PLEASE. I am praying for Jihyun to be useful again. She had a little power-up where she contributed more than usual and she has been a liability ever since. She helps out here and there but mostly she gets taken hostage or forced back onto the sidelines while a different character steps up to do the heavy lifting. PLEASE give her another training montage or something so she can level up with the rest of her team.
I wish we'd gotten another chapter of Sora grieving and then healing and maybe agreeing to be the witch for a new cat. I don't know. It just seems too sad for the manga to end on "the cat never came home again." Maybe I'm just too much of a dog person and I just don't have the strength of heart to let cats go when they're ready to go.
So, why exactly was Theodore dying from the curse originally? It seems like she loved him. Was it that she didn't truly forgive him? Or were her love and forgiveness not enough to break the curse in its earliest form? Can someone explain?
Theo'e brother/father that they overthtew was cursed, and it was placed on him and his family. ig over generations it developed from just menyal/physical deteriorating to turning into a wolf and loosing humanity.
I think FL beleives Theo to still be under the curse (no longer turning into a wolf but still might deteriorate) because theres no clear confirmation that love cured him.
It certainly is a twist that the goddess of love was behind the majority of Raoul's suffering, but I'm not sure if I like it. The saintess and the princess were set up as such easily hateable characters, so it was fun to cheer when they got their just desserts. To find out that they were controlled and brainwashed and maybe not at fault at all takes away from the satisfying feeling of revenge and now I just feel kind of bad for them. And feeling bad for the perpetrators is not what I really look for in a revenge story.
i think the brainwashing is more of an amplification of desires they already had?? thats my interpretation,, like yea the goddess of love coerced them for sure but i think they were all kinda twisted to begin with but the goddess meddling with their minds left no possibility for them to improve their behavior (cause she only encouraged their obsessive and dark traits)
true, thats where i have my doubts too ngl lol,, i guess with the saintess specifically rather than amplify dark traits she already had its more of just a kid following a really bad role model and being heavily misguided in their upbringing like the kids from the slaughter village or the children of the cannibalistic general
I know Riftan is being an ass and he sucks for that but also I kind of love it. I don't think I'd enjoy Maxi's growth and her learning to take charge quite as much as I do now if Riftan was acting perfect and automatically supportive. Watching him want to protect her but be stupid about it and watching her want to help and putting her foot down and not put up with his well-intentioned bullshit is great, and I think the conflict between their characters and their desires is fun to see now that Maxi has grown a bit of a backbone.
I agree! I like him more as a character in the setting he's in because of his flaws, and they make a good backdrop to showcase Maxi's strength of character. Obviously in a modern setting he'd be terrible and you'd hate a friend to be dating him, but I think he's "realistic" within the realm of the story. And like you said, if he was perfect, it would be less "Maxi saved herself" and more "Maxi was saved by a big strong man". Nothing wrong with that, but it's definitely a common trope.
It is frustrating seeing Maxi upset though ╥﹏╥