July's manga / #Isekai(79)

Uhhhhhh. This is really bad. The art is poor -- the coloring and heavy solid lines are extremely unappealing to look at. The body proportions are off. People walk around half-naked or naked like it's normal, for fan service purposes, even when the drawings are atrocious and no one wants to see such abnormally drawn muscular bodies (except the rabid fangirls/boys). Anatomically speaking, more is not always better. There's a limit on how muscular a guy's body should be. Also, it's not realistic that every guy is that muscular. Unless I guess this is bara. Does it even make sense that a mage is that muscular, even more muscular than the knights and the kings? You do know that mages fight with magic and not with physical strength right? Anyway, the male lead is a passive idiot and he just goes along with everything. Not to mention he's acting completely out of character for his supposedly evil king persona, yet no one questions it. People seem to forget that he's a king sometimes, including himself. He doesn't even speak like royalty, he uses informal language. You know he's doing a bad job when his daughter sounds more like royalty than him. Even the young prince of the other kingdom sounds more formal. Also, I don't know which country would just call the King by his first name, people would always address royalty without names, since it's a title. You don't say King Kenneth directly to his face. Ugh. Also Kenneth is a terrible name. Vicar is not a name, it's a position in the church. Sigh. So awful.

Honestly, this webtoon was only good until maybe the second or third chapter. It went super downhill from there, and now I think it's dug itself into a hole so deep it can't even get out of it. The author wrote themselves into a ditch, apparently. Then decided to go ultra magic! on this story, and now it barely makes any coherent sense. The art is alright, but if you look closely, the artist is lazy at drawing everyone except the female lead. Only the female lead is carefully drawn, with constantly changing hairstyles and clothing. Everyone else is just bleh and sometimes, the art quality can decrease a lot in a single chapter, if it doesn't feature the female lead. The artist is also not that great at establishing shots or backgrounds, and draws far too many headshots and characters from the waist up. What really irks me is the constant freaking gushing of how handsome the male love interest is in nearly every single chapter. It's like the author doesn't know what else to make the female lead say when she's thinking to herself. Shut up! I am a reader and I have eyes, so let me be the judge, thank you. By the way, with my very eyes, I don't see him as that handsome that you feel the need to remind me every single time you see him. It also makes the female lead sound stupid and shallow. Basically, this does nothing to advance anything and it's a waste of panels. The male lead also thinks to himself about how beautiful the female lead is quite often, but not to the irritating extent the female lead does. Honestly, a lot of the chapters are just spent with the two characters praising the hell out of each other in their heads. What happened to "Show, don't tell?" I really detest it when the authors think their readers are so stupid that everything unimportant needs to be spelled out for us, instead of focusing on plot and writing actual believable conflicts. You know what, this webtoon is basically Twilight. You heard me! Except instead of vampires, everyone's a god. She's a god, he's a god, the maid is a god, and there's another random god wandering around somewhere. Uhm but maybe at least Twilight had some conflict with the werewolves, I have no clue where this pile of steaming trash is trying to go. There's some weird plot line about how he's a supposedly evil god, and then absorbed the other gods, and the last god ran away, but then he reincarnated and ... Yeah no clue. Why is that even important, since obviously he's not a threat to the last god if he doesn't remember he killed the other gods? Or maybe the conflict is that all the other gods are going to kill him, but then they made a point somewhere back there that he's super OP, so it's not like that's a real concern. Yeah, just avoid this. It sucks.

The art is cute. Panelling is fine, flow is understandable and pacing is good, not confusing and overloaded with events like other promo one shots. I would be interested in reading more. The story seems to be a cross of I Am A Child of This House x Who Made Me A Princess, both of which I liked. I wish that it focuses more on childhood than quickly growing up the main character though, since that's what happened to those two webtoons, and it got less interesting from there in both instances. We'll see if this ever becomes serialized as a webtoon.

Female lead gets hilariously stabbed to death by an Eiffel Tower decoration while she's eating cake. One of the most creative ways I've seen an author kill off the character for an isekai. She thinks she's in an otome game, until she learns her real name in French, which is Marie Antoinette, and then she's like "Oh Crap!". Also, her Prince Charming has dead fish eyes, and is completely uninterested in her. Nothing is going as she expected, and I'm curious how she will change the course of history, knowing that Marie Antoinette will die by guillotine during the French Revolution. The art is pretty good, basically in line the standard of manga. It's not the most spectacular manga art, but it's fine as it is, for a shoujo manga.

I like this female lead, she tries hard to improve herself and is very smart. She's even aware of her shortcomings and lack of power to influence events as she is now, which is so refreshing to see. The only off-putting thing is she keeps wanting to be a villainess, which is somewhat childish of an aspiration. Although characters in otome games are divided into heroine and villainess, once you're living out your life as a character, you've become the hero of your own story. So there's no need to stick to a certain path. But maybe it's for comedic effect. The art is good and the pacing is great so far. I really like this manga, I hope it continues to be of this quality in storytelling.

It's basically an isekai Cinderella type story, except Cinderella isn't so innocent, and she has more than one Prince Charming as possible suitors, I'm guessing from the cover and the first chapter. I can't really place why, but the female lead is very off-putting to me. It might have to do with how blasé she is about her situation, and she's manipulating people in an unsympathetic manner. Her stepfamily doesn't really treat her that badly, so I am not completely on board with how she wants to ruin their chances of living comfortable lives, just because her own character had been killed off early on. She's not likeable and she's not intelligent, coming off as brash and reckless. Her motivations are weak, all she wants is to be a golden spoon for the rest of her life, with no other real goals in mind. That's really unrealistic. Even rich people have lots of problems, happiness can't be bought, after all. The art is decent for this webtoon, on par with most shoujo isekai webtoons, but I personally don't like the designs of the characters myself.

A man is randomly summoned to a different world by "accident" by a goddess, and the new world he's in operates like an RPG game. He's chosen to be a craft type class, so he begins his quest by collecting and hoarding everything he sees, and his item box has unlimited capacity. A somewhat basic isekai with an OP hero who starts off with the best of the best in terms of skills and equipment, etc. He's not really a unique character, and I don't like him as a protagonist. Everything goes super smoothly for him, it's rather boring to read. World-building is rather weak so far, so the story isn't engaging in any way.

A pianist gets transported to the past after getting yelled at by his father for not being good enough, only to meet a young violinist who's being scolded by his father for lack of emotion in his playing. Only then does the pianist realize he's in the presence of the legendary genius musician that his father had wanted him to emulate. The art is good, the panelling is great, especially in the prologue. The two male characters aren't that annoying but not too distinctive yet, and I think it's a realistic type of reaction after such a strange encounter. Looking forward to more.

Ahhhh this isekai manga about cooking is hilarious, I really enjoyed all the chapters that are out so far. She was summoned to another world, but it turns out she isn't the saint, and instead was mocked for her chubbiness. She quickly learns to use her cooking skills to win over everyone in this new world, because the food they eat sucks. The personalities of the three royal brothers are distinct and complement each other. Art is good for shoujo manga, although not the most detailed.

A girl from Japan is isekai'd to a fantasy world where the men of the royal family can marry multiple women, and to avoid becoming Crown Princess, she decides to lose her virginity at a masquerade ball, only to discover that the man who took her virginity was the Crown Prince himself. Ugh, what a contrived plot line. The characters are all bland and one-note. The girl is an idiot, and many characters have commented on how stupid her plan was. I disliked the fall in love at first sight trope with the prince because it's unoriginal and wasn't even executed in a compelling way to freshen it up. Art is alright by manga standards, but not impressive in any way.