Seduce the Villain's Father
Eh, not for me. The MC doesn't seem in touch with reality. She's a fan of the character she meets when she gets isekaid into a novel, and ignores all the shit he does and determined that he is nothing but kind and she should marry him. She's an obsessed stalker who, frankly could be just as much a villain as the dark magician who's treated as the actual villain of the story. Then her obsession is further exacerbated by the fact that she'll die if she doesn't get that good good holy power in her. <_< Just really rubs me the wrong way, this whole thing.
Saving the Villain Who was Abandoned by the Female Lead
This is a fucking weird story. Person gets isekai'd into a novel they were reading. She decides to save a dude from the novel protagonists murder attempt. He's apparently a bit of a villain, but also completely not and the reason for the murder attempt is cause he didn't return the novel protagonists feelings? What kind of batshit trash novel were you reeading MC? It's not even that the novel protag was misunderstood as a hero, it's not a twist, MC read about her murders in the novel, and apparently liked it enough to continue reading it! Ahem... anyway, so MC saves the duke from getting poisoned by novel protag. First he thinks MC is an assassin then he figures out she saved his life, (MC gets turned into a child for her trouble) and decides to reward her. ... By sending her to be adopted by the "villains" of the original novel for 3 years, after which MC comes back to get married to the duke she saved. Because... it'll get the imperial family off the duke's back...? It's weird. I get the part about the villains being the only ones probably able to break the curse on mc and turn her back into an adult. I don't understand why she needs to be adopted for 3 years. The tests MC goes through to get adopted are weird. She drinks poison, is fine for no reason. It's not explained, and MC doesn't think it's weird. The poisons were real, she has no immunity, she was expected to die, and for some reason the duke just lets it happen. Another test involves her (as a SMALL CHILD) fighting a giant ass wolf. In their parlor or throne room or whatever that place was. With everyone present. The wolf didn't even attack until she turned around and swung a knife in it's face and then she turns her back to it to ask for help. Like??? It didn't feel like she was ever in danger, but what was even the point of any of it? The tests are weird. Nothing matters, there are no stakes. Who the fuck cares about any of the characters, cause I rapidly learned not to give two shits. Once MC gets turned into a child, the duke appears to start developing affection for her. He intends to marry her. I don't wanna think about the implications there, but damn the story sure the fuck doesn't. I don't think the translation is very good either, cause it called the giant ass wold a spirit and then called a dragon a wyvern. Anyway, I'm utterly baffled by this story, and am dropping it like a hot potato, cause I can take weirdness just fine, but I cannot abide things that don't make sense in a story that fails to make me care about any of the characters.
I Picked Up the Second Male Lead After the Ending
Ok. This is the story of some girl who finds herself reincarnated into the world of a novel she likes as a princess of a nation who barely has anything to do with the main plot. Said main plot is over and the two romantic leads are married and enjoying their "happily ever after". Girl wants to go for the "second male lead", not because she's in love, but because she's a fan and wants to make him happy, as he got his fool ass banished to some godforsaken, cold-ass duchy. He's this girl's fave character, and gosh darn it, she wants to make him happy! By attempting to get him to marry her. I dunno, being his friend would probably have been enough, but no, the dumb mc thinks going straight to marriage is the thing she wants, but somehow doesn't think about what marrying him would mean for their relationship.
Now the story is sort of compelling, so it will keep you reading but unfortunately the plot isn't thought out well and as such, mc comes off as a 12 year old child. To be fair ages are never mentioned so I don't know her true age, but I was under the impression that mc before reincarnation was out of high school. So Mc is pretty sweet and nice, and just ripe for getting exploited in a toxic relationship, cause she's pretty naive and easily manipulated. She's not exactly unlikable in my opinion, so the fact she's an idiot isn't bad necessarily. Except the whole reason she likes the ml is because she's an idiot. I don't think mc and ml are going to develop a toxic relationship mind, m just seems like the kind of person who would fall for the Nigerian prince email scams...
-Spoilers-
The second male lead is exiled as he is, not because the original ml (hiss half brother) was being mean. It's because he couldn't take "no" for an answer from the original female lead. He fought his brother in order to fight for his love. A love that had already been rejected. And I HATE that the mc makes him out to be some tragic hero, because he wasn't. He brought that shit on himself, put his brother in a position where he almost had to execute family, and almost made the love of his life bear witness. What in the fuck did he think was going to happen if he won? That his lady love would suddenly not love his brother anymore and swoon into her arms, like "Ooooh! The fact you don't respect my feelings or decisions and tried to kill the man I love is soooo sexy! Take me now!" I am SO sick of stories that make two of the romantic love triangle fight each other and ignore all input from the person who's opinion and feelings matter the most. Dude is a villain, not some tragic hero. He didn't step aside to let the love of his life be happy, he actively tried to destroy her happiness, and selfishly demoted her to an object to be fought over and won. Fuck that shit. He deserves to have been sent as far from the happy couple as possible, and should thank his lucky stars he wasn't executed as he should have been for the treason. MC knows all this about him, which is why I call her an idiot.
-End of Spoilers-
The art is not to my taste. It's rather simple looking, though I do like the coloring style. It's not bad, just has aspects I don't really like, particularly the women. They seem to all look like children. The translation starts off fine, and then takes a nose dive incomprehensible, comes back up to barely understandable and then fine again. Aaand then it's just shit for waaay too many chapters. It rather tired me out and was a major contributing factor to me dropping this. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time on this, even if the plot appeals to you, the translation will make sure to kill your enjoyment of the story dead.
Path of the Shaman
An extremely strong martial arts master is on his death bed and is about to pass on, when a subordinate manages arrives to feed him something that's supposed to save him. Despite this, the subordinate is apparently too late, and the master dies. He however awakens in the body of an apprentice from some other sect that uses a different cultivation method. It's once again, an adult in some teens body who trains to get stronger and regain his position at the top of the martial arts world. An evil man forced to live in the body of a disciple of a good sect. As he trains and fights and makes enemies and gets allies, mysteries crop up one after another on his road to achieve his goals. I like the story so far, it's got no superfluous romance, although I did get weird BL vibes from the character designs of one or two of the senior disciples which was funny. No actual BL though, and not really any het love either. Though waaay later in the story some girls do take an interest in MC. The art is good and the plot is pretty interesting. Our main character can be a little annoying at times, but it's mostly fun watching him go about living his new life. The cast of characters is growing a little more numerous as the story progresses, but thankfully the rest of the cast isn't being dragged along, which doesn't overwhelm the reader with trying to remember who everyone is. The characters are fleshed out enough to be distinct and memorable. The translation... Well the english isn't unreadable, but names and terminology change a lot between scanlators and it gets confusing trying to identify what sect, merchant, person they are talking about. Some left terms like "sasuk" with no explanation what that was, as well as some other terms and names that changed over some chapters as well. Calling merchants "tops" was... very weird, and also mc being called "master uncle" by his two students is extremely distracting with how unnatural and weird it sounds. Should have just left the original korean term or whatever, cause it just doesn't work in english. Even though it's Asura scans there's a lot of weird grammar, like unnecessary "of"s, "the"s and "a"s in sentences. Think I saw someone in the comments say it wasn't actually asura scans but some other translation group taking their credits page and pretending? I don't know if it's true, but it would make sense for the state of the english grammar. Perhaps? Weird af though, and utterly pointless if true.
I think the mystery is engaging, and the story fun to follow along. Perhaps the other characters roll with mc's antics a little too easily, but I can't bring myself to mind as they are all slowly (and I do mean slowly!) but surely corrupting our evil MC's heart with decency. lol
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