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Nyarin
joined Mar 20, 2012

She's the daughter of the lady and the peasant.

3737720892d1604e82a1e6a88a44b5f5
joined Jul 29, 2024

Shitty mom discovers her daughter's relationship with the "dirty commoner girl", sells her out to the cops.
Young cop gets a hold of her, bla bla yadda yadda "you're mine now" type of possessiveness he mistakes as love.
Forced marriage/pregnancy, she dies (maybe in childbirth), guy blames daughter for her death.

This is my prediction too, I don't see the 'commoner' ending up with the noble girl with how the mom is, nor do I think she will willingly get with the cop (but damn what do I know)

Palucina1
joined May 26, 2020

Nice job, spreading out the coat. There are certain places you do NOT want hay sticking to...or in...

joined Jan 14, 2020

So bizarre going from weird prison android to almost 1800s farm gentry.

Also, the visual style mismatch between the drawn humans and the photographed straw is pretty hilarious.

joined Jan 14, 2020

Man, I have no idea where this story is going. Other than it doing so very slowly.

Bambinessa
joined Aug 2, 2023

Ch. 7 p. 8 has a typo: "Andriod" instead of "Android".

Does everything still being "Act 1" imply they actually plan to resolve the many, many, many plot threads in a meaningful way? There are so many things piled up I'm getting the feeling this was decided by committee/looking at popularity metrics.

joined May 9, 2017

Shitty mom discovers her daughter's relationship with the "dirty commoner girl", sells her out to the cops.
Young cop gets a hold of her, bla bla yadda yadda "you're mine now" type of possessiveness he mistakes as love.
Forced marriage/pregnancy, she dies (maybe in childbirth), guy blames daughter for her death.

This is my prediction too, I don't see the 'commoner' ending up with the noble girl with how the mom is, nor do I think she will willingly get with the cop (but damn what do I know)

The MC had a flashback about her mother saying to wait for th crow. So no, she didn't die in childbirth. It looks like she was killed.

joined Jul 26, 2024

And now we know military man is evil in the past too.

I find myself not caring very much about the backstories. I wasn't invested enough in these characters to want to even know parents' backstories or the world's politics. We might get some twists like the anti-android commoner is still alive or is the parent of another character, but that doesn't seem like it would matter very much.

joined May 9, 2017

And now we know military man is evil in the past too.

I find myself not caring very much about the backstories. I wasn't invested enough in these characters to want to even know parents' backstories or the world's politics. We might get some twists like the anti-android commoner is still alive or is the parent of another character, but that doesn't seem like it would matter very much.

I feel that way about 90% of Korean and Chinese comics. Most of them have pretty bad writing, very edgy and lack subtlety. From the little I know, comics and especially web comics (which is even a different media/format) are pretty recent for them and lack maturity. At least, that's the way I see things. It makes me think a bit of Yuri manga in Japan, 15 years ago. We gain subtlety of writing and character with time. Not that it was not there at all back in time, or that it doesn't exist at all in China/Korea, but the ratio good writing/bad writing makes me think of Japan, 15 years ago.

I still to read some, especially when waiting for other comics/manga that I like, but it does feel like browsing mindlessly on the internet to me.

joined Jul 26, 2024

My experience is somewhat different. I've found "webcomics" with weekly release schedules to have sprawling stories that are reminiscent of the first draft of a novel. A lot of times the few arcs are good, but then it loses coherency around 100 chapters in. With the better ones, either they had a planned ending (usually close-ish to chapter 100) they stick with or it's like a very good first draft of a novel series where the author carefully planned out the most important setting details and plot points.

I started to give a lot of examples, but I realized people in this comic's discussion thread probably don't care about that. We tend to have fewer English translations of Chinese works, compared to Korean or Japanese, though. There are still low coherency Japanese works coming out, but it's easy not to read them when there's so many options.

With Artificial Temperature, I'm mainly caring about the relationship between the lead / Android, the edgy prison setting, and how they escape it. What we're seeing is like if Piers Anthony with Cyhthon decided to switch part way through the prison arc into detailing why the protagonist was thrown into a pit on a prison colony planet, starting with the parents' upbrining and how that relates to intergalactic politics. A lot of Piers Anthony's works don't hold up well now, but at least he knew how to stick to the parts of storytelling he did well.

last edited at Nov 15, 2025 11:39AM

joined Mar 23, 2022

I can't wait for the time where this pathetic cruel trash unrecyclable father will meet Satan in hell.

joined Jul 26, 2024

This reveal was not aided much by the backstory chapters, as that panel would have worked fine by itself, but at at least they're over for now. His motivation must be his NTR PTSD, thinking he would have to jail the mom and kill the wife to get at the mom, but the mom never got over the wife. Something similar to that, anyway. The robo scientist having a connection to the presumably dead anti-robot dissident would still make sense to me, but we also didn't need the backstory to establish that.

Maybe he's intended to kill the MC each time they called her and backed out because it's his last connection to the mom, so now he's upset the daughter has a stronger emotional connection with someone than toward him.

The mom being jailed makes sense if she was harboring a dissident, but it's not clear how he got to keep his daughter in the prison with the other prisoners long term. That has to be the worst custody agreement ever approved. More seriously, she may legally not exist, which could be interesting in a sci fi future setting if executed properly.

last edited at Nov 29, 2025 8:41AM

joined Mar 23, 2022

If this mf of a trash unrecyclable dude didn't die I will really throw hands.

Cs4_cover
joined Jul 13, 2015

Is like two different manwha that enter in one

Icon_tinymila
joined Jan 30, 2017

If this mf of a trash unrecyclable dude didn't die I will really throw hands.

I want catharsis, and I want it now.

Palucina1
joined May 26, 2020

Sometimes I wonder if the author is OK. Like emotionally.

Bullyme
joined Apr 28, 2022

Uh holy yikes. Time to murder literally everyone at that banquet.

Internet_lied
joined Jul 15, 2016

Uh holy yikes. Time to murder literally everyone at that banquet.

Yeah, knowing that Su is Lilith and the warden guy's daughter, I am not seeing that happening.

1pixel
joined Dec 3, 2010

That's very cruel to what they did to Lilith.. :c

Icon_tinymila
joined Jan 30, 2017

Holy shit.

Bullyme
joined Apr 28, 2022

Uh holy yikes. Time to murder literally everyone at that banquet.

I said this last chapter looks like she was willing to do so.

WHY WAS SHE NOT ABLE TO KILL THAT SCUMBAG. My god I think the author hates us let her get her damn revenge.

Akko%20x%20mari%2007
joined Mar 20, 2016

Aw, jeez..I'm gettin' flashbacks to Embryo cause of this creep...

053
joined Jun 8, 2022

Scumbag was prepared for her to try, sadly. There were a lot of robots to interpose themselves between him and her.

Awful as it was, I do have to appreciate some dark humor in that while he did expect she might snap and get violent, he lacked the forethought (or more likely the capacity to give a damn about anyone but himself) to think she might lash out at other people too, and so she knifes one of his subordinates to death.

C2731dea4191b182ecd8f18498562a84
joined Sep 1, 2017

She was too obvious, with the knife. She completely telegraphed her moves. If she was more subtle and hid her intention until she sunk the knife into his side, the fucker would have been bleeding out at her feet.

last edited at Apr 27, 2026 3:26PM

Nyarin
joined Mar 20, 2012

This is too silly even for me.

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