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I think the story would have been better if less condensed. It’s a similar trope to those seen before, but because its so short and condensed the characters go through their journey too quickly for the reader accept it all as believable. Also due to this quick progression the seme doesn’t regret long enough and the Uke forgives too quick and things appear to be fixed too easily.
I do not know the reason for this shortness (laziness, time-crunch?), but this was the wrong type of story to try to fit into 10 chapters.

Another one where the uploader has put a placeholder and then forgotten about it, thus skipping out a whole chapter which wouldn’t have been skipped if not for said placeholder. If you have enough pride as an uploader to put in placeholders you should at least take the responsibility to upload over them as promised, otherwise don’t use them.
Placeholders are not just a way to claim ownership as an uploader but they also mean you are taking certain responsibilities as uploader for the next chapter.

Don’t even put place holders if your incapable of remembering to replace them. That’s what place holders are, a promise you WILL come back and upload the chapter. Not the selfish “ my spot, my spot” sign that many uploaders seem to use it for in order to mark their territory. It’s all well and good if they actually do a proper job, but why boguard when you don’t plan to do a proper job. Because in my experience most uploaders/translators don’t even proof read or double check their uploads. It’s something that takes minimal time but can cause massive impact.

After reading this, one person complained because I ‘shouldn’t complain about translators ever’ as this is an illegal site and I should be grateful for it.
I don’t believe this person, who may or may not be a translator/uploader themselves, really read what I wrote properly as they have failed to grasp the point I was making if all they thought was that I was complaining about translation quality. They were clearly swayed by their own personal bias’ and it has left me quite annoyed to be told I’ve meant something I haven’t when it’s written there for everyone to easily read as many times as they want for clarification before hitting post.

So I have 2 points to clarify here:
Firstly, are you saying we can’t complain when there’s nothing there - that’s nothing, zero effort waisting both their own and everyone else’s time and effort by putting a place holder. Read specifics before getting overly defensive. This is the only one case I do think straight complaining about most translations/uploaders is fine, but this is not refered to or mentioned in my original comment.
Secondly, to clarify, when I complain about bad translations/uploads, my complaint isn’t about the bad translation/upload itself or the effort that was put into it. But instead my complaint was that they so proudly boguard (hog) the position to translate/upload a chapter by putting placeholders, therefore possibly preventing someone who actually wants to or is able to put more or better work into their translations/uploads.

I love how they, like others, tell you to support the author by purchasing further chapters if u want to read more but they never ever tell you how or where. Because I am having trouble finding it. It feels as though those suggestions are merely fake attempts to ease their own feelings of guilt or to make them look better to others and are not expected to be acted on. You’re doing something dishonest, if you feel a little guilty the least you can do is be honest about the fact that your being dishonest instead of trying to cover it with a false pretence that you’re somehow helping the author.

I’m only up to chapter 7 so far and Have already Found massive chunks missing. I had to go too battwo.com to get the full, entire chapters.

It’s seems to be a good story at its core, unfortunately I think a lot of people are getting confused as a result of the numerous spelling mistakes and typos in almost every panel. It is a shame when good stories are ruined by lazy/inept translation, but I guess it could be an even bigger shame if there were no translation at all.

What’s more frustrating than reading a bad webtoon? Reading a good webtoon only to find a whole chapter isn’t even translated. Chapter 14 is untranslated and I was unable to find it translated anywhere else, tbh I wouldn’t have started reading had I known.
I went to the scanlation site (like manga) like is written in previous posts to try to find chapter 14, that’s a waste of time - you don’t get a translation and your attacked with ads and pop ups. It’s almost like likemanga purposely did this and said to go to their site to get the translation so they could get more site visitors and their not fixing the problem only so no one else can then fix it. Now I know to be wary of, and avoid this site - it explains why helvetica kept replying so conscientiously to every chap 14 complaint with an overall vagueness, but there is no reply from those who posted the comment. So I then tried kaiscans, the original uploaders before likemanga, only to get a bad gateway notice. And I’m not planning to keep checking which is likely counted upon if my suspicions are correct - hense the vagueness in scanlation when likemanga doesn’t work claim you didn’t mean that one, knowing full well kaiscans won’t work, but still get the visits to your site nonetheless.
Of course this is all just my suspicions based on the evidence, the fact that I hate manipulation and the fact that I’m majorly pissed off.

