The Guide to a Healthy Relationship

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CODE RED: PORN
(STRONG NSFW WARNING)

The following comic contains naughty parts on full display, and more than likely includes banging, screwing, porking, jacking, etc. Whether or not it's actually arousing is up for debate. Be on the look out for more extreme fetishes as well, such as scat, vore, bestiality, and so forth. Getting caught with this comic in your browser history may lose you some friends... or gain you some unwanted ones. View with extreme caution, preferably in a deep, dark cave, far away from anyone you know.

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Original review author: Muchas Pollo - written April 2020
Webcomic name: The Guide to a Healthy Relationship
Author: "Dani the Carutor"
Start Date: Around 2016
End Date: Ongoing
Genre: "Psychological" drama, slice-of-life
Defining Flaw: Terrible writing mixed with decent, occasionally good quality, art.

Rating Summary

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Decent-to-good-quality art that is ruined by ugly coloring.

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Bad concept, bad writing, plot is exchanged for random softcore porn and character torture.

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One anti-sue protagonist. The rest are awful, unlikable, and unrelatable to an unrealistic degree.

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Boring, trash, edgelord garbage.



Background

I found this webtoon while casually watching some reviews on YouTube. This one caught my interest, the review of it was pretty good, the YouTuber made the story sound promising, and example pages looked nice. That day I lost three hours of my life reading this trash in hopes of finding anything interesting.

Downfall

Chapter 1, page 15 - with the random softcore porn that is never brought up again. You can even say the downfall was in the very beginning, where we are treated to some tonal whiplash between the prologue and chapter 1.

Story and characters

The story is about an annoying alcoholic seeing his old friend or ex-boyfriend or something after it is implied that he died. Then hijinks ensue.

The prologue is an angstfest, narrating how much of a poor babu Julian is, and how he killed himself or some shit. In chapter 1, Apollo goes to a party, the entirety of which is dedicated to him walking around naked, and we get a bunch of obviously sexual shots of his dick, clearly catering to the author's gay fetish. His boss goes to his place to check on him, and it is revealed he is a hoarder. This never comes up again. Apollo sees his friend at a school but Apollo was drunk so did he realllly?! -obvious twist is so obvious-

Chapter 2 is the most pointless, as it is basically there to confirm what we already know so the author can insert a cringy buzzword (see image below), and so Apollo can hit on this constipated-looking guy who turns out to be his friend's boyfriend later on. There are a couple pages explaining Apollo's purple special snowflake eyes with some snowflake "disability".

Chapter 3 is dedicated to revealing the boyfriend shit I already mentioned, Julian being an angsty bitch, and boring, long, drawn out talking scenes. It is such a weird combination of stupid, confusing, and boring. This thing with Julian seeing shit comes out of nowhere, and never comes up again in the chapter. Apollo is an asshole to the guy for no reason, everything is all dark, then suddenly everyone is happily talking in a restaurant.

Chapter 4 is another complete angst party with everyone beating up on the webtoon's punching bag - Julian. A side character asks Julian's gender in the most unnatural way possible, causing the poor babu to be triggered. "Oh no, how dare he ask what GENDER I am!" Everyone goes to this cabin in the woods. Julian and Apollo walk around the woods in their underwear for no reason whatsoever. Julian takes some drugs or something, and passes out? He is then woken up by the fatty side character punching him. Somehow, Julian destroyed the kitchen, even though he was passed out - this is never explained, and makes no fucking sense. In the middle of the scene, it transitions into this trippy bullshit with blood, and body horror, and Julian's hair is suddenly short. The rest of the chapter is Julian being angsty, and SO ILL while everyone talks about how weird he is. Also, we have random nudity and sexualization of this sick person.

Chapter 5 is still in the works. It jumps the shark right away with Apollo getting drunk and sleeping with Julian's boyfriend. The author makes Apollo the guilty party and not the boyfriend. Julian is there, escorting Apollo to the bus stop because of his special eyes. The author cannot go five pages without adding some unnecessary angst in there. "Oh no, my parents kicked me out for being gay!"

This webtoon is so convoluted there is no saving it at this point. Each chapter is titled after some mental illness such as 'Monophobia', 'Anxiety', 'Psychosis'. You think they would have some thematic meaning with each chapter being about one of those things. Nope, they're just titled like that to show how EDGY this webtoon is! You can taste the cringe. Julian's mental shit has no rhyme or reason - he will act sick when the plot calls for it, and if it has anything to do with the chapter's title, it is also crazy inaccurate.

Nothing like the smell of cringy SJW buzzwords in the morning.


The characters are the worst. Not a single one is likable, or relatable in any way:

  • Apollo (Main Character): An alcoholic manchild who is constantly saying and doing cringy shit. There is nothing likable about him. He is also a special snowflake with special eyes.
  • Julian (Secondary Main Character): An angsty emo druggy. Possible tranny. He has no personality outside of being a punching bag for the other characters.
  • Daniel (Side Character): He may as well be a wall. This guy has no personality whatsoever. No quirks, no interests, no purpose outside of causing superficial melodrama.
  • Brandon (Side Character): The fatass, nothing else. Got mad about some shit, and punches Julian in the face.
  • Andrew and Kevin (Side Characters): They like to drink and do drugs I guess.
  • Galia (Side Character): Some tranny.

Art review

Wasted skills. What a tragedy.


The art is actually competent. The author makes some mistakes here and there, but has some understanding of anatomy, and perspective. The most impressive part is how the webtoon is drawn traditionally with color pencils. Unlike the majority, this one also has a good number of backgrounds and establishing shots.

This is sadly all overshadowed by horrendous colors, excessive detail that causes eyestrain, and a hideous artstyle. The characters are drawn in this semi-realistic style that shows too much, making them an eyesore.

Check out this edgelord bullshit.

The author is so close to knowing what they are doing, yet so far.

Writing review

The dialogue, like the story, is extremely bland. There are pages filled with text, some of the character's dialogue is spelled phonetically so it's impossible to understand a word they are saying, especially Apollo. The worst part is it is all written by hand so you cannot read this webtoon no matter how hard you try.

The writing for the story is awful. The author could not stick with one scene for more than a couple pages, the "plot" jumps all over the place with no loose ends being tied up. She can't stay in one location for more than a few pages. Whatever little story this webtoon has is put to the side for softcore porn (see page 15 of chapter 1 linked in Downfall), random nudity, character torture, and these stupid edgy "psychological" moments. There is a whole scene dedicated to the protagonists running around the woods in their underwear for no good reason other than that is the author's thing I guess.

Author biography

Your typical Tumblr-grade artist with the fake gender, claims to be asexual. She cannot take critique for shit, but sure pretends she does by making forum threads asking for critique and spamming already existing threads. Every bit of feedback you take the time to give will be met with "I have a specific story I'm trying to tell so I can't change it", "I really like open impressionism and complimentary colors so I don't want to change it", "My characters are supposed to be unlikable"... Nothing but whining and excuses. This person is clearly just looking for asspats.

If you do not want to change your webtoon, stop asking for feedback, moron.

Conclusion

A waste of time and potential. The idea of a webtoon focusing on mental health sounded bold, yet difficult given how easily it can all go wrong. This one failed big time - the author's fetish for torturing queers overtook the story, and you can tell she did not do any research despite constantly bragging about how much research she did. Let's hope this fetishistic bullshit gets wiped out of existence soon, and that the author is made to only do illustrations. After fixing that ugly style, of course.

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