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A review by lessthelonely
The Director Who Buys Me Dinner by Toisa, Yang Eun Ji
3.0
3.5/5 stars.
There is one thing I haven't talked about yet in this blog, which would be that, from time to time, I indulge in some webtoons. I read quite a few in some bursts of not reading them for weeks and then catching up in a binge, which is my favorite way to read 'em. Of course, there are those that I get so invested in I can read them almost weekly, which I do when I'm in college because it is a great decompressor and also light reading.
During the last weekend, I decided to start reading another webtoon that I heard about on TikTok, called Semantic Error (I'll talk about it soon enough - it's great!) and ended up needing to pay 4 whole euros to be able to finish that one. Realizing that I now had a month to read more comics on the app (Manta), I decided to give a shot to other BL stories I found, namely The Director Who Buys Me Dinner, whose art caught my eye for reminding me of a Tapas comic that used to be called Smurf's World but got changed into another name I don't remember.
The story and plot in this is mainly the romance, and it starts a little bit shaky on what it wants to do, in my opinion. It feels like the publisher wanted the story to get popular, and the way to do that is to make it insta-lovey or at least pretend it is insta-lovey. Dongbaek (I sure hope that's how you spell it) is called into his Boss' Office and is asked to go on a date. So, as you can see, it dives right into it. After this, a little over a chapter is spent on creating a very bland enemies-to-lovers storyline which is dropped almost immediately, and thank God it was because it wasn't working.
This story must've been pantsed, yet it works quite well! I'd label it a soft fantasy because some sort of curse seems to bring down the main couple. By the end, the story seems like it's going to create a love triangle, and it kind of did? But, unlike most love triangles I see in romance stories, I wasn't turned off - it was done for plot and to enrich the fantasy backstory, which was needed because until then it was only just a looming threat that apparently never made anything happen.
The romance is nice and the nice art is another reason I kept going - the main character is quite basic, probably to let one project themselves onto them so the more developed character (love interest) can get the very deserved spotlight. The ending is happy, which I thank the authors, but I was a bit mad when I thought that this story must've been a straight romance the publisher said "Those stories are already too prevalent, give me something newer and popular", with which came the Achillean romance. I do thank it, but it still irks me a bit.
I do think you'll have a good time reading it though.
There is one thing I haven't talked about yet in this blog, which would be that, from time to time, I indulge in some webtoons. I read quite a few in some bursts of not reading them for weeks and then catching up in a binge, which is my favorite way to read 'em. Of course, there are those that I get so invested in I can read them almost weekly, which I do when I'm in college because it is a great decompressor and also light reading.
During the last weekend, I decided to start reading another webtoon that I heard about on TikTok, called Semantic Error (I'll talk about it soon enough - it's great!) and ended up needing to pay 4 whole euros to be able to finish that one. Realizing that I now had a month to read more comics on the app (Manta), I decided to give a shot to other BL stories I found, namely The Director Who Buys Me Dinner, whose art caught my eye for reminding me of a Tapas comic that used to be called Smurf's World but got changed into another name I don't remember.
The story and plot in this is mainly the romance, and it starts a little bit shaky on what it wants to do, in my opinion. It feels like the publisher wanted the story to get popular, and the way to do that is to make it insta-lovey or at least pretend it is insta-lovey. Dongbaek (I sure hope that's how you spell it) is called into his Boss' Office and is asked to go on a date. So, as you can see, it dives right into it. After this, a little over a chapter is spent on creating a very bland enemies-to-lovers storyline which is dropped almost immediately, and thank God it was because it wasn't working.
This story must've been pantsed, yet it works quite well! I'd label it a soft fantasy because some sort of curse seems to bring down the main couple. By the end, the story seems like it's going to create a love triangle, and it kind of did? But, unlike most love triangles I see in romance stories, I wasn't turned off - it was done for plot and to enrich the fantasy backstory, which was needed because until then it was only just a looming threat that apparently never made anything happen.
The romance is nice and the nice art is another reason I kept going - the main character is quite basic, probably to let one project themselves onto them so the more developed character (love interest) can get the very deserved spotlight. The ending is happy, which I thank the authors, but I was a bit mad when I thought that this story must've been a straight romance the publisher said "Those stories are already too prevalent, give me something newer and popular", with which came the Achillean romance. I do thank it, but it still irks me a bit.
I do think you'll have a good time reading it though.