pluviophiliac's manga / #fantasy wonderland(703)

“i wanna hear your voice up close…!” the weird girl exclaims as she passionately hunches down on her knees in front of a handsome classmate and his friend (?) that she’s never once talked to before. yeah, okay, and now i want to go KILL MYSELF. whyyyy would you say that??? i’m freakin’ DYING from all this secondhand embarrassment, and i’m not even past the goddamn panel panel yet—meaning i’ll have to go back and continue as soon as i’m done with my rant!!! i’m just hiding out over here, patiently waiting for the stress to simmer down. as an aspiring contemporary teenage sage once said in the ever so legendary comment section on the infamous webtoon app: “what in the toy story”

not a huge fan of this female lead tbh. things could always change in season two, though!!! you never know.

haha, looks fantastic!

i love her naïveté!!! i’m just glad they didn’t drag out the whole ‘she-doesn’t-know-his-true-identity’ trope for very long. such things can get a bit tedious, so that was a relief. i did feel kinda bad for her at first, knowing that he was only using her for his own gain, but that’s clearly not relevant anymore, so i’m letting that one goooo. they’re great together! and they definitely make each other better people… in different aspects. alfonse makes her stronger, both physically and mentally, while esme introduces him parts of life that were previously unfamiliar to him—such as emotions, activities, perspectives… alfonse makes her more capable, and esme makes him seem more human. i love to see it! in any case (in case it wasn’t already made clear), i’ve thoroughly been enjoying myself thus far! things didn’t go the way i expected, so that was a pleasant surprise. honestly, i’m a bit baffled by the relatively ‘poor’ reviewing, though, given that this manhwa isn’t in any way bad—nor is it much different from similar comics of the genre. personally, i feel it’s being misrepresented. even though i wasn’t a massive fan at the beginning, the characters grew on me, and now i can absolutely see the appeal. it a getting better and better by the chapter, too! anyway. great character development, though, i must say! i might’ve said something of this nature already, but i initially expected a typically sweet romance with a weak female lead and a violent male lead that swoops in to save the day whenever said female lead happens to be in trouble. that’s not exactly what i found, though… well, obviously. they’re an ACTUAL power-couple now, lol. i know i talked about esme’s naïveté in the beginning, but now that i’ve actually read the entirety of season one, i can positively confirm that said notion didn’t remain relevant for very long. however, i DO realize that they’re both still maturing, and that they have a long way to go—both respectively and as a couple, heh. nonetheless, she’s surprisingly forward, brave and resilient—which is something i wouldn’t have expected to see form her—and i love the fact that she’s tagging along on his missions!!! albeit FORCED to tag along the first couple of times at the beginning of their relationship, lol. well, that’s all whatever. keep up the good work, lovebirds!!! i expect a great deal of romance (and action) from you two in the upcoming season. i’m looking forward to it!

hmmm… it was a bit anticlimactic, i guess. the art felt somewhat stiff… and ‘unexpressive’, if you will—which i’d say was a bit unfortunate. i thought that the actual story itself had some potential. i believe the overall reading experience would’ve been much more enjoyable with a different artist, or maybe just a different art style. other than that, it was just like any other typical isekai of this particular genre! not a lot of emotional depth or enticing characters… i’m just glad it wasn’t dragged out for too long.

soooo much better than expected!!! way more complex, too. honestly, i didn’t feel that way back when i’d only read a couple of chapters, but i definitely changed my mind over time. the story keeps improving by the chapter, and—surprisingly—i’m rather looking forward to reading more of it now; which isn’t something i would’ve said once i first started out, either. (but i’m saying it now!!!) in any case, because of that, i originally gave this manhua a 4/5 star rating, but i just changed that to 5/5 because of the 20 most recently released chapters or so. plot-wise, it’s quite unique! and pretty unexpected. i like the art as well; it SLAPS for a manhua. joanna’s such a goddamn queen, though, ughhh. she’s just an awesome individual. i actually rather appreciate us having vincent for a male lead, atop… he’s interesting. and super pretty! it’s nice seeing a discreet role-reversal story every now and then, haha. slow-burns are just the best. <33 P.S. there’s an official english translation easily accessible on manta, by the way! i believe it’s completely free, too. but if it’s NOT, in fact, free on the manta app: i’ll have you know that a monthly subscription isn’t particularly expensive. i pay a monthly fee of $3.60 and therefore have full access to everything published on there. the comics are of great quality, too! definitely worth the money. :) figured i’d just let y’all know about it since there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of people using that app from what i’ve seen… but, of course, i could be wrong.