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This was definitely a guilty pleasure read, a kind of junk food you eat once in a week or something. I certainly enjoyed it but boy were those last few chapters pseudo-deep. Gave me r/im14andthisisdeep vibes (≧∀≦)

And the teacher keeps molesting the big bro like?? Dude stop. It's so weird how they're (the mangaka) writing characters so maturely at one point, then regressing the ML to being a creep and reinforcing the toxic stereotype held by homophobes that all gay men come onto straight guys. C'mon, what is the double standard? They even try to weirdly justify it by saying that the guy was drunk too though he clearly had enough sobriety to say that the big bro yelling would attract attention and lowkey threaten him.
Big Bro is the real mvp.

Anyone wanna spoil me? I'm welcoming them. Especially spoilers about who all were killed.

I don't want the nice friends to die! The asshole ones can, but the ones who never bothered em should make it out alive.

Why does Kartena look exactly like me here, just with a bob?(≧∀≦)
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/beware_of_the_villainess/uu/br_chapter-15997/pg-22/

Was an interesting chapter because of the two value systems clashing. I'm gonna try and lay out both sides of the argument for myself and anyone else interested. Mind these opinions are all mine and only based off of the current 25 chapters we've gotten and nothing else.
Judith: Her side is the more tricky one. Like most people she wouldn't like to hear someone gossiping about her, and like a few of us, would want to be liked, or at least, tolerated by most people if not all. Having some blatantly not like or dislike you can be a difficult pill to swallow even though it is a very obvious fact that no one in this world was, is, or will ever be liked by everyone in existence. It's not possible and that's fine, but it isn't to accept especially if faced with blatant dislike, hostility and the like. People can be self conscious so it feels nice to have people like you, whether that be due to narcissism or some complex. Not to mention, Judith likely doesn't want to feel uncomfortable in her living quarters if her maids will talk about her body and call her a whore. In addition, since her position in the house is so tentative, Luca's precarious and as the entire family is under scrutiny as nobles, a certain level of decorum must be kept which is seemingly missing between her, the widow of the house's late heir, and Ruediger, her brother in law. They can interpreted to be overtly familiar with each other, and we the readers know that they are due to their mutual affection and reaction. It can be unfair but these are also nobles with immense privilege so a certain level of duty must be upheld if they're to rule over a group of people eventually - the noblesse oblige. Judith to a degree understands and since she wants Luca to excel and herself to survive, is trying to maneuver the unfamiliar political landscape of the nobles as best as she can. It is unhealthy to care too much about other people's opinions, but if you're living in a society (and in Judith's case living as a privileged noble with her noblesse oblige) then you can't disregard what other people think entirely. It doesn't work like that. People need to reach out and connect with each other in order to solve misunderstandings and conflicts, and live as a society. She does need to stop allowing her self worth to be influenced by malicious rumours, but she can't just pretend to be entirely removed from the nobility and what that means for her position either, which she doesn't but that is what Ruediger doesn't get.
Ruediger: His side is the more obvious one. It makes sense from his side of the argument to not put so much weight on the opinions and words of others that you start questioning your very self, and in a classist society like this one, nobles likely wouldn't (shouldn't according to the nobles I bet) be easily swayed by the commoners. His is a very simple philosophy of karma in the sense that those who do bad will eventually be taken care of by the law or justice or something, so he doesn't allow himself to be fazed by public perception and simply dismissed those he deems untoward. At the same time however, there's a certain privilege associated with not caring about what others think, and mind, I don't mean not letting others ruin your vibes, but rather having enough power to simply squish all those who you cross you. His position as the heir may be tumultuous, but Ruediger is still a very powerful man who despite his struggles in life was scarce in need of food, shelter, protection and the very basest needs. His response to Judith's worries was simply to fire all the maids, maybe oblivious, maybe feeling righteous about all that would follow from unemployment to future job opportunities being shelved for those fired for - and this may sound a tad bit cruel on my part - gossip that was undoubtedly malicious and something unacceptable in that society, but had just begun and had very little consequence. Were their remarks cruel and unprofessional? Yes. Would it in a normal environment make them lose their jobs? Most likely. Did it still reveal quite a bit about Ruediger, so convinced with his privileged notions of justice that he could afford to fire maids without even a warning. Yes. It was an extreme response, comedic but also rather revealing of the kind of person he is, perhaps believing that people lack nuance, privileged, and someone capable of simply removing the fungus encroaching the walls due to status, power, and money, someone unconcerned with public reception because his livelihood and those he cared about would still be guaranteed, and so unlike Judith who lacked power in this scenario and all those maids working in the Duchy. Maybe the maid scenario is a bit unfair as the maids before had also similarly shown unprofessionalism by propositioning him but I still found his reactions to a bit extreme. With regards to Judith, no reader would begrudge him falling for her because we - and he - know the truth about Judith being Luca's aunt and not his mom, ergo not Jonas' widow. It doesn't make sense for them to care so much about the propriety since thus far they are just friends, and seemingly society has no say in their relationship so the opinions of others don't matter, but this is a fictional world with a classist system that nobles often exploit, and so they need to also do things to appease public sentiment. Ruediger saying that public opinion doesn't matter is unfair because he wouldn't have quite a few of his accommodations if he wasn't born who he was with a silver spoon in their mouth. So, while I do recognize some of his valid points, I'm also, like Judith, criticizing the unknowing privilege he often displays.
Both sides had interesting arguments and a nuanced value system with believable reasons so I'm interested to see how these two inherently different people will learn from each other, compromise and eventually fall in love.(๑•ㅂ•)و✧

