As a girl, rape scenes have always disturbed me. They give me that grip of terror in my heart regardless of who is being raped but moreso when the female is the victim. Here, after seeing his torture in the beginning, I don't feel as disgusted/fearful. Maybe I've been desensitized? Maybe I feel nothing because it's done in revenge to some pretty terrible people? When the captain got turned into a girl and forced to have a taste of the own torture he inflicted on others, I was actually glad in a vindictive kind of way.
Jeez, this manga really does work towards deserving that psychological genre tag. It's so interesting in a strange, sadistic way that has you rooting for another bad guy. 10/10
Same
A manga so popular that its not only getting an anime, but while this one is still continuing, it's remake has just been released. In it, Katarina starts when the game starts with less than a year before the destruction end for her bullying. So we have the same cast of characters, a few new ones, and new challenges to deal with as everyone grew up with the mean Katarina, not our nice but dumb one.
It's kind of annoying how hard sherries to deny the truth. She's not oblivious to it, she's just purposely lying to herself.
I completely agree with the translator's note in that last page. I understand that the manhua can't be as deep as the novel but they cut out too much for this part! The dynamic between May, Irene, and our dear, knight turned teacher Eltek is so much deeper and complex than these last few chapters made it out to be.
The lack of focus on their characters in the first place makes the stage scene seem like some one off side story that has no relevance to the plot, when the dynamic between these characters is an integral piece for not only why this play worked so well, but for how they become regular spreaders of Roland's propaganda thru plays, and for May's interest in Carter. Not only that but May during and before the play is a nice parallel and contrast to Nightingale who is in a similar situation and dealing with her own feelings of jealousy and inadequacy. The author of the light novel is very good and not doing what's so common in Chinese wuxia and "she's dating the CEO" (idr what the genre is called) type themes so common in Chinese works. These women get jealous because they are in a "one sided" love but they don't let it degrade them or stop them from doing their jobs/what they are best at. It saddens me that the manhua author didn't let us see the full extent of that.
Lastly, lol Roland is such a nerd, "It's high noon!" And lol why does the translator not think that we don't know who Cinderella is? Is literally the most popular fairytale in the world. I'll also admit that I'm a little upset because the scenes with May are always some of my favorites and this scene in particular is easily in my top 5 but we barely got to see it
Lol same same. I do recognize that there's only so much the manhua can do when it comes to in depth details. It really can't compare to the novel there but it does have its own strength in terms of diagrams and visual imagery. I don't know what all the flowers mean for example but I know that Lilies in Asian, specifically Japanese culture, mean lesbian love. So whenever lilies pop up in the background behind Nightingale and Wendy, it's just a little Yuri fanservice that we wouldn't be able to see the same level of in the novel. We know how Nightingale feels so s yuri Route for her isn't possible but I'm only like 700+ chapters in the novel so maybe it might happen for Wendy. I'd think the author would ship her with Ash if Ash weren't already in a relationship with Tilly... So cute!
They finished the one where she starts out as an 8 year old so now they are dropping her right into the school year?? I love it, more interaction the good girls like Sienna please
It has two themes that I keep seeing in Japanese manga that irritates me to no end.
1. Incest hinting. This is somewhat subverted due to it being legal to marry your first cousin in Japan last I checked (it has something to do with Japan's low birth rates and love of blood purity). The main character refers to Luther as her brother, was raised as his sibling, and clearly sees him as a brother so the random moments where they get all flirty really creeps/grosses me out. This is a common trope in Japan for some reason as not being a direct and full blooded sibling makes it okay for some reason? Idk, I see it a lot in manga and hate it every time.
2. The fat shaming. Yes, an 80kg (approx 176lbs) 10/11 year old is absolutely unhealthy. The way she talks about her problems being attributed solely to being fat or the way she essentially describes not skinny = ugly is just so messed up on so many levels. I do like that it showed a somewhat realistic time frame/rate at which she lost weight but I don't like how they presented the message in a fat shaming way.
I was actually very happy at the scenes where they talked about girls being different body types. After all the fat shaming, I wasn't expecting the acknowledgement that certain dress types that are in fashion don't go with every body type which tends to make girls self conscious. I just wish that it didn't translate to an obsession with being skinny in the end, as if being skinny = being beautiful/loved.
I also liked/didn't like how they addressed the eating habits. So the like part first: Based on the info we are given about Brittany before the MC inhabited her body, we eventually learn that she essentially had an eating disorder due to frustrations in her life. She starts overeating at the age of 3 when her parents died. Her grandfather is shown to be an overindulging caretaker, not just with her but his children as well, to the point where he lets it lead to the decline of his territory. He can't be relied on to raise her properly or discipline her. Her aunt and uncle have paid no attention to her, only the money that her grandfather gave them. Lastly, her cousin, also frustrated with the state of their family, only paid enough attention to her to further his own goals. Her maids who are supposed to be beneath her, don't ignore her but actually bully her to the point where she gets mad and bullies them back. Being the child that she is, she doesn't know restraint and goes overboard. Receiving no love from anyone but her overly doting grandfather, she just asks him for more sweets to drown her frustrations in. It's to the point where she will sleep eat in the middle of the night which shows some real dangerous levels of addiction.
