July's manga / #Romance(117)

The female protagonist who is masquerading as her twin brother who died has now become emperor, but has no real power since the royal court officials are under the power of the prince regent. The girl is incredibly stupid and ignorant, and should not even be an emperor. There was a scene where everyone was bashing the emperor for being a terrible ruler and she was feeling angry, but as a reader, I cannot feel any sympathy for her. Instead of properly overseeing the matters of the country, she prances around in her girl outfit to look for a husband. Is this the way a true ruler would act? She's not clever at all, and is leagues behind the prince regent. I don't see how she will even grow if she doesn't realize her mistakes. The author is very good at drawing male faces, especially of the main love interests, but is awful at body proportions. The hands always look off and weird because it's either too long or too short. Update: I think it's finished at 62 chapters.

I really like Yusa-sensei's works. This new one looks very promising, with a lot of supernatural elements, where the male love interest is a cursed crown prince that can control evil spirits and the male lead is a rare individual who can see evil spirits. The art is fantastic, but the redness of everyone's lips bothers me a bit. Yusa-sensei is great at developing proper romantic storylines, so I'm eagerly waiting to see how this develops.

The art is very nice, it's not beautiful, but the style is appealing to look at and easy on the eyes. The brother character is love with his not blood-related "sister", who is really his caretaker. He lost his mother at a young age and his father is too busy to take care of him, so she had been his guardian until he reached 18. It's very short, so it's difficult to judge how good this webtoon will be.

The art style of this webtoon is quite good, but I don't like the characters's looks too much. It seems decent so far, but still early to tell. A school girl meets a jerk schoolmate, and they'll probably fall in love, according to the prologue. Simple romance story, I think.

Incest between two brothers, some convoluted plot involving a car accident, pretending to be stupid and have amnesia, meh. It wasn't done well, and I didn't actually understand what was happening in most of the chapters since it was a whirlwind of stuff happening without explanation or follow-through. The art was alright, nothing special.

There's some good stories in there. They were all nice, not just focusing on pure smut, it tried to introduce complex elements of their various relationships with each other. Art was ok, not the best, but tolerable to read. The last story was the best in my opinion, it dealt with a boy who's been in love with his best friend for 15 years, and how they slowly accepted their new relationship as lovers.

They're trying to do a strong female heroine in this webtoon, but she comes off as unlikeable. I just don't buy that she's a forensic medical professional who also happens to know both Western and Traditional Chinese medicine, all three of those are very different specialities. It would be more believable if she was just good at one thing. Making a protagonist overly knowledgeable when she acts stupid is too unconvincing to be possible. I prefer Shen Yi Di Nu over this, even if it was weird that a doctor also knew martial arts, at least it is more believable. Besides, the female lead in Shen Yi Di Nu is actually intelligent, unlike this one. Just saying a character is smart doesn't make them smart. Show, don't tell! Also, the art is mediocre at best.

It's alright. Art is average, not great. Female lead randomly has two dots on her face that bother me. Personality is rather boring, I know she is a child but there's nothing worth investing emotionally in her at the moment. Not much plot or conflict yet.

Classic Stockholm Syndrome with BL and lots of smut. It was decent, I enjoyed the uncensored parts. However, the plot was all over the place and none of the characters were likeable, nor did they have any depth to them. It was a ok read, but I wouldn't read it again. Nothing new to the genre, and it's not extreme or unsettling enough to warrant extra thought on it.

I'm a little confused about what is happening, is this an isekai or not? It seems she knows things about the future, or is it based on rumours she has heard? It's a little unclear about that. The art is quite beautiful, but I don't like the look of the characters. They're just not good-looking to me. The female lead is too weak, and it's hitting the readers over the head with how scared she is, but it's rather unrealistic in my opinion. She thinks too much and acts too little. There are problems with the way her weakness is being conveyed. She doesn't attempt to change or improve her situation. The male lead is almost borderline abusive, and he swears way too much. He doesn't attempt to understand her or why she's so scared, and they just assume stuff about each other instead of properly communicating. Hopefully it gets better from here. Update: This webtoon is just terrible. Every chapter is the same. The female lead is anxious and worried, and internally whining about how she's not a good match for the male love interest, and the male love interest is all horny and they have sex. There's no development, and no conflict. All the servants love her, even when she's thinking that they hate her, blah blah. So ridiculous. She doesn't try to improve herself, not even one bit. I'm okay with weak heroines, but they need to show desire for growth and change, and she's not exhibiting it at all. Instead of just sitting on your butt, why don't you improve yourself? Also, there are speech therapists that can help fix or make the stutter less. I know because I know someone in real life who stutters. This is seriously just using something very real to an ill, cheap effect for dramatic purposes, and it's insulting.