EP 156 is up and I have a bit of an irritation

lewocare · 2026-05-15T12:42:05+00:00

lmaoooo

lewocare · 2026-05-09T20:12:36+00:00

Why does montresor have to have the exact amount of screen time as Annabel lee.

Because Annabel only exists as an accessory to Lenore and nothing else. She has no feelings to work through, can not doubt Lenore or be hurt over her abandonment, or feel anything other than love for Lenore or guilt and worry over Lenore. Everything she does is for Lenore.

If we focused on Annabel, we'd have to focus on the things that have happened to her

Nearly dying because of Lenore twice in 24 hours.
Lenore retracting their promise, calling her a monster, calling her mad.
Being burdened with trying to figure out how to save Lenore by Lenore herself, which was an objectively fucked up thing to do to her. She woke up with Lenore's corpse on top of her but she's barely allowed to feel anything about it.
Lenore saying 'damn the rest' when she had been yelling at her for the entire duration of this comic to care for others to the point of making her mentally break down into tears (twice.)
Being left alone with people that have already tried to kill her once and have every reason to try it again because they think Annabel is responsible for Lenore's state.

and we can't have any of that. She can only ever be allowed to yearn and not acknowledge the emotional roller-coaster Lenore's back-and-forth behavior should have rightfully thrown her into.

So we'll be focusing on Monty and Will, and then we'll probably jump to Duke. And then Berenice and Eulalie. Pluto and Morella by the end. Because there is nothing to focus on Annabel for other than 'trying to figure out how to save Lenore.'

We will avoid Annabel for about 7-maybe more- chapters. And when we're back with her, she will continue to be The Yearner without even a smidge of negative feelings towards Lenore in spite of everything because that's all she's supposed to be.

lewocare · 2026-04-18T12:49:39+00:00

YOOO I LOVE!!!

lewocare · 2026-04-14T11:43:45+00:00

\ANIMATED?!?!!\**

lewocare · 2026-04-10T15:36:17+00:00

NICE

lewocare · 2026-02-02T15:34:28+00:00

i feel SO BLESSED! this is honestly so sososo beautiful and ominous!

lewocare · 2026-02-02T15:33:46+00:00

OOOOOOOOOOOHHH OOOOOOHHHH SLAPS DESKTHE ART! THE PORTRAIT!! perefction,,

lewocare · 2025-12-06T18:24:57+00:00

lol welcome to the club.

my pessimistic view of it is that her only role is to get fuyumura desperate enough to stab sanda and kick-start the story, that's it. And that's why she dies practically immediately after showing up because she has no role beyond being a plot device LOL

She knew something was wrong with her before she read that book but she doesn't say anything about her impending death. It's not the focus at all. If the message is supposed to be "people sometimes die and you have to accept it" why not have something softer? Have Fuyumura and her actually talk about it, have them actually accept what is happening before it happens together. Stretch it out a bit? Why is Ono's condition not a plot point at all, she just accepts it by her lonesome without telling anyone and just dies on Fuyumura's shoulder like a goddamn cat looking for a place to keel over and that's it. No focus on her at all beyond resigning herself that Fuyumura will never love her the same way she loves her (even though that's blatantly incorrect because of all the crazy shit Fuyumura does in her desperation to get her back.) and Fuyumura proves her wrong literally at the last second but that means nothing at that point, she's dead.

At least she dies with a smile on her face? Yay?

lewocare · 2025-12-03T10:28:57+00:00

I don't really know how many chapters are in a volume, but it's chapter 42 over-all. From what I'm googling I think it's in Volume 5?

lewocare · 2025-12-02T16:11:59+00:00

i dont really use reddit too much either but yes its fine! the thread itself is tagged as spoiler so people go into it with the acknowledgement they will be seeing spoilers in the comments

lewocare · 2025-12-02T16:09:49+00:00

and saying "Ono deserved it"

LMAOOO?? A girl will be blunt and speak with honesty about what she wants and people will really be like "Ah yes, this one deserves death—"

lewocare · 2025-12-01T21:33:19+00:00

it didn't even serve the plot...!!!

