A Drawing Diary

It's a lot of drawings and the time for each one varied a lot, some like the top right was super fast but others like the one with Psyduck receiving the stomach punch a lot more time, as I tried to figure out how I was going to draw the body with him being trown upward by the punch.

One think that I managed to practice a lot with this sketches is how to draw diferent mouth expressions with beaks, feels wrong to bend the beaks like that, but I think this is the best (and maybe the only way) way to draw them, another way that I could try is drawing a mouth after the beak, like how "Milos From Home" does with Riley. Don't know if that is anatomically correct but gives way more liberty with mouth expressions.

The only drawing I'm not happy about is the Torchic facing foward with the trail of fire, I didn't know how to draw the other leg and the drawing looks off in general. The same pose but in profile looks way better.

Besides that one, I like all of them and it's hard to pick a favorite, maybe the sad, sleep depraved Psyduck and the kicking Torchic.

Well, first the good. The comic is pretty, I like the art style, the characters designs are very cool, despite all being cat/dog characters they look very unique especially, my favorite, the fish/orca dude. Visually the comic is great, not to the level of Rabbit on The Moon, but still has a lot of cool and very pretty panels. Another thing that I like in this comic is the fight scenes. It is a relatively short comic so it doesn't have a lot of them, but the fights are very exciting, especially the first ones where they fight a pack of wolves and the hunters.

I think the only thing that was very confusing while I was reading is when they died and respawned. The count of their lives is very important as they are on their last ones and, a huge point in the story, is that they don’t know what will happen when their life reaches zero. And a lot of the times is not very clear when that happened, as the visual indication that they died was not always clear and sometimes they seemed to die without suffering from critical injuries (can’t deny the author could go more dramatic with the injuries, just to be clear when it’s fatal). The indication of respawn doesn’t help, showing an outline of them in a panel and they are back in the next panel. Funny thing, for a long part of the comic I actually thought that a character had invisibility and she was using it during a fight, but she was respawing :V (I only noticed that, when other characters died and showed them respawning, WAIT they can also go invisible? … wait, that guy received a spear in the face and was clearly dead……… she was dying back their?).

So, about the story, the general plot is fine, I’ll say it’s not very unique but that’s not a very a huge issue (I’m also a little demanding with uniqueness of the stories, so I try not to judge so harshly in this aspect, especially because coming with unique stories is not easy and is relative, as it depends of how much of this type of stories I personally saw). The players stuck in a video-game is a commonly used plot, additionally they don’t have any memories before getting stuck in the game so it adds some mysteries to the story.

The story does suffer a great shift in the middle to focus more on Amber’s... social issues and it ends being a main plot point forward to the end of the comic. I did felt like it came out of nowhere, but still have time for us to see the growing rupture between her and the team, turning herself against everyone in the group and making that everyone there doesn’t care about her. Let’s say that it started at 50 and raised to 100 by the end, you can see this growing but it started a little to sudden. I did like this change of the story especially because how it started, with Amber alone meting and getting the trust of orca dude, just for them to push each other apart and later for Amber to push everyone away. This conflict is a little nuanced too, because despite Amber pushing orca dude away he also didn’t reacted very well when the cracks started to form, being even a little apathetic towards Amber sometimes.

To be fair everyone of the 4 human characters have their issues (kinda messed up gang if you ask me) that creates conflicts in the group, but not to a point for it to becomes a soup opera and turn the attention away from the main story.

Now I start talking about some of the problems, first is sometimes the way some conflicts happened are a little off, a minor example could be Amber hostility towards orca dude (I can’t find his name, I’m just gonna use orca dude) the beginning of it kinda came out too fast (they were great pals and after a single bad event [that is nobodies fault] she hates him and he answer being indifferent to her), but I don’t think is that bad. A more significant and very confusing one is the fight between Snow and Jazz (the two other humans that formed a romantic relationship in the game), it really started out of nowhere and I was suuuuper confused, in short:

- Jazz: “What if only one player can survive and I we have to kill each other?”,

- Snow: “Would you really kill me?”

