Spotlight#69 A Complicated First Love

Have you ever been absolutely terrible at relationships? Well don't worry because this special sexual spotlight will be telling you why the girls in A Complicated First Love by Rodrigo Lee are far worse.

Summary

In a small ass time town 4 separate girls suddenly fall in love with 4 different guys; and they have absolutely no good way of expressing those feelings. Which means that these 8 individuals are going to have a lot of mishaps as their separate paths keep intertwining.

Characters

To make sure the list is consistent I'll be giving my short summary of the supposed relationships in the series.

Karen: A very determined and smart teenage woman, Karen is the most proactive when it comes to her specific crush. To the point where she masterfully stalks and manipulates her crush wherever chance she gets.

Kyle: A stoic, nice and hardworking man down on his luck. Kyle spends his day trying to live day to day while at the same time helping anyone he meets at any cost to himself. He mostly tries to avoid Karen though given the illegal age difference.

Valerie: Known exclusively for her tomboyish, rowdy, violent and loud attitude Val is very abrasive to most people. However she has proven through her work at her own private gym that she can be an extremely supportive and friendly person. However upon meeting Bob she displays a more sexual personality.

Bob: A caring and supportive single father to his son Jake. Bob doesn't judge people very much and works the hardest out of the boys.

Dave: A man with absolutely no self confidence Dave often is self deprecating, shy and fearful.

Ellie: With a shyness on the level of Dave Ellie has almost no social skills but still wants to be with Dave regardless.

Hellen: Ellie's little sister and complete opposite this preteen is trying everything in her power to protect her sister in her own tsundere fashion.

Overview

The art of First Love isn't really something that impresses the eye for me. That being said, the anime influences of this webtoon are strong. And so far the real big strength of the webtoon is its character interaction. This series has a love maze instead of a love triangle as out of the 8 characters no one has really been able to connect the dots, instead interacting with a select few of the cast at a time. Combined with the bingeable style and we can get a lot of good fast jokes with all these elaborate personalities bouncing off one another. While I'm not the biggest fan of the whole "nearly yandere" trope this series I think this succeeds by acknowledging just how crazy every one of the girls are and keeping itself as strictly comedic in tone. Underneath all that though they are some legitimately good moments in the webtoon that are somewhat heartwarming. There is a lot more story left in the webtoon so we'll just have to see what happens.

Epilogue

First Love is a crazy and funny webtoon with very little substance. If you want a fun comedy series with some romance aspects, then this is certainly for you. But with that out of the way, let's take the canvas spotlight to another webtoon.