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a review with minimal spoilers
I do not remember getting too emotional over 2D characters before so here I am writing a review after giving it a thought.

Story:
Even though this comic feels like reading a heartwarming series, it always shows traces of uneasiness and wistfulness that adds a heavy feeling while reading it and that is what made the story gripping and expressive even though the story was not that original.
It felt more and more depressing to read when an happy or heartwarming moment happens and it kept me reading because of the tension.

the reason why the story is not original is there are ... few more films/anime/manga/manhwa where a normal person teaches a friendly alien-creature how to adapt to earth so the story has some similarities of other stories in the first few episodes.

Art:
The soft pastel-like color palette of this comic enhances the experience of the story by creating beautiful mystique atmospheres, sense of vague fear by using darker tones and by focusing on expressions of characters and heartwarming moments by using warmer, lighter tones.
The characters and background are perfectly drawn, they don't have drawn parts that feel off while reading. Background is sometimes not detailed but it is just enough to keep it expressive and entertaining.

//Extra view// I usually don't support the idea of perfectly drawn, handsome/beautiful characters that are living the 'perfect life' because just like posts of people in instagram or any other social media, the medias makes the viewer question his/her looks and lifestyle in a negative way because the media and comics both shows the 'perfect life' in a filtered way that almost no one will ever get to experience in their lives. It creates false sense of reality.
I won't decrease points since this is just my extra view.

Characters:
I would not say characters were original and inspiring but their actions and thought processes did not felt illogical and they always had consistent progression of relationships. Though the relationship of Jin and Yuri felt weak since it was a side-story gave the impression of that part was made for showing the side characters' personalities to the readers so it felt tad bit synthetic.
Myst is a common friendly humanoid-creature character you can see at other few manga/manhwas, making that character not so original.
//but hey, creating an 'original character' is almost impossible so it is only normal.
I really liked that usually the characters were not one dimensional that there were moments of realization and thought process.

Most of the slapstick moments of characters were well done and they did not repeat until they started to get annoying. The comic had good comedy balance, jokes did not interrupt the progression of the comic.

Overall: 8.5
Like I said, I have never lost to emotions while reading/watching any kind of series/films before and I could not spot 'mistakes' that much.
It was entertaining and mysterious from start to finish and this comic expressed the feeling of losing and love with beautiful surreal art. It is a better version of your usual teen drama.