- Jazz: “…”

- Snow: “I CAN’T LET YOU KILL ME, so I’m gonna freeze trap you here and leave”

- Jazz: “Now I’m gonna kill you!”. Kills Snow.

- Snow: “Your killing me, I’m gonna kill you!”

A little resume of course but it was… something, to be fair this was the worst moment that I could complain about the writing. Doesn’t help that after Snow is unfreezed, she immediately encounters Jazz again and they are indifferent to each other… I was expecting another fight but they just seemed upset with each other, barely looking at each other.

A second complain is with the plot overall, the thing is, they are in an experimental game, SAO style (but with dogs and cats :V), that promises a price when they finished based on how many lives they have left by the end. The problem is that they lost their memories and they can’t force them out of the game. Ok, but that’s a problem… there is a mysterious figure that appears and is not very clear of his motives. That dude is the developer of the game... and I have no idea what he was up to, his intention was to get them out of the game and with that in mind, I have zero idea why he didn’t just told everything to them. He is always mysterious and seems like the villain of the story. I do get the feeling that the author decided to change the story latter on, and to do that she had to change this characters, but it make it very confusing.

The comic also have is other confusing things in the story like: What’s with the green eye power from Amber? Why they got out of the game after killing her in the enraged state? Was all of that quest they made useless? Again this all could be because of story changes, maybe also to finish the comic earlier than expected, as I get the feeling that the ending came too soon.

Oooooooooof, I hate when my criticism are so long like this and creates the impression that I didn’t like the comic. But it’s quite the opposite, even with this problems in the story it’s still interesting, with the mystery about the game, the relationship of the characters, the fights and the conclusion of the comic. I guess is easier to get a huge text criticizing something, trying to figure out what was wrong and making jokes about it, than talking about things that I liked (or maybe it’s me). Despite this problems, I still liked the story and I liked even more the visuals of the comic.

Took me 4 days and it looks fine. That was a lot of things that i didn't know how to draw, so I freestyled it and it... doesn't look very good. First was the feets, I wanted to draw them with a horizontal perpective and didn't know how to do that, and secondly the bag , I should have used the Explorers of Sky bag as a reference, as it ended looking like a grocery bag :V. Could have made a better job with the cloth a make it with folds, but I make it a little wobly and tried to shade folds on it... didn't work :V. About the drawings, Psyducks beak should be a little shorter and I feel like the circurference of the head should be revised to show that his head is inclined.

A goofy thing that I noticed just now is that the color that I picked for torchic's feet make it look like a humans feet, and I can't unsee it now.

Even with all the mistakes and the "not having any ideia what I'm doing" aspect, I do like doing this drawings way more than copying Pokemons (sketching was super fun too, I'm probably going to do that often). Not a surprise, but it's been more than a month since my last Pokemon drawing (but I still fell like I have to draw Decidueye, feels like a crime to draw so many Pokemons without drawing my favorite one yet).

Ironically I was suffering with headaches when I was drawing Psyduck, and I remebered how much I hate having headaches. This makes even more ironic how Psyduck was chosen for me when I played Blue Rescue team, turning me into the Pokemon aflicted with chronic headaches would be a cruel divine punishment (I still want to draw a joke about that :V).

It's been a long while since I last played League of Legends and I have no intension on going back. I stopped because of Vanguard the always on anti-cheat after I stayed 2 months without playing and noticed that shit was on all along, even after I disabled in startup from the Task Manager turns out that affected the tray icon. To disable it you have to manually use the tray icon and select to exit Vanguard, EVERYTIME YOU TURN ON YOU PC... after that I gave up on LoL for good. What lazy implementation is that? I'm giving no charity to Riot with one of their softwares running in the background, and if I don't want to, I have the extra work to close it manually every time? Fuck you Riot, give me an option to enable it once and I restart the PC to play your game, but as people accepted that shit like that (and a lot of people went out of their way to show the success of the anti-cheat without much pointing the problems) , they never changed. Good job guys.

