somnia's manga / #drama(122)

So, the story is about Lippe and how she is yeeted back in time, to where she was a baby, after witnissing war and the destruction of her family. The first bit of the story is so interesting and pulls on your heartstrings real good. But then it slowly morphs into Lippe becoming an idol type of figure who focuses on introducing non-religious singing to ppl? At first she's like, only a model or whatever, and you're like "yea, I guess that's a good base to build up influence and stuff" and then you see her go on to starting her singing career and it turns into "wait, what about x, y and z thing that was/will be happening? There isn't even anything plot important happening (the most drastic thing is ML and her fluffing up to one another?), so why are we still here? This whole idol side quest or whatever just takes away from how emotional and serious the looming future will be- and when put into context with what already happened and what will probably happen, it feels so out of left field. Then there's occaisional moments where you question wth Lippe is even thinking lol- little errors of logic if u will, completely caused by this hyperfocus on her pop star quest. To be blunt: going from her witnissing the tradegy of war and the loss of all her loved ones, to basically grinding to become the first ever Brittney Spears, is way too random. Maybe some people can process it better, but for me it's just confusing af. Honestly, it just feels like a cheap way to fill the plot with irrelevant events, while baiting you with the well established mysteries from the first chapters. And to add onto my rant: Calliope is a total Mary Sue. At first her being so loved and slay made sense and pulled on my heart strings. After all she returned to the past with her adult mind in tact, to her loving family. But man, it gets so tiring and obvious with that whole singing thing. It feels like the author stopped caring about any established plot after the church and this cleansing thing is explained. "Hey, we got the basics down now, now start with the AU fanfic filler plot so we can rival One Piece's chapter sizes!" Honestly, the only reason why I'm not giving this 2 stars is because I have respect for the first chapters.

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.

The beginning is kinda meh- it's your usual revenge story and the only thing that's driving you to read on is seeing MC beating up that one annoying character who betrayed her big time. Other than that I can't say it's all that good or outstanding tbh. There's little realism to the story, it feels surface level. It's especially noticable with the little timing errors here and there. An example from the first chapters: MC is laying on the floor, clearly looking sick af out of nowhere bc she was poisoned by her sister's cheap ass tiara - but the ceremony isn't even over and seems to be somehow just going on (and ending) while she is all woozy on the floor??? Also, after the time yeeting she's at the ceremony again but runs away... and when she's back after talking the ML over to her side, making a marriage/lover's contract, and dragging him along with a bunch of knights, the people from the venue and the sis are standing there like homegirl was gone for 2min..? Listen, I think the whole MC vc female family member or close friend stabbing them in the back drama so old already. This whole women being pitted against each other bs (in this case it more so perpetuates that kind of narrative/mindset ig) is really really old... unless you do it right, but I don't think this is it considering I didn't even realize that MC's sister was unaware of being seen through until they hugged, despite the title hinting that MC is trying to keep it lowkey. Don't get me started on all the other questions I have floating through my mind already, even though only like 16 chapters are out.

Another one where time reverses and MC is out for revenge... Though idk what to think about this for some reason. The art's good and all in all everything is making sense- it just feels like sometimes the story throws out random details midway, or forgot to hint at or mention something. The whole thing about, SPOILER?, Maribelle's cousin being envious of how loved Maribelle is and that being the reason for her distaste kinda came out of left field. I never got the feeling that Belle was getting more attention than her from what was shown from their childhood. All we got was that Belle lost her parents and lived her life happily naively loving her cousin, while her uncle took over the household. Oh, but later on it's shown very well how Maribelle is loved so much by everyone. Her seduction must be leveled out bc damn I cannot understand why some of these people like her so much for reasons you cannot see. (ANOTHER SPOILER) This one dude fell in love with her after 3-ish mediocre conversations, while her main hubby loves her so much even though she betrayed and basically killed him once. She reeks of Mary Sue so bad. People just call her pretty and smart but besides the pretty I don't see it, really. It more so feels like she is going with the flow- like at the start you think cool, she is gonna get away from the trouble aka her uncle's and counsin's shenanigans, and ofc she wants revenge, but oh wait, she doesn't do much at all to avenge herself and just reverse cards their verbal harrassment here and there. She pointed her finger into their direction and her emperor hubby and his 3 minions yeeted into that direction without second guesses.

Very interesting to say the least. Our FL is the childhood friend of a spoiled princess who was destined to die young due to her illness. A person so breathtaking, when she died and a look-alike appeared, she became the center of attention for all the men who used to admire the original tragic beauty. That look-alike is the main character in an otome game FL played before she got reincarnated that is. See where this is going? The set-up is appealing but honestly I just love FL herself so much. She has such a sincere attitude about her and you can tell the author thought for more than 5 minutes about all the relationship dynamics. There's not much going on plot-wise though, right now it seems to center completely around the characters and their emotions and relationships, but I'm not even mad despite how plot thirsty I usually am. I want more chapters. Sadly the story lost it's appeal, at least for me. Maybe I'll revisit this when it's closer to the finish line. Either way, at the moment I just do not want to keep up because all the love interests are either a piece of work or of shit - none of them truly respects FL and her wishes.

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