somnia's manga / #Magic(84)

100% power fantasy with a reincarnated infant protagonist. You know it's gonna beat that trope to death when you skip 100 chapters and MC still looks like she is immune to puberty. The writing and pace aren't bad, you can totally read this and have fun, but it does get weird sometimes and lays on the fangirling over MC too much. And as with many of these kinds of stories, the longer you read on, the harder it gets to do so. I'd write more, but it's been a while since I last read this... And while I remember enjoying the first half, I don't think this is the type of story worth rereading 100+ chapters for.

This webtoon manages to be humorous while also leading up to legit plot without needing to add in petty drama, which is really nice. Fr the first chapter already tells you straight up that this isn't going to be anything heavy and man sometimes it delivers real good. Shoujo reincarnation trash like me is getting everything one would want from this webtoon, while also making fun of the sub-genre (and not to mention gacha systems). We have handsome men, a harem, plot and magic. Perfect. The set-up just works despite being ridiculous. Gotta say tho, with so many chapters the tension and interest just left my body. It's been 150+ chapters with no end in sight.

The beginning was good, but idk why, all of a sudden it got so difficult to keep on reading. By the time (SPOILER) Edmund yeets into heaven I felt so out of what was happening that I just felt bored by his death. (SPOILER END) Idk if it's the translations fault or what... maybe it's because there's always a bit of silliness squeezed into almost every scene, or it's just that the characters are actually not all that deep and 3 dimensional? Also, just a personal turn-off but I hate how Clete and Tita's relationship had to be handled in such a dramatic way. Would've been nice if Clete snapped out of being slow and for real told and explained him that she just can't return his feelings because of their guardian-ward relationship, their age gap and his lack of experience. Legit when he confessed out of nowhere I went like "He's gonna leave the next day then, huh"- it was SO predictable. Legit everything went downhill after that whole hunting trip thing. What happened by itself was a nice shake-up, but I feel like the outcome of that could've been so much more interesting instead of having them have to return back to ground 0 and wait for whatever consequences at home... in the end it felt like nothing changed despite how hard it affects all these important characters.