My Heart Is Beating
Be Still My Heart

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Do you know Ha Il Kwon?
He is a Korean mangaka(I don’t know if manhwaka is a word, lol). He has worked with Naver webtoons and created beautiful stories like:
Annarasumanara(most famous),
God of bath, Taste of illness, Sambong barbershop.

I have read 3 of these and I can find the common denominator here.....these stories have a light premise, are fast paced, short(always less then 30 ch),
and give a beautiful experience.

Here we have MY HEART IS BEATING. An amazing, criminally underrated, hidden gem.
It is about Bae Sugu, a model student who loves swimsuits. Why does he love swimsuits and not the girls? Why does he study hard ... when he doesn’t enjoy it?
Can’t he be a normal guy? Somehow he’s cross dressing and playing water polo.
And what’s up with his strict stuck up dad.


Story. 8/10
I liked the plot. There is a sense of fun and happiness throughout the story. There is also the desire to see our MC live a happy life. It is as cool as it can get without becoming unrealistic.

Art. 8/10
Clean, coloured art. Expressive and simple. I saw Water Cube, a manga adaptation of this story.....and it seemed off. This manhwa here, has good art.

Characters. 9/10
I loved the characters. Within 30ch they got the depth they deserved. Even though the main protagonist is our focus, we never feel for a moment that the others are just extras. They have their own lives, their own struggles and victories.
Nobody is black or white. They are grey.

Enjoyment. 8/10
I loved the story, read it really fast. Re read the emotional parts. The ending is cathartic. You’ll love it.


This is a coming of age, dramatic slice of life story. Features high school comedy, romance, friendship and teamwork. It touched upon parent-child relationship and the relationship you have with yourself. And still remains a light and fun read.
Highly recommended.

Not recommended if you are looking for action, adventure, power upgrading shonen.

Thank you for reading!

It's always very interesting to read manhwa, in which we have only 3 volumes and 30 chapters, as well as a huge number of genres.

So "My Heart Is Beating" published by Ha il Kwon in 2009, which is now known for such works as the Annarasumanara and although Annarasumanara published later than MHIB, it is most popular. "My Heart Is Beating" see into teenagers problems, which in turn consist in understanding between father and son and a strange fascination of swimsuits.

The story begins from the face of high school student Bai Sugu, it is a excellent student in the past has always listened to his ... father. He has a strange fascination (or fetish) with on swimwear that inadequately perceived by other people, confirmation of this was in the school.
Later he learns what assemble a women's water polo team, where he can watch the swimsuits and even photograph them, and the story begins from this.

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From the above it can be concluded that this manhwa is intended primarily to the teen group of people (14-15 years), after this retreat, Let's look more closely at the idea.

Each of teenagers trying to find their place in life, based on the interests and priorities. But what happens if no one not understands his interests? That's the problem faced the main character. Such admiration of swimsuits, causing resentment of others.
The protagonist will experience abrupt exit from the comfort zone of the unexpected changing into a girl, new friends, a new favorite hobby, first love. All this exposes the self-awareness is not only a main character, but also the reader. In Manhwa raises questions over the actual problem for teenagers, self-challenge themselves in a society that can not understand you.

In general, I remained satisfied throughout the reading manhwa, but since here we have a huge number of genres, there are drawbacks. A lot crammed into a small story in 30 chapters, and of course the characters, involved here, smart beyond his years. Children say clever phrase, in 17 years they have more problems than adults. Lost hope, death of loved ones, complexes and much more. I do not trying to say that it's all bad show, I am only to the fact that in my opinion, not enough length of manhwa, for so many genres.

This manhwa shows itself as a story that will suit everyone. The manhwa was introduced a lot of different characters, so everyone can find their favorite. It have a nonstandard story, some interesting characters, romance, sports and a bit of humor.

"My Heart is Beating" leaves a pleasant precipitate, which promote teenagers to move forward and to open itself to the world, despite the difficulties that they will face.

I was so ready to hate this manhwa after reading a few chapters ,but it got kind of good at some points and its only 30 chapters so might as well read it. But I can't really look past the creepy parts that will never turn out good in real life. I mean first the 'funny' talk and jokes about size of breasts are boring and annoying. And I can't even defend the mc actions because its plain creepy and in real life no one would have let it slide (hopefully). Also, the description of this manhwa is not exaggerating his obsession with swimsuits which ... are women's swimsuits obviously, to which people might say this obsession was explained but nonetheless approach for this could have been better and palatable. Not to mention the male side character has extreme stalker tendencies. The artwork was decent but the anatomy is a bit ehhh. The only reason this gets a 6/10 is because I'm a sucker for emotional plot points. The last 5 chapters saved this manhwa from an even lower rating and take that how you will.