See, Hear, Love

Thus review contains spoilers ahead. When I was reading this manhwa I could hear Oprah's voice in my head like, "You get a sad back story, you get a sad back story, eeeeeverybody gets a sad back story" and it wasn't far from the truth. Story: This author takes melodrama to a whole new level. I understand the need for creating a tragedy to sympathise with your characters, but you know you're overdoing it when even their PET gets a three chapter background where it cries and experiences more emotions than a pregnant woman. There are two pets in the story andboth of them had the harshest life imaginable. Here's the thing, using tragedy as a plot device has its limits. Use it too little and the readers won't feel the impact, use it too much and it becomes laughable. We become desensitised to it. Having two people with disabilities live together is a very interesting concept in itself, it doesn't need cheap drama to strengthen its theme, which, at its core is two people overcoming their hardship to achieve happiness. But no, the author adds crazy jealous woman in love with the hero, a crazy jealous man in love with the heroine, attempted rape, suicide, an inexplicable illness that is suddenly flung on us, dragged out and cured just as quickly --anything even remotely dramatic you can think of, it's all there. It makes me indifferent to the characters. They could get hit by a bus in the next page and I couldn't care less. Characters: Even if I put the melodrama aside, the love between the two main characters didn't feel real. It was this codependent mess of a relationship where she basically becomes his 'sight'. I wouldn't mind it if it was only in the beginning, but no this guy doesn't learn to cope by himself. He uses her as a crutch at all times and never learns to be independent. That's just not right. Overall: It feels like the author didn't know how to end the manhwa and took the tragic death route, but suddenly changed his mind in the last chapter and wrapped everything up with a time skip and a (dubious) happy ending on top. So there. Two points for the potential this manhwa had to be something good, but was ever able to meet it.

Okay so. I can handle series that are heavy-handed with misery so long as there is a pay-off at the end. But this... it was a very frustrating read. The premise itself is fine, but the majority of the main couple's issues stem from outside people who just want to stir shit up. The main character is frequently dealt a bad hand in life to the point where whenever one good thing happens to him, like five more bad things happen as a result. Almost every character has their own tragedy laid out in complete detail at seemingly random areas. The fucking DOG got severalchapters of tragic backstory. Overall, I had to frequently stop reading and take breaks because it just got to be too stressful to read. It honestly felt like misery p/rn. Understandable hardships in this series get diluted by a side character sharing their over-the-top tragic backstory, and it really feels like an exercise of how bleak they could write a story. Like I said, I can handle a heavy-handed story for the most part, and while there IS a silver lining, they really do drag you in the dirt until the last chapter and it just... didn't feel satisfying at all. Like I put myself through reading this for THAT? That really is my biggest beef with the series. I think the art is fine but the story is drenched in often unrealistic drama that seeps into characters you can't tell if you're meant to like or not. If you want a feels trip, read something else.

This was honestly a disappointing story, which I felt had a lot of potential in the beginning. The best part of the story is the couple in focus and their relationship, they're somewhat tragic people who found each other and really rely on each other as reasons to live. Their relationship is strengthened and the story has it's most touching moment in my opinion when a secret one of them has is exposed, and I really enjoyed most of what happened up to this point. But there are unfortunately other characters in this story, who are written so childishly I could hardly believe they weren't used forcomic relief but actually had an important impact on the story. One or two side-character are decently written, and especially one is a genuinely nice guy, but the others serve no purpose other than to create horribly childish drama. I think I was 11 years old when I had the emotional maturity of these people. The main character also has moments of complete mental inhibition though, especially towards the end, which I can only attribute to the author wanting to create artificial drama and sadness. The story would be well served if it focused on actual realistic problems a couple like this might face, but instead this could have been any other people facing the same dilemma. The conclusion made me feel nothing, which is almost impressive from a story that made me tear up in places it didn't try half as hard. I was in disbelief at how stupid and artificially melodramatic everything was towards and after the end. The art is decent, far from the best I've seen but also far from the worst. It gets a plus for originality since I recognized it from another series the author made.