For the same reason I didn't played 2XKO yet, maybe I try when I have a PS5 but I'm not installing anything from Riot if it uses Vanguard.

To be fair I also have my problem with League of Legends too, besides their invasive anti-cheat, and this can extend to every team based multiplayer game like Overwatch, Marvel Rivals and etc. I have more fun playing.. any other games, and this games aways drain so much time.

League was the worst as the matches take soooo long, and you could have a miserable match that was already over in the first 10 minutes (and of course your team will not surrender), so the next 25 minutes are not fun, you get nothing from that beside stress, a waste of time, and I just kept thinking what I could be doing instead of dealing with that. And other matches where just... boring, straight forward, I could do anything and we win. So why would I play such a game where I have 1 30 minute match of a interesting and exiting between every 5 other matches da range from boring to unbearable?

It got so bad that I just started to quit from games, over and over again, and well started to get penalized, making even more cynical with the game. After I stopped for some months I decided to try 1 match again for old times. Turns out it was one of the bad ones, and it felt like torture, turns out I lost the tolerance I had left for this. I quited that match and got penalized. It has been more than 1 year since that last match and I have intention of ever playing it again (can deny that I liked the Arena game mode, but I'm not download it with Vanguard working the way it does).

I liked the gameplay, dueling against your enemy and having those high stakes team fights, it was fun and exciting, but everything falls apart when you have those miserable matches where everything goes wrong, and you are just wanting for the lost and nothing you do matters in that match because you are too weak and the enemies are too strong. And the fault is mostly to the snowball, I personally really dislike the snowball in this games... why are you making me play all of this if the game can be over so soon? Of course, I understand the problem with my complain. As I'm saying how much I dislike the time each matches take to finish while complaining about snowball, the solution to speed up the matches. But I think it is a bad solution and this is a conceptual problem with this games (I'm not gonna get into it because this post is already getting excessively big), but to fix this would require to remake these games completely (and maybe remove what makes them enjoable for most people, snowball included), so snowball is not going anywhere and the only solution I have is to not play these games.

I didn’t know what to expect from the comic, the description was pretty vague but a story about “locked in a reincarnation loop” has a lot of potential. I can say that the story was not what I expected, and I liked that as the story went in a completely different direction and surprising me.

The art is fine, I was very spoiled with the previous comics with great visuals like Rabbit on The Moon, Shinka and Milos From Home (that despite the simpler style still is very charming for me). It doesn’t have super detailed panels, with nice perspectives, or with beautiful uses of lights and shadows, but still does a great job with its visuals (honestly I didn’t read any comic until now that I didn’t like the art) being more than enough to tell the story and have pretty and cool moments. One thing that called my attention is that the characters aren’t shaded a lot of the time and I was surprised how that didn’t compromise the notion of perspective, so much that it took a while to notice that when I was reading. Sometimes when I’m drawing, before I shade, it seems like the drawing lacks depth, but I don't draw very well so… that could be it :D (there are some simple dark and light tones in some scenes depending on the region, time of day or how illuminated it is, and they always look very pretty). Another thing that I noticed now is that the background vary greatly of colors in the comic (depending on time of day and region), sometimes the night is grey, sometimes is dark blue, and the day is green and sometimes is light blue, same for the color of the ground there is even a purple grass that reminded of Rabbit on The Moon :p.

The highlight of the comic is the story, due to the vague description I was expecting to witness the wolves living and dying in multiple cycles of reincarnation while trying to… finish the cycle and… die… forever? That doesn't sound right. But instead we accompany Sol (Sol means sun in Portuguese, so I immediately knew what he was about) and Tilter in their journey to finish the cycle, where Sol the sun and Lun the moon are bound to fight. One of them dies, reincarnates and they fight again and the cycle continues forever. And we start the story after Sol's failed attempt to finish the cycle as he tries to figure out what to do, and Tilter is a sick young wolf (that suffered the consequences from Sol’s attempt to end the cycle) that will serve as the connection required for Sol to avoid the cycle, creating sort of an older and younger brother dynamic between the two (funny thing, everyone is non-binary in the comic, and I didn’t noticed [I probably used he or she instead of them without noticing while reading]. Eventually, I started to notice how everyone is using neutral pronouns…and I didn’t think that it was because everyone was non-binary (maybe because they are gods? But wait Tilter is too. What 's going on?) until I read a comment from the author saying that. But that was enough to solidify their gender [and for almost every character :V] and this brother dynamic between the two. Death of the author I guess. The author says non-binary, I say I’m too dumb to notice and already gave everyone different genders :p).

