Agathe's Manga

32 - misplaced energy ?
I’m not fond of revenge stories, few escape some bad to very tendencies, this one doesn’t
It already makes very little sense that an « expandable «  was trialed and executed when his owner could have had many way to let him die in action, including one that would set his on his path
(Also traditionally beheading (and the « betterment guillotine) was a punishment for nobles, common criminals were hung)
Nonetheless, while being reborn, the person he’s facing is the same, yet not the same :
It’s not like Montecristo , a man hiding deep to punish the one who did him wrong - even there, Dumas was clever enough to show how revenge would also cost him everything important, focusing on his past, he miss the chance at happiness - but we can live with the ambiguity of his success , never being too happy or satisfied, it’s a bitter yet meaningful story
The enormous flaw of these reverse time stories is that people change :
Lots of characters are changed from new and different interactions : but that MC sees, yet doesn’t respect the change ; the 3 evil guys became his admirers, but he only want to use them , he’s impatient to see them die
He wants revenge on a man who gave him power and authority, opportunities, an elder who respect him and sincerely nurtured him : for what ? For things he never did in this life ?
Honestly this is burdensome
The « enemy «in this life seems much more ok than many regular people : in fact the « bad guy » of his previous life is a very rare man who let him grow despite his poor origins and reward his real talents : nothing short of a benefactor ?
If you read « i’ll be the matriarch in this life », the MC acknowledges people change and adapt her response accordingly. Many things become possible because she also offered better options for the kids to grow better or the adults to behave with care : and it mostly work
Some people are bad, but others, given a choice, will be decent

Instead of an interesting story about self accomplishment ( note that there’s already no reason why this character had the opportunity of a second try at life, not special did or worth granting him that opportunity), you are supposed to cheer on him blindly buying the « morality «  of his endeavors
Note that, beside revenge, there’s is also a strange love for torture (in behaviorism, you’ll learn that it is indeed as addictive to the perpetrator, as it is inefficient)

So here you are : there’s a « dog » who swore not to be a dog ever again : fine, he actually managed so — but be’s the psycho case, loving torture and judging others for evils that were never committed in this life.
In my book, that’s an evil psycho
As revenge is an animal instinct that suppresses moral sense(it’s means for tribe survival, suppressing even survival instinct), he obviously won’t care if his choices are going to hurt others, including the ones he deems nice and interesting -
It’s not as bad as the Hourglass story, but i still DROPPED

Author have a few loses screws nowadays, this love for (quasi) evil tend to distract them from properly understanding what they are truly saying (or is it a despise for good and moral values ?) - there’s something deeply wrong in there

26 - boring OP MC , solo searching for more conquests and battle to win
Utterly pointless

26 - ok fine, it’s very normal to understand little to none to an other time society - it’s quite normal to be lost and walking on eggs in a place with rigid norms and no prior knowledge of anything or anyone
But how can the MC be. Such a gullible pushover ?
How did she end up betraying her husband and going to a flirtatious masquerade when her life is threatened ?
She’s truly disappointingly a very empty character with very little brain, what a sad archetype :/

16 i got bored
The MC is not too interesting, there are probably too many side characters too fast, a,d i can’t get into it
Also the outander finghting creatures is not too interesting,and the straw that broke the camel’s back was the monster baby with a candy candy face
Droped

2 - I could have stopped at the first chapter, i gave it a second to see if what rebuked me was questioned, but it was not
I can’t find sympathy for a sword wielder who kills innocent people - including children because they have been ordered too
Just like i can’t forgive people who sold jews because it was the law, or their job.
This is morally wrong
We nned to be able to see right from wrong in a society
What is described there is not a « knight « or you’d have to remove the supposed high moral standards that would be needed to uphold Justice
By c2 the character question her obedience,and decides she doesn’t want the same deat - but there’s no question about the very evil things she did int the name of obedience
That character is. - again devoid of emotions - and common sense vslues - of it’s not another sociopath, i don’t know what it is
I simply cannot read that - o’m also surprised i didn’t t see any comment about that

7 - Not for me - serie of (very very) short stories, pretty exhausting