Agathe's Manga

6 dropped In the end, i suppose I feel offended
Writers, many of them, spent their life expressing ideas , raising the problems of unfairness in society by clever means, showing the pain and the danger of our society, opening path for liberties, challenging the establishment with words and thoughts
Some have been condemned, jailed or hunted for their words. Books were forbidden, burneds, and it’s not mysterious censorship and book destruction appears in all kind of dictatures.
History of freedom is tightly related to literature and their authors
This piece feels vile and disrespectful

Using god as a way to propagate hatred, war and murder is aleady evil
Now using writers to do so is just plain repulsive
When you think of the few names the author used it seriously feels like a bad joke too

Rating and grading talent and building rivalries is also plain ridiculous. How would marketers and their tools be qualified to rate the true value of art ?
The number of sales never represented the talent or the artistic value of a book. As often in art, many writers were neither rich or famous while they lived

A writer talent is seldom if ever inherited , but here you produce genealogy of pen wielders fueling power for destruction
You had inquisition and illegal writers, as if this was not bad enough : an extremist setting is put in place in which murder without question is the answer (even in the bad time of inquisition at least they fake making trials ?)

That world might be semi original, but it stinks, and it’s also completely absurd, as if you believe the system in which the « score » is evaluated by the number of sales, added generations after generations, history would have been quite different, hence artist too.
Add to that, the one from most ancient time would obviously be the top scorers as they started the race centuries sooner ? ( you certainly would need a bit more culture to name a few though)
The prologue also shows alice in wonderland items, but Carol had no descendants and the current descendant of Hugo seems very happy being a cook : luckily his ancestor. Path of life didn’t become a shackle for him to follow his own path

The MC is unpleasant, he’s cynical and arrogant, looking down on every thing and every one.
The object of his revenge being a « Hugo » is so sad, that it totally puts me off. Hugo was a writer with strong humanist beliefs who got involved in politics and he was certainly not someone who would have endorsed this kind of system

If you understand what’s implied when you meet the official descendant of the Hugo, the only way to harness all the power of his ancestor is too kill his brother ? How toxic ? You can already immerse families culling their own kids to have one very strong member at their head, it feels very wrong (not to mention, the son could already be his father’s murderer)

Lastly, in this very sordid setting, the power of a French artist will probably end up being the inheritance of a Korean. I am not questioning nationalities there : but is korean literature so poor you have to borrow americans, English, french, etc.and in the end « steal «  from them ?
I don’t think so

40 +72/74 probably not bad, but it’s a genre i dislike
This feels like crime story tv series, but in a magic world ?

I enjoyed the magic, the dragon and the cute MC, but not the direction of the investigation, as It’s too angsty for my taste
There’s obviously a bit of plot , and as in many crime stories, the villains are motivated by either greed or, passion or both - here it seems at least one type of each ?
I probably dropped because the passion driven character feels absolutely miserable from the start, and it just feels bad

I enjoyed the open ending (no romance in the story, maybe after?)

I might finish it someday but not when i’m about to sleep ^^;; anyway, this is not what i expected, but it does not change the above average quality of this title

12 dropped
So basically you had a poor student who worked hard to be the top
Before the story started, super hardworking kid got , i quote, « a mysterious disease «  and went three months into a slump, being exhausted all the time - In the first chapter, the evil meritocratic system want to throw him out of school (duh?)
So first of the school boy, now labeled «  a loser » is saved by … a cheat system for poor loser students ?
No solidarity, no health plan, no working to recover : a cheat , an absolute cheat which makes him know all about something
As if not stupid enough, he also has access to a lottery, and magically becomes … a top appraiser ?
As is too much was not enough, Now he’s also the hidden child of a mafia boss ?
His kind and hardworking parents must not have been enough ? bleh

I would normally dismiss it with a 2, but it’s also full of mean stereotypes : the fat teacher is mean, and the boy get points from humiliating him ( fat shaming, plus reward for aggression)
The sport students is painted as an idiot ( soon to be beaten), the school rival has no morality, and the girls are not only an inferior, but also all over him
I also totally despise the school system entirely based on competition and ranking, it’s not like there’s just one type or intelligence, and even people who are ok with this type of evaluation will have high and lows which can be very detrimental to evaluate one’s levels - I am so glad there are now a few country focused on making learning a happy thing, not giving any evaluation for years and letting kids grow at different pace
This toxic archaic model is both toxic and ineffective

5 boring - dropped
Th MC is a book, he also has low morality and made the kid, who first contracted him explode, and he didn’t care
Then both him and the girl are walking the path of vengeance, lying , stealing, betraying and not caring about others
happiness or self growth are in the way (or so it seems from the glimpse i haad at a few chapters in the 4x)

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22
Exhausting
Quasi evilMC with bad attitude, bad and selfish mindset, intelligent enough to fit in
The greed part is simply too much
It shows everyone as idiots more or less fooled by this clean villain
It could have been fun but it is so overboard that it is tiresome

22 (there’s a duplicate of this title)
humongous plot hole in the timeline, MC defined by too many negatives, his life is also behind him and it doesn’t feel great
I’d think it’s a bad start whith huge inconsistency, the biggest being the age and of demise of the MC
The demon king was killed 50 years ago, the MC died 20 years ago (rather young ?)
He met his current lord when the lord was a boy’ and he was young : but the current lord is in his 50s with children in their 20 : where are 50 years gone ? It’s barely possible
But when he remembers the kind hero lord and his son we are shown his young self (between 50 to maybe 30 years ago?). Yet, the lord is still young and his son who should be around 40/50 is a young man. It would make sense if the son was the same ago as his lord, who already seems rather young
In the same manner, people barely remember demons, have no clue about monsters who nearly destroyed them 50 years before ?
It makes little sense sense
Then there’s the personality of the MC, who is obviously old with lots of experience and the gap is not great

The story seems like another remake of last century’s return of the demon kind : maybe there are some twist (like the intelligent goblin) but it takes really too long to show and it doesn’t feel interesting

9,5 c
Boring
A high school football girl fall into another world, survive murderous crowd (weird) , become a business goddess (super weird)
Get murdered and go back to earth where she wakes up to become … an office lady ! ( not a startup boss)
The gets murdered again (??)
And back to the foreign world … but as someone else conveniently way younger, hence younger than the boys she saved
So you have a grown up duke waiting to be her servant forever, (gross)
you’ d get the emperor should soon be obsessed, yuck
and a mysterious third fish for this already weird / gross story
Dropped

25 another tiresome OP trip
Strong prey on weak and siblings get at each other’s throat to inherit titles
Very sick
I hope the sister won’t stay absolutely useless, a « kya kya girl «  needing saving at all times is just sooo bad