Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid

HawtCoffeeHater Aug 14, 2021

10

One of the best webtoons I have ever read.The plot,the emotion and the characters are balanced and the art is soothing.

Carmy68 May 5, 2022

9

It's been 3 hours since I finished reading this and I'm still crying. This was written and drawn beautifully. Though it absolutely broke my heart it also made it beat rigorously and passionately. I hope more people can read this absolute masterpiece, but have your tissues ready. 

Minnirou May 17, 2023

6

*SPOILERS* The story was well paced and coherent. I liked it. It was one of the only stories with a hundred chapters that I didn't come to hate. It was well written. But the ending irked me. The last 20 chapters. Honestly I couldn't come to fully like Sua and that's my opinion. She was the main character and that's all I can use to describe why I was annoyed. I was just focused the mission, the action, the drama. The emotions were understandable but then came the romance and I think it just made things weird to me. Especially Haesu's budding love for Sua made no sense. Why would he think of Sua in his dying moments. Like he barely knew her besides his guilt. I was expecting him to think of the family he lost or the mission that was put on his shoulders by the dead. But no. It was another point that emphasized Sua as the main character. At least for the most part Sua's romance with uihyeon wasn't gross and overbearing until the last 20 or so chapters. Was kinda on board until it started feeling like they didn't care about their comrades safety except for each other. Especially on uihyeons part who'd known them longer than Sua. But that's just my petpeeve when it comes to tropes like these.  I can't give props to Sua for the ending either. And that's were I get emotional. I was unsatisfied with the result. It wasn't her mission. It wasn't her misery she had to resolve. Felt like she stole it to emphasize that she was the main character and follow the dying analogy that she was the little mermaid.  and now let's highlight the good parts. I loved Haesu. His character was well written his emotions and his fear was placed quite well in the art given that he didn't express his emotions verbally. Then there was yeongyeong who was the perfect gray of good and bad. Then lastly Uiyeon who's altruism was annoying but reasonable and his slow decline was well written. Each and every character written except Sua made sense to me with their layers of emotions and contradictions. Their goals were so vivid even the villains that you couldn't agree with. But for Sua, after she gave up on her revenge or hate, I couldn't quite get why she stayed. Like I know why she stayed but it didn't make sense to me. I'll say it was the altruism of her like uihyeon that confused me or that her goals weren't as vivid. After delving into everyone's character we came back to her and she already had a determined goal. It felt like whiplash and I didn't understand how it developed. That and her attachment to the cause? I feel like she and a few other characters like Geon didn't really hit it for me when coming to understand them. I've got it. If I understood anything it was that Sua was still learning about herself and ideals. She hadn't yet created what she wanted besides her short lived revenge. She was living through everyone else's goals and the ending was still not her goal but someone else's. And that annoyed me to no end.