manhwa: Bring It On Vol 4-5 (end)
Aug. 29th, 2009 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreThough a blast right up until the (bitter?) end, this was a woefully anticlimactic manhwa! I think the manhwaga literally got to near the end of the arc, decided she was ready to end it (or was told it was time to) and added an epilogue.
And really, you can’t even really tell in the epilogue if Mi-Ha and Seung-Suh are actually together in the end, or if they still haven’t gotten their acts together. I assume they are, but it could go either way. And while I’m reading for the entertainment value, not the romance, I expect some sort of real payoff there, as opposed to the babysteps and then the end.
That said, despite the last two arcs being plotlines I typically hate (Seung-Yuh being framed for sexual harassment and Mi-Ha believing it, and then a jealous third party coming between them, and making a bet with Seung-Yuh that if he loses, he has to leave forever), they were both very fun! I think because these characters are so out-there that the normal annoying tropes can’t really apply. Actually, both ploys cracked me up in the end, especially once Yun-Jin stopped pretending to be sweet and helpless and let her inner evil badass out.
Despite the ending (which is not so much bad as it is an inconclusive non-ending) this is a really fun series that plays around with a lot of the normal shoujo tropes, and consistently manages to avoid going predictable routes.
And really, you can’t even really tell in the epilogue if Mi-Ha and Seung-Suh are actually together in the end, or if they still haven’t gotten their acts together. I assume they are, but it could go either way. And while I’m reading for the entertainment value, not the romance, I expect some sort of real payoff there, as opposed to the babysteps and then the end.
That said, despite the last two arcs being plotlines I typically hate (Seung-Yuh being framed for sexual harassment and Mi-Ha believing it, and then a jealous third party coming between them, and making a bet with Seung-Yuh that if he loses, he has to leave forever), they were both very fun! I think because these characters are so out-there that the normal annoying tropes can’t really apply. Actually, both ploys cracked me up in the end, especially once Yun-Jin stopped pretending to be sweet and helpless and let her inner evil badass out.
Despite the ending (which is not so much bad as it is an inconclusive non-ending) this is a really fun series that plays around with a lot of the normal shoujo tropes, and consistently manages to avoid going predictable routes.