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Something About Us is a manhwa, or korean manga. It is about a college girl named Do Gayeoung and her best friend Han Woojin. Although they were only friends during high school, Gayeoung starts to like Han Woojin during his first semester with her at college, and thus begins a romantic spiral filled with joy, pain, cuteness, and feeeels.

Why is this manhwa so great? Out of all the anime/manga I have ever indulged in, this is the most realistic one by far, especially within the characters. In a lot of anime/ manga, cliches end up defining entire characters. This is the childhood friend, she’s ... always nice to the protagonist and hides her pain and feelings. This is the hot main protagonist, he’s nice to everybody, is immaculate, and is basically the second coming of christ. This is asshole guy, he’s your typical around the clock douchebag. I could name hundreds of these. Manga writers love to use cliches because they are formulaic and they work, but after seeing so many characters that are one dimensional cardboard copies of each other, they get stale. However, Something About Us’s characters do a profound job at actually simulating real people. The perfect main guy, actually has a dark history he can’t get over which leads to him having destructive thoughts. The nice childhood friend gets does not confront her feelings, and instead lets them boil into a cesspool of depression and anger. Characters who are initially presented as unsympathetic jerks, do have moments of sensitivity. All this let me relate with the characters that much more, since I have also felt what they feel. It turns the characters from cookie cutter templates to real people that I wanted to see find happiness.

Please give this amazing under-read gem a try. You won’t regret it.