Maybe from the beginning the concept was wrong. I’m talking about the setting that the only boy student in a girl’s school. Because of it, it made quite a topic, for all of girls jumping with joy for a boy student coming in. Well, it could be like that, but at that time it was like that the work was saying this to me: “Did you see? We’ll go this way.” Dear author, it would be good if you went that way all along, but why did you have to set your feet in the reality? It’s natural that the work became lost its way, for it couldn’t go either way, being indecisive between them.

 

                                 

This way I’m talking about is harem genre. The genre many girls fight for love of a boy. Actually, I don’t like the genre much. The reason is, the boy can’t choose one of the girls, because if he does so, the work ends, so eventually the protagonist becomes indecisive. Nevertheless, girls clinging to the protagonist and the reader feeling satisfaction is the royal road of vicarious pleasure of harem works. In a sense, it was doing well in its own way. The protagonist is dummy, the girls are pretty, and they love men. Yay.

But the work goes into a wrong direction and becomes stuffy. The early stage was the story of Jaegu, a boy, who is poor and gets bullied from a bunch of baddies, who later gets stronger. It was a real fun. But the dummy Jaegu, who appears more as the story goes on, was not like that. Why is that? Because it didn’t reveal the round character of him. No matter how it shows the Queen bossing around with her money or how much Jaegu loves the Queen, as long as it repeats and rinses for more than dozens of episodes, it’s no fun. When the same scenes repeat, a surprise becomes a routine. And when the protagonist is bothersome, the comic is no good to read. It’s same if it repeats same scenes. With the two combined, only the readers who read it for love or habit is left.

 

 

I’m not saying every work must seek its innovation. But at least it had to hold its frame. It had to seek one, either a sure fantasy or a sure action. There were many fun materials to use. Pretty girls fight. Girls will fight for a boy. Making with this two, no matter how bad the result could be, it would be better than a subtle mind game between the protagonist and the Queen alone. I’m curious why it had to be developed like this in a comic where girls are so wild and a rich scion girl has a good feeling to the protagonist. It’s natural to be stuffy if the reality intervenes in the fantasy.

Moreover, the protagonist, who has to become stronger, finally realizes the fact when it’s near the end of the work. ‘I’m not doing anything.’ Yes. For the period the episode count gets more than 200, this dude did nothing. He’s incompetent. He’s so incompetent that the readers hate him. He was so hated that Dal-dal went away to meet some other guy. Incompetence should have its limit. It could be somewhat cool if he lost every time then said ‘I can do it’, but it’s really hateful if he’s sitting on a chair, torturing himself ‘I’m a trash’. Unless the work is aiming a hyperrealistic intention of making the readers feel bad, it’s a bad choice.

The finish was too quick and obvious. It looked that way more, as he finished the fundamental agony of ‘why I’m not doing anything’ in just two episodes. If he did nothing but a fight, it could have better development. It’s a shame. It’s really a shame, for it had really good material.