The comic explored very well this conflict between the two gods, and how Sol is inclined to engage in this cycle and he needs somebody to anchor him away from that, talking about how a fog that conceals the world and everyone around him. There are even some scenes where Sol loses himself to it, getting excited to engage in the bloodshed of their conflict. Sol is a very well written character as he feels disconnected from others and even acts weird sometimes, in contrast there is Tilter to point this out and guide him. Another thing that I like about Sol is that he doesn’t know how to finish this cycle, he tried one time and it had very bad consequences to others, so much that he feels trapped and that he can only accept his destiny in this endless cycle.

I also liked Lun, the moon god and villain of the story. They are (was already starting with “he” :V, man I suck with gender neutrals… you can interpret that as you wish) an evil entity with the only objective to continue the cycle while being completely indifferent from everything and everyone around them, using them as means to reach Sol or killing them if they dare interfere in their conflict. And it makes sense, Lun and Sol are immortal gods (oh yeah, they can only be killed by the other one) that will outlast everyone that is and will live in that world, making us think that Sol could have been like Lun sometime. I also liked the lore around these characters and how this conflict came to earth, among mortals, and the comic tells you little by little as the comic goes on.

One thing that felt weird in the beginning was the dialog fonts. I never thought something like this could feel off while reading comics. The reason is because Sol has a different font from everyone else (a serif font, something like a “Times New Roman”), so you’re seeing the same font and suddenly a different one pops out when Sol is talking, and it stands out. But I actually really like this feature, because the only 2 characters with this is Lun and Sol, the 2 gods, and it also represents how they talk, with Sol having a more royal and refined font and Lun has a scribbled font with some extra scribbles sometimes (giving him the impression of a hoarse voice with menacing tone). Also this comic doesn’t have balloons for the dialog, with some “lazy” lines and colored letters to indicate the character that is talking. Again it felt weird in the beginning but it didn’t disturbed the reading in any way.

The characters are well developed, but most noticeably are the protagonists (Sol and Tilter) and Lun, as we stay most of the time with them. The other characters also have well defined and interesting personalities like Babble and Dawn that gives more variety then sad wolves.

The comic is very intense and pretty sad sometimes, as we witness the consequences of their conflict, with mortals being unwillingly thrown into this war. While Sol is suffering, blaming themselve (themselve or themselves? I don’t know) with what this conflict is causing and mourning everything he lost and is losing.

The comic is also pretty violent, to a level that sometimes it even gets goofy with the extreme violence. I'm a wolf in combat with another wolf, how will he counter attack? Bite and remove one of the eyes of the sucker… somehow. There are 2 moments like this and they felt pretty goofy, but overall the violence makes more sense. This makes the comic pretty intense with the fights, raising the stakes of the story, because even if Sol is immortal the other characters aren’t. The stakes get very high in the final chapter resulting in a very intense final confrontation. In the beginning I was a little uncertain about Tilter, as he looked like the “annoying child” archetype, but it was not a problem as he was not irritatingly annoying and, to be fair he was “annoying”, only in the beginning serving more of a lively character to contrast with the Sol’s melancholic personality (and brighten him up) . 

The ending felt a little bit… messy? Nah, not really, mostly because they were trying to figure out how to “defeat” Lun for a while (more like break the cycle) and their ideas were not very good and the plan fell apart pretty fast. But this “messy” approach raised the stakes in the final chapter, their initial idea was not very good so I’ve kept wondering, what are they going to fight against Lun. But when everything was lost Sol found a way to “defeat” Lun, and it was very smart and cleverly foreshadowed before. 

