Today’S Webtoon: Episodes Xv-16 (Terminal)
It’s time to depict a or so this chapter, equally our characters lastly reap the rewards of the seeds they’ve been painstakingly sowing all this while. They’ve come a long manner from where they starting time started, together with adversity has solely made them stronger.
EPISODES 15-sixteen WEECAP
Dae-ryuk too Dong-hee toil away at their tablets, as well as at the cease of it, they get by to submit Dae-ryuk’second manuscript earlier the deadline. The latest chapter goes up right on time, and Ma-eum’s eyes tear upward equally she reads it. For the start time, at that place’second color in Dae-ryuk’sec fine art — the yellow flowers reverberate the hope that has begun to flower in his heart.
Ma-eum asks Dae-ryuk how he thought of adding colour to his manuscript, and he answers that he recalls doodling with his mom every bit a kid, using colored crayons. It was a happy retention that had gotten lost alongside the sands of time, until straight off.
Reminding Dae-ryuk to e'er retrieve that he’sec not solitary on this journey, Ma-eum reassures him that he has the support of the webtoon team together with his readers. She holds her manus out for a no-contact air fistbump as they’ve ever done, except this time Dae-ryuk makes contact. He’sec gotten over his fearfulness of bear on!
Ma-eum instinctively pulls dorsum inward shocked disbelief as Dae-ryuk smiles sheepishly, together with then she fistbumps him again excitedly. Aww, Dong-hee asks if he tin can get a fistbump besides, and Dae-ryuk happily obliges.
Ma-eum walks abode amongst Joon-immature after run, in addition to he thanks her for educational activity him how to trust people again. Pointing to both ends of the span, Ma-eum muses that they one time used to be polar opposites, only instantly they’ve met inwards the centre.
In reply, Joon-young says that he’second glad their differences brought them together so, and that the somebody at the other end of the bridge was her. Flustered past his sincerity, Ma-eum laughs the second off lightheartedly.
Ma-eum returns abode to detect her father reading — too crying over — the latest chapter of Dae-ryuk’second webtoon. He remarks that it’s pretty amazing, too Ma-eum says that she’s glad to live inward this job of run.
As long as she keeps working difficult, she tin make fifty-fifty more than people happy alongside the operate that she produces, and no 1 has to become injure. Aww, Dad sheds proud tears of joy as he gazes at Ma-eum. He may live gruff in addition to obstinate at times, only it’second clear that he treasures his precious daughter deeply.
Ji-hyung as well as Ma-eum head to a quaint fiddling restaurant for dejeuner, where they notice that its walls are plastered with scribbles as well as drawings made by previous customers. Ma-eum suggests that they endeavor drawing each other, solely to end upward surprised past Ji-hyung’s drawing skills.
Ji-hyung admits that he used to dream of becoming a webtoon creative person, except he ended upward choosing to become a “shadow creative person” instead — 1.e., person who plant behind the scenes. He told himself it was because he didn’t dare to go an actual artist, just equally time passed, his perspective changed.
So many people pour in effort behind the scenes just to produce one piece of creative operate, in addition to their presence is as of import. We’re shown a montage of the drama’second product squad hard at work, which is a actually sweetness acknowledgement of their hard function.
Ji-hyung admits that he was skeptical of Ma-eum at the showtime, since she would’ve been used to receiving honey equally an athlete, rather than giving others back up. However, she’sec since proven him wrong, too he encourages her to go along doing well.
The mean solar day of the Neon executives’ coming together rolls around, together with Ma-eum is and then anxious she ends upwardly going to the pantry and so she can flip her lucky coin. Except she misses equally it falls, as well as it rolls all the mode to person’s feet. It’sec Ji-hyung, who picks it upwardly as well as says he’s taking his coin back. There’s no necessitate for it anymore, since he tells her to believe that luck is e'er on their side.
Man-cheol presents his pitch to the Neon executives; in guild to stay competitive alongside Youngtoon, he suggests setting upwards an affiliate companionship for Kang-nam. This studio can live helmed by Ji-hyung, who will grip the direction aspect, patch Kang-nam oversees the creative content.
Thankfully, the executives are convinced in addition to Man-cheol is given the green low-cal to go ahead alongside his design, simply the tidings is bittersweet. As the co-CEO of the newly-minted Studio Ginger, Ji-hyung will have to get out his place in the webtoon team.
