I tried to contain myself, but this series is just serving it on a platter. Sun-Il's love for Jee-Han is simply too strong!! ( *´艸`) Well, of course if a pair are friendly it's easy to pair them up, especially if it's always made a point of that one of them touches the other a lot, but when Sun-Il's rage switch was flipped because he thought someone had done something to Jee-Han and Jee-Han actually commented that he had NEVER SEEN HIM LIKE THIS!! Best friends since childhood and he had never seen him get angry except when it came to his safety!! Σ(- ロ -;)
Then there were other suspicious things like Sun-Il never having any other friends (there's probably a non-shipping reason for this, but, well...) and then the dating sim... of course, he clears Sun-Il's route without even trying. lolololol
And then the weird amount of focus on Sun-Il being worried when Jee-Han had been contacted by Abyss auction... we get several panels so that Jee-Han can comment that he's never seen him sweat, even in summer, and then realizing that he must be worried. It's not that this in itself is strange, but drawing attention to things like this is usually for a purpose, because -- and this is the most important thing -- it takes extra time and effort!! When you're writing or filming live action it's rather quick and painless to add filler, but with drawing, animation, CG, and any other time consuming task, each frame matters, and you're not gonna spend three hours coloring something unless it's important. (Not saying these frames took three hours, just speaking in general) The same message could have been conveyed by simply showing Sun-Il running in and looking worried. Focusing on it, along with some other panels (the close-up panels of Sun-Il or Jee-Han's hands grabbing each others' shoulders) is suspicious. SUSPICIOUS!!! (Or it could just be really bad storyboarding. lol)
I was actually thinking since more girls had been introduced that Sun-Il's time was going to be cut down, but -- !! He remains! Huzzah! Not only that, "Affection" shows up... ヾ(◜▿‾ 三 ‾▿◝)ノ I thought it was just going to slip by, but when it was brought up by Jee-Han who was once again clueless... "Did he get a crush on a girl?"?!?! Ahahah I guess when it's right in front of you, you don't notice it, eh? Especially if someone's been like that all your life... though for someone who has such high INT he didn't notice that "worry" and "concern" were also pertaining to himself... hahahah
Like I mentioned above, this could have easily went by without comment, because I think "affection" is a pretty normal feeling for anyone to have, and even if it was only pertaining to his feelings at the moment and thus Jee-Han, it's still completely normal to have affection for your friends! And yet, it was pointed out, and more than that, Jee-Han for some reason assumed it was romantic.
Actually, I was wondering even before if this pairing was popular in the comments or the fan cafe, since I know Korean netizens can be surprisingly positive or negative about same-sex pairings, and especially the dating route one I imagine either got a lot of support or backlash for the Sun-Il route. So I was worried the author was going to distance the characters. But, instead, this appears...(*´▽`*) I gotta say, as a fan of this pairing from day one that was ✧・゚: *✧・゚:* \(◕﹏◕✿)/ *:・゚✧*:・゚✧
Well, I'm probably the only fan of this pair, but as I said, I couldn't contain it any more!! =w= It'll probably only become a topic of me talking to myself, though. hahaha
Edited by Ixtli, 13 June 2014 - 06:50 PM.