Art: Pretty Good
Translation: Excellent, thank you for the chapter
Story: hooooo boy, lets chat a bit
This story is really starting to boil my s***. I can’t even tell who the author thinks the main character is, even in sequences with the main character in it. It’s always Rashta this and Rashta that, and its eating plot progression so much and causing the story (and whatever enthusiasm I had left for it) to fizzle out. The characters grow more bland with each passing week, as their character development hinges more and more on the tropes and plot points of a single antagonist. The sneak-peek in chapter one should not be the end of the story, but rather one of many climaxes that the story should have. The issue is, the pacing of the story makes me believe that’s exactly what the author is aiming for, to have the beginning of the story be the end.
sigh
Y’know, while writing this, my wife asked me if I was writing another scathing comment on that one manhwa like I did last week. Of course I said yes, and then she asked me “If you hate it so much, why do you keep reading it?” I thought about it for a few seconds, and that’s when it hit me. It’s a spectacle. It’s like bad theatre. It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. The driving source of my interest has long since ceased being investment in the story. After weeks of being browbeaten with the setting up of Rashta as a quality trash-human, I’ve started looking for other reasons to read it, and I’ve stumbled upon something different to enjoy. Which is counting the weeks it takes for something significant in the plot to happen. Every week I’m giddy with excitement about “oooooo, what’s not gonna happen this week?!”
Please, for the love of my sanity (and this story), please move the plot on to something else. We’ve spent 50 chapters on this arc, and we’re all waiting for the grand finale we were promised in chapter one. This is like when you’re on a roller coaster, and your riding the rest hill. You’re excited, your adrenaline is pumping, you’re stoked for what’s about to happen. You know what’s just over the rise, and you can’t wait to get there. But then.... you don’t. You just level out. No big drop into a loop or a spin, no multi-G turns, nothing. It’s just flat. That’s what this story is.
Anyways, thanks for watching, be sure to come back next week for a shouting match with my monitor.