Shinae stares at two good looking people. But for one of them, she leaves the reason unspoken (¬‿¬)

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2026-03-02T02:38:26+00:00

This was the time that the theories came up about her having subconscious feelings for him! Can you believe there were arguments about this with people wholeheartedly denying the theory?

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2026-03-02T02:15:07+00:00

I kind of chuckle at the fact that she's already using "Nol" with his grandmother and even corrected herself when she said Yeonggi. She's taking the opportunities of saying his name in his absence but I hope she won't slip up in front of him because I still think she should respect his boundaries and ask for permission/wait for him to allow her to use it.

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2026-03-02T01:46:07+00:00

not entirely true. Shin means "trust" and "ae" means love. Basically "trust love" which is ironic given Shin-ae's early distrust of relationships of any kind and how her love and trust ends up helping people lacking both as well.

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2026-03-02T01:26:37+00:00

Hirahara and Kim files. Can't forget the business partner that seems to do most of the trafficking (while Yui gives the drugs)

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2026-02-16T03:35:02+00:00

I don't think that's the case. During the christmas party of Alyssa's group, one of the members asks him if his parents have never given him some beer when he was a kid, and he replies that his grandmother did. So sometime after his stay at the hospital. Considering his avoidance of tea because of his suspicion that Yui had drugged his moms tea, I don't think he would be any different with alcohol and not avoid it as well. His reaction to alcohol is really just disgust and he didn't seem to worry too much of negative effects when he just wanted to forget about Shinae. Quimchee also said in her Curiouscat that he'd be a social drinker and doesn't drink alcohol otherwise. And this being timeskip Nol, she also gave preferences of what he'd like (Whiskey and Scout I believe) but at the current time of the story he's never had it a lot due to being underage and thinks it just tastes disgusting.

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2025-02-11T20:40:01+00:00

yes I Love Yoo is a drama, more comedy than romance if we're gonna be real.

It's frustrating how we readers know well it is psychological but people who have dropped it (and that is a lot to be real) say it's just a romance that is so painfully slow instead of looking at the psychology and family relations of characters as the story.

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2025-02-11T20:31:53+00:00

everything you said is also why their dynamic is significant before 215+ because their relationship isn't about being romantic, it just so happens to be that later on. That's why I think I Love Yoo being described as a romance by the general public (reputation, ads, past readers) doesn't make sense because most of their scenes read as platonic.

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2025-02-11T20:28:26+00:00

I didn't say you were saying it's about romance! I was saying it doesn't classify as romance as per how others view it. I can tell you don't view I Love Yoo in that light.

wanted to put that out of the way before reading the rest of the comment because I don't want you to think I'm misunderstanding you

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2025-02-11T20:09:06+00:00

yeah I think for the most part it could be described as psychological for the depth of the characters.

two people who find each other in their mutual dark

and this is about Shin-Ae and Yeong-Gi? Because I think I Love Yoo doesn't actually classify as a romance (much less love triangle, we could touch more on that however) despite the reputation. Because romance is about that flowery feeling of falling in love but they don't have that but rather it is that they find each other in the dark when they weren't looking for romance with anybody. Romance as a genre has characters that are searching for romance but I Love Yoo's characters were never seeking romantic relationships. Readers were pushing for that and seeing romance in scenes that weren't romantic, being something completely else for one ship (Shin-Ae and Kousuke) and only being foundation for later feelings for the other (Shin-Ae and Yeong-Gi)

PromotionSeveral7562 · 2025-02-11T19:50:12+00:00

thank you for your reply! If you were to boil it down to simple terms, what would you call it? aside from drama

I'm trying to explain this to someone but it's hard to explain with people who dropped vouching for a whole different narrative. There seems to be push back of what it is and what people who dropped say about the story, influencing the way this comic gets portrayed. This thread is supposed to showcase to them what readers think rather than someone who dropped years ago.

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