids together, and it was super controversial because the audience considered it to be sexual violation of a minor (since she had the mind of a child). This is very similar to what it is happening here. The male lead is very, very child-like and doesn't understand basic concepts, and I can't believe he can function in normal society, much less hold a job. And while the TV drama I mentioned had its issues, at least the romance was at least plausible. There's no romance here, it just skips basically to lust and sex, although they haven't actually had penetrative sex yet, but it's leading up to it. And the author tries to brush it all under the table, having the female lead say that the male is actually quite intelligent, despite the way he speaks. Uh no, you can't do that, because he's never proven himself to be clever or smart or even normal. It even makes a point every chapter to show how abnormal he is! Avoid like the plague!

Pretty mediocre webtoon. The art is really average, and I detest the art for the female lead. Why are her eyelashes as long as her eyes are wide?? So gross! I don't like anything about her, from her looks, to her name, to her personality. It makes me wonder who the author is trying to make the readers root for. The prince is supposed to be a scheming pervert but he just seems like a stupid guy. The male love interest is as interesting as a piece of blank paper. There's no real story or plot or conflict yet. If the female lead is so powerful, why can't she fix the library by herself? Very poor writing, color me not impressed.

Really awful BL webtoon. The plot that is there sometimes is nonsensical and I have no clue what is going on most of the time. The ghost king and the male lead don't have a romantic relationship as of the recent chapters, it's more of a forced marriage. The ghost king has some feelings for a possible past life of the male lead, but he's keeping it to himself. None of the characters are likeable and it's not improving in any way with newer chapters. The art is average, nothing special. Give this a pass.

Nonsensical isekai cultivation webtoon. I don't care for any of the characters. Nothing makes sense and I don't know what the male lead is trying to accomplish. Art is pretty average.

The art is decent, but it's difficult to understand what is happening in action sequences. It's a typical isekai with male lead focusing on cultivation. A lot of things are unexplained and sometimes the translation is not the best, so it's hard to follow the story. The male lead is not likeable and has no good standout qualities. Very average webtoon so far. Translation gets even worse after Chapter 50+. It's completely incomprehensible now.

Art is great, very beautifully drawn. There's far too few chapters out to make an accurate judgement on the quality of the story, but it seems like a typical isekai story thus far. I have no strong opinions on the female lead yet. I'm glad she finally removed that awful rouge on her cheeks though that made her look like Pikachu.

Art is absolutely wonderful, the plot is still muddled, but vastly improved over its prequel. Hopefully, it doesn't go wildly off the rails this time. There's a romance between the female lead and the beast male character, but it's not really being developed and there are odd conflicts thrown their way that get resolved in the strangest manner possible sometimes.

The art for this webtoon is horrendous. The plot is really weird, basically, the female lead has a harem of gods that all randomly love her for no reason. There's too many characters, and they're not distinctive enough that I can tell who is who. It's been stuck for a while now, perhaps the author is not planning on continuing this past the first season. That's probably for the best, since it didn't really seem to be going anywhere.