Story of Our Lives - Reviews

While being considered a BL, the story mainly focuses on the trauma of grief of the main character. Throughout the manhwa, you would expect the main character to improve and develop. 

That doesn't happen. 

The story is rushed, jumbled, and very confusing. The plot twist makes it worse and when I was reading it I was like "okay, we get it." Many of the same tropes were repeated and the main character was just a really bad person surrounded by underdeveloped supporting characters.

The art was okay.

Overall, the plot may sound interesting, but it was a complete waste of time to read this manhwa. If you're looking for a beautiful BL romance that overcomes obstacles and grief in a healthy way, this is not it. 

s p o i l e r s

It was terrible. At first it was a cute and mischevious love story but then it was interuppted by all this supernatural nonsense. I got so confused in the middle of it, but still had hope. 

The ending was worse than any i've ever read. I startd crying because of how messed up the entire mahnwa was. I mean Hyunwoo was using Jimin the entire time to feel as if Kijye (I hope I spelled right) was there. But, Jimin being naive and just wanting him to love him, would let him use him. 

The wedding broke my heart. It all felt so insincere and fake. I feel like they should've fixed Hyunwoo's mental state before he got with anyone. And honetly, the characters are trash. I mean Joesephine is very toxic to Daniel. He just wants Hyunwoo and Jimin to date so Daniel is all his. At the end, I was crying so hard when we saw the clip of Josephine crawling on Daniel like the slut he is. Like bitch, Daniel is heartbroken right now. The love of his life is with a different man. 

And, of course Daniel isn't any better. He's a stalker freak! No sympathy for Daniel. 

The Art however, was pretty good. But, overall, the story was mediocre. It was forced, and rushed. I mean, I'm not even sure if Hyunwoo is gay! He was probably just so depressed that he married Jimin.

Sorrry if I was unproffessional in this review. It was my first. 

SPOILERS

the story began really nicely then went downhill as more chapter read , many people said they don't like the characters but in my opinion it is not that the character themselves are bad , but the stupidity of them is beyond measures , In my opinion I really sympathise with MC , not because of what happened to him but because he is surrounded by people who like him but hurts him even more , instead of dealing with the reality of losing a loved one and supporting the MC they actually creates a probaganda that even puts him in more and more pain , it even made him almost commit suicide , to me the most hurtful thing in the world is when someone doesn't trust me , or think I can't handle the reality or truth , I mourn for the MC beacuse none of them treats him like an adult but more like a mentally ill child , they are afraid that the truth would hurt him but the results of their actions made him way worse . if you dont believe me that they have 0 trust in the MC read the follows:

first , the mother , because she got preganant in her teenage years and that resulted in a bad marriage , she pushes her ideals on her son so hard that it made him afraid of touching women , she even tells him to keep the door of the room open if his girlfriend came to visit , resulting in extreme Genophobia , when the MC was drunk in a chapter he explains that he hates his mother for nagging on him everytime anything related to sex is discussed and instill more and more fear in his heart , later she get diagnosed with terminal illness and she also doesn't trust him enough to tell him about it resulting in him not getting enough time with her and solve the feelings between them in the last days of her life , after she dies he gets so heartbroken that it tears my heart reading the story.

second , jihyi the girlfriend , omg that girl was even worse , she was the girlfriend of the MC for 10 whole years and she had 0 trust in the MC , she lied to him when she was absent from school , saying it is just cramps while in reality she actually had similar terminal illness of his mother , I would loathe a person who would hide something like this secret from his loved ones , it is complete selfshness and lack of trust between them , if she had told him he wouldn't be so guilt struck when she died , he thought he killed her because of his genophobia that resulted in her running across the street but it actually wouldn't have mattered because if he knew about her illness they wouldn't be there in the first place even if they were , he wouldn't be so guilt strucken about it , which it wasn't his fault anyway but I digress , oh did I tell you that it was actually the mother who killed her too , these people are so presistant in ruining the poor MC

thirdly and lastly the male lead , this dude helps the mother at first to do the stupid play of seeing the dead out of sympathy first then fall for the MC later , alsooo has 0 trust in our MC and uses the trauma of the MC and his similar looks of the dead girlfriend to get closer to the MC , lying and lying again , about his whole being , from his gender to his identity to playing the dead girlfriend and pretend to actually be the incarnation of jihyi so he can kiss the MC more , the poor MC gets so mentally ill that he starts to actually believe that jihyi is actually alive in the male lead , leading to the male lead friend thinking that the poor MC is a freak and is trying to get in top of the pretending 'unconcience' male lead so he beats the hell out of the MC , making the MC go for a club and miss the last moment of his mothers life .