At their squad dinner, everyone congratulates Ji-hyung amongst teary-eyed smiles. Afterwards, Ji-hyung contemplates the coin that he once gave Ma-eum. He reminisces well-nigh the day he gave it to her at the Neon interview, in addition to then every bit if tying a not bad bow on his feelings, he uses that coin to purchase a beverage from a vending automobile.
After a squad meeting, Man-cheol tells Ma-eum to remain behind. He asks her how many years she good judo, too when she says xv years, he requests that she go with them for exactly that total of time, as well. Omg, she’sec getting hired as a total-fourth dimension employee!
The squad surprises her with a cake as well as handfuls of confetti, and Ma-eum can’t assistance just outburst into overjoyed tears. Aww. Her hard operate has lastly paid off, as well as I’1000 and then glad it all worked out in the finish.
Chief Heo’second role gets searched past the audit team, nether CEO Yoon’sec orders. It turns out that Joon-immature last reported Chief Heo’second corruption too backstabbing to the CEO, along with the prove he’s painstakingly collected. Hah, Chief Heo’second fallen into the real trap he set. He’sec made to take a long intermission from go, afterward which he’ll accept to resign.
When Chief Heo runs into Man-cheol in the hallway, he’second every bit unrepentant equally e'er, putting on an air of superiority. However, Man-cheol isn’t cowed, in addition to he asserts that his webtoon squad volition go on to grow fifty-fifty stronger. Ever the bigger human, he advises Chief Heo to end sabotaging others together with playing muddied, too to instead process the people about him alongside sincerity.
After a meeting, Pomme asks Joon-young if he’s confessed to Ma-eum withal. When she realizes he hasn’t, she urges him to, coyly musing that she power merely confess start. Joon-young freezes inward surprise, request if she… peradventure… likes Ma-eum? HAHAHA. Hey, at least he’s supportive?
Joon-young heads to Ma-eum’second manhwa cafe that night, in addition to he tells her that he’sec moving out since he’sec last paid off all his pupil loans; he doesn’t accept to operate at the rental service anymore. Joon-immature asks her to recommend him a manhwa to read every bit he wraps upwards this chapter of his life, together with she deliberates for a spell before pointing to herself. Ma-eum offers to live his listening ear, and he says he’ll have her upwards on her offer one time he’sec done moving.
Now that the webtoon team is last producing practiced results, they have more than leeway to launch projects, as well as they make up one's mind to agree some other webtoon contest. When the winners are announced, showtime home turns out to be the writer of a slice-of-life go comic that both Young-bae and Ma-eum have their eyes on.
Oh no, the creative person is Seul-ah, who submitted her entry using a pen refer. After the traumatic experience working with Young-bae previously, Seul-ah is real much inclined to take Ma-eum as her PD inward accuse.
However, Young-bae’second years of feel too noesis nigh the webtoon manufacture would for certain live more beneficial to Seul-ah, too everyone knows it. In the finish, Seul-ah chooses Ma-eum, simply Ma-eum offers a suggestion — how near she works alongside both of them?
Since Ma-eum cares near doing justice to Seul-ah’second storey above all else, patch Young-bae focuses on exposure in addition to raking inward views, Seul-ah tin go the best of both worlds. It’sec a prissy resolution to the arc, amongst both Ma-eum in addition to Young-bae maturely recognizing the merits to each other’second operate.
At dark, Joon-young considers calling Ma-eum, just chickens out at the last minute — until his ringtone has him tripping over himself to reply Ma-eum’second phone call, HAHA. She calls him out to their common pojangmacha for a drinkable, together with she tells him that she also feels similar she’sec ended a chapter of her life.
Ma-eum recounts her final judo correspond, confiding in Joon-immature well-nigh how she finally mustered up the courage to encounter that friend over again. She muses that she doesn’t intend she could’ve done it without the lessons she learned too the force she gained from the webtoon team, simply Joon-young disagrees, maxim that he thinks she’sec fully capable every bit her ain person.
The next forenoon, our webtoon team begins packing upward their things. Thanks to their consistently improving functioning results, the webtoon team lastly gets to move to the Neon chief edifice like they’ve always dreamed of. Yay! As they bear their boxes to their novel function, Joon-young practiced-naturedly teases Ma-eum that she hasn’t given him an respond yet.
