Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Melo Holic

Author : Team Getname

I have no idea if the creator is a single individual or a group.

It is a Korean webcomic with a shounen feel to it.

It is a romance manga from the man's point of view. Yoo Eun Ho is a highschool teacher who has lived 24 years of his life without ever falling in love or having a girlfriend. However, he is not your average member of the 'single army' (because working out in gym alone feels better.!!). He is special because he is able to see into everyone's mind when he touches them ( To twilight fans - think of a mash between Edward's power and Aro's limitations). Unfortunately his ability endows him with a cynical nature when it comes to love, due to past experiences.
Enter the beautiful Ee Soo, a woman who attracts him to her because she really thinks what she is saying.

The initial chapters have a good feel to it mostly because if the Yo Eun Ho's monologue is fun to read. It even makes sense in a perverse kind of way, like listening to the Jokers speech about the truth of human nature. It will appeal to the single army world wide. But the mangaka doesn't really pull his punches either when  the rips the protagonist a new one by way of his friends response to said monologue (it boils down to 'everyone wants to be loved)

But then all that changes when he is in love. Seriously the 180 his personality makes is creepy. From then on it's a romantic drama, complete with a stalker and a near brush with death, personal difficult situations etc. Standard relationship stuff.

And there is a ending which is way too weird and ends up changing the feel of the whole book.

Personally I think the ending plot could have been made a bit better by bringing it into play earlier. Things would have been interesting. But I guess it would have ended up being like a shounen near-life-fantasy manga. As it is however it feels like a romance manga which veers it's way into thriller land for 5 seconds which then comes back into tragedy land.
There is a possibility​ of a happy ending though.

Recommendation:
I don't know who should I recommend this for.
The romantics among you might hate the last arc. The ones onto noir fiction will get annoyed at the semi stale romance bits.

You know what? Skip this one. Its not worth it.

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