I understand ur feelings about this shoujo, but please trust me. These translation are wrong. U can see the scan is broken af. Im sure these are just English translation from the illegally scans from Vietnamese publisher. They have been wrongly translate and fix the conversation of characters
on their own desire which leads to misunderstanding. I have read these wrong trans since i was still elementary school, and it affects my belief still then
Trust me, my issue with the story has nothing to do with the translation. I loved it, I read 30 volumes of it after all and the last ten were in Chinese, so I literally had to guess what was happening, which was easy because the story was repeating itself. The issue is that everything just repeats ever and over, it takes several volumes for any significant development to happen, Carol didn't seem to get any better because she kept making dumb decisions that got other people killed.
I just got tired of it, and reading raws was tiring anyway, so I found some spoilers and decided to drop it.
Oh i understand now, thanks for the clear explaination (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Spoilers ahead.
I read the raws until vol 30, and I just had to stop. It is so repetitive. Right from the beginning, she meets someone, they either want her or want to kill her, she gets kidnapped a lot of times, other times she does something stupid that gets her taken because she's not vigilant enough/is too gullible. Somehow, she forgives the fact that Isis killed her father, attacked her and her brother, and abandoned her to be a slave in Egypt, she comes to 'love her like a sister.' Even when she finds out Isis colluded to kill her, she still wants to save her.
Bullsh*t.
I still really like the story because the outfits are nice and the guys (Pharaoh and Hittite prince) are hot with amazing hair, and I love some of the Pharaoh's clothes (the all black outfit I get to see him wear twice, for example.) The art style gets a lot better compared to the beginning, which I appreciate. Also, when they're not getting into a fight or Carol is doing something stupid, I do think she and the Pharaoh look cute together.
Because the story is old, I'm giving it a lot of concessions, making a lot of excuses for how dumb everyone is acting (there are very few rational people in this manga, maybe the Pharaoh's prime minister guy and Carol's bodyguard, and even they are questionable at times). I wouldn't mind if someone did a remake of this, though I'm not sure I'd love it with a more 'modern' heroine. If I had to pick a character Carol could emulate, it would be Yona from Akatsuki no Yona (I can't think of anyone else really, I need to check out more good shoujo manga.) A lot of modern heroines just piss me off in a different way, because they're still very similar to Carol. My problem with her, is not that I want her to suddenly turn badass (like the Red River character) I just want her to grow some common sense and some caution.
As of Volume 30, she seems to have picked up two new admirers (along with the Hittite king, nor really a new one but it seems he wants her now, Ishmir/Izumi even let her escape so his father wouldn't get her.)
She did drop back to the present, but she gets held by someone who falls for her (so technically 3 admirers, but once she's back in Egypt/the past he's not really seen there - he did try to hide her from her family and kept kissing her when she was asleep. He's a rich kid with Arabic origins I guess because he wears Arabic clothes(?), but he does get her back to her family before she falls back to the past. Of course, she gets kidnapped first.)
I can picture how Vol 30 would go from the first 50 pages I skimmed, someone else will kidnap her or something and she'll need to be saved again (by one of her 2 new admirers, both obviously respected-looking leaders like all the other major players). The site I went to for the raws has 63 Volumes and I read somewhere in the comments it completes at Vol 83. This whole story could have been concluded in 10 volumes, maybe 20 if you stretch it, because all that happens is she gets into trouble over and over and someone keeps saving her, a bunch of people love her/want her for convoluted reasons and keep trying to own her, the occasional sprinkled in conflict/war, and then the people who want to kill her/get rid of her. Everything is wash, rinse, and repeat from the first chapter. While it is interesting and manages to keep you hooked anyway, I got tired of it after 20 volumes and an extra 10 volumes where I had to guess what was happening. Maybe I should have read a chapter a day instead of binging it.
This will be my last rant over this manga. Definitely.
But...
Huge spoiler
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After a misunderstanding over Memphis and the Libyan princess, she's discovered pregnant when she goes home and miscarries when she's back in Egypt, of course bcz she fell, was still jealous of Memphis and the Princess, went off on her own, got kidnapped, met Isis who tried to kill her again...
My final rant. Honestly.