randomperson's Manga

It's... not bad? The story gave enough intrigue for me to plow through the story (whole lovers reincarnation drama & the whole saintess drama). Even though the story had so many character (depth?) issues, I'd give the author props for setting up interesting hooks and clear plot (which basically went from I want to survive to I want to be with pot stew guy to oh sh*t let's save everyone so I can be with pot stew guy in peace).

Now, I'd like to lay it out that this was my first otome isekai story. My reasoning may be clouded by all the freshness of the genre. I was intrigued by the story set in a different world where the MC has to survive through the misogynistic society. I found it interesting how she needed to charm these psychos to survive (reminder: this was the first isekai story I've read).

But when the story moved to the school arc, it all felt like a cliche shoujo high school story where everyone's bullying the MC & a couple 'love interests' and a love rival show up. But it was refreshing to see the other girl being genuinely nice.

Now, moving on to the issues I found in the story. MC saw how women were mistreated yet continues to live in sweet sweet bliss only worrying about whether she'd get together with her previous lover. I see no point in showing us how bad women slaves had it if she's not gonna do anything about the system (or at least attempt to change anything). I suspect the author only put it there so we can see how good natured MC is for giving them a 1 day break and luxury LOL. Her goal is ok if we're only thinking about keeping the story progressing, but if we consider the setting, MC comes off incredibly shallow. She's a princess favored by the king. She's considered a genius in society. She's a saintess. She's in a great place to instigate change, but we barely even see her thinking about it.

I'm so disappointed. I loved the beginning of the manga up until they turned to adults. I didn't mind that there weren't any clear plots at first because the manga does well with setting up intriguing layers. However, those layers aren't explored properly and instead we get a plot that swims in cliches of a romance story. !Spoilers ahead: Up to Chapter 55!


MC travels back in time and she doesn't know why. 55 chapters in and she seems to have forgotten someone or something somewhere made her go back in time. I wanted to read about how the time-travelling happened, but I guess the author just used it as a plot device to justify MC being liked by everyone.

I liked that we got a deeper understanding of the issue in the family. I loved reading about how they found solution to their helplessness and learned to communicate with each other better. Honestly, after the parents died, I thought MC would use her experience to help Eugene run the duchy. I would've preferred if they stayed and we get to see how the siblings battle against their relatives in order to keep what was theirs. They may all look like kids, but MC was mentally an adult who can maybe guide them, but we just skip all that and move towards romance drama & isekai cliches.

Everyone who sees MC either loves her or is jealous of her, countless extras commenting on how beautiful she was, the dreaded banquet where ofc MC would *sparkle* the most, brother's engagement and low and behold, the fiancee secretly loves someone who loves her back & MC just somehow finds out about their mutual love righttt close to when Eugene & his fiancee were gonna marry. Oh, also, how convenient it is for the fiancee to believe in a disney love story type of marriage.