Cherry Blossoms After Winter by Bamwoo
Despite growing up together, these childhood friends have grown apart. The fan-favorite boys’ love manhwa turned K-drama comes to print for the first time.
Seo Haebom was seven years old when his parents died in an accident. With nowhere else to go, he moves in with the family of his childhood friend Jo Taesung, who suddenly grows cold and distant, destroying their friendship.
Now it’s their senior year of high school and, after years of barely speaking to each other, Haebom and Taesung are in the same class for the first time. Haebom struggles to make friends and is plagued by bullying, but after the handsome and popular Taesung fends off his most persistent bully, everything changes—they sit together at lunch and begin to act like friends again. Haebom is unsure what to make of the shift, but this could be his last chance to mend their relationship.
My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3FEmaWk)
The manhwa is way sexier than the drama adaptation but I think I enjoy both. Probably I enjoyed a little more the manhwa cause you see more of the development of the love story between Haebom and Taesung after they go to college, and there is even the figure of Taesung's father, who in the drama adaptation is totally absent if not for buying the apartment where Haebom and Taesung live together. The manhwa is nice in both story and graphic, the sex is not the first thing, like many manhwa, and it arrives later in the story, but then, when it arrives, they will recuperate all they didn't do at first. This is a story who span from high school to college to first employment, so you have plenty of time to enjoy these two characters, and you will miss them once it's time to say goodbye.
