But to be fair, I'd appreciate it if they could at least give us lyrics, instead of just the sparkles and the breeze and the glow and-well, you know what I mean...
It's completely okay to criticize a story. The singing part is relevant to the plot... but that doesn't change for some readers that it's a complete bore to read. I'm almost certain it could've been approached in a more interesting way.
i agree, i used to really like the story and i understand the way Lippe is thinking, however it's a boring process with a lot of unwanted relationships ((like hal and lippe)) and also i just can't see why the duke castillo is trying to keep lippe away from the emperor? does he remembers the past life or not? what is his power? WHY THE FUCK THEY WENT FLYING IN THAT ONE CHPTER??? i just can't follow it, the autor is making things happen just because.
so yeah i do not see it as a good arc but things may get better in the future
I mean, this story centers around how nobles and politics, of course there will be plenty of slow burn parts since despite the Rustichel's demise in the previous life, they're not actually at the thick of the power play yet, and whatever occurred in the prev life that made the church move against the Rustichel, it probably hasn't occured yet, so narurally, Lippe's progress would be slow in her plan to downplay the church's authority.
She doesn't have the power nor the resource to take any drastic measure and she's a bit of a public figure with her modelling, so obviously she have to take extra care, not to mention she didn't want to upset the balance in the aristocracy so much that it cause her family's reputation to suffer too much since it could paint the back of the Rustichels' in red and alert the church enough to to target them again.
She's being cautious and realistic, and considering her circumstances; no considerable power, no magnificient achievement to contribute to the society of her own merit(modelling is just...well...), her age(I mean, previous life not withstanding, she's twelve, and her conflicting age identity from her prev life does NOT help), so I think what she's doing right now, although it may seem insignificant, but songs have the power to sway people's opinion and gives people hope and courage(like hunger games mockingjay) and it would be the starting point of discussion for nobles to ease into its concepts(instead of all the church jargon they've been fed their whole life), its subtle and easily overlooked until everyone is humming its tune unconsciously and incorporating it in their daily life...
And this arc also focus on her possible partner and allies for the future which is also important for the plot as it could open so many doors of possibility with each of their chosen careers and ranks if they choose to help her actively in her endeavours(the fight against the church)...The eye candies, minor squabbles, cracks and fluff in this arc is probably the calm b4 the storm that will shake the whole noble society once Lippe actively begin to spread folk songs and in turn soften the rigid stance of society against even SINGING stg not of church's origins....so we should probably enjoy the lull before being bombarded with numerous frustrating cliffhangers in the next arc....
All in all, stop criticizing the story, we all know how long the story would be when we first picked it up, since its related to church conspiracy(and those kinds of story are NEVER SHORT) so of course, there will be parts that are slow...