"That isn't enemy's to lovers, that's just Bully x victim!" Okay. Maybe that's what I'm aiming for. Maybe that was my goal. What if I like Bully x victim? Hm? What if I like the trope where someone torments the other because they have the hots for them? HM?
People on Crunchyroll commenting about being tired of Hobin being pathetic up to EP 4, I wonder how they would feel if they knew about Ancheol Jang and his character development pace
Today’s disabled character of the day is Ancheol Yang from My Life As a Loser, who has post traumatic stress disorder, suffered traumatic injuries, and has a limp
Requested by Anon
[Image Description: Drawing of a man with slicked back black hair with closed eyes, and a huge grin. He's wearing an expensive striped dark grey suit and handing someone 100,000 won. He's standing in front of a glass building with some people and a tree behind him.]
Jang Ancheol (My Life as a Loser) / OG Daniel Park ( Lookism 470)
notice the usage of gray monochrome in all four panels? in both comics, at the particular panels being referred, the character is in a suspended reality that is not a part of the current timeline of events they are involved in. it is a dream-like state/trance where they are having a conversation which is detrimental in terms of the foreseeable future, and revolve around circumventing a bad outcome in said future.
ancheol is in a different timeline from his original one, i.e., he returns to the past to change the future. the man daniel (original body) is talking to resembles his perfect body in terms of both looks and build.
ptj likes to play around with the concepts of time and space as seen in both My Life as a Loser and Ulzzang Generation. so my theory is maybe the other person sharing the gray space with daniel is the "him" from another timeline or the future with a "bad ending", appearing in his conscience after his failure to prevent the disastrous future.
this can be supported by the hairstyle resemblance to self-hatred!daniel who appears during the ansan/james lee arc :
also is intriguing the fact that the man in the grey space seems to know about charles choi being the true enemy, even more dangerous than the workers. he also warns daniel about the basement hulk/1st affiliate's no.1 and urges daniel to unite with the rest of the second generation present in the first affiliate against that "threat" :
note : - the threat in question may also refer to jake's older half-brother, the former king of seoul who is currently returning from mexico, and is an accomplice along with james lee/dg and charles choi to his father, gapryong kim's , murder.
OK but... does APJ (Ancheol possessed Jinu) get transferred schools for beating Past Ancheol up and that's why he's wearing a different uniform here? Hello???
My life as a loser is the best PTJ webtoon A.K.A Why you should read it (tldr at the end)
and you can't change my mind. Everything about my life as a loser (imma call it MLAL) is just perfect to me, from the setting, the characters and the pacing. Especially the pacing.
One thing I've noticed in recent years, is that animes and manga now tends to be shorter to have a more satisfying story/better animation (Mob Psycho 100, Uramichi onii-san, Chainsawman (part 1 at least)) And I got the exact same feeling for MLAL, shorter than Lookism or Viral Hit (which imo should have ended after Jinho defeat but whatever) but more satisfying.
Ancheol as a prota is great, his personnality is really fun to read and his character developpement is just as interesting, although subtle
Jinu while being kind of a set character, it's easy to feel sympathy towards him. The last arc legit made me tear up, and it definitely shows just why he hates Ancheol so much
Dabin and Jinsol, while love interests doesn't overstay their welcome (hello Bomi) and aren't completely boring or reduced to be just love interest (hey Zoe, Mira and Yui. God the girls in Lookism really sucks huh). They def follow the typical ptj female character sheets, but still, they are so much better than Bomi or Zoe
The cast is small enough to have all characters their moments to shine and develop but not too small to have the webtoon have a claustrophobic feeling (idk if it's just me but I often have this feeling when reading some webtoon/manga)
And the best thing ! is ! that ! it is over ! It is finished ! No cliffhanger ! You can read through it all and not feel unsatisfied ! Although apparently we are going to have a season 2 so i'm starting to sweat over here. Let's hope it keeps the same kind of story but with new characters...
tldr ; You should watch My life as a loser because
-The characters are great, the cast isn't too small or big
-The female characters are actually good
-The story doesn't go sideways
-The mix of comedy and drama is great
-It's finished so you don't have to worry about cliffhanger or waiting