Pride and Prejudice the manghwa version

Yes, I’m still not over it.

Before anything I believe that whatever Sangwoo does or says is entirely for himself. Bum is just someone Sangwoo uses for his own benefit and what not. 

First: I believe that Dream Sangwoo is how he looked like when he was able to kill his parents. I don’t know if he was abused sexually by his mother, but at least we can tell that the mother didn’t stop the father from abusing both of them. That makes me think that the “Is mom disgusting part” might mean that mom was abusive with Sangwoo the way the father was with her. This can mean sexually or not, but the fact is that the mother scares the fuck out of Sangwoo. And Sangwoo looks like he just came out of the military (hairstyle), meaning he’s fit and stuff.  

This is just to know time. 

Second: I think Sangwoo wants to be able to treat his mom/Bum nicely and stand up for himself at the same time. Something like “I’m above you because I can hurt you, but I’m also better than dad so I won’t”

This is me thinking that Sangwoo needs for some reason to treat his surroundings differently, maybe because of the cop issue. He’s smart so he wont make the same mistake twice, the mistake (i believe) was treating Bum roughly giving him a lot of reasons to betray/want to run away from/using his brain to leave Sangwoo.

Third: When Sangwoo refuses to go down on Bum I definitely saw that he wasn’t comfortable with it and actually made me feel relieved that he said no, he shouldn’t force himself just to please someone else. The thing here is that he’s not pleasing someone else or Bum or whatever, everything is for his own sake. He’s trying to show to Bum that he can be “good”, that he’s exactly how Bum imagined he is, but also wont do things he finds too much.

By saying stuff like “I don’t wanna be mean to you” or “I don’t wanna say bad things to you” That’s him trying to prove to Bum that he’s a “nice guy”. It’s super shady though, it’s like if you asked someone “How do I look?” “Oh, I don’t know I don’t wanna say anything mean.” Like ??? So Sangwoo is using this way to treat Bum, who is a social retard (quote from Mean Girls), in a “nice” way. With the goal of making Bum think they’re okay when in reality Sangwoo will know what to say or how to treat Bum, so Bum would think Sangwoo is changed and being nice. For example, if Sangwoo wanted to make Bum kill someone he could be like “Oh, but I took you to the amusement park, I guess that meant nothing to you” That kind of bullshit. 

Anyways back to Sangwoo. He’s proving himself that he can get away with things by not being aggressive. That’s important because he has said that he doesn’t want to become like his father.

Dream Sangwoo feared to stop his mother and the only way he was able to do it was by killing her. In this season Sangwoo is using Bum to come over with his mommie issues right? Soooo...

The “I win” means he stood up for himself against his mom, he won because he’s not his father, andddd this means he we won over Bum’s “heart” or brains by manipulating him into thinking that Sangwoo is up to treat him nicely and can behave like Fantasy Sangwoo. He’ll know how to control Bum and use him in the future for his own benefit. 

Picture this: The police find the bodies and Sangwoo has a weird cousin who might be a little too obsessed with Sangwoo, so obsessed he doest want anyone near him and who will probably go for Sangwoo next.

I know, what a mouthful. 

After rewriting this post around 5 million times, I’m finally able to say “Annarasumanara” without stumbling over every single one of the syllables.

“Do you believe in magic?”

Annarasumanara (which is the Korean translation of abracadabra) is a Webtoon that tells the story of a loner girl who meets a magician that brings her biggest dreams to life. I started reading this mangwa (basically a Korean comic) because a good friend of mine recommended it to me, but I hadn’t gotten around to it until about a week later where I stayed up all night to read Webtoons that I wanted to catch up on or start.

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The comic revolves around Yoon Ai, a high school girl living in poverty alone with her younger sister who wants to grow up faster in order to raise her sister and live better than the one roomed house they live in now. But after meeting the magician, she questions the path that led her to become a top student at her high school and to lose faith in magic. Her father spends a majority of the comic running away from debt collectors, and her mother left them when she was a child.

The magician displays a life that by itself seems magical to Ai, a life where you can live carefree, and not have to worry about whether her paycheck was going to go towards rice or new stockings. But as the story progresses, the magician’s magic becomes questionable, which begs the question, is he a real magician? But I guess you have to read it to find out the answer ;).

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I absolutely love the art style and the story was extremely captivating. The lack of color made the instances where there was color so much more meaningful, and the images were surreal and enticing. A lot of Webtoons nowadays have heavy symbolism on society and it’s flaws, this one did an excellent job of it through the use of a complex storyline that brought on a variety of emotions, which included for me “crying instead of working on homework :/”. The use of photoshop and characters so realistic were only a contributing factor to the greatness that is “Annarasumanara”

Other works by the author, Il-Kwon Ha, include God of Bath and Duty Afterschool. Of the three, Annarasumanara has got to be my favorite because of the eerie artwork and compelling story.

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