July's manga / #Shoujo(113)

It's a pretty light-hearted isekai, the OL female lead is transported to another world, and to earn a living, she must cook lunchboxes. She meets some important figures in the palace and learns that she is capable of magic. Everyone is now trying to figure out who summoned her in the first place. I'm sure the romance will be between her and the wizard, but it's progressing slowly so far, and I like it. The female lead is a little ditzy and super cheerful, but she's not annoying to me, like some other similar female leads are.

Wow, this webtoon is really good. It uses the previously popular concept of body-swapping very well, and effectively writes two compelling heroines into its narrative. I think I prefer this over the villainess isekai genre, since it's just done so much better this way. The two heroines are perfect foils for each other, Medea is strong and clever, while Psyche is compassionate and gentle, although the latter sometimes gets on my nerves. They grow as they become more comfortable in their new roles, discovering so much about each other, and learning of tragedies and misfortunes that the other has suffered. The art is absolutely beautiful, the author did a great job, especially with the details of the eyes. Of course, I prefer the look of Medea over Psyche, but I'm always rooting for Medea, no matter which body she's in. She's the badass heroine that goes around taking names and kicking everyone's ass. I hope the two of them can work together to take down the evil crown prince.

A short manga about a noble lady going to prison, but she's enjoying every moment of it as she makes everyone else crazy with her scheming. It's fairly funny, and everyone is pretty stupid since they're all fawning over an overly talkative girl as their idol instead of the smart noble lady in prison. It's a short and mostly enjoyable read, but I didn't really care too much for any of the characters since they seemed like caricatures to me. Even the clever and vicious noble lady Rachel is not all that appealing as a character, despite her being the main female lead, due to lack of motivations and personality. But I don't think it's meant to be analyzed very deeply, since there is no real plot due to it being a short work. The art is great, as expected from most mangakas, unlike webtoon artists, who vary wildly in art quality and consistency.

The cafe owner who makes the worst coffee in the world is harassed everyday by a handsome Arabian prince who wants to make her his wife. It's an episodic comedy manga that doesn't try to be serious. Although, the limited cast of characters and lack of variety in scenarios makes this dull after a while. It hasn't been updated for many years, so this will probably remain unfinished.

This manga was dropped a long time ago, which was sad, since I wanted to read more. The art is pretty good, and the female lead is quite smart, but it's hard to judge something with so few chapters. A pity.

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.

This webtoon is so bad. It wants to be isekai version of Runway de waratte but can't even make itself appealing enough to be read. The art is really not good, but at least the author does an ok job at drawing clothes (can you imagine if they didn't?). There's so many problems with this story that it's trying to tell. If she was working at a factory that made clothes and died and isekai'd to this new world, she will not have the know-how to design clothes since patterning and designing are very different things. You really learn nothing about the clothing making industry reading this, because the author didn't bother to do any research and just wrote whatever floats their boat. The dream of the female lead is to make ready-made clothes, basically mass production of fashion. That seems so un-herolike and unimaginative. It's one thing to design the most beautiful clothes but it's an entirely different thing to wish to mass produce clothes to make lots of money. That's just being greedy and narrow-minded, as well as unambitious. That's why I cannot even begin to root for this boring-ass main character. And there's some side plot where she dresses like a man because she wants to be like Mulan basically. As a woman, no one will take her seriously, so she must be a guy to design clothes. Yeah. Completely stupid. Then the next thing you know, she's being arrested because they thought she was molesting a servant girl, and she laments about being disguised as a guy. You can't have it both ways. Also, you can be female and still molest people of the same gender. Sighhhhhh. Don't even get me started on the endless gushing of the Queen's cousin about how handsome he is. The art is just not up to that level where as a reader, I can also gush over how handsome he is, because he simply isn't! I honestly don't like it when the author of a work keeps trying to beat their readers over the head with how supposedly good-looking a character is supposed to be. It's ok the first couple of times to establish it as an important thought in a character's head, but not necessary in every freaking chapter. Like, we get it! And also also, they really expect us to think the Queen Cecia united 99 kingdoms? Please. Author, list all 99 of them for me. Or you can't because you just came up with 99 since it looks impressive as a number? It's literally impossible to conquer 99 kingdoms in a single lifetime, let alone however many years it took for this Queen.

Nothing about this webtoon makes any sense, largely due to the horrible translation. I really don't know what is happening at all. There's a lot of cute chibi animals and magic flying around, but no real plot. The kingdom where the female lead lives is enemies with another kingdom where one of the male love interests lives, and they're scheming stuff about using magic and taking over the other kingdom. The art is pretty bad, everything looks like a cartoon, and most of the characters are drawn in a simplistic way that is not nice to look at.

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.

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.