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Nooooooo I can’t believe I picked this up just to be stopped right before the final round…ugh

God, I love when a ridiculous premise has excellent execution. This series is so much fun thus far

I let this marinate for at least 80 chapters and yet!! Tbh it’s much better than I expected given how wild the spoilers were at the time. But ugh I didn’t know we were doing the full underworld tour…is this why his name is Hades?

For anyone looking for chapter 95, here it is: https://anisascans.in/manga/seducing-the-monster-duke/chapter-95/

I don’t know if any other group is translating this series, so I just went with the most recent uploads

Oh? I just realized the translations beyond chapter 60. Tbh, however questionable the writing, I’m still loving the messy dating show aspect of this. Like this shit is supposed to be messy and melodramatic and I’m kinda here for it

Can I just say that I love how mature ML is? Like, sometimes love interests “holding back” or not saying it out of some misunderstanding or misreading can either be frustrating or downright icky, but this isn’t so bad?? I think it has a lot to do with the fact that he’s a regressor who has already experienced the helplessness and devastation of having failed to protect everything he cared for. Like, obviously MC is essential to saving the world so she must be alive to do so and in order for them to achieve this, it’s better they have a functional working relationship because their powers are co-dependent. But ML also demonstrated he has a clear understanding of MC’s boundaries—she might display interest based on her reactions to his not-subtle displays of affection, but she’s not ready to move beyond where they are now, and he respects that. His romantic feelings towards her come behind her happiness and well-being, which in turn are essential to the whole “world-saving” plan considering how often they coincide. Also he knows she’s someone from an entirely different world and is still figuring things out. No, I’m not counting the teasing.
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But also Girl you have a man that checks off the entire ML bingo card already in love with you, please put your rofan goggles back on.

I am so happy she was able to remedy her relationship with Raymond in this life, he loves her so much.

I loved the way the artist drew the scene where they’re holding hands and he starts telling her to walk behind him. Not sure why he bothered trying to keep her at arms length “for her own sake” when he should have realized she cannot be stopped.
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This is a novel only complaint but it’s kind of important character-wise. So much of the early part of this arc, including the omitted first duel, is them redefining their relationship. The Charles affair, however, supposed to be one of the culminating moments. It may not be clear to Catherine, but Chezare takes protecting her honour very seriously. Remember how angry Chezare was with Catherine’s sister for the whole affair business? Yeah he’s far more pissed at Charles.
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Catherine never wanted him to meet Charles, so she doesn’t involve him in punishing Charles for what he did. Chezare arrives at the scene after the duel is over and Charles is a humiliated sobbing mess. Rather than leave it be, he decides Charles hasn’t been punished enough and challenges him to another “duel.”He sends Catherine on her way before he gets started and when she asks him what he’s going to do, he says something along the lines of breaking down Charles spine and putting him back together again. She wonders if he means this literally, since it shouldn’t be possible, but he very much did. He even keeps some of his molars to give to Marchioness Panya for her own revenge plan because she didn’t get the chance to give him a beat down herself.
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It’s disappointing to see him just not react or when he was so ready to thrown down on sight. He would have absolutely slipped up considering what happens just after the actual first duel, which he does act as witness for. After watching her match, Percival shows up and challenges her to a fight, to which she agrees. During the fight, Percival manages to break her magic shield and suddenly goes in for a kiss. Just after their lips touch, Catherine finds Percival suddenly all the way on the other side of the room, having been thrown there and trapped in a force choke by Chezare. This was when he was still acting cold and distant. (Catherine herself didn’t see what the big deal was, it wasn’t like it involved tongue.)

No chapter next issue…that means 6 more months of waiting. Tbh I have no idea how i even remember what’s going on anymore, I am glad we’re finally learning more about who Allen is (not Nea) and about the Bookmans

I am so glad this series managed to stick the landing, some of the comments had me worried. It’s got a solid mixture of drama, romance, and humour; is interesting without being too complicated; and it never overstays its welcome by dragging on and on. I liked the characters and their friendships. The romance can get a little cheesy but I have a tolerance for lactose. Not sorry. Idk, I liked this series a lot and I’m pretty satisfied with how the plot turned out and how thorough the side stories are in fleshing out the aftermath. If I had to compare to another similar series…it gave almost every single thing Sigrid did not (I didn’t realize how similar the two series were until I wrote that, but that just makes it all the more true)
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Judith looked so good in the Black Knight Captain’s uniform at the end. I thought I’d prefer she stay with the Red Knights, but it felt more full-circle as an ending. If she were to make the most of her regression, surely that would include including cleansing the corruption from the organization that had once used her and thrown her away—the place where everything started.