Beans's manga / #dropped(9)

Pathetic FMC who has no will of her own. She is pity fodder whose only depth is dependent on what you project onto her. Scenes only ever happen to her, and she doesn't take action at all. The events of the story are all inconsequential too. Details that get might be interesting are forgotten because it's only a cheap device for something new and bad to happen to poor little Ruby. All the characters are hollow and empty and have the communicative skills of infants. They only know to have frightening outbursts that further traumatize Ruby and leave her thinking...absolutely nothing. She asks one question into the void like, "Why is he so angry?" and leaves you with a wall of silence so you can fill it in yourself. It won't matter anyway, because there's no sense of continuity. Male lead is just as empty and annoying, typical emotionless type who is angry he cares about a woman for the first time ever and takes it out on Ruby. This story is just cheap trauma porn with no structure. Incredibly boring and frustrating.

Kept up with the story for nostalgia's sake, but it just makes me feel bad to read. Blatant pedophilic overtones, Orientalism, sinophobia, and stereotyping galore. The plot points are reliant on shock factor. The art really carries the story's gimmicks, but even good linework and nostalgia can't keep me on this story.

The art was pretty and the FMC was friendly with other girls so I was hopeful about this one...Then the story became colorist lol, turning the pale pure brother into a horny demon-possessed guy who is also brown for no reason. With this lazy characterization, I see no reason to continue.

Fun concept, but it doesn't actually feel like the author knows much about coffee production or how to run a business. The story is inoffensive and okay, but I got bored and the art wasn't to my taste enough to keep me interested.

The FMC is supposedly cursed because she was the sole survivor of an incident in her childhood that was completely out of her control. In reality her curse is being fugly because of this ugly art style. Everything is an eyesore and the characters don’t make sense. Her family is cartoonishly evil and blames a seven year old for an accident. The main conflict making zero sense means I never got invested in the the stakes. I couldn’t even stay past the first ten chapters because of how ugly this was anyway. The art style doesn’t improve by the end either.

Promising at first, but the pacing gets boring. MLs are painfully dull, and the FMC obviously has a favorite? She has no real reason to keep everyone around and it even feels out of character. Few characters stand on their own, and once I got bored of the FMC, the whole story was a flop. I forgot the MC's name and have no desire to start reading this again. Art style changes as well.

Standard mediocre plot with inherited powers and a fire/ice, black/white themed couple. The female lead is meant to be capable and admirable but carries herself with the energy of a wilting flower. The low self esteem is understandable, but she truly has zero social skills, and doesn’t feel clever enough for the quasi mystery themes. The art itself wasn’t my taste, so it was overall painful to read through. Got halfway through before deciding to save myself.

Unique premise with an unsatisfactory execution. The story itself was poorly structured and the visuals were lacking and never improved.

I liked the unique twist on the isekai MC having a split soul across worlds instead, but in the end it felt like a forgettable means to an end. The stakes weren’t very convincing, and the emotional payoffs didn’t satisfy me. I was disappointed I didn’t feel very attached to anyone even though I usually love child caretaker tropes. The greatest reason I dropped this one is petty, but it’s the truth: everyone important is blond. They all look very similar, and since my type isn’t blonds, my eyes were never happy. In the end this wasn’t for me.