July's manga / #Shoujo(113)

A girl gets isekai'd to the life of a poor girl named Juvelian, in which she was never loved by her father and in her last moments, told her to die. When she wakes up in this new body, it seems that her cold father now loves her to pieces, although he's very awkward about showing it, and the prince who was supposed to torture her to death is now falling slowly for her. Typical isekai shoujo webtoon with nothing much happening, but lots of waffling here and there. Everyone is stupid, and the side characters are all catty gossiping assholes. Art is ok, but nothing special. I actually preferred the art in the promo more than in the serialized webtoon.

Duplicate of Film Queen Changeover, but this one is complete. I'm not that invested in the female lead. It feels like the author is attempting a strong female lead character, but she's so unappealing, besides just her appearance. Her motivations and personality are rather unconvincing to me as a reader to make me sympathize with her situation. If maybe the rumor which ruined her career previously was false, I could like her a little more than what was presented. Or if they showed that she's a changed woman. But she's still using underhanded means to get what she wants, so I can't feel bad for her when things don't quite go her way, and can't cheer for her when she succeeds. Art is just average, and I don't like the look of the female lead, since they purposely made her look ugly, but at some angles, she doesn't look ugly at all. Make up your mind on how she looks, that's just cheating. Update: The female lead went on a diet and now is restored to her former glory. Wow, that was fast. She doesn't even need to face any challenges, and things pretty much fall in her lap. That's just lazy storytelling. Also, her manager Eric is really annoying me. He's supposed to be a transgender (?) person that is typical in Chinese entertainment media as comedic relief but it comes off very insulting and does not add anything to the story. Yuck. Update 2: The ending was rushed, but I enjoyed everyone blackmailing that evil girl, haha, she totally deserved it. The big bad guy didn't really get enough punishment though, in my opinion.

One of my first shoujo manga, it's not as good as I remembered, but the art is great and the animals are cute. What more can you ask for?

Was interesting until timeskip, where the main character proceeds to make horrible decisions in love and everything else. The story involves a top notch assassin dying and getting isekai'd to a fantasy ancient China where people are summoners. She gets a hack item that allows her to be one of the strongest summoners in this world, and many take an interest in her. There's a decent revenge plot going on until she becomes too OP and crushes everyone around her, and she decides the worst guy out of all the potential love interests. Art is clean and good, with solid lines and colors.

Somewhat decent webtoon that has a reverse harem set up. Female lead finds herself in a book in which her character dies an early death, and is determined to avoid that fate. She's actually competent and manages to set up some traps to defeat her enemies, but she has a lot of help from all the bishounen guys around her. Plot is boring, but it's readable, compared to other shoujo isekai stuff. Art is also good.

It's not particularly funny, and I don't care for the animal puns in every page, but it is still interesting with its developments. I like how relatable Kanako is, and the juxtaposition of her clumsiness and awkwardness with her insane ability to kill so well is funny in itself. It seems like there's been no more new chapters for a while now, seems like we will have to wait for the licensed version to catch up. The art is simplistic with the same bold color palette used throughout, so it's consistent, but not visually impressive.

A girl finds herself as the sister of the male lead in a BL game, and she decides to swap places with her brother to prevent him from triggering the bad endings. This shoujo webtoon isn't bad, and I liked seeing her act in unconventional ways. So far, there isn't much romance going on, which is a plus for me. I don't like like how the brother got married and already has a child though, that seemed really rushed and it didn't mesh well with the rest of the story. Seems like the author didn't know what to do with the minor side character of her brother, so they just made up an excuse to take him out of the big picture. The art is not that good, especially in regards to character line work, which is overly simplistic and rather lacking in details. But it's sufficient enough to get the main point across, and action scenes are clear from clutter and understandable.

Very similar to "True Beauty," even the art style with the overemphasis on the eyes and the YouTuber main character. However, Jiu is a better protagonist than Jugyeong, and she shows growth as the chapters progress. She has clear goals and motivations, she is able to spot problematic issues in her relationships, and she responds more like a real person. However, since it's a shoujo webtoon, she still has her moments of dumb heroine-isms, like breaking all contact with her love interests over some minor plot issue, only to jump back into the relationship a few chapters later. The two male love interests are horrible, but I guess the younger one is less offensive. The art is clean and solid, and the panels are consistent in quality, as well as easy to read. Extremely bingeable, I could read it all in one sitting.

For some reason, this is a duplicate entry under the name "Secret Sweetheart," but this entry has more chapters. It's an adaptation of the CDrama called "Well- Intended Love" but not a direct one. It mostly follows what happened in Season 1, with some changes that make it worse. I would recommend watching the drama over reading this, but be aware that the drama has lots of issues with plot and subject matter (abusive or manipulative relationships). However, it's so bad that you kinda want to keep watching, like a trainwreck ready to happen. Anyway, the webtoon doesn't have the same excitement, a lot of the side characters are demoted to even lesser roles, and the comedy is reduced as well. The art is alright, but not the greatest. Translation is a bit iffy, but you can get the general idea of what's going on. Past Chapter 100, the webtoon started to make no sense because the plot went out the window.

Short and sweet, but little substance. The art was very simplistic, with a limited color palette. The time-constrained story it tells means the artwork doesn't need to be fancy. The couple wasn't that cute to me, I've seen better 4-koma romantic comedies than this.