somnia's manga / #hell yea(95)

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85/ Hilise is the illegitimate child of the Inoaden family and lived through 7 lives, where she is killed by her own family and experiences betrayal over and over again. You know her family is absolute dogshit when one of the popular tags is "trashy stupid family" and so on. The story starts in her 8th (or 7th? somewhere around that) jump back into the past and is the point where she snaps and stops giving a damn about everyone and everything. Her main focus is to find a way to stop the constant time reversals while slapping away the obstacles which stand in her way. Honestly, the drama here is good. But I feel like the number of reincarnations it took for Hilise to get to this point is a bit too much. Either that or it would've been better not to have her just remember every detail of all lives right from the start. It makes her look like an idiot, and that kind of starts to infect the rest of the plot. I felt so much "Why did this have to happen?"-energy when reading some parts, just asking myself why the hell she wasn't able to at least semi-calmly gtfa from her family at an earlier point. Anyway, the drama here is good. I feel Season 1 Hilise is playing up the slay sis vibes more (and maybe she's a tad inconsistent) than the Hilise after that. Now her duality and the struggle to keep her heart closed and cold are clearly shown off. The lore and world building are also interesting, though most of the time all that just doesn't feel like this takes place in a... place, if that makes sense. I don't have a clue where their mansions are located, nor the King's Palace or this counsil archive thing I forgot the name of. We don't get to see what is where in relation to one another. It's very unnoticable while reading but to me, personally, it makes my reader's perspective feel even slimmer than it already is. It's a tad discomforting for me, not gonna lie. Other than that everything from her last7 or so lives to future events seem to be planned out really well, can't wait for future chapters.

RIP author. The story you've written is truely a treat. The art is beautiful too. FL possessed the body of a widowed baroness, a minor character within a novel, and manages to unintentionally seduce the ML of that novel. At first you think it's gonna be like any other shoujo isekai manwha, but honestly, this one manages to stand out with little turns and big twists. All major characters have interesting nooks or defy your expectations entirely, FL herself feels realistic and her decisions and doubts make sense, and she not this epi-center of a power fantasy where she beats her enemies and obstacles in a matter of seconds. Yes, it's a good thing that it's not like that. At the same time it also doesn't feel like she's completely driven up against a corner, (kind of SPOILER>) despite being forced to face an enemy who you could argue is an OP character who's living and breathing the life of a power fantasy protag... aka the not-so innocent princess, aka the og fl. (<) The story finds a good balance between the drama and other lighter business. And the romance and abundance of hot people gives it that extra spice.

This one is absolutely hilarious. It basically makes fun of and distorts the niche shoujo isekai/time yeeting genre. Our FL is the sister of the tragic main character of a BL fantasy novel. No matter how hard she tries to make her brother avoid his tragedies and avoid his (or her own) deaths, she fails and wakes up to find herself yeeted back in time. After at least 20 time reversals, FL finds a magic sword which basically tells her that if she fullfills the wish of the character she possessed, which is to fullfill her brother Asterion's wish, she'll be able to stop the circle. FL proceeds to have one hell of a time while trying to protect her family and Asterion's happiness. The manwha is more than just self-aware, with the 4th wall being broken every so often and characters openly and obsessively thirsting for ikemen, while trying to find the best ways to bully their enemies in the most effective way possible. 11/10.