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Personal bias: I hate manipulators. It's the number one pet peeve with love interests, almost guaranteed to put the manga on my shit list.

So this ml irritates the fuck out of me. I like Lancelot a lot better.

Knowing that I'm not going to get a satisfying ending, this is still worth reading for the rest of the plot. I'm really interested in the brother-sister relationship and how she's going to ensure a better future for them both.

I'm at Ch 64. Just letting everyone know since we have a lot of young girls on this site. 34.1 inches is a normal waist size, not an overweight one. If this woman has a 34.1 inch waist she isn't overweight.

It's also disappointing they had her lose weight. I got all excited seeing a chubby protagonist like it was going to be about good self-image even when you have flaws. I guess I was asking too much.

THIS is how you do this kind of story.


I love the way this protagonist was designed.

She's got abilities, but they're not too OP and they cause her trouble. Other abilities she worked hard for. She's got a clear motivation, but she's at times irrational and also lies to herself pretty strongly. Her actions contradict her thoughts and, more than that, it's made very clear this is intentional. Denial, guilt, irrationality, pettiness, the desire to be better, be stronger. Contrasted with her inability to see her own worth beyond the worth she placed upon herself in her alternate life. She's bound by the person she used to be and it shows. She's not able to see herself as she really is because of it.

More than that, she didn't lose her goal or herself the second the love interest showed up. Multiple kinds of relationships are shown, each with its own cast on love.

And the love interest is INTERESTING. He's got his own life, his own problems, and he treats the protagonist with respect, and not an object he's entitled to possess. He doesn't try to manipulate her into being his. She's a person first.

The world-building is just enough to be interesting and not too much to be overwhelming. The pace can be slow at times, but for the most part is fine.

And it goes without saying that the art is nice.

Can't wait until this is off hiatus. Might pick up the books too.

I hope Aria gets her revenge. And I hope she eventually sees the contradictions, where she says she doesn't care about people, eventually she's going to have to admit that she's just like everyone else. Capable of being cruel and kind, caring or careless. But that it doesn't make her evil. Just human.

So they keep pretty much identical physical appearance to their previous incarnations?

And she hasn't moved on as a new life purely because of her memories?

And she's just as capable as her previous body despite having an untrained body, a mind that is incapable of processing what it was asked to process, and we're expected both to suspend belief for this and still be interested even though there's pretty much nothing left to do but hook up?

...suuure.

This is a very generic-type story. The characters aren't characters. They're stereotypes taken out of a million other manga.

The protagonist is a Mary Sue. She's also painted as a strong female lead but all she thinks about is the designated love interest. She has many strong abilities (in true Mary Sue fashion) but doesn't utilize them effectively. As being both capable with a gun and apparently having high intellectual skills, she is all over the place and none of her skills shine. And heaven forbid we give the lady a gun to defend herself when she shows herself to be capable, get into trouble, and that the guns in this universe are perfectly wearable. That might show that she might be able to *gasp* survive without a man or *bigger gasp* that the love interest sees her strength and wants to empower her instead of keep her under his control! Can't have that!

There is nothing here today that you won't forget tomorrow. Terrible writing in both skill and creativity.

Ch 62 was when I reached my limit. But I was really dragging myself through it by that point.

After the first part, I quickly lost interest. The resolution there felt right, and the difference between the feel of the first two couples was so heavy it changed the mood of the story as it progressed.

I think more webtoon authors need to start getting comfortable with sequels. Splitting the story up would have maintained the atmosphere of the first (which is really, really good) and allowed the story to continue as its own thing. Instead of changing the atmosphere with the 2nd and overworking the main couple. Like Sculley and Mulder in the X-files, you can overuse your beloved characters and lose what made them captivating.

My recommendation is, read the first part and, if you're interested in the second, approach it like a different story altogether.

I highly recommend the first part. And I second what others say about listening to the songs when they play. Jazz isn't something I go hard for so this was my introduction to Eddie Higgins and his music is lovely.

A+ looks and the hint of some nice characterization.

I think he'll be more like a schoolboy crush where it's all admiration and no deeper feeling. I doubt he'd be a rival. So I got no beef with him.

This is a healing space. There will be no rival here ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Seems to start with a sex scene.
It's really to the point where it's ridiculous. They're clearly trying to use a basic writing rule of putting something at the start of the story that would fixate the reader. But that can be anything. A car crash, a mysterious element, an uncommon physical feature, a disability, strange mannerisms or actions, a fight. Anything that isn't mundane.

But around 90% of BL webtoons are using it and it just a writing fail at this point.

If you're gonna be generic on the first page, what is the rest of your webtoon gonna be like?

Playing to my weakness for a badass uke (▰˘◡˘▰)

Be looking like a harlequin cover.

As someone who has a thing for badasses, I'm just going to live here from now on.