July's manga / #Webtoon(264)

Female lead learns her boyfriend of 17 years died of a plane crash on the night he proposed to her, and she wants to turn back time to fix their relationship. She gets what she wished for, but it seems her past isn't what she remembered. There are several moments and things that have changed around, and she wonders if she can make her old boyfriend fall deeper in love with her this time around. I'm confused what their old relationship used to be before time was reversed, since it didn't really show many problems, besides that they were drifting apart, and that she felt somewhat suffocated in the relationship. That's not really enough to go on, since now she's back in time, she seems like she's heads over heels with him all over again. And the only reason she wished to see him again after learning of his death was because she did love him? So I don't know why she was so unhappy in the beginning. Maybe it will be addressed later. And surprisingly, the art in the actual webtoon is much better than the cover art, which is rare, since usually the cover art is gorgeous and the actual art is crap.

Read on Webtoons, which has the latest chapters. Although I liked this webtoon in the beginning, the female lead just kept annoying me with her stupidity and selfishness, whining about how the world is out to get her. She's weak and always dependent on others. It made me not care whether she lived or died midway through, because she has zero redeeming qualities. But it's worth a read for those heart-pounding chase sequences. The girl's intelligence is about the same as those in horror movies, ridiculously dumb and always tripping and heading straight towards danger instead of doing something logical. The art overall is below average, but it really is excellent at the intensity of how the panels are drawn when it gets tense. Update: This is rare for me, but I'm bumping it up a star. Although the second season's protagonist seems as shitty as the first protagonist, the premise of the second season is so much more interesting. It takes a supernatural and psychological turn, and it may even get better. At least I certainly hope so, since it opened with a bang in the first couple chapters.

Trash webtoon about fake OP medicine skills and lots of perverted old guys. It's obvious that this will be a harem webtoon with all the girls hanging on the male lead like lawn ornaments without any agency, because the girls are drawn really well here while in contrast, the guys look awful. Translation is also terrible, and barely makes sense. Art overall is slightly below average, since it uses very simple coloring and line work.

Cool webtoon about cooking simple dishes for college students who have no time to cook proper meals. Looks handy. Art is below average though. I enjoyed the real life pictures.

Looks like an unpromising BL so far. Also escalated too quickly. There's no proper introduction of characters, and many of them look similar. The two main characters end up kissing immediately because one of them got drunk. I don't think it's realistic for the other guy to react the way he did because he only just learned about the drunk one, and there's no emotional weight to what happened. Art is slightly below average, with sloppy lines and a boring color palate. Facial expressions need work. Too many watermarks everywhere. Doesn't seem like there will be much of a plot, with the first chapter already going for the couple to make out in front of the whole company.

Cats are somewhat cute, but there's so many cat manga/webtoons out there, this fails to meet the mark. The only chapter I liked was Chapter 12 with the talking-out-loud-while-dreaming cat, since that was relatable. Everything else before that was mediocre. The way the cats are drawn doesn't have much variety, suggesting limited skills on the author's part. Honestly, I thought the hamster was the cutest character. Maybe this will get better, but it's below par for me currently.

I'm a little confused why the female lead can remember the "memories" of the current body she's in because it's 5 years before the previous owner of her body died, so unless this is a do-over + isekai, that doesn't make sense... Maybe if this was a novel she read instead (like basically all other isekai webtoons), it would make sense why she would know her current body's end, but that doesn't seem to be the case, either. Well, ignoring that weird plot hole, the art is quite nice, although I don't like how the males are drawn. Her father is supposed to be handsome, but he's ugly (because he's older?), but his son that looks like him is also ugly, so I don't know. The girls are beautiful though, and the attention to background and detailing of the various ornate patterns is remarkable. I don't like the fact that the female lead seems to be OP, she's some rare type of magician who can melt all the fat in her body instantly by breathing Mana... If the original owner was able to do that too, why was she so fat, even to the point up to when she died? Why was she so pathetic to the very end? I guess she lacked the resolve to live because she was so unloved. I do like the sass of the current owner of her body, so that's a plus in my book. But honestly, the title should not be "I Became the Ugly Lady" because she's not ugly, not at all. She was only "ugly" as in "fat" for a couple chapters, and that was resolved easily. Now she's perfect, powerful, rich, and adored by her younger, equally perfect little sister. Yawn. Wish there was an actual isekai webtoon with a honest, deep focus on real ugliness that doesn't fat shame, because not everyone is born beautiful, and being fat doesn't necessarily make you ugly. Well, I still have hopes for this, so please don't disappoint me.

