I Will Seduce The Northern Duke
this is an interesting take on the female lead transmigration genre. I really like the dynamic between the two leads, and how they're getting better at working together as partners in crime, and not just falling for each other unrealistically. however, I hate how this manhwa potrays every woman besides the female lead as some stuck up asshole. sure you can have many annoying female characters but atleast have one female character that's genuinely nice. It's almost as if the author doesn't realise other women can also have a proper personality with understandable background reasoning to why they behave that way without assuming it's "all for the Duke!!". It's so depressing to see women fight each other for someone's attention. especially when it's for a man.
comedy part is cheap, stupid and some behaviors of her are not accurate, heavily played and give her an irritating side. thats exactly things the northern duke hates and he seems to accept these behaviors easily(tbh I don't blame him, selena is really beautiful), story isn't that bad but I'm dropping it.
Under the Oak Tree
first of all, the art is amazing and maxi, the MC, is adorable. she has a disability, something you'd never see in a manhwa, so I was very much looking foward to see her growth but unfortunately the ML just sucks. he's hot but thats pretty much all he has going on for him. communication apparently aint a thing in this guys book so much he pretty much forced himself on maxi in the very first few chapters and those who say otherwise are blind as fuck.
that alone lowered my score and should explain why I dropped it. recently I went back to read it and see if anything changed, cause yes I like to get brain damage from seeing shit I detest aaaaand surprise surprise I made it up upto chapter 42 and the ML still behaves like a cavetroll towards a mentally and physicaly abused young girl and still treats maxi as a damn meat back for him to stick his dick in, under the excuse he just "can't control himself" 'cause "he loves her too much" (not that ever told her that btw) so whenever I see someome calling this shitbag a "himbo who's hopelessly in love with his wife" I get the urge to shove my head into a blender.
maxi's growth is going great specially during the time ML goes off to fight wars. I sincerely hope he never comes back <3
I find maxi to be one of the most realistic fls out there due to the way she reacts, copes and takes a long time to heal. the comments saying maxi needs to hurry up and "build confidence" or "heal" are so stupid. she's been mentally and physically abused since she was a child, she can't just "get over her trauma" smh.
My School Life Pretending To Be a Worthless Person