I've been playing GGST for 2 years and I really like this game. I love the style, I love the art (the lighting and animation techniques are so unique, it's absurd that they are the only game that use them, at least that I know), I really really like the musics, the rock references, the over the top designs and characters and the gameplay (but to be fair I haven't played a lot of different fighting games so I'm not very knowledgeable in gameplay sense).

From all of the characters I always thought Jam looked a little... normal, compared to the designs of the Guilty Gear cast. So when she was revealed as the new DLC I was a little disappointed. With initial expectations low my attitude completely changed when she was revealed, because of that dawn rabbit, Usagi. I always thought it was funny how in kung fu movies love to have a scene where the protagonist have to fight while holding something (especially Jackie Chan), and when I notice this was intention with that rabbit I immediately was interested and very curious how they would make her animations while carrying the adorable rabbit.

And it didn't disappoint, the animation (as always) are great, full of personality and, in her case, very goofy, with Usagi stealing the spotlight every time he can. With that in mind one of my favorites is definitely the taunt with that sassy Usagi smirk. Just as a final treat the story of Jam and Usagi is super goofy.

It took me around 4 days to finish it, but I putted a lot of time into it than usual (I think i spent 1:30 hours straight without noticing, I was pretty excited with this drawing), and the result?

I really liked it, I completely lost myself while working on the shadows but it was worth it, this is my favorite thing on the drawing. Funny how the body, that was quite fast for me to draw, its the best part of the drawing. I'm very happy with how the body looks and that I managed to get this pose right (with zero experience, i never drew human bodies and poses before).

The problem was the head, I had to redraw and tweak it a lot of times even after making the final lineart, because I couldn't get the perspective right. The first draft was very goofy as the muzzle was pointing to a different direction from the head itself. Sadly the head still bother's me a little, the proportions feel wrong (the muzzle is huge and I'm not sure if the yellow eye is in the correct position) and I had no idea how to translate the anatomy of a wolf head into the drawing properly.

I'm happy the effect from the shadow in the face are working well, giving him two different expressions when the grin and red eye is present, but I can't stop having the impression that the head feels a little off.

It's funny how I dived so deep with what was initially a joke character. There is already a werewolf character and he is more monster like (and the curse will not be beneficial in the game), so I was thinking about how funny it would be to have another werewolf character with the fancy suit (because I also wanted to have a "beneficial transformation character"), and instead of fighting in the werewolf form he would have other people doing things for him (like the playboy son of the owner of the company, that "somehow" receives a high specialized position, but, different from the other workers on that position, receives a prestigious treatment in the company. In this case he got the same "werewolf position" in the company but without the problems of the curse).

Now I turned him into the (evil) shareholders of the (evil) company, with a "wolf in sheep's clothing" theme. But I still like the "nepo baby"/"son of the boss" character and will probably revisit this idea in the future (will probably end up with multiple flavors of werewolf in the game) (I can't deny a nepo baby furry is great a joke by itself).

I chose this one because I thought some panels were very pretty and the comic didn’t disappoint. The comic is very pretty and I really liked some panels, the background, the lighting, the colors, it's all very pretty. Looking at some of the art now, some panels, more dramatic ones have the shadows more accentuated, backgrounds are more colorful and even the color of the characters change to match the color of the panel (especially the main character, that has white fur). Sadly I’m not (even close to) very knowledgeable in art so I just think it is pretty and now,  months later, I’m trying to figure out what makes those panels so pretty. But the main point about this comic that I kept in mind is that it is very pretty and very sad. 

Also this comic loves pink backgrounds, never thought it would look so pretty, these panels must be my favorite ones. Man I can’t stop noticing more things kkkkkkkkkk, it’s crazy how colors of the grass changes during the story, blue, purple, yellowish green, very saturated green. Sometimes it matches the hue of the sky, sometimes it’s a completely different color, sometimes it’s a gradient as the color gently changes as you approach the ground. AH BEAUTIFUL I LOVE IT, I’ll have to read it again eventually.

