Zihvuda's manga / #reincarnation(43)

A supernaturally high powered individual part of a global law enforcement organization watches his friend and colleague be killed. He also then finds himself being betrayed, killed and framed by said organization. He comes back to life thanks to a mysterious entity that had previously been with his dead colleague. Mc now wants revenge for his friend, and for himself, and agrees to work with the entity in order to eventually achieve his revenge. MC wakes up in the body of a young high school boy, with new powers to master and grow. The art isn't anything super detailed or amazing or stylized, but serves it's purpose well if a little blandly. The translation is pretty good, but there are stray chapters by another scanlation group which isn't as good, fortunately all chapters translated by asura scans are also uploaded so it's simple to skip over the badly translated ones, if a little annoying. Also Asura scans does have their occasional hiccups, one being a character who's pronouns are always he/him proudly announces they are a business woman, and then continues to be referred to by he/him pronouns. I suppose they could be genderfluid or non-binary, but it's not touched upon and it's really difficult to figure out if this is a character thing or a mistranslation thing. More than likely it's the latter. The story itself is interesting, compelling and addictive, though MC is OP and barely struggles ever with anything. Other characters are also interesting, and that's what keeps things compelling as they actually have their own motivations and character. They aren't utilized very much which is a shame, and honestly MC loses a lot of his personality after he reincarnates. He goes from a hot tempered idiot with a good heart to a cool and collected bruiser. I guess death mellowed him out quite a bit. The story isn't bad, but I sometimes find myself wondering if I actually like it or not. As I said, MC is compelling only because of his revenge and who he was previously, but currently he's pretty bland. There's plenty of girls that seem to have crushes on MC, he so far hasn't acknowledged any of them, which hopefully means this isn't a harem. One of them is however an underaged girl to mc who was in his mid to late 20s at the very least (i think), which just... author why? It's literally your decision? She didn't need to be a highschooler. =_= So far it's just a unrequited crush so it's fine and it's not focused on much. Also refreshingly MC doesn't act like he's never interacted with a woman in his life, so that's nice. I don't entirely get the power scaling of the characters, it sometimes feels meaningless. Also another thing that feels pretty meaningless now, villains are always villains because of their implacable urges. They can't help, but to be evil! Except they totally can and do repress these desires with patches and what not on a regular basis. After the first couple chapters, every villain you meet is in full control and not a slave to these urges, making them just people with powers. It kind of wrecks the whole need for there to be villain zones or for them to be outcasts to society in general. Like with this patch technology why isn't the government implementing these patches to decrease crime and integrate these people into normal society? It's very weird and it's not brought up again in any way that matters after that. Another weird thing, is at the beginning MC gets someone to surrender to him in a fights, except the other party is revealed to be extremely powerful and looking back had no reason to just surrender to MC much less come out to fight him personally. It's glossed over pretty quick, but if I think about it, it starts to bother me. Despite all that I haven't been inclined to drop the story and have enjoyed reading it. Some reveals I saw coming a mile away though I'm uncertain if it's because it's such a trope or something in the art tipped me off or both. Over all, I think the story is fine, with decent action and character work. A lot of people have fabulous eyeshadow, and I'm here for it. Give it a go and see what you think!

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.