Note to self - never use jimanga again. It used to be one of my sites for manga reading, cos i had noted they do half decent updates and they seem to do a lot of them. But i just read 3 updates in a row that weren’t full updates & instead tell me to continue reading at jimanga. Im someone who particularly hates it when sites do something like this (esp. because they are doing it cos they’re greedy for more people to visit their site so they can make more money from advertisements & who knows what else), so whenever they do i make a note of it then i refuse to visit those sites again. I just don’t trust sites that try to force you to go there, who knows what else they might be trying to do seen as how they seem so desperate to get you there. Besides, on principal alone, it just pisses me off (one of my pet peeves is someone trying to manipulate me - it tend to make me do the opposite of what they want).

I wonder if he has autism. I’m autistic & could identify with a lot of his behaviours (not looking at eyes, not knowing what should be said in certain situations, not knowing how those around you should be classified, having inappropriate or no facial expressions, being unable to fake a smile). Even the jerking off scene - many autistic people (especially females) are sexually abused (i was) simply because they are unaware of what is normal & they tend to be too trusting- i had some mixed feelings there.

1st Hatshepsut is spelt wrong in the tag.
2nd I have yet to read this, but will do so soon—I studied History at University & wanted to give a reply to many of the posted comments.

SKIN TONE
Though i really think the reason for the lighter skin tone is to make MC stand out or is because creating darker skin tones is more work for the Mangaka. But, there are a few possible historical excuses:
1–
Those that ruled Ancient Egypt never really had to go out under direct sunlight & are often depicted under shade cloth. Less direct sun = less tan.
2–
Though there’s no evidence of this during this period, in later periods of Egyptian history its not uncommon for a pharaoh to marry someone from another empire as 1 of their wives. Also, a lot of records concerning Hatshepsut were destroyed by Thutmose III (her husbands son), so a very low chance that her mother was a foreigner—& though one of the reasons she was able to rise to power was because of her lineage, she may have “altered” some of her own history to justify her position as pharaoh (later to become a joint ruler with Thutmose III.
3–
The recorded history shows that the royal family tree is full of incest (Hatshepsut herself was wife to her half brother & its possible her parents were siblings or half siblings). So her lighter skin could be a genetic defect/mutation.

WOMEN
Yes this is a period where it was not common for a woman to be pharaoh, but it was not unheard of, as she wasn't the 1st. However her rise to power did require her to strategically utilize her bloodline, education, and understanding of religion. In my own personal opinion women in ancient egypt probably had it better than some later historical periods - particularly the educated or noble ones (there is evidence later on that they could even get a divorce & live alone, supporting themselves).

HATSHEPSUT / MC PERSONALITY
Hatshepsut is considered the most successful of the rulers, so she probably had to develop a strong personality. But she was not raised to be a pharaoh, so it may have taken some time (& a few mistakes) to get there.

ACCURACY
As i mentioned Thutmose III destroyed a lot of the records concerning Hatshepsut, so theres not as much about her as other pharaohs of the time. Therefore its difficult to get enough information to be fully historically accurate. But it means the author can be more creative when writing about her.

I like that there is a manga based on her (the ancient egyptians always had pictures along side their writing too, which i find kinda fitting), too many people dont know anything about her dispute her successful & long rule. There are too many people who think Cleopatra was the 1st and only. Personally, im not a big fan of Cleopatra, as we know that she slept her way to her position & at the time she was “ruler” it was technically Rome who owned Egypt anyway.