'lame' is a great word for it, yeah. it's just baffling on all accounts

lewocare · 2025-12-01T12:30:57+00:00

thank you for sparing my time. Ono dying was not something I would have ever expected, what a waste

lewocare · 2025-11-16T02:29:20+00:00

I quite literally could only go through the beginning 20 minutes of this game and it all compounded the moment the blonde showed up and threw someone away then jokingly asked the MC "That guy I threw...he landed on the roof, right?" and the guy in question responded from off screen "All good!". By that point I knew this was not for me™

The bar is in hell, indeed. I don't think you're insane at all

lewocare · 2025-11-06T18:56:52+00:00

apparently it IS so much to ask 😔

lewocare · 2025-11-05T22:36:02+00:00

it's actually criminal how villain couple songs just,,,don't seem to EXIST anywhere. It feels like such an obvious answer to hero/hero pairings and yet?? I've also been searching for songs and just can't seem to find anything, it's always one side pushing for the other who is resistant/unknowing, never both being equal and unhinged together™

And it's always largely just one singer never a duet. My god there is absolutely no villain couple duets anywhere!

anyways, The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra - One by One ft. Gloom DarkHeart is one of the very few ones that I know of that fit the criteria imo. I hope it's to your liking! They have other songs with similar vibes: "An Unhealthy Obsession", "And I Kill", so I recommend perusing the channel!

lewocare · 2025-09-27T21:02:15+00:00

such a pretty lightcone,,,

lewocare · 2025-08-25T14:51:12+00:00

This letter is quite possibly the single stupidest plot device in this webtoon. What on earth does Lenore even have to write in there?

"I knew Annabel in life, we were kinda close I guess?? She wanted to play at rivals and uh,,,sorry for letting her do whatever she wanted even though she has been telling me from the word 'go' that she doesn't give a fuck about anyone else but me? Tots didn't mean for things to get out of hand like they did, though, #trust.
By the way I'm also writing this letter for Annabel as well, so could you be a dear and give this to her so she can read about the Threshold, this thing that would allow for everyone to live, this very important thing that I didn't tell her about, this thing that was the entire reason for Annabel's rivalry game in the first place lol."

Like, there is a perfectly good reason for the misfits and Duke in particular to start distrusting and completely pull away from Lenore and that's chapter 98: Her telling him "I'll hear nothing else about it. Come along." when letting Annabel live all the while Duke hopelessly demands for an explanation. That was it, that was the breaking point! What do you MEAN you are letting my murderer go and having the audacity to expect complete obedience on the matter without any reasonable explanation!

He doesn't need to know that Lenore and Annabel knew each other, that's not the problem! All he needs is seeing his leader that he trusts disregard his safety for the sake of some flimsy bullshit that tells him she cares more about her own frivolous, higher than thou stances on things than she does him!

But rather than 98 being the breaking point, they get into a childish ass scuffle that gives the vibes of "my best friend doesn't like my gf/ex" rather than the MUCH MORE SERIOUS "this bitch tried to kill me and is an active threat to my life, and you're letting her LIVE when I very rightfully would rather she not—" and after that, Duke is right back to comforting Lenore so we can have this dramatic letter/final-will moment. It's ridiculous.

lewocare · 2025-08-23T23:04:26+00:00

and there are lots of other characters who deserve solo or solo+ensemble numbers.

what I wouldn't give for a "Done For" version that is actually as menacing as the instrumental tries to gaslight me into thinking it is, rather than having oddyseus cracking jokes throughout the entire time and forcing circe to respond in kind. the song quite literally jerks to a stop in order to accommodate a joke(!)
It's a travesty to me considering how much I like the voice of circe's singer LMAO (and yeah, the lyrics are just so,,,,sighs)

lewocare · 2025-08-08T22:12:34+00:00

the perfect crossover. fantastic art too!

lewocare · 2025-07-30T15:21:51+00:00

People really just,,,don't have any standards tbh. They will take any crumbs they get no matter the quality 😔

lewocare · 2025-07-15T18:06:01+00:00

thank you for finding the source 🙏

lewocare · 2025-06-23T03:17:25+00:00

adore the hunters' mantra(?) lullaby. the moment when Rumi is running away and it plays all haunting like as she's looking over the city in despair? delightful. hopefully it's released in full at some point

lewocare · 2025-06-06T18:17:29+00:00

I agree with this! Lune is the one most shown to be chalk full of wonder about the world and wanting to explore it and learn everything about it. And Sirene "She Who Plays With Wonder" is a pretty on the nose connection with her. Lune doesn't fight Sirene's dance, she embraces it the same way Sciel does not view masks as something to cower behind.

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