I didn’t notice so much back then, but now, after reading a lot more comics (especially the ones with animal characters [what? I like animal characters, honestly it sounds way easier to have people liking a character, make them cute or cool with animals. We have significant preconceived notions about each animal and that helps to show who they are with their visuals and creates opportunities to mislead the reader. Also, variety, you only have so much you can do with a human character before it looks cartoonish {furries don’t count, they are the closest to using this “animal factor” with human characters}, but animals have so many body formats, colors and behavior. As always nature being the favorite source of inspiration for humans. Thinking about it makes me appreciate more how challenging and creative people have to be to design human characters.])... wow, resuming…  after reading a lot more comics I noticed how the main characters in this comic all have very different designs, despite my rant above about the variety with animal character visuals, they are usually pretty similar, just with fur color and patterns being the most noticeable feature to distinguish them. It’s not a big deal honestly (and the fur color/pattern is enough), but feels fair to appreciate when a comic manages to have such variety in the visual of their rabbits.

Also I can’t imagine all the work to draw those skeletons, shit I can’t imagine myself drawing a single one with so much detail, so the dozens in some of the pages is very impressive.

Focusing on the story, is very good. It is quite a simple story, because the comic is pretty short. The persona of death, who guides the souls to the afterlife and hears their stories, inspired by their stories, decides to visit earth to experience both life and death as an adorable Jackalope (great and solid setup for the story, laying out very soon what the story is about). And whelp… as expected, the comic is pretty sad. It’s pretty interesting that all 3 comics with rabbits are very sad and grief is a very important theme in the story, maybe because they don’t live much in the wilds, so they make a great personas for the briefness and fragility of life (but that doesn’t justify the grief theme). Funny how bunnies aren’t humans main source of meat considering how they are the main prey for a lot of animals in the wild and they reproduce very quickly (Maybe cuteness is a good counter against humans after all? Doubt it, there must be some practical reasons like their societal structures, fat/nutritional value or because of their speed and agility).

But yeah, it’s sad. Death (I’m going to call her this, because I don’t remember how she’s called) meets a group of rabbits, each one with a disability that compromises their survival. The comic does a good job setting up the themes in the story (and how sad it will be) with the intermissions where we see each rabbit after they die, making us imagine how Death is going to deal with all this, and her state at the end of her journey. 

I really like Death’s development (it’s the main focus of this story), she starts very naive. Very soon she discovers where the souls (that she calls travelers) come from. Because of her unique perspective, she initially sees only the beauty in death with indifference to the sadness that it brings. This makes a great contrast with Sage, a rabbit she gets very close to and eventually forms a romantic relationship that struggles as her friends are dying. As Death draws closer to Sage she start to understand a little about Sage's feelings, but her lively and optimistic personality persists (another great contrast with Sage's more melancholic personality), untill… well… we knew this was coming, Sage dies and Death truly understands grief. 

So yeah, it's sad. The crack in Death’s lively personality when that happens is heart breaking. But despite this sorrowful climax the story has a happy (and emotional) ending (another rabbit comic feature, they all have happy [and emotional] endings, as expected from stories about death and grief).

Conclusion: I like it, a lot. I have only praises for the visual of the comic, colorful, with some great panels, varied character designs and very very beautiful. Can’t imagine all the work that had to be put into some of the pages. I was impressed when I read for the first time and still impressed now that I’m seeing them again. 

Obviously I didn’t tell him I don't like the comic, and even if I do, I won’t be honest of how much I don’t like it. IRONICALLY, another one of my friends (who reads a lot of mangas) read “Milos From Home” and told me he stopped in the middle because he was bored, mostly because the story didn’t have a main hook and the characters were not pursuing anything yet and that makes sense (he also told me the characters didn’t have personalities… and I didn’t know what to say in relation to that. That felt SO WRONG, the characters are great and their personalities are very well defined. I think his mind is poisoned with comically exaggerated personalities from Western comics/mangas and if the character doesn't act in a exaggerated fashion he thinks they lack one... I need to read a comic he liked and say it was bad for him because their personalities were too exaggerated and "anime" like 𓁹‿𓁹).

