Time warp?
As I’m continuing to read through the December issue of Yen Plus, I noticed an anomaly, though I’m not sure of the extent of it. The eleventh chapter of morality manhwa Time and Again was supposed to be printed in this issue, and the Table of Contents page indicates such; seeing as how the story started in the last chapter ended with a selfish character going uncharacteristically unpunished, I was looking forward to see if the storyline would continue through this chapter, with the young lady in question finally receiving her just deserts. However, the title page for this issue’s chapter introduces it as chapter twelve, and the storyline is completely unrelated to last issue’s. The way I see it, there are two explanations for this:
- The text on the title page is incorrect; what appears in this issue really is chapter 11, and, apparently, in the world of Time and Again, sometimes selfishness can go unpunished (though it very much did not in this issue!); or…
- Yen Press accidentally skipped a chapter, and published chapter 12 this issue instead of chapter 11. How do you say “Oops” in Korean?
If and when I find out what the story is, I’ll pass it along, so stay tuned.
Comments
After I reread November’s chapter to refresh my memory. I disagree with your interpretation of the November story. I don’t see the young lady as needing to receive her just desserts. I think it was her father who was the morally guilty person in the story, not her. Every comment from every character conveys the thought that she went far beyond what was expected from a child performing her filial duties. She sacrificed nearly everything for her father. Her hair (at a time when a woman in society was supposed to have long beautiful hair), her health (she didn’t eat properly to buy medicine), her feet (they were frostbitten), her warmth (she couldn’t afford firewood). She agreed to be sacrificed to the water god so that her father could buy the supposed cure for his blindness. Yet even after all that, her father still told her that children (i.e. her) were useless. What cruel and cutting words to say after all that she had done for him. When he finally died, she was finally free from the harsh life he had forced her to live. Yes, a child owes the parent a duty, but the reverse is also true. The parent owes the child a duty too. But in this case, the father failed to live up to his responsibility. Instead, he manipulated and belittled his child. I believe that morality has been served with his death and her freedom. Thus the story is complete in one chapter.
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