lastly sorry for the long read , there is still alot more points to be said but I will only stop here because it is just too much , in tha last 10 chapters the story get extremely rushed , maybe due to deadline or end of monetization but it is so bad , horrendously bad , I feel extremely sad about the MC and let me tell you the last chapter is a joke , the MC suddenely gets better like he became a different person all of a sudden , from depression to happiness like 180 degrees turn , what a joke , and it so happens that when the male lead tells him the truth he accepts reality and gets out of his depression , which just proves that if they had trusted the MC in the first place none if this shit would have happened , in the end if the author is reading this I want to tell you that you have no idea what real depression is and how difficult it is to get out of  , same goes for homosexuality , you got no clue how gay people really feel and how they behave.

sorry for the long read of my thoughts about the story but I should've listened to the people who told me to not read it.

This is a Spolier Free Review! ~~
+ One of my first reviews ~

Honestly this story is so breath taking, its diversity with different subjects was incredible, both the story line was well made.

The story, where do I start, it was heart breaking, each chapter I could relate in the smallest way about the MC's reality. The MC was retalliating from the shock, breaking his reality into pieces. They didn't make the story too long or too short, which I am greatful for the length because some manga make there stories too long and add irrelevant peices that won't effect the plot or show us reasons of a characters action/intentions.
The reason I'm giving it a 9 and not a 10 is because of how some things are left unexplained at the end, its nothing to do with the MC's story but rather a secondary character, you must be thinking 'why are secondary character?' Well that's because of his role that fits in all of this.

The art, is very well produced, as I love mangas with full colour, this made it even better when it has a good plot. Something that didn't exactly fit in was facial features and movement. Mhmm, you must be thinking? What movement, well kiddo. I mean the way they walk, you know when characters are about to touch the ground with their foot or when they speak. I mean that, the characters faces seem rigid or tense along with there movement, it seems a bit robotic rather than fluent and natural. Anyway that's my opinion.

Fufufu~~ Looks like we're on characters; altogether, the characters were well put, there intentions were easy to follow and understand if you thought about it, however some characters I couldn't understand even though I spent a good 10 minutes thinking about it. But who cares we all like a good challenge~
(YES I KNOW I'M MENTIONING THIS TOPIC AGAIN WITH LENGTH OF THE STORY) The character progress was slow but meaningful~ LOOK AT THE WORD MEANINGFUL! It wasn't slow progressed but rather suited the pace of the MC as if he were a real life person, it being fast paced would of made it a horrible manga, but it wasn't sooo yayy!!
Some characters personality were rather negative and it enraged me to my very core, whilst I was in the midst of reading, crying and swearing. A very bad mixture I reccomend you don't go through!

Anyway that's my review, I enjoyed it alot, I would recommend it to anyone who is a sucker for heart throbs and a person who enjoys a sad story about reality.

If I made any grammar mistakes I apologise, it's rather late where I live and my body is weak from everything.

Okay this story was got me very emotional and I honestly like reading anything that's sad and emotional borderlining tragedy. This might not be for you if you're searching for something that would make you smile but I mean, this webtoon would make you smile in the first few chapters but then things will mess with your head sooner or later so I don't recommend it for anyone wanting to read a light hearted webtoon. I honestly really liked this webtoon because it made me cry T__T and if reading mangas/webtoons or watching animes make you cry then the authors and producers are certainly doing their job. Bu then again, I have a faint heart and soft mind so I cry easily. Still highly recommended tho-