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I'm not sure why, but the first three episodes were funny. After that, they just weren't.

Let me start by saying I've never watched the original. With all the hype surrounding this remake, and having just finished the masterpiece that is Dandadan, my expectations were high. A Mappa-produced adaptation seemed like the perfect choice for my next binge. And at first, it delivered. The first three episodes, as I mentioned, were genuinely funny. The animation was top-tier, the story flowed well, and the characters stood out. I had a gut feeling this was going to be worth watching because I was having such a great time.

But ... by episode four, something felt off, and I can't quite put my finger on why. The formula was the same, but all of a sudden the jokes weren't landing, the new characters felt annoying, and the situations became so over-the-top that they lost their charm. I don't know exactly when or how it happened, but I developed an ick for the show, so much so that I've lost all desire to continue. I'll leave it at seven episodes and move on to something else.

The first two seasons were absolutely perfect! The art style was stunning, with beautiful and detailed illustrations, featuring some of the best portraits since WMMAP. The story was both engaging and interesting. The dialogue struck a great balance between comedy and serious undertones that really drew me in. The characters were well-developed and multifaceted, each with their own unique personalities.

However, I recently started reading the third season, and that's where things began to go downhill for me. While I'm on board with the overall direction, there's this one plot device that gets really old and annoying: the FL (Lili) keeps flip-flopping. She's the most wishy-washy ... character I've ever encountered. She'll say one thing and then, just a few panels later, do something completely different. Sure, the author established her as indecisive, with no solid plans for her future and difficulty revealing her ultimate secret as a transmigrator. But even when she does make a decision, she immediately backpedals. I feel so sorry for Josh this entire season because he keeps holding on to a girl who can't make up her dang mind.

There's a limit to this kind of plot device, and I think this series has reached it for me. I won't be finishing this season because, even if it does eventually pay off and Josh gets the girl, the author would need to deliver the most epic, romantic reveal ever to draw me back in. Given the current direction and its faithfulness to the novel, I highly doubt that's gonna happen.

Also, the third season just doesn't vibe with its own title. It made sense for the first two seasons when she was "the little lady behind the scenes" of her older sister's love life, but now she's become "a girl with four guys in her pocket." Everything after the second season should've been a sequel title, a spin-off, or a side story.

The English translation of this manhwa was badly edited. They had the opportunity for puns since the story has this bit where Yeonu mixes up her idioms, but they wasted it with bad editing. My eyes were sore with each chapter reading the ESL-tier sentences. The reading experience was just as terrible as the scanlation-level translation that unofficial groups have.

It reminds me of another manhwa that got the same treatment, "The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero". Beautiful art style and panels marred by ugly translation and bad editing. It was goddamn awful, and I felt the same way with this manhwa. A complete waste of ... an art piece because someone couldn't be bothered to QC their translations.

I would highly recommend reading it in original Korean. Heck, go for any translation other than English because it's not worth the time. Otherwise, great art, beautiful story, and a really deep message for anxiety and twisted destinies. Just don't read it in English, for the love of God.

Definitely not nowhere near halfway through the series yet, but I got so fed up with the MC that I just had to write this review. Might change my mind as I read more episodes. Might also not. Seeing as how its score is over 7, people generally found it appealing. But not me, no. Not yet, anyway.

There's this cliché that, when the MC's more of a thinker than a doer, they have tons of internal dialogue. That's not necessarily a bad thing... when done right. The viewers can follow the MC's thought processes and act super smart, cool, etc. But when it's done wrong, ... it gets tedious. Overbearing. Boring. Frustrating. MC thinks, "I know this other character super well and they won't definitely do the worst action possible--" Oops, the other character actually did the worst possible action at the moment. MC thinks, "These people won't do anything unexpected because only insane people would--" As the other characters say, "Hold my beer!" and proceed to do the most unexpected thing because, news alert, they're in an apocalyptic world and, of course, any survivor would be a little more unhinged than the usual. What was the MC expecting? Civilized tea parties in a zombie-infested town where it's every human for themself?

It's just too much. And happens far too often. I've never been so frustrated over a character until I read this series. MC's choices are based on the assumption that he can think things through very logically, but when other people don't do what they're supposed to do, he's lost because he hasn't thought that far ahead. It's crazy.

Giving it a 5 since I'm still a fourth on the way in but, if I could quit this series now, I'd give it a 1.