tetromino's Reviews (233)

Wtf Daddy Bang clearly loves Enhypen the most out of all the HYBE boy groups, he writes all their songs AND he gives them the best webtoon (the TXT one is kinda...) like what did Ehypen do to win this favor!?

Anyway this plot wasn't that interesting but the art is actually pretty great for a webtoon and I like that it's from the POV of y/n girl. I feel like kpop stuff is always all about parasocial fanservice and loving the fans (which tbh I HATE as a fan) but also not brave enough to delve into true silly y/n territory because people would lose their mind if a character even BASED on an idol was dating somebody. So yes, I will accept this ridiculous y/n harem webtoon because I'll be honest, it's extremely amusing. 

Though I still have no idea which characters are linked to which boy, like omg I know that's what you're doing please god just put a key on the first page of these things. It makes it easier to explain to my sister (who doesn't read schlock like me) that the webtoon is about TelepathicVampire!Heesung x Y/N and the rest of enhypen is her harem or whatever

As an avid manga fan I have somehow not read Astro Boy until now and all I can say is, wow, not what I was expecting. Unexpectedly dark in many ways, like that last story was lowkey just horrifying and I genuinely am not sure if Tezuka intended that when writing.

All to say, Astro Boy holds up over time in my opinion, it's not great for a binge read but it's really a testament to Tezuka's skill that these are so enjoyable even now when manga as an artform has changed so drastically! Also I just love President Rag and #44 lol

Realistic in the sense that makes it hard to enjoy but impossible to not enjoy, idk how to describe it. I liked it!

Guys it only took me 5 books but YES I can tell the characters apart now (why am I reading this)

All tell no show, yasss I love reading huge text boxes about boring worldbuilding I haven't been given a reason to care about

Interesting subject, mid execution. Many of these memoirs people write about their family and history suffer from one huge problem that I hate to say because it makes me sounds like an ass, but truthfully, I care less about your family than you do. Interesting tidbits and things I would find fascinating about my own family are not of huge interest to me when it's another family. (Not by lacking empathy, but in the sense that one of my ancestors being a single woman living alone in a homesteading shack in Montana and refusing to modernize is probably more of interest to me than to you.) Often this book just packs in details which just sort of confuse me as a reader, especially with the very large cast of characters who utilize different names, and the panels were laid out in a way that didn't flow particularly well. 

This book shines best in the final 'act' as it were, the reflections on the author and how their story is "not unique, just specific". That I enjoyed and found impactful. Just a lot of stuff lost in the sauce on this one. Art style also wasn't really for me, reminded me a lot of Bechdel but with a bit less humor and character distinction.

No guys I have to be honest I'm so scared, I still don't what the difference between a Nosferatu and a Dracula is and at this point I'm too embarassed to ask

"I wonder, briefly, if I could eat Brauser if it came to that. At this point, we have been alone on the glacier for 14 minutes."

I also kind of struggle with Karen Russell, I actually hadn't realized she wrote another book I read until I started this one and noticed they were rather similar. Like all short story collections it's hard to judge because I really only want to judge it based on the stories I liked, and not all of them were very impactful to me. I liked the one about minotaur dad, I liked the girls raised by wolves, and I liked the avalanche story. Similar to the other story collection I often just feel like the stories just end. I know short stories can be like that, but I think of short stories I love like "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and I don't feel that same sense of "oh, it's over." Definitely some of the stories here are more successful than others but overall I just like the collection okay. At times, though, some beautiful prose! And I enjoyed that They Might Be Giants reference, lol.

It seems this series has basically been discontinued (on hiatus as of >5 years ago) and honestly I think the world will have not really lost anything for it. Genuinely not sure why I read this far but RIP Mermaid Boys, good luck to the author's new series tho