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Jan 3, 2024
Never in my life have I seen such an annoying, spineless, passive, self-destructive, push-over of a main character.
This story is incredibly frustrating and a struggle to read when our MC continues to make the worst possible decisions at every turn.
Brief synopsis: After Siyeon discovers that her entire life is a lie, including the fact that her parents are not really her parents, a near death experience magically sends her 10 years into the past. Just like any other reincarnation-esque manhwa, Siyeon sets out to not only fix the mistakes of her original life, but go after the guy who was really meant for her the
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entire time.
But no story is without conflict, and the moment Siyeon encounters her first substantial roadblock, she sadly makes similar mistakes that she made in the past, once again compromising her future. However, poor decisions don't make for a bad story on its own, what makes this particular story so frustrating is our MC.
Instead of spending her new life getting what she deserves, Siyeon consistently chooses to shoot herself in the foot, and sacrifice her own happiness for the sake of the people around her. The people, mind you, who treat her like actual human garbage. And when it comes to finding true love and being happy herself, she throws it all away to protect those same people. All the while, throwing herself a giant pity party and sobbing as though the situation was out of her control when all she needed to do was speak up for herself for once in her life.
When you take a step back and look at the story as a whole, not a single thing has changed for Siyeon in her new life, except for the fact that she wrote a novel and earned a lot of money. And what did she do with that money, you might ask? Well, she gave it right back to the fake parents that treated her like the dirt on the bottom of their shoes. Gotcha, that makes perfect sense! At the same time, her actual parents are going bankrupt and could really use that money. Does Siyeon give it to them? No! Why? Because helping her real parents would probably make her happy, and she doesn't deserve that. She's gotta be the victim, silly!
I assume the author is trying to paint Siyeon as the selfless type with a big heart, but all the readers see is a girl with no spine, no dignity, no brain, and no self-respect. She literally got a second chance at life and absolutely wastes it. Worst of all, she is incredibly cruel to the only person who was on her side in both lives in order to protect the people who treated her like trash.
If Siyeon somehow manages to get a happy ending, it will be because of the incompetence of the people around her and not by her own merit. At this point, I hope the story incorporates a second time loop and gives Siyeon the chance to start from scratch again because home girl has already screwed the whole thing up.
At the time of writing this, only 28 chapters are available to read. Chapter 28, in particular, is amongst the worst pieces of media I have ever consumed and is the reason a lot of people are choosing to drop this story.
I will continue to check back in to see what becomes of Siyeon, but at this point, I'm starting to think that love really doesn't exist.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Feb 12, 2021
I actually really liked True Beauty in the very beginning. Jugyeong was an interesting character, and I really related to her as someone who also wears makeup whenever they go out because of low self-esteem. I also loved her little obsession with horror and gore and found her to be quite cute.
We have two male leads, Suho and Seojun, and they aren't completely boring.
I liked how they had distinctively different personalities, and I enjoyed that they also had a long history with each other instead of being two random dudes that have inexplicably fallen for our MC.
You think one guy is endgame the
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whole time but then you find out that this manhwa suffers from "Second Lead Syndrome" and I really didn't mind it. It didn't destroy the story for me because at the end of the day, the point of True Beauty was Jugyeong and how she uses makeup to present herself as "beautiful", and the constant fear that she'll one day get discovered as a catfish and have her whole life blow up in her face or something dramatic. And then maybe she'll learn from this experience that the "true beauty" was inside herself the whole time, or something cliche like that.
Or at least it WAS.
As the story progressed I stared to realize that Jugyeong has had little to no character development. She's shallow and a hypocrite, constantly berating other people for "catfishing" when she's literally doing the EXACT same thing, and we the audience are made to feel like we're supposed to side with her. The author has almost completely dropped her "real personality", being that she loves horror and is a huge nerd, and all we ever see is her shallow personality and "pretty" face. The story is all about her boyfriend and relationship anxieties.
All of the promises that were made in the beginning of the story were never followed through on. It almost feels like the real Jugyeong doesn't exist anymore. All the anxieties she had in the beginning about being caught are gone. There's no personal struggle as to how she sees herself vs how the world sees her. She's just a superficial, bland insta baddie now and that's it. IDK how our male leads see anything in her considering that, comparatively speaking, they've had more character development than she has.
I guess she's supposed to be nice? I mean, she helped two different characters overcome their own low self esteem by giving them a makeover and covering all their facial imperfections with concealer. Personally I don't really like the message that sends but whatever I guess.
Also there's a bunch of side characters that you think are relevant in the beginning and then you never hear from them again. I guess the focus of the story shifted once the development for the kdrama began, and the author just switched gears out of nowhere to make True Beauty a more generic kdrama. (I haven't watched the kdrama yet, so hopefully they fix some of these issues with its adaptation).
All in all, True Beauty is still ongoing so I can only hope all of these issues will be fixed. However, the story is literally going nowhere and there is no end in sight. The bar is literally on the floor right now. Just one introspective thought from Jugyeong will actually amaze me, but my expectations are very low.
The art is still pretty and that's really the only saving grace.
Side note. I find it pretty weird that this manhwa is called True Beauty when Jugyeong's solution to everything is just covering up imperfections with makeup.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Apr 28, 2020
Started off as your typical slasher manga. Very akin to older horror/ slasher films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream where all our characters get picked off one by one in gruesome ways.
Plot was basic and our main "antagonist" Pumpkin Night had kind of an interesting backstory. All the characters are idiots, especially our main male protagonist, but I could overlook it. It's the same formula over and over so none of it really mattered or stood out in anyway. What mattered was the art and the gore and that was 10/10.
However it all took a down hill turn when
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Trump showed up.
Enjoyment just about plummeted and the story line shifted. It used to be a thriller but now it's just turned into a joke. The translators think its funny to throw memes and racial slurs in like its 2011 or something. And I can't take it seriously in the slightest.
I'd recommend this manga if you just want a gore fest, but honestly it really isn't even that anymore. The great art gets completely overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of the dialogue, the plot, and the characters. Now I'm really just struggling to finish it. I've come this far already, I can't quit now. But I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's growing cold.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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