We flash back to the residual of their conversation at the pojangmacha — Ma-eum asks Joon-young what form of individual he thinks she is, together with he replies, “A proficient soul… as well equally somebody I like.” Eeeee! He in conclusion confessed!
Joon-immature practiced-naturedly reassures her that she doesn’t accept to hand him an answer right away, and that he’ll live waiting for her reply. Back in the introduce, he walks off alongside a grinning, leaving Ma-eum flustered.
We see a montage of the squad’sec by moments, every bit Ma-eum narrates that nosotros may stumble together with fall, but ultimately we withal persevere inwards the pursuit of our dreams. Sometimes, we have to make difficult choices, just that’s how we proceed on writing the storey of our lives.
The team calls out to Ma-eum, beckoning her to bring together them, together with she runs later on them alongside her trademark exuberant grinning. In voiceover, she says that a novel storey unfolds every twenty-four hour period — simply like today’sec webtoon. (Heh, championship driblet!) Together, the team walks towards a improve together with brighter future.
I intend 1 of the reasons why I loved this show was as well ane of my biggest gripes with it — it was hopeful, but sometimes also hopeful. That made its story heartwarming, simply it also ended up oversimplifying problems at times. For case, Young-bae’sec right away more generous amongst deadlines, too he fifty-fifty shows concern for his authors’ wellness. That’sec because he’second at once the new deputy editor, as well as he can afford to accept things irksome instead of rushing deadlines to see sales requirements similar before.
Perhaps this was intended to present that Young-bae was a skillful someone all along as well as was just constrained past circumstances. Except this insinuates that the instant things have a turn for the worse, he’s going to become directly back to being unreasonable and uncompromising. This narrative robs him of grapheme growth, too feels somewhat like a cop-out.
I suppose that’second why it’second hard to centre upward how I feel nearly this drama, since its many contradictions reach me mixed feelings. I appreciated the sensitivity amongst which it handled its grapheme’s struggles; for example, I thought Ma-eum’sec guilt over pain her friend in addition to her fight to detect a new identity outside of judo was woven quite good into her graphic symbol trajectory, shaping her decisions and outlook on life. Similarly, Joon-young’second gradually growing trust inwards the team felt organic, making it all the more rewarding when he last developed a feel of belonging at that place.
Yet, other crises were dialed upwards to the max for dramatic result, which diluted the realism in addition to broke immersion. Perhaps roughly of it could live chalked up to an intentional quirkiness that was meant to reflect a webtoon way, such equally Han-seul’s childlike temper tantrums. However, others came across equally contrived, such equally that 1 week when the drama piled on job later job onto Dae-ryuk inward quick succession.
In add-on, I plant the drama’sec pacing uneven at times. Often, it would spend several scenes on setting upwardly a seemingly important plot bespeak, exclusively to accept it resolved all besides simply too apace. The almost recent instance would be Writer Baek’sec storyline this week; later a successful surgical process for his dorsum pain, he didn’t find consciousness for a piece, making everyone worry a fair bargain until he eventually woke up.
This allowed the present to touch on the theme of how much webtoon artists are willing to chance for their careers, simply it besides felt like a way to manufacture a cliffhanger ending for Episode xv. Which didn’t even function, because I’m pretty certain all of us expected that Writer Baek would come out of it prophylactic too audio.
That’sec primarily because the drama has demonstrated a consistent blueprint of choosing a happy ending over leaving things unresolved or bittersweet. It’s non necessarily a bad thing, as well as inwards my sentiment, it plant inward the context of this demonstrate. While close to of us may prefer our slice-of-life dramas a tad more realistic, I intend this tale was e'er nigh promise.
In a world where nosotros may ofttimes observe ourselves worn downward by our circumstances together with our struggles, Today’sec Webtoon reassures us that it’s okay to persevere in addition to pursue what really makes us happy. Not everything may function out the style nosotros want it to, only we’ll acquire and grow along the way, too the journey may finish upwardly existence our virtually precious takeaway.
