Zihvuda's manga / #historical(24)

The art is very pretty, but censors kisses in a terribly distracting way. What's the point making this a comic if the art isn't allowed to illustrate? There's better ways then giant ass word balloons obstructing both their heads. Also the story is annoying. I thought we'd get dude who went back in time training to be stronger, making use of acquired knowledge from the future and slowly uncovering mysteries + misunderstandings. Instead Mc's an idiot who makes no use of future knowledge or cultivation techniques or anything. He's s childish and whiny! Basically reverts back to being a child with no self awareness. His abusive master is abusive, and rather then turning away from him much earlier than he did in his previous life mc just tries to "tease" him and is constantly worrying about him, but without resolving any misunderstandings from the past life. Like at least when wei wuxian came back, he knew his shit and didn't act like a fucking teenager even if he was in the body of one. MC here died as the strongest cultivator at least 10 years or more in the future, but the story shows none of that future knowledge or maturity. It's such a shallow story that apparently wants to be kind of light hearted and comedic, but also wanting to be tragic and taken seriously. It fails at both, which makes me not care. I thought mc would do something interesting with his new life, but there's nothing there. Ugh... absolutely hate "the victim falling in love with their abuser" trope, it's shitty and for how longs it's been a staple of bl stories, it's also been done to death. So uninteresting. I haven't read the novel, but this hasn't given me any reason to go try reading that either. Ugh. Hard pass, don't understand why this is popular, or why this cliche of a plot remains so goddamn popular in bl stories. Don't waste your time on this there's better ways to spend your time. Like watching paint dry.

This was interesting. A great warrior rises through the ranks of the military in a time of instability and war and then gets betrayed and eventually killed. He finds himself back in time when he was younger and a lesser military leader, he decides to do better this time by making some use of knowledge he has of the future and filling out his own weaknesses by gathering useful people he didn't know he'd need the first time around. The art is interesting, has personality and stands out. I'm not entirely sure I like it, but it definitely works for the story. MC is extremely strong, but still died because of other people being more clever and I like that he's trying to not only learn, but also has people around to help. The translation is unfortunately just this side of understandable, but likely missing a lot of the nuance because it's not good. It's a shame because the story and characters seem interesting. I would recommend the story, but I dunno if I'd really recommend this translation of it. The translation isn't total word salad, but it's pretty bad all the same.

Rape. This is another rape story. A mercenary gets black mailed into sex by a powerful and extremely fucked up Duke. It's a mostly complete story and the art is to DIE for. MC is such a beef cake and ml, while much prettier is still manly and muscled in his own right. The relationship is fucked up and yet it somehow builds into something at least one sidedly romantic by the end. MC's kind of in denial at the end? Also resigned to his fate waiting for ml to get tired of him only it's clear he isn't and mc is mostly fine with that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ There's an incestuous royal family in this too, and MC really is just a plaything for the majority of the story. This poor powerful fighter just gets all his agency stolen. And it's somehow extremely compelling and had me coming back to this story multiple times despite my deep abiding hatred of rape stories (of any kind). This just somehow works for me. I cannot for the life of me explain further then what I said. It was just compelling. I don't hate that I read and (somehow!) enjoyed this. I don't understand. Try it yourself and see??? Like I quit at the first sex scene and weeks or months later just came back to it and then came back to it again to finish it. I don't know man! Form an opinion on this one for yourself, because I don't fucking know! ᕕ( °ᗝ°)ᕗ

Read this on the recommendation from a youtube video. It's not exactly what I thought it'd be and while I like the characters and the art is gorgeous It doesn't quite hit the same for me as some other stories in the genre. The leads are adorable, together and their progression seems very natural so far, but it's not really to my taste though I do believe the story has been told competently. There's some twists I can see a mile away, and some things regarding when MC decides to share information feels oddly stupid. The revenge is kind of... well it didn't manage to bring me on MC's side or really want to see the other parties downfall, if anything, the cheating fiance is a cartoon villain with nothing interesting about him. Overall I think it's good and would recommend giving this a read, but it's not for me.