Not really an in-depth analysis but just a small thing I thought. Regarding page 7 of chapter 23:
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/i_will_change_the_genre/uu/to_chapter-23/pg-7/
I just thought how strange it is to think someone who is mature would be cold, reserved, perhaps a bit withdrawn and solitary, sometimes even a bit standoffish. It's like thinking that maturity has to do more with suppressing emotions or trying to remove then, rather than dealing with them in a healthy manner and allowing yourself to feel each emotion you can.
A quiet, restrained child doesn't mean that the child is mature, just like it doesn't mean that there is something mentally and emotionally wrong with them.
Similarly, a loud, boisterous adult wouldn't make an unruly, irresponsible adult just like it wouldn't make them an eternal optimist.
Just a thought.

(Mind this is just going off of the chapters we've gotten thus far - 12 - & not the novel)

She seems to be a highly sheltered naïve kid who just reeks of privilege. Here's the thing, I don't think declaring that you will change the world is a naïve/ignorant statement because that's simply not my philosophy, but you can't save the world if you know next to nothing about it and take everything about it on a very surface level value. I don't think I was as oblivious as this one is when I was 16, and her situation is even more outrageously sus because she was legitimately kidnapped and taken into another world and given a burden that had nothing to do with her. It wasn't even a moral responsibility, no they took a child from another world and are now forcing this child to solve their problems.
Now it's not that bad declaring that you want to help regardless because you can't stand human suffering, but that doesn't mean you should forget to think about what kind of people you're among, and what possible lengths they could go to save their own hides, y'know, aside from kidnapping a child. As far as I can tell, she's treating the entire experience as a fantastical adventure because she hasn't stopped to even think about the very real threats her environment poses her. When she yelled at the MC and accused him of trying to make the people who'd escorted her thus far to be liars, her mentality of 'they said nice things to me ergo they're nice' or 'they told me what I wanted to hear ergo they're on my side'. The MC raising the very real warning about trusting strangers was something she didn't want as a part of her narrative.
Additionally, what teen wouldn't like to hear someone tell them that they're saviours of the world or something and basically get an overinflated sense of importance? I bet that's also what's happened to her. She was summoned to another world, made Jesus or something and led away by handsome men to be spoiled rotten. She's just seen the good, sheltered and privileged rosiness of this world and none of its thorns.
Regarding her constantly using the term 'corporate slave' as a way to demean the MC without realising its true implications is such a shitty teen thing to do. It's a thing where you either learn a phrase or something off of the internet and use it in real life without knowing anything about it from its origins to the context to even the meaning, or just use vulgar, cruel language to make yourself seem 'cool' or 'unique' or 'edgy' with all the privilege accompanying this kind of behaviour (eg. teens making rape jokes). It's just her richness shining through guys.
I wouldn't like her character to become cynical or pessimistic (Gods know we have enough Debbie Downers in the world already), in fact I feel as though we all should strive to be optimists, but it would be nice to see her become more aware of herself and the world around her, and take off her rose-tinted glasses. Looking forward to her development if she will have some.

is soooooo not my type. but the story is pretty decent so far.

Your child has no business being your therapist or working toward easing your burden. Get your shit together and raise that child properly instead of stewing in your own delusions and self pity. Parents like those who make their kids their crutches disgust me. Fuck Elliot.