ZHENG RONG YOU XI

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MANGA DramaZheng Rong You Xi 2

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  ShibuyaConfidential

  60/100
  An interesting work that deserves a reboot with a sensible production

  Coming out from Jin Qiu's pencil, Facelift game is an interesting mirror, for most of his run, into the body-shame. Not being a resident of South Korea, China or Japan, I can't exactly know all the nuances of their cultures. But from what little I've read, they're not very fat-friendly.
  A general fat phobia is often depicted in manga and anime.

  Many reports have also highlighted how in South Korea cosmetic surgery is pretty common, almost a graduation gift for young people who must necessarily have that aesthetic standard to be accepted and be successful.

  We are introduced to Yi Rong, a girl under thirty who works for a fashion company and who, to be honest, is quite ugly. The body shame she receives is horrific, she has no real career promotions, and she doesn't go on business trips.

  Unlucky you say?

  More or less. I condemn the harassment but while reading this work we sympathize with Yi Rong, but sometimes we also hate her and the reason is quite simple. Yi Rong works for a fashion company, so a minimum of aesthetic decency is required. Yi Rong is not beautiful, but she doesn't even try to make herself acceptable given her job position.
  She doesn't wear make-up, she doesn't have clean clothes and she is sloppy in all respects. If you want to work in a certain environment you also have to play by the rules of that environment. In a hospital you can dress up as you like, in a 5-star hotel you have to shave (I was a concierge for many years) and rightly so the top heads of the company don't send her to meetings to organize the Paris fashion week.

  Now once we have ascertained that Yi Rong could have worked on her aesthetics, the Manhua describes a lot of body shame towards her.
  I really hope that this is not the way they think in China, or at least in certain circles. The humiliations that surround her lead her to questionable actions with a fall into this application called LiftFace Game, a mysterious app that makes you beautiful, but at the price of having to carry out missions and tasks of dubious morality.

  And the more you play with it the more dangerous it becomes for the people around her and if she refuses, she not only comes back ugly but with an amplification of the ugliness, a real walking hulk.

  In my opinion, the ending was too merciful towards her, I would have preferred a truly punitive and tragic ending since people died on the way for her beauty. Even if in the end she redeems herself and dedicates herself to the poor, this does not detract from the fact that the work would have benefited from a more epic and less good-natured ending.

  The side characters are well thought out,
  Very calibrated was Lian Na, the beautiful one who was well built by the author making us love and hate her and shift opinion continuously, a very rounded and not stereotyped character, personally the character who was better managed.

  Since the events in Paris, the design and the quality of the artwork have dropped dramatically, it almost seems that the author had no more desire to do anything, just going to sketch a series of memes rather than a story, there are some useless panels and around chapter 38 I also dumped the Manhua quite disgusted with the drawings.

  Then curiosity won and I completed it. In general, in the first part of the Manhua, the drawings have a very Western flavour, almost like an American graphic novel, but as mentioned in the second part it drops dramatically.

  Another disadvantage is the use of colour, I believe that this work with black and white and a more careful aesthetic would have helped, given that the colour does not make the scenes dramatic when in reality they are.
  I deduce that being a self-produced work a certain tiredness has set in, unfortunately, self-produced works lack an editor who would have been useful in this work.

  An interesting work that deserves a reboot with a sensible production, it also has a plot and development that would look good in an anime. A work that I liked with excellent peaks but also disastrous falls.

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