Ugh, another mediocre shoujo isekai webtoon. None of these ideas that have been presented so far are interesting nor original, and some of them are plain nonsensical. I have so many problems with the first three chapters of this webtoon, and I doubt that this will get better, but we'll see. I always give what I read the benefit of the doubt, but they let me down 99% of the time. Anyway. The female lead isekai'd to a novel she read or was reading, so it's not even clear if she knows the end of the novel beyond where her current body dies at the age of 12. It's not stated whether her character is the main character of that novel. The webtoon likes to info dump its readers without proper pacing, just does whatever it pleases, instead of letting the story flow more naturally. Basically, every time we encounter a new character, we learn of it as we go, as if it's completely new information to the female lead herself, with the way it's presented. This is because there's far too many male characters in this webtoon, and it's not feasible to do it like this. Not to mention, it introduces the reader to all four of them in some stupid pretend tea party thing, then backtracks to meeting them one by one. This essentially makes the initial chapter useless. Why were they even introduced that way to begin with? It's poor storytelling. The female lead is supposed to be really smart, but she acts like an idiot. I don't like her. She behaves like a child, and thinks like a child. Her previous life was spent doing pointless research that obviously wouldn't make money. What super string reincarnation theory? That sounds like a load of horseshit, it's not even scientific sounding at all. And she got that idea from playing too many otome games, so why isn't she isekai'd to an otome game? Why a novel? Then there's the weird setup of having four daddies, which is impossible and it's not even interesting. Just one is fine. Why change the reverse harem concept to something that cannot be executed properly? It's obvious that like all the other isekai webtoons out there, she's going to age super fast at some point to skip to romance. Also, knowing how important heirs are in any world, there's no way four powerful men would share her as their kid. She can only have one father. Another thing, if she's a princess, it should be clear who her father is, so what is the fuss about? Unless they're her godfathers or something. It hasn't been made clear yet. But it's dumb the way it's been presented in the useless initial chapter. Then there's the incredibly stupid magic going on. What are magic clothes that knock people out if they don't possess royal blood? In that case, if the magic is so advanced, it should be easy to make some magic clothes that can find her father's identity easily, if that was the point of contention about who her father is. Then there's that OP ribbon + gem combination that magically appeared in the second chapter. If the original owner of her body knew about this accessory, there's no way she would have been killed by the uprising at the age of 12, because it makes her invisible and changes her appearance. Why are you creating plot holes for yourself, author? Lastly, the descriptions are... So... Cheesy... Ugh.... "His beautiful cold hands were like jewelry made from ice"... What. I've never heard people describe hands like jewelry. Maybe eyes but definitely not hands. Perhaps if you said like a statue or like alabaster, I would buy it. Jewelry hands? Hahahaha! The art is alright though, and obviously the author paid special attention to make the female lead stand out, because she's drawn with most detail. Everyone else is drawn with lower quality though. Update: Each new chapter gets stupider and stupider. Now the ribbon + gem also have separate powers of explosion and protection. OP much? How the hell did she die at 12 with such powerful magic items at her disposal. Also, I just realized that the queen who is her mother supposedly slept with all four men, hence why no one knows who her father is. That's just dumb and I can't even suspend my disbelief at that. What makes the queen so powerful that she can have four of the strongest men sleep with her willingly, because none of the guys so far seem to have even loved her, or even have the capacity to love, such as the dark-haired one who has zero emotions. This again shows how poorly thought out this webtoon was. And why hasn't one of these four men stepped up to rule the country when the queen died? Technically, that should be possible. Instead, one continues to serve as a lowly knight and the other one just dances in an empty palace. There's even inconsistencies in the story itself. When she got kidnapped, the dark-haired one said he knew it was coming, so that's why he feigned an attack on the blonde-haired one, but then when I scrolled back to double check it, the kidnapper didn't even appear before he sliced the blonde guy's neck, so you lying. Also, if you were actually her father, you wouldn't let your daughter get kidnapped, dumbass. Ugh. This is so freaking bad, I can't believe that people actually like this bull crap.

So cute and touching. There's a lot of sadness but also joy when it comes to owning a pet. This webtoon manages to capture all of that.

Why is "Yaoi" a popular tag for this webtoon? It's just a straight up smut romance webtoon that doesn't work at all. The art is below par, the characters have zero chemistry and just want to have sex all the time. It's full of cliches like how sex makes your skin look good or some other stupid brain rotting nonsense. All the girls in the male love interest's swimming class fawn over him like he's so desirable, when he obviously doesn't make much money, and he's not good-looking either, at least by webtoon standards. The female lead is trying to hide her job from him, and I have no idea why, since it's not like an embarrassing job or anything. It feels like there was some sort of skip within chapter 2, because one moment he's texting to invite people to eat, and the next moment, the two of them are having sex. Bleh. Way below par. Even the smut is boring. This webtoon shouldn't even exist. Also, the art is horrible.