somnia's manga / #Reincarnation(193)

First of all, this is an amazing take on the reincarnation/isekai cliche. I cried like a b*tch during multiple chapters. It's very much still cliche though, there's this "girl is modest, girl only do magic and men fight" kind of undertone to it, but I think the bigger is the GIANT PLOTHOLE THAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT??? WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT IT??? This awful Goddess was able to cockblock a holy deathray from this priestress and basically skype called both FL and the hero no problem all the time... WHY DIDN'T SHE DO ANYTHING TO HELP FL'S FIRST LIFE FROM MESSING UP THE DEMON SOUL CLEANSING!? NVM THAT, WHY DIDN'T SHE INTERFERE THE OTHER REINCARNATIONS' TRAGEDIES BEFORE THE WORLD WAS UNABLE TO HANDLE MORE MAGIC? I also do not understand why the heroes and the demon king are connected. It was explained that Marcus absorbed the demon king's soul and became the second demon king that way, and then the Goddess bestowed new vessel powers to another dude to fight him (btw why even do that?) - so how are these new heroes even connected to the demon king? The author made these magic shenanigans so convoluted and twisted that they contradict each other in the end. It would've been better if the Goddess was a no-show and/or just powerless. Her involvement alone kind of destroys my enjoyment of the story. Man, I was so mad when she talked about how Jun just got karma'd by the universe for being resentful when she is the sheer cause of this bullshittery, and the only one who is truely able to change shit but doesn't. I didn't finish complaining about the Goddess either, there's still at least 2 more complaints and contradictions I can point out about her. The author wrote themselves into a corner trying to make so much magic fate destiny shit up. Alone the whole thing about Jun's friends becoming her protective patrons or whatever is so out of left field. Then there's this random comment from the Goddess saying MC's current lover/hero could become a demon king, even though the demon king's soul is cleansed and gone. What? They just kept adding more tragic magic mechanics and ended up with a mess. From a objective view it would've been better to stick to a simple magic formula instead of creating some epic crescendo. Please hate that Goddess with me. But alas, I still love the story and will reread it again. The ending alone makes my heart melt.

MC got isekai'd into a shitty romance novel as the villainess and instead of adapting to the world, she seeks to leave it behind no matter the cost. The premise of the story's unique, the execution is good as well. An interesting perspective that is executed well imo. And there's also a bunch of other concepts like witches and fates that have a unique twist. Also love that the original heroine isn't made out to be the MC's (aka the villainess') main opponent, but still has a complicated relationship with her... they all have interesting relationships with each other. *Chef's kiss*

85/ Hilise is the illegitimate child of the Inoaden family and lived through 7 lives, where she is killed by her own family and experiences betrayal over and over again. You know her family is absolute dogshit when one of the popular tags is "trashy stupid family" and so on. The story starts in her 8th (or 7th? somewhere around that) jump back into the past and is the point where she snaps and stops giving a damn about everyone and everything. Her main focus is to find a way to stop the constant time reversals while slapping away the obstacles which stand in her way. Honestly, the drama here is good. But I feel like the number of reincarnations it took for Hilise to get to this point is a bit too much. Either that or it would've been better not to have her just remember every detail of all lives right from the start. It makes her look like an idiot, and that kind of starts to infect the rest of the plot. I felt so much "Why did this have to happen?"-energy when reading some parts, just asking myself why the hell she wasn't able to at least semi-calmly gtfa from her family at an earlier point. Anyway, the drama here is good. I feel Season 1 Hilise is playing up the slay sis vibes more (and maybe she's a tad inconsistent) than the Hilise after that. Now her duality and the struggle to keep her heart closed and cold are clearly shown off. The lore and world building are also interesting, though most of the time all that just doesn't feel like this takes place in a... place, if that makes sense. I don't have a clue where their mansions are located, nor the King's Palace or this counsil archive thing I forgot the name of. We don't get to see what is where in relation to one another. It's very unnoticable while reading but to me, personally, it makes my reader's perspective feel even slimmer than it already is. It's a tad discomforting for me, not gonna lie. Other than that everything from her last7 or so lives to future events seem to be planned out really well, can't wait for future chapters.