Where the drama falters, and then, is when it prioritizes a hopeful plot over organic as well as genuine character growth. I’ve already said my (strongly opinionated) piece on Dae-ryuk’s grapheme arc concluding calendar week, but I’1000 withal upset over how his graphic symbol was shortchanged together with the dangerous message almost trauma that was conveyed equally a effect. I know the drama wanted him to terminate up happy, simply it shouldn’t take come up at the expense of a proper trauma recovery process.
Dae-ryuk has made leaps as well as bounds from where he get-go started, together with I’k so proud of him for his increase in addition to how he’s overcome his trauma. Yet I can’t take myself to live as enthused as Ma-eum is about it, because he could take gotten in that location via a dissimilar path — preferably 1 that involved therapy together with a solid support organisation, instead of him being shoehorned into forgiving his abuser. Still, I’one thousand glad that Dae-ryuk is free of his metaphorical shackles, too that he’second lastly found hope in addition to happiness inwards his life. (And I’1000 gonna go watch a happier Kim Do-hoon inwards The Law Cafe!)
One matter I peculiarly liked nigh this drama was how it ready plot points that seemed inconsequential as well as purely for laughs at kickoff, entirely to accept them become plot-relevant too come up full circle afterward on. One example is the webtoon review channel work past Ma-eum’s sister; it was a pleasant surprise to take her platform live the central to resolving Dae-ryuk’sec faux allegations, also equally the catalyst to sisterly bonding. Plus, she had her own mini increment arc through realizing how deeply malicious comments can cut, and learning how to use her influence for skillful.
Since I haven’t read the webtoon that this drama was based on, I don’t know how much of this ought to be credited to the master go, simply I do intend the drama did a good task of bringing these arcs to life inwards an amusing and endearing mode. As much as Writer Oh and PD Doo-hee’s scenes were mostly played for comedic result amongst non much touch on on the primary storyline, I establish myself developing a soft spot for their antics by the terminate of the demonstrate. I besides actually liked how Woo-jin’second webtoon was used to parallel the drama’second loveline; it was cutely creative, together with I enjoyed her recurring appearances.
Above all, though, I loved how the drama handled our primal trio of characters. Perhaps the romantic wages (or relative lack thereof) power non experience all that satisfying to some viewers, merely I liked that the boys’ feelings arose equally a consequence of how much Ma-eum helped them grow as people. She spurred them to reverberate upon themselves and confront the fears they’d been repressing, allowing them to observe closure and gain the forcefulness to act on.
Similarly, both of them accept inspired and supported Ma-eum inward their own ways. Thanks to their guidance in addition to encouragement, she’sec grown into a more than mature, thoughtful, in addition to considerate version of herself. Beyond the romance, this is a trio that has one another’second backs through thick together with thin.
I’ll admit I started this exhibit purely for the principal form, since I loved them all in their previous roles. Kim Se-jung is only a breeze to lookout; her effervescent exuberance always brought a smiling to my face up every week, together with I liked the impact of vulnerability she gave Ma-eum.
Nam Yoon-soo was adorable as the awkwardly reserved Joon-immature, too it was and then endearing to watch his center gradually thaw out as he developed feelings for Ma-eum. (If y'all want to lookout him in another cutely lovestruck puppy part, I’d recommend the web drama The Temperature of Language: Our Nineteen!)
Of class, Daniel Choi is corking inwards the mentor role, every bit ever — I kickoff watched him inward School 2013, in addition to piece he was surely more than prickly there, he has a reassuring presence that exudes a steady dependability.
Today’sec Webtoon may accept its shortcomings, but if I’1000 willing to overlook them as well as suspend my disbelief inward certain scenes, I think I nonetheless enjoyed the drama a fair fleck. Just like how the team healed one another together with grew together over the class of the exhibit, their determined optimism together with words of wisdom touched my eye. As much every bit the plot could be frustrating at times, the primal tale was one that offered comfort too warmth, in addition to many of its quotes will stay amongst me. One specially poignant job I liked was uttered by Dong-hee this calendar week:
Just because we’ve woken upwardly from a dream today, doesn’t hateful nosotros can’t dream once again tomorrow. There’s ever room for promise; where i door closes, another opens. Just as the sun ever rises every morning time, heralding the outset of a novel 24-hour interval, nosotros tin always selection ourselves dorsum upward and continue onwards towards what makes us happy.
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