Mintfu's manga / #Psychological(5)

I love insane MLs but I don’t know if the payoff was worth it here lmao

ML is kind of psychotic, but it’s what I signed up for and I’ve seen worse so I can’t complain. I am looking respectfully.

Pretty MC ;0; and almost comedically possessive ML + yakuza so good combo T-T

As typical as a prisoner/guard love story and revenge plots can go, this story really keeps you on your toes for the entire time. I absolutely loved the dramatic narration style and you can tell this was adapted from a novel with all the third-person perspectives. I think the use of third-person, looking in at a relationship between two people from the outside, can be so romantic because it gives insight into the objective feelings that those in love cannot express to the world. It defines their relationship clearly to the audience so that we understand the pure, fundamental emotions that the characters are experiencing, and it just feels so human. Reading this story was a little more confusing than I wanted it to be, especially since almost everything is explained much later and so most of the time you sit there confused. You could argue it’s all worth it to see everything unravel at the end. As for the main couple, I love them both and their mutual insanity goes so well with the historical era. A golden retriever ML and morose MC has never been so interesting. I think the novel itself would be a good read. It so brilliantly illustrates moral dilemmas and the struggle of surviving in a cruel world. Its depiction of the MC’s sense of self-being demolished while the ML’s identity is being built was so captivating. You just sit there wondering how might their love prevail. The MC being a storyteller is such a wonderful addition as well, as it shows the idealism he is punished for and simultaneously the heart that allows him the strength to keep going. Also, it demonstrates how strongly he holds onto his ideals and morals in a world that shuns people who do, making it all the more painful to see him being broken down. Without falling into the cliches, the characters’ love was truly shown to be a world of agonizing pain that both of them were too willing to endure. It’s the kind of story that makes you want to word-vomit how you feel about it until you realize nothing you say will perfectly capture how you felt while reading it.

Incredibly repressed ML develops a split personality (2nd couple bored me tho)