Today's manhwa is really special because it made me cry in first few chapters. I found myself relatable with the main lead and for that reason I wanted to share this amazingly written manhwa with you guys.
The name of the manhwa is "Operation: True Love" the main female lead is "Su-ae Shim" she's a high school student. She has a step sister who is very charismatic and her name is "Ra-im". Su-ae also has a boyfriend but he doesn't value her that much, his name is "Minu Kang" and his best friend's name is "Eunhyeok".
In the beginning of the story we see that Su-ae has no luck in her love her, her boyfriend ignores her and never treats her like the love of his life but whenever he does something small for Su-ae she gets manipulated. As she has never got that much of love only a small amount of effort is enough to make her fall.
Everyone finds it disrespectful the way Minu treats Su-ae and they also say that Su-ae has no self respect. One day she found a pink Jellypop phone in her locker.
She thought it belongs to Eunhyeok but he was not the owner. The phone started behaving weirds and sending Su-ae messages from unknown number and even predicting things before Su-ae starts to text. It was one kind of magical phone.
One day Eunhyeok and Su-ae found out her boyfriend is cheating on her with her step sister, this left her heart broken but she could not dare to confront them about this matter.
On the other hand when she turns on the back camera of her Jellypop phone, she could see the numbers on her screen which signifies the amount of love each person will receive in their life time and that is something only she can see. And when she points the phone at her the percentage is zero it means no one will fall in love with her....
Question arises will Su-ae ever find love in her life? And how will this mysterious phone change her fate?
To be honest the concept is unique, there are many stories like this people being blessed with the ability of seeing something which others can't and I think this manhwa is really good in that kind of category.
The artstyle is more than average, I feel the colorings are done very well. Also the detailed expressions are really good. I must appreciate the artstyle it is unique and upto my taste buds. I like how they have put efforts into the lighting and shadows it matches perfectly with the scenarios.
The characters are also amazing, like truly hateable characters. I usually don't feel this much of hate but after reading this manhwa I was going through a tough time, I felt mad at some points that I wanted to enter the manhwa and beat up everyone.
My most disliked character is Minu, he suffers from superior complexity for sure. I don't know what he thinks of himself but he is totally a dustbin. I would never want to befriend these type of guys.
He is the worst character I have seen far. Very manipulative and thinks everyone is under him, but he's totally a zero. He is a walking red flag, I don't know what Su-ae saw in him except being handsome he is nothing.
The character I liked so far is Eunhyeok, at least he is not fake like others. If he doesn't like something he says it Infront of the face.
He is not manipulative and he is very supportive. He is not only handsome but also tries to understand the situation instead of judging. He is really a genuine person that I would like to hang out with. But let's see if he's really that nice in the future.
Su-ae is the main lead but I think she is not good enough, she needs to work on her personality. She doesn't know what she is supposed to do. Like how to handle situations and how to react. I would like her more if she becomes independent.
She's totally dumb just like me. When she's in love she's blind, she was not even getting bare minimum but still decided to stay with Minu which is the worst part and made me really mad at her.
Ra-im I feel sad for her but still she does not have the right to do this to her sister who genuinely cares for her.
How can she betray Su-ae over some other guy. She broke the girls code. So, I also dislike her and not feeling any kind of pity for her. She has beauty without personality.
The story is slow paced not that much, but I want to see some improvements in the characters. I think need to build something more in them. It kinda felt lacking to something.
I want to see the improvements gradually not overnight because then it would be boring, I really want to see the progress.
I want Su-ae to take revenge on them and make them regret for their entire life because they have played with her feelings and I would be really happy to see that.
There are three seasons and they are still on-going, currently they have 113 chapters, I am really excited to see the ending of it.
Ratings: 9/10
The images are screenshots from chapter 1,2,3,4,5,6 on webtoon. Images are edited with Canva
