July's manga / #Fantasy(145)

Oh my god, this manga is really not good. In terms of both the art and the story. The art is horrendous, all the people look like some poorly drawn cartoon characters, and they're neither cute nor beautiful to look at. The plot is some weird crossover of Harry Potter x Boku no Hero Academia, where the protagonist is OP but he needs to act like he sucks at magic to pose as an ordinary student at the magic academy. It's not even done in a fun or interesting way, since all the characters are super ugly and stupid and common tropes of things you expect to see in a typical shounen manga. And wow, it turns out that the only teacher in the school introduced so far is an arbitrary bad guy, who's shown to be super strong, but then gets trounced in 1 second flat by the male lead because he's so OP.

It's an isekai story, but instead of a fantasy RPG/adventure type game reincarnation, it's more of a strategy kingdom-building simulation game that takes place in a fantasy setting. I think this concept is pretty interesting, since I love playing kingdom simulation games. It's cool that all the other characters in the game see the male lead as an evil shadowy blob, since his alignment is assigned to be evil. The art is so-so, the shading is great, but the character art is pretty ugly-looking. Waiting for more chapters.

Nothing about this webtoon makes any sense, largely due to the horrible translation. I really don't know what is happening at all. There's a lot of cute chibi animals and magic flying around, but no real plot. The kingdom where the female lead lives is enemies with another kingdom where one of the male love interests lives, and they're scheming stuff about using magic and taking over the other kingdom. The art is pretty bad, everything looks like a cartoon, and most of the characters are drawn in a simplistic way that is not nice to look at.

It's confusing what is happening, since there's no establishment of who the characters are, or what their motives or purposes may be. It doesn't do a good job setting up the story, but the art is very nice. Hopefully, it gets better with time but there have been no recent updates.

There's some good stories in there. They were all nice, not just focusing on pure smut, it tried to introduce complex elements of their various relationships with each other. Art was ok, not the best, but tolerable to read. The last story was the best in my opinion, it dealt with a boy who's been in love with his best friend for 15 years, and how they slowly accepted their new relationship as lovers.

It's pretty interesting so far, a man is isekai'd to the world of a novel he was reading before he fell asleep. He's a minor villain in the novel, and he's striving to live a peaceful life with as little conflict as possible. I think he seems more intelligent than other male leads in the isekai genre, so I'm curious what will happen next. The art is not bad, I really like the look of the male lead character.

I'm a little confused about what is happening, is this an isekai or not? It seems she knows things about the future, or is it based on rumours she has heard? It's a little unclear about that. The art is quite beautiful, but I don't like the look of the characters. They're just not good-looking to me. The female lead is too weak, and it's hitting the readers over the head with how scared she is, but it's rather unrealistic in my opinion. She thinks too much and acts too little. There are problems with the way her weakness is being conveyed. She doesn't attempt to change or improve her situation. The male lead is almost borderline abusive, and he swears way too much. He doesn't attempt to understand her or why she's so scared, and they just assume stuff about each other instead of properly communicating. Hopefully it gets better from here. Update: This webtoon is just terrible. Every chapter is the same. The female lead is anxious and worried, and internally whining about how she's not a good match for the male love interest, and the male love interest is all horny and they have sex. There's no development, and no conflict. All the servants love her, even when she's thinking that they hate her, blah blah. So ridiculous. She doesn't try to improve herself, not even one bit. I'm okay with weak heroines, but they need to show desire for growth and change, and she's not exhibiting it at all. Instead of just sitting on your butt, why don't you improve yourself? Also, there are speech therapists that can help fix or make the stutter less. I know because I know someone in real life who stutters. This is seriously just using something very real to an ill, cheap effect for dramatic purposes, and it's insulting.

The art is beautiful, but the translation does not do the story justice. Nothing so far makes any sense, and it's a waste of the the art. The manhua looks like a Chinese comic book, with the thick lines and bold colors. The story has no substance, and is meaningless. What a pity. The male lead is not properly introduced, and we know nothing about his motivations or ambitions, it's just a lot of empty talking. It seems like he had a redo of his old life, but sometimes he himself forgets about everything in his old life, when he should remember to successfully redo this life. Also, it's weird that he's so clueless about important things that he should have remembered if he already live through all of this before. There's nothing worth reading here at the moment, but maybe it will improve in the future?

Female lead is reincarnated into a villainess, who is quickly banished to live as a nun, but she enjoys her new carefree life. Instead of despairing, she starts to cook modern Japanese food for the villagers. All is well until key characters from her villainess life reappear in the monastery she is living in, making her life more complicated once again. It's pretty decent, although weird and nonsensical at times. None of the characters are too stand-out though, so it's mostly forgettable. There isn't much of a plot going on, either.

Isekai x wine making x magic/cultivation type webtoon. Fairly standard so far, but there's only two chapters, so not much to judge by. Art is ok, but not the best. I'm not that impressed by this.