He keeps tokens of his past, hauntings that he greatly enjoys. However, Sangwoo’s house is quiet, a dungeon of wonders, but they’re either hidden away in walls, basements, or baskets. Did Koogi span this gap? Well, she didn’t fall into the pit between the two (as it occurred with Death Note’s writer, and it was a parodical mess), but it was hardly … intuitive. This isn’t a slight against Koogi (or the manga) it’s merely an observation however, when you choose the mundane in every day, there have to be sparks of the extraordinary to bridge the gap between the real and imaginative. (Also, I’d appreciate it if people stopped using the term “world-building” altogether as there are very few authors in the history of literature world-over, who’ve ever built worlds drawing inspiration from existing content isn’t world-building it’s the exact opposite and in my experience, most just greatly enjoy copying others in their race to sound cultured.) Should it be an instance of self-reflection that vagueness, unless the narrative doesn’t warrant it, is the death of originality? Let’s call it novelty as I don’t believe that (almost) anything is original-every author is drawing from something else and a glimpse at life is anything but novel. I truly have little patience for phrases such as “slow burn”, “taking its time”, and “setting up the world”: they’re stock phrases that mean very little, given how completely vague they are.
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