Anyway, it’s a werewolf story. I like werewolves, they are cool. The main character was bitten by a werewolf and ran away from home before he transformed for the first time. The comic has two seasons and I read both, sadly the comic was canceled in webtoons, I didn’t search for the authors so I don't know if he is continuing the comic elsewhere.

First a good thing about the comic is the art, the comic is very pretty. I always felt the comic looked pretty colorful, even if the colors are usually darker. The style reminds me of some rougher sketches especially in the first season, similar to Milos From Home but not as extreme. The werewolf designs are… fine, I like the more monstrous designs, the designs feel close to the furry category for me (human with fur and animal face). I wouldn’t call them furry straight up (I actually don’t know why, I suspect it’s because the style is very cartoonish, I think I have a bias to furry characters looking more cartoonish) and I didn’t dislike them. At the same time I would say that the werewolf designs make sense and felt less fantastical.

So with that out of the way, here comes the bad. The comic is boring… is very boring and slow (again, ironic, now this friend that likes After Dark needs to read the favorite comic from my other friend and say it’s boring, so the cycle can be completed). I read all the comics and it was fine in the beginning, but I started to get bothered pretty soon and gradually got less and less excited to read. I was reading “Shinka” at the same time and I was way more excited for this one. In the second season I was more cynical about it and started to read pretty fast and even skip some parts of the comic, I do believe the second season was worse. So much so that I stopped reading for a while and just kept reading Shinka because I was a lot more excited with it.

Why is it so boring? Start with him transforming into a werewolf for the first time, and it took forever (it’s actually bizarre that it’s not so much episodes but it felt like forever) the idea was to have him (slowly) transforming while showing us the events the led to him being bitten, the death of his girlfriend and the fact that he was an asshole. But.. that’s not good, I don’t like it. And the switches felt too frequent, completely gutting any sense of pacing for the story. I also felt like I understood what his backstory was about halfway of all that (to be fair my friend told me that he was an asshole, but I think that is established pretty soon) so everytime we were in the backstory or him talking to his dead girlfriend I was like “Come oooooooooon, I got it, transform already, I want to see what happens”. After he finally transforms, shit happens and then things get… soooooo worse. 

The next part is more of a slice of life story, where he manages to get a place to live, a job, meets some people, etc. And that was so boring. I want to know more about the curse, werewolves, and not spend so much time with his job and coworkers. Yes, slice of life is not my type, but in my defence the comic was talking a very different tune in the first part so all of that felt like the story was stalling. The first part didn’t have much of a pacing or things to look after in the story, so I was expecting something more in the second part. 

Also, this is not a complaint as this felt intentional by the author, but my god dude, how can you be such a dumbass. He took so long to figure out he was a werewolf, to be fair he forgot his transformation, but it is not clear how much he remembers but I expected the eating a pigeon or his canines would be enough. 

After all the boring part he finally transforms a second time and… the comic switches focus, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? And focus on his coworker and her family. WTF, I WAS WAITING FOR SOMETHING INTERESTING TO HAPPEN AND YOU PULL THIS ONE? I was not happy with that and, for the first time I jumped pages until the comic returns to him again. I get it she is his love interest, but I’m not interested in her enough compared to all the werewolf stuff. It reminded me of the first part of the comic, interrupting the story to get into something else less interesting, and staying there for too long.

Then the third part starts and we finally have some progress about the werewolf stuff, with a group of werewolves that he meets. The problem is that there was no tension or doubt about those guys, just the main character being a jerk and insecure, so it didn’t create the expectation for some interesting conflict between the main character and the group. They just looked like good guys. But it was also too soon to judge that, maybe something will happen or some hint about these guys will come up… then the comic ended… god damnit. The series was cancelled on Webtoons, the author mentioned he might continue the series somewhere else, but nothing came up until now, that I’m aware of.