somnia's manga / #Interesting(169)

It's too soon to judge for now, but I hope this'll go into a interesting direction. It's refreshing to see a reincarnated baby who's not an ex-female office job worker who is making faces at the weird ppl of this strange new world. Hopefully the author won't make the mistake of perma-curing her trauma by having the family do xyz uniquely cute thing for her, only to make it resurface whenever it fits into the narrative. Also, I kinda dislike how her bleak appearance was basically overwritten/overshadowed by her new body already. The contrast between pre- and after reincarnation mc (her family situation and natural talent) is already so strong, it feels cheap to basically "lighten up" her new character design as well- kinda sends a wrong message. Call me nitpicky, ig.

I'm personally not a huge Yaoi fan, but damn this is good.

45// MC reincarnated into a abuse-kink BL story where her now brother is the protag, aka the bottom who's gonna end up being miserably abused. She basically takes his place and does her best to seperate him from his abusers, going as far as sending him to a rural Girls academy. And ofc, all the gay abusive tops start thirsting for MC all of the sudden, because this is a shoujo lmao- Honestly, I'd make this a 5-star if not for MC's inintentional irrationality sometimes. The pace of the story and the objective stuff is all well and good. The art's nice too. But, I can't understand how she can be so okay chilling out with the psycho who killed her entire family and made her bro go through hell. She seems so focused on the novel plot sometimes, about how Franz should avoid meeting that pink haired twat at any cost, this and that, but when she comes face to face with him it's like... a bit of tension and then just "hm, he kinda strange, anyway let's leave quickly". I don't hate trying to unravel a villain, and making him harmless outside the realms of the og plot, but at least make MC be a bit more sus'd out about him if she's already so concerned about the plot. TBH, I'd prefer if they don't end up together, but if it has to happen then it better be done slowly and t h o r o u g h. This one thing is yikes, but as I said, at least the story is told nicely (though somewhere I got thrown off with the inconsistent time skips ngl) and the world building is interesting.

So far it's pretty good, just the sometimes wonky translated chapters can be hella confusing and throw me off tbh. It's also kinda annoying how FL and ML have to constantly tell each other and the readers that they're hot shit. I mean, they are, but I feel like a lot of content is wasted on just them talking away and playing useless mindgames while actual stuff could be happening. Also also: Personally, the title is kinda- how to say... -badly worded? At least I thought it's gonna center around FL pretending to be mad (and dunking on people with that or whatever), like the title says obviously, but as of now it seems to be more so just a single situation within a small time frame of the story which is basically entirely unrelated to the plot and will only minimally, if not even, impact the future events. Since this is only the beginning, later chapters might iron that out but as of now- that's my take on the whole shabam.

You know the drill, FL gets reincarnated into the young body of the future villainess and tries to avoid death flags. Honestly, it doesn't stand out from any other of the 100 or so shoujo isekai so far (besides the pretty art maybe)... but am I still gonna read the shit out of this? Thank you very much, I will. I like that the storyline doesn't get stuck on chewing through FL's entire childhood like a boring daily sidequest and has a decent flow to it. Like, we are cutting right into the meat, which should tell you that the plot is gonna be at least decent and thought out. The only thing I want to complain about is FL's blindness to having ML crushing all over her for probably most of their childhood together, and home girl being blind af to that, despite clearly retaining the mind of a woman who lived during the 21st century. For the love of god, I hope the author doesn't make the mistake of leaving FL dumb af in that aspect for decades like other similar shoujo manwha that shall not be named now. I swear I didn't mean for this to turn into a call-out post/vent.

79/ MC is reincarnated into a dark dating sim she used to play, as a character which did not exist. A bit too early to judge the plot yet, but it's obvious that there's a bunch of things hidden behind the curtain if you will. The lightheartet atmosphere also kinda has a reason to be there, acting as a contrast between the dark vibe of the game and overall how serious the world actually is. It's like MC presence lightens up the story. Maybe I'm overanalysing? [Spoilers?]: It's kinda obvious how MC's existence is something of a cure for the transcendentals and I hope there's some interesting lore behind that instead of her just being proclaimed a random saint thing that appears in their world every odd years or so. Anywho, most of the story's charm so far is from MC and her relationship with other people, though usually I'm more interested in lore.