Zihvuda's manga / #Drama(4)

This was pretty good. Actually accurate to some of the comments even. It bothers me when we never find out the reincarnated person's name from their previous life (because it's never implied or directly said that they don't remember it), and this story unfortunately doesn't address this, but the grief or being ripped out of her own world and brought to this one is real, and pretty well explored. I also absolutely LOVE that throughout the chapters so far, she is so. utterly. done. with everyone's bullshit and for the most part shows it with no remorse. It's really great. Also her behavior is scaring the shit out of some people, which is also pretty fun to witness. Another thing I really like is that the person who will eventually become her love interest is actually a pretty normal looking guy, and not some ridiculously hot guy she meets/saves randomly one day. I mean she still does meet him randomly and does him a kindness, but it's not like I have a problem with any tropes as long as they are done well.

Interesting series and a serious plus that the fat protagonist stays that way for a good portion of time and many chapters and doesn't immediately lose all her extra weight by, i dunno, breathing different or some bullshit like that! ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧ The story keeps you interested and for once the romance isn't forced, or contrived and cliché, but natural and well crafted. I'll be honest I really disliked the Prince at the beginning to the point I thought him ugly. By chapter 77 I had to go back and see if the art had drastically changed because suddenly i found him more appealing. The art style had changed a bit, but not enough for the discrepancy, so I'm assuming it's because I've come to actually like him, which is nice and great story telling! I liked the coloring, but the art style at the beginning I found a bit iffy, and there was something about it i didn't really like. Pleasingly, it has gotten better, and I no longer have any qualms with it. I like our protagonist, she's smart, learns from her mistakes and is overall kind of believable. Things that bothered me include the way we don't get enough of a feel for who the protagonist was before she reincarnated, we don't really see why she has the skills she does, or what she did with her intellect in her previous life. Also, as with many of these types of stories, she gets used to things too quick. She died somehow and was reincarnated in different era, in a world she read about in a book. She doesn't think of trying to get back, she doesn't seem to miss her old life at all, she just gets on with what she has now and what she has to do immediately with no drama. It's a good thing in a way, because it allows her to actually do some bad ass things and be likeable and all, but at the same time, it just feels like she's accepted everything way too easily and adapts too quickly. There's no grief for the friends/family/significant other she may have lost, and we get to know next to nothing about her previous life. This is a nitpick, and frankly I still liked the story despite all this and many other similar stories handle this about the same way, but it's worth mentioning all the same. I wish these stories would show us a little more of the main characters missing technology, or indoor plumbing or something.

This was a fucking mess and I hate everything. Read the whole way through, but man. Just... hate. The last chapters contain cheating implied sexual assault. I'd maybe even go so far as rape. Toxic and abusive relationship too, though not between the main couple. Manipulative asshole of a top, and tragic asshole of a bottom. This ain't a story with fluff- or well... you get one chapter. Sort of. The rest is all of the fucked up.

A café worker meets and dates a man who frequents his café, the man appears perfect and as time goes on it's clear he appears so because he hides a lot about himself. The café worker eventually breaks up with him and quits his job to start over somewhere new. He joins a cleaning service through which he meets his now thoroughly miserable ex. Neither can seem to stay away from the other. This story also contains a meeting and get-together of another couple, which has a relationship somehow much healthier than the first couple's, but both are interesting for their own reasons. Like some other commenters, I did end up preferring the second couple with the "bad boy" top. This is a shame because it is also in part due to how completely the author shifts the focus from the first couple to the second for a rather large portion of the story. To the point where the first couple kind of disappears. There's also a lot of... coincidences? I'm not sure that's the right word, but it wont come to me right now. Either way, the plot starts feeling a bit shaky because of these coincidences, and if you think too much about them it can affect your enjoyment of the story somewhat. Fortunately the characters and their related drama is engaging enough that one can ignore this, at least i could. The fluff is sweet and really nice, but I do find myself having a lot of problems with the first couple, or mainly the original "Mr. Perfect" of the story. His issues are sort of touched upon, but not enough and his behavior makes me really uncomfortable, even if his partner dismisses it. I may be overly sensitive due to the course on domestic abuse I'm currently taking, but like... he leaves bruises on his partner... his partner doesn't enjoy it and has wanted him to stop. He sort of says it, during sex, but it gets ignored, and I don't remember him bringing it up to Mr. Perfect again outside of sex. And that is a problem... a kind of loose end I don't think ever gets properly resolved. Later on towards the end there is a scene of non-con. I'd call it sexual assault even, but despite the partner fainting at the end of it, and scaring the shit out of Mr. Perfect (for very good reason), it's not treated with the gravitas it should have. The story ended on a sweet lovely note, but I remain worried despite that, because of just how many bruises the partner suffers. It also makes it more uncomfortable, because the partner doesn't seem to see this behavior as a problem after an apology, something that is very VERY real in cases of domestic violence. It's starts off small and escalates and I felt like that's what I was witnessing with the first couple. Mr. Perfect needs SO MUCH therapy. Like he badly needs it, and his lover isn't the thing that will fix him. The realism of the abuse in here hits too close, and it feels a little irresponsible of the author to just sweep it away with a blanket happy ending like that. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the first couple is happy together. I want to see them together. I'm glad the partner is so good with de-escalating things that could have turned bad with how obsessive and possessive Mr. Perfect sometimes gets. However I feel it would have been better to see Mr. Perfect get more help for his issues and for the story to at least mention that he's using other methods to work on himself. A lover cannot and should not be the "fix", not in a story that gets this close to real. *Ahem* sorry for the rant, anyway the rest of the story is good and I would recommend it. Just... not to people who could be affected by the stuff described above. Like many yaoi manga, there's a few instances of attempted sexual assault or outright attempted rape by antagonists. Oh!! ALSO there's attempted suicide, it's not graphic and is immediately thwarted. It is a thing that happens though, so it's important to mention. Despite my complaints and problems with this comic, the ending still had me smiling, so make of that what you will.