L: Joy Ahn; R: Aerie Park
A Joyful Life is a Manhwa. It follows Joy Ahn and Aerie Park and their struggles to improve their lives for the better, together.
Licensed in English by Pocket Comics under the title ''A Joyful Life''
Provides examples of:
- Broken Tears: If the first paragraph didn’t clue you in, Joy has a lot of these moments in the story, as she goes through a lot in it.
- Dirty Kid: One of the minor characters is like this which prompts Joy to run away from her situation.
- Easily Forgiven: Joy is surprised to find out that Aerie was fine with Joy using her as an excuse to avoid a confession, resulting in the boy harassing her because she had gotten something out of it too.
- Averted for Hunter and his actions as Joy chooses not to forgive him at all even speaking out against close people who would tell her she should've just kept quiet.
- Gay Romantic Phase: Defied by Aerie and Joy.
- Aerie always always liked girls since she was young and even in adulthood still does.
- Joy has always like Aerie despite initially dismissing it as a phase.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Hunter is jealous of Aerie for having the love of his long-time crush Joy.
- Visit by Divorced Dad: To the chagrin of Joy, her father sometimes pops in unannounced despite him and her mother divorcing for concrete reasons.
- Yuri Genre: The story is about two women who meet up again which sets up a chain of events resulting in better lives and love for them both.
