Zihvuda's manga / #Fantasy(62)

The youngest son of the duke, an illegitimate kid leads a life of struggle as he becomes his brother's assassin and helps him in his schemes for power. At the last, he is betrayed by his brother, the person he had dedicated his life to and is killed. He opens his eyes, having gone back in time to when he was 7 years old. Burning with the need for revenge, mc speed-runs getting strong and prepares to do the exact opposite of what he did in his previous life. That is, to ruin his brother's shit at every possible turn. Once again MC is some old man in the body of a child. Complete with other children having crushes on him. Thank goodness mc displays not the slightest bit of interests in any of them, but still. Ick. Princess feels pretty end game which makes it more ick, though I'm not sure this isn't a harem, just with no emphasis on romance. A bunch of girls fall for mc, and he even gets a "daughter". The other love interests are actually pretty distinct in personality and useful to the plot most of the time. I kind of like all of them, even though I absolutely don't want any of them getting with our old man of an mc. The mystery and story are interesting, and thankfully the plot does mostly focus on that. The art is really good, I like it a lot, and the translation is mostly fine, though translations by different groups were uploaded so be ready for the old name shuffle and varying quality that comes with that. There's a lot of female characters, a surprising number, but it only serves to lend further credence to this being a harem in the end. Brian the knight is about the only non-woman character that isn't a villain/antagonist that's got a good relationship with protag-kun. I hate harems, but the story and art are good, so I'd recommend giving this a go anyhow. I'm wondering if thee daughter will get more development later, she's very much the weakest "character" so far, to the point where i put character in quotations because she honestly has no personality. She might as well be a pet at the point and she's barely in the story.

An orphan girl dies and is reincarnated into the novel she was reading before death. She reincarnates into a girl who has to pretend to be her twin brother and enlist in the army because, said twin brother decided to elope with his lover the day before enlistment. In a country where the whole family is in trouble if enlistee doesn't show up for enlistment, and the family already has debt and a sick father. MC joins the army and gets immediately entangled with the villain of the novel and the protagonist. This kind of sucks. MC tries her fucking best and pretty much everyone except her sick father is an asshole of the highest order. She wants to be happy with her family, well her dad since the brother up and abandoned her, and she's immediately being targeted by two guys who are pretty awful. I can't see this having a satisfactory ending where the love interest is redeemed enough for it to be ok for the romance to actually romance. The art isn't that great, and everyone takes stupid pills on the regular. MC can see the story is deviating and the people aren't who they seemed in novel she read ages ago, but she's unable to adapt to this knowledge. She's extremely strong, but doesn't really put her skills to use much at all and the art's not very good at depicting the action anyway, though it at least tries. I like the perspective switches they do in this, and the overall premise isn't totally bad, though pretty cliche, but it really really could have used a couple more drafts. The characters feel kind of childish rather than adults. The sick people are mostly props, and even if they eventually got cured I don't think they'd get any personality. Dad is just "kind man who has dementia and is mostly asleep 99.9% of the time". There's plenty of drama to be had from there without making the main couple have so many secrets and misunderstandings between them (all but one being the prince's). I hate the love triangle aspect of this too. Just all around unpleasant. I don't understand why the overall rating is so high, I don't recommend this, there's much better out there. Like Only Death Awaits the Villainess, etc.