The problem is that the characters stop being characters. They're tools for the author to push forward a plot that otherwise stalls out or makes no sense.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that "the author doesn't know how to auth" but this manga certainly is this tropey, cheesy and over the top times 100x convenient writing that is fully predictable and formulaic.
Can you say that the author is a bad one or that they don't know what they're doing because of that? Certainly not. It feels done on purpose. Is it lame after 45 chapters and is it a bit too convenient and run-off-the-mill shockfactor? Yeah, it is.
Honestly feels a bit underwhelming? Cheap? Idk what word to use but it's disappointing. Maybe the final lesson will be "don't judge a book by its cover" but in the negative sense.
Hard agree. This manga already was incredibly shallow and seemed to be a set rotation of "bad mental -> meet person -> improve -> predictable bad stuff that other person does -> mental spirals -> bad mental -> meet person -> ..." and so forth.
It was the case with both female characters in the first arc and seems to be the case once again.
I really hope that this one concludes in a different way but it seems like this series lives off of the fully predictable shocking ending into the "welp, shit happens, time to move on and improve myself for myself!" message that is oh so relatable to the target audience. Meh
I still enjoy this for what it is, still reading after 45 chapters. But there is 1 or 2 things I personally would change.