Be My Sweet Darling

'Be My Sweet Darling' is trying hard to follow the guidelines of a typical shoujo manga (in this case, manhwa), combining an unrealistic plot and some exaggerated characters which are meant to be funny and appeal to the readers. However, there is a limit to the cheesiness and sadly this manhwa goes beyond it.

The story is pretty simple: a girl and a boy go drinking together with the drama club, she gets drunk, he must take her home, but because he doesn't know where she lives, so he takes her to his own place. In the morning, they are found together in the same bed, none of them remembering what happened the previous night. So, their parents force them to marry. Well, I must admit that this plot, although really exaggerated, could lead to some funny situations as they try to cohabitate. However, the storyline is pretty incoherent (sometimes they accept each others, sometimes they are really distant, then they grow closer again, without a proper reasoning), which makes the humour kind of awkward. Also, the ending is very abrupt, kind of unnatural.

But by far the worst point of this manga was the character development. The female lead is very childish and possesive, lacking common sense, but by the end of the series (in a few pages) turns into a mature girl who understands her lover. Pretty weird, in my opinion. The male lead is just awkward. But I did find interesting the note of a side pairing (Jaemin and Gukhee). Too bad they didn't get a proper development, because that would've been a much better story than this one.

As for the art, I have no complaints, since I am not really picky about these things. The style was close to my favourite and there were just a few noticeable mistakes, not too bad anyway.

All in all, I can honestly say I didn't enjoy this manga. It was all too rushed, too forced, and the main pairing didn't get a proper development. Although the title and the plot stand for a decent shoujo manga, or manhwa in this case, 'Be My Sweet Darling' is far too overwhelming to satisfy.

This relatively short story suffers from having a really great premise that just unfortunately never quite delivers. It gets close and it has both some enjoyable and funny moments, but it constantly derails itself through missed opportunities to develop characters, themes, scenarios or drama.

The marriage happens pretty quickly so whilst it's fun to get straight into the antics, the characters never get the early development they need; although that's to be expected in such a short series. The story also suffers through squeezing in a side-character story which further compromises development in it's 18 chapters.

Where the story does do well though is in it's handling ot the main female lead. Clearly somewhat in yandere territory, it is enjoyable reading her character playing to the trope. Unfortunately, she's let down by a very poor depiction of the male lead who has some pretty poor development so you're left feeling somewhat apathetic and pretty uninterested in his character.

Overall, worth a quick read through if you're bored and enjoy a bit of establish relationship hijinx. Just don't go in expecting to feel wholly satisfied by the end.

I did not like this manhwa at all. I dropped it midway after seeing how annoying and possessive the girl is that it's not even tolerable. You can notice the author was trying way to hard to be funny when it just turned into an annoyance.