BITCH WHY WOULD YOU SCREAM THAT WHEN YOUR HUSBAND IS LITERALLY BY THE DOOR OUTSIDE THAT ROOM I want that girl DESTROYED kael u better up your cussing game
This ends on such a weird note, with so many loose ends that it's super unfulfilling. I was all for the yearning between the FL and the ML, and I think it's a great set up as it can give a lot of juicy drama, but so much of it just ended up.... bland, and lifeless.
We don't see what happened to Alice, she never gets ousted for *paying a grup of men to rape Karen*, Karen also wants to have her first time immediately after getting rescued by Hansel (after being jumped by the previously mentioned group of men), they never show the Prince thinking things over after the big confrontation, Hansel is (plot twist!) shown to be a prince 2 pages before the end of the manga– and to top it all of, they *chose* to make the big misunderstanding between the prince and Karen to be about her cheating on him! Why would you choose to do that when she *did* cheat on him?!?
Like, I know she was never emotionally invested in the prince, so I don't want to 100% condemn her for it, but the prince was shown to be in love with her until he thought she had cheated on him-- so this confrontation sucks now because, hey, it's not that she has been cheating on you multiple times! She cheated only *once*! And that's because, differently from you, she's never liked you all that much in the first place!!! they could've just gone the usual "framed for poisoning the ogFL (Alice in this case)" trope, or just have it so that Karen *didn't* cheat on the prince after nearly being raped--- both would've been fine options!! Just don't have the misunderstanding be about cheating when she did cheat, it just feels... bad
The characters themselves aren't all there either tbh. Karen is not the worst I've seen from otome isekai (or rofan in general) but she's definitely your usual case of "she doesn't really do nothing, things just happen to her "-- Alice was more proactive than her. Then, there's the prince, who did like Karen before the rumors starting circulating (which I do appreciate) but also could only think with his dick, apparently, because not only was he icky with Karen (saying "finally you're not resisting?" big yikes) but also he could not be bothered to use his brain and either confront Karen about the rumors or ask Hansel to check if they were true, even after he had been gullible enough to believe such level of hearsay. Hansel is... well. He's hot, I guess. I like the eyebags, since they're not usual in MLs. He's your usual non-communicative type of ML that decides he will do something for the FL's wellbeing and then just not tell her about it and just let their relationship strain instead-- which I'm not a fan of, but alas, it's the least worrying part of this whole shtick. I kinda wish they, uh, didn't mention his skin color in such an underhanded way?? Like if ur gonna use racism as a plot point don't skim through that shit like that, damn.
That being said! I did love the tension and yearning between the Karen and Hansel. The "love that cannot be" is always a juicy feast, especially when they are this close (and when Hansel is so close to the Prince too). And the art was also great! The sex was pretty ok for a series that seemed to devout to it's plot– as underexecuted as it may have been.
And, uh, that's about all I can praise, tbh.
It's still a fun read! But you can skim 90% barely reading the dialogues and you will have pretty much the complete experience. This is a "don't look at anything twice and it'll be fine" kind of situation.
When Arthur said the 3 of them had "it", I think it meant the three of them possess some kind of otherworldly power; his power probably has something to do with "reading someone's heart" (as mentioned by Louis), Amelia's is being able to remember her previous lives, and Louis – while a lot of people seem to guess he is Amelia's original lover – I would really like to guess has some other power, maybe related to seeing someone's memories and/or messing with them. He obviously knows her, but they haven't ever met (Amelia mentions having never seen someone quite like him in all of her lives), so he's probably become some weirdo stalker (rip homegirl) in this lifetime after catching a random glimpse of her OR he somehow tampered with her memories. If he did tamper with her memories, that means he *has been* tampering with them, and he could be messing with them so that Amelia think's everything will end in tragedy even if they never did – this way she will willingly stay away from William.
He seems wayyy too invested in her – seeing as he planned this whole engagement just to get to her – for him to be someone who's known Amelia for multiple reincarnations and just now has decided to try to get her. So I think it makes more sense to not have him as another "reincarnating" character. If he had been the one orchestrating everything in all of ther lives to have Amelia and William end miserable, he would've shown himself a little earlier than this, me thinks??? Since it's been a long time.
But, on a side – but not completely unrelated – note, Amelia says it has been exactly 100 years since their first lives... but that's not really a long time, considering the average human lifespan? From the flashbacks, she has lived at least 6 other lives-- which would mean she has been barely hitting 16 every time before inevitably dying. Which is, sure, plausible in this time-frame, but also just kinda weird bc it means she has never really been an adult, despite her flashbacs seemingly being staged as having Amelia and William meet in wildly different circumstances each time. But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
Anyways, I just hope William really is Elliot, bc it just doesn't really make a lot of sense, narratively speaking, to get everyone invested in this guy only to have him be a fake. If that were the case, there should've been more foreshadowing to point to this– but to not have nothing substantial 12 chapters in is a huuuge gamble on the author's part.
That is, uh, definetely one way to translate that title,,, I guess,,,,,,
Omg I want to cry-- they both finally have someone who sees and likes them for who they are I please god let them be happy forever they deserve the world
The coming chapters with both these idiots unconscious are boutta give me an aneurysm I can already feel it
Half thinking about pausing this until the next season is out to save myself the headache
Don't worry, it's gonna get worse (￣∇￣")
I KNOW WHAT I SAID IN THE PREV CHAPTER BUT I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT anyways I still hate Persen but just watching this made me sick to my stomach that is straight up traumatic as fuck. I kinda hate how the ""mund control"" thing kind of took away some of the impact from that scene
I get you. Him turning his father's death as an opportunity was rather anticlimactic
Damn THIS WAS SO GOOD?? But why is the rating lowkey ass tho...
The tone here was pretty somber and the characters were sooo visibly mentally unstable, I loved it to bits. I wouldn't exactly say this was "dark", since their brand of fucked-up-in-the-head isn't what lead to either Kaede or Ryo killing people... they're just codependent and really, really weird about it-- the people they killed pretty much just got their due karma, given the situations.
The only thing I disliked about this was the fact the ending (5.5) doesn't clear up what exactly Kaede wants out of their relationship?? Because even after a lot of self reflection in jail it looks like he doesn't 100% trust that Ryo likes him, or that he should be involved in Ryo's life-- which is kind of different from the feeling at the end of ch5?? It's very understandable, don't get me wrong, but I just wanted a neat little bow to tie their emotional journey at the end since this is the only volume we're getting. But that's very minor stuff, I still liked this a whole lot
IM SO SCARED FOR HIRANO'S REACTION BUT ALSO SO EXCITED BC THIS IS IT. THIS IS IT GUYS NO MORE BROMANCE
The gap moe here is *chef's kiss* I'm so weak for cutesy MLs...