And now the dislike part: These are such good story elements yet they are just tossed in there without much care as they are played for laughs. This had the potential to be such a deep story but it's just used to fat shame instead of build up some kind of character development. We do at least see some of this when the "3 villainesses" gather to talk about their looks and learn a harsh truth, but it's not nearly to the level that the constant fat shaming is. It would be one thing if the main character was saying she wanted to do this primarily for her own health, like she tells her grandfather when he's worried that she's not eating enough, but it's shown time and again that isn't. Because skinny = beauty in this book which is a terrible message.
I completely agree with you there!
Unfortunately I can understand the (bullshit) decision to call them just "friends". Gay rights aren't that accepted in South Korea tho it is way more accepted than it is in China. We occasionally see more bold media from South Korea but non from China because China is a very authoritarian state that censors everything. So while it is disappointing I can understand why it says that the two men we've all been rooting for are just "friends" in the end. It is also possible that China made the author or publishing company censor them as friends instead of lovers rather than the author or publishing company making that decision themselves.
However from what we've seen, I believe the author's intent was to portray them as a gay couple regardless of what that last line said. I find it equally odd that not only did the author finish this last year, but "just happened" to decide on making an epilogue featuring them last just in time for February/Valentine's day. That, to me, feels like too much of a coincidence and more like an attempt at combating being forced to write them as friends.
Also yay it's getting made into an Anime! And the 3d animation actually looks good. China is known to censor it's animation departments more than it's webtoons tho so be prepared in case we see a lot less of our sweet gay bois
Well the carefree-prince-brother doesnt even appear In the trailer so you can think of censorship there........I doubt this pj will appear at all and I want to cry
It's sad but to be expected as long as the Chinese Communist Party is in power. They really don't like gay people or anyone that's not their view of the perfect Chinese citizen. An animation team animating a gay couple is enough to get put in jail by the proganda/censoring dept. So it's not that the people don't want to per se, It's more out of not doing it for their own safety.
Wait, I thought the preceptor is female?
I wish I had money so I could donate it to the translator asking for donations for his sick mother in the comic's margins （/TДT)/
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I understand that they are trying to make her seem cute by being like a child in the body of an adult but I always found it annoying. Especially whenever someone had to pick up after/fix her mistakes or whenever she was reluctantly brought along only because she was being too willful/couldn't be left on her own without supervision. She always irritated me because she wasn't a child and the things she did weren't accidents but just thoughtless.
That being said, she is a part of the family. I never liked her, but I never hated her. I especially never wanted her to die, let alone from such a cowardly method. I'm glad she's back.
Same. I never liked her either. I'm sad that sometimes she seems more important than Benimaru when he should be. Oh well, glad that she's back and alive again. Looking forward to the changes of her reviving
hope she would mature a bit tho after her revival
I hope so too but I don't really have faith in it since that's what the author deems to be a cute character. If she doesn't, her selfish (or maybe it's not selfish but stupidity? Idk) disregard for the situation/others may be somewhat annoying but it's not a manga dropper as it's done in a childlike, innocent manner of not understanding the consequences of your actions.
That's what many Japanese men like: a pretty, posessive, clumsy girl with big boobs, I first thought. But seeing most of international fans love Shion, maybe we are the weird one for liking a more normal and less annoying characters.
Read the web novel, you will know what will happen next.
Im still not at that part since i started reading it in the beginning of the novel but im still excited at what would happen next
I know how you feel. When I read the novel and saw what would happen more in the future, I felt like wthhhhhh. Author-san likes Shion so much, even taking her to the banquet, always being willful and causing ruckus while Benimaru is stuck in the city and has so much less scene. Like, he’s the Commander in chief but we don’t get to see him much. And how did Shion even manage to keep her position as a secretary when Shuna does all the secretary’s work?! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Ah, I think that's the thing I don't like about her character most but couldn't place it until you said this. Everyone else has worked hard to earn their position and contribute to Tempest, even the arrogant lizardman turned dragonnewt guy whose name I'm forgetting. Shion, on the other hand, they just give a free pass to literally everything. She loves Tempest just as much as everyone else but no one disciplines her for her behavior/mistakes when she tries to show that love thru her failed efforts. So she doesn't correct her behavior/makes the same mistakes again and that's frustrating to look at. I didn't even remember that she was listed as a secretary because she has no place in an office, especially when Shuna does all her work.
They can't leave her by herself and they don't teach her anything so she just comes off as a spoiled child in the body of an adult that has no purpose in the story other than being part of the big family. If they at least had her in some kind of bodyguard role (not specifically for rimuru but anyone), patrol/police force, or literally anything that uses her one talent instead, maybe it would make more sense for her character. As it stands now tho, she's just kinda... There. And you remember that she's there when she causes an embarrassing scene or caused something to go awry.