Zihvuda's Manga

Read this on the recommendation from a youtube video. It's not exactly what I thought it'd be and while I like the characters and the art is gorgeous It doesn't quite hit the same for me as some other stories in the genre. The leads are adorable, together and their progression seems very natural so far, but it's not really to my taste though I do believe the story has been told competently. There's some twists I can see a mile away, and some things regarding when MC decides to share information feels oddly stupid. The revenge is kind of... well it didn't manage to bring me on MC's side or really want to see the other parties downfall, if anything, the cheating fiance is a cartoon villain with nothing interesting about him. Overall I think it's good and would recommend giving this a read, but it's not for me.

An assassin for a family shakes off the brainwashing employed on him to enslave him and is consequently killed for his trouble. He reincarnates into the family of a powerful king and vows revenge on his previous master by training the very technique that allowed him to break the brainwashing in his previous life.
In the first couple of chapters we are consistently told and then reminded that mc used to be the best assassin. This is not shown but it is mentioned many times. He has a loving family which he desperately wants to protect but the story doesn't take the time to really show it other then his mother cheering him on to crawl when he's a baby. MC refers to it as playing with them, because yes, he has the mind of an adult right from being a newborn. =_= I wish they wouldn't do that. It raises too many questions, and also has mc saying things like "pretending to be a baby is so humiliating I'd almost rather die." Also it feels like mc being an assassin is only to sound cool, doesn't seem like the author is gonna actually make him do much assassin craft as he just does the technique he learned in his previous life (a breathing technique or something, you know to cultivate despite this being very european in inspiration) and then thinks about making the family swordsmanship his in order to revenge. >_> so he's basically going to abandon all else it would seem. The art is so far is just a step higher to mid. The translation is alright, though they did say he's 21 when I believe they meant 12. He certainly didn't look like an adult and that confused the HIFL out of me. Anyway, not for me. Seemed rather superficial for such a high rating, the "emotional moments" or that one moment of him stepping into his power do not connect and seem like they were imitated from other stories without the substance to back it up.

This was interesting. A great warrior rises through the ranks of the military in a time of instability and war and then gets betrayed and eventually killed. He finds himself back in time when he was younger and a lesser military leader, he decides to do better this time by making some use of knowledge he has of the future and filling out his own weaknesses by gathering useful people he didn't know he'd need the first time around. The art is interesting, has personality and stands out. I'm not entirely sure I like it, but it definitely works for the story. MC is extremely strong, but still died because of other people being more clever and I like that he's trying to not only learn, but also has people around to help. The translation is unfortunately just this side of understandable, but likely missing a lot of the nuance because it's not good. It's a shame because the story and characters seem interesting. I would recommend the story, but I dunno if I'd really recommend this translation of it. The translation isn't total word salad, but it's pretty bad all the same.

This story will make you feel. It's well written and the character work is really good in this. Cesare is an uncomfortable presence anytime he is brought up, so is the rival lady, but to a lesser extent. The trauma is portrayed pretty realistically and even though so much would be solved if Ruby just opened her mouth, it's incredibly and tragically understandable why she doesn't. The poor thing is so traumatized with 2 lifetimes of abuse. I'm surprised her PTSD hasn't acted up more. The most recent chapters with her creepy brother visiting is so tense for her, and I can't help but wish his bullshit would be caught soon and she'd be helped to get away. I feel for her so much. I love the interactions between the main couple after Isek finally figures out how to show his feelings. He's cold and has no idea about just how traumatized his wife is. Some of the misunderstandings were a bit forced, but It's easy to forgive the further you get in the story. I love their little fluffy interactions, it's so intensely sweet and I constantly crave more. I do understand why people initially shipped Ivan with MC, because honestly he is the only one for a bit who is consistently nice and kind to her out of pretty much everyone. He is the only one with positive interactions with her. Of course that's before Isek's squire is introduced and it's a relief he's there. Honestly if MC had run away with the monsters she'd probably have it much easier, but it's hard to escape when you're so used to being in a cage. I hope the monsters tear Cesare apart at some point. Really interesting story, especially with the wealth of character dynamics and how everyone feels like a person. Would recommend in a heartbeat, so glad I picked this up. Honestly speaking despite my love of overpowered protag isekai stories with no romance, these stories always best them in terms of character work alone.
The translation varies, but is good. There's some uploads by people who don't know english, which worries me, as I really really don't want this reading experience to be ruined by those idiots. It's far too good a story to deserve their grubby mits wrecking it. The art, is also very good, exuding personality and being very good at illustrating the story. Also mostly unblemished by stupid scanlator logos or what not. As I said, fully recommend this story, hopefully it's not ruined in future by word salad!

A young prosecutor tries his best to put a powerful man behind bars. Unfortunately he fails, as the corruption around him runs deep and the young man finds himself murdered on a dark and stormy night. A mysterious reaper asks him if he still wants to try and bring the man to justice, he replies in the affirmative and finds himself transported back in time to his school days, he has his second chance.
This story is complete, and pretty good. It's very revenge driven, but our MC doesn't stray off the path of justice, despite being told that he has to become a monster in order to take his revenge. It's fine, I wouldn't say it's amazing, but it's good, and keeps you engaged. I found the pacing fine, and the characters were interesting enough. I suppose MC can feel a little bland, but honestly he's a righteous man on a revenge path, and never really struggles with doing the right thing. The art is good, but somehow bland. MC as an adult barely looks different to the child version. There's at at least 3 ladies that develop crushes on MC, but romance is never a thing in this story, so they get rejected (gently) or MC is too oblivious to even notice their feelings. The translation is shaky at times, but mostly ok if sloppy. There's spelling mistakes and stuff. Sometimes that one secretary gets called security. It's fine. I'd recommend giving it a try if you're into revenge and reincarnation.

A powerful martial arts master ends up in a modern day alternate universe. He finds things strange, wonders around, saves a child and eventually gets a job as a delivery man in exchange for food and board. Dude wants to live a quite life, so he doesn't show off his powers in society.
This was an interesting premise and I wanted to see where it'd go. It... it turned into slice of life, which wouldn't be bad though perhaps misleading, but the story is just... boring. What kind of slice of life skips over character development and interactions??? It's inconceivable! Issues arise and are dealt with easily and I was going along with it cause MC is an absolute master and I figured he'd need much more notoriety before any real challenges come find him. But then the story just skips from one scenario to the next and you've got nothing to interest you, because none of the introduced characters are then fleshed out in any way. There's a guy MC offers to train and then some chapters later he reappears again and I didn't know who he was! I completely forgot him, he left zero impression AND none of the "training" was ever shown. Did MC even start training him? Did they already have a session? I have no idea, but it certainly wasn't shown if it already did happen. ( ⚆ _ ⚆ ) I thought we'd get interesting adventures happening while MC was out making deliveries, but no, it's skipped over, never see him making a hand off, he just goes and comes back. What is even the point?! This is so weird.
I recommend finding something more stimulating to read. It doesn't even need to be better than this, hell something worse would still make you feel something. This is just.... nothing, from plot, to characters, to art. Meh to the bone. ఠ _ ఠ