uotoni's manga / #Strong Female Lead(31)

I Will Politely Decline the Male Lead!

Ongoing | Yehwon , 예훤,샐러맨 | 2019 released

FL has been reborn several times, and she always gets miserably killed. This time, she’s just going to live how she wants if she’s destined to die anyways. At the academy, she becomes best friends with the girl her fiance abandons and kills her for. She also ignores her fiance as he killed her too many times for her to like him. He gets angry about this, but she just wants him to leave her alone. She learned in one of her lives at the very end that she has an aptitude for magic and memorization, so her grades improve drastically in this life, which gets her accused of cheating. The future head of the magic tower wants to become her partner, but she refuses a lot, but eventually agrees. He originally was also obsessed with the FL that her fiance leaves her for. Then, the knight that she also befriends falls for her, even though he originally like the FL too. The FL also seems to be in love with our FL or something, because she’s jealous about our FL giving attention to others. They’re all on good terms except for fiance prince guy. He’s a jerk, but he eventually tries to figure out why she hates him. The magic tower partner guy is amazing. I like the story so far. The art is okay. 4.7/5

Preference for the Possessor

Ongoing | Lee rin-b | 2019 released

FL accidentally purchases afterlife insurance that let's her reincarnate into a story with some OP upgrades. Then she starts a religion accidentally by praying to the creator of worlds to gain divinity so she can be a healer. The gods all talk to her and basically are like office workers and that God likes her and grants her favors. She becomes OP at everything because she is in the tutorial period and when it ends she will be in the highest danger level the novel could be. The novels main character is a holy knight kid that apparently dies and regresses over and over because he has to be a pushover by not sinning in order to up his power and gets betrayed and killed over and over. FL meets him in his first life for the tutorial but won't see him again until his 17th life. She makes a farm in a dungeon, tops out all her skills, makes a potion business with the counts daughter, gets her bro a sword master skill, saves her mom she thought abandoned her, and now she's prepped for the big bad beginning after the tutorial. Oh also the ML can sin against her for some reason, which means he can yell at her and talk about his power without penalty but if he does good deeds towards her he still earns power. The gods are silly. Her little vegetarian fire demon is adorbs. I can see why this one has a high rating. If only the translations were solid throughout I'd give it a 5/5. For now it's a 4.95/5

I Tried To Be Her Loyal Sword

Ongoing | 섬다, ilye, 시이온 | 2000 released

Dropping this one. It was good at first, but now I don't know of it's the translations or the writing, but the story feels clunky and drab. It's gotten boring. FL is a poor girl trying to raise her adorable little sister, and takes up being a mercenary. One day, after falling and hitting hee head, she remembers her past life on earth and that this is the world in a novel. A novel where he sis is the main lead and she is a villainess. However, in the novel, she had never become the famous mercenary Mir. She remembered that she was the Dukes daughter who was treated poorly for being a bastard and her sister fainted and was taken in by a counts family who adored her and she had many men fall for her and eventually saved the world. However the Mercenary Mir has stolen the precious moments of rescuing those male leads, and so they aren't after her sister, but her. When her sis falls into critical condition, being half fairy and unable to see any physicians because of it and despite taking the medicine Mir has been working for, Mir goes to the Duke and pleads with him to save her. He takes them both in as daughters. Her brother was one of the original male leads, but his interest in the mercenary kept him from the boredom that would induce a manic interest in her sis later. She also rescued the crown prince after an assassination attempt when it should have been her sister. She also rescued a neighboring kingdoms king after he fled for his life as a boy and she found him in the woods, also was supposed to be her sister. She also kept the now pope and his little sis from being bullied and he hid his identity and hired her as a mercenary once a month for exactly the amount she needed for meds (though he wanted to give her more). Not only that, but another boy she rescued and who was supposed to become the ml that the other villainess fought with her sis over ended up falling for her and is now her swords teacher. And that villainess fell for her when she rescued her in place of that ML, although she still doesn't get along with her sis. So basically a reverse harem. We only just got to the part about the king in ch 43. The art is okay, story is pretty fun. Nice little reverse harem. Strong FL, although all the ML are a bit bland. I honestly like the villainess girl more than all 4 ml. Hahaha. I do love how her younger sister is not so sweet like she was described and enjoy seeing her telling off the duke and the bro. Super cute. I like this so far. Was a 4.8 but it got boring so now it is 3/5️ and dropped.

Princess Blooms into a Crazy Flower

Ongoing | Han bo-yeon,Hwang man-ju | 2019 released

Wait for official translations. Last read was ch 56 FL pretended to be a little bonkers by wearing pants, running around barefoot, and bursting into meetings, etc. Her hateful step bro who wants to be crown prince and his mom want her out of the picture. She wants to avoid a political marriage and wants specifically to marry this blond knight guy. She has some time stopping power (power that they call oddness in her moms clan). Her maid has oddness that is healing. Knight guy teaches her swordsmanshiip and finds out her secret when she went sneaking out. Step mom bitch starves her daughter and makes her beg for attention from knight guy. Douchebro and his mom scheme to get crown prince and FL killed during some trip to get a wreath. Now crown prince knows secret and wants to use her for his own gain because she saved his life. But knight guy proposes. And FL starts feeling guilty? They both go to buy each other swords. Anddd now he's being sent off to some weird skirmish with ghosts killy guys. Anyways, this is okay so far. The non official translations aren't good enough quality to trudge through. Art is okay. Some panels way better than other. 4.65/5

Trophy Husband

Ongoing | Manta comics | 2022 released

Completed. FL and best friend were in car accident. FL sees dragon and wishes that her friend could survive. She wakes up in another world with magic powers and strength and no heartbeat. The king guy accepts her, gives her a new name, and when she helps him in the war to create and empire he gives her the title of duke. That's where our story really starts. She has been desperate to find her heart and thinks she has no feelings. King guy wants her to be his empress even though he has a fiance. New guy prince from kingdom she defeated shows up and tells her he will help her find her heart if she will enter a contract marriage with him and destroy his home country's hope. His mom is the queen over there and after the war that the duke and king won, she became obsessed with the dragon powers. She experimented on ML for years apparently. She seems to be scheming something new. And FL tells ML not to fall in love with her, butttt he already is sooooo... This was a cute story. The art wasn't my usual style so I avoided it, but it ended up being a pretty fun and quick read. 4.85/5

I Will Seduce The Northern Duke

Ongoing | 주시하,후냐 | 2019 released

Ch 91 was final chapter Actress Selina falls off a cliff while shooting. Transported to different universe onto monster filled mountain. Duke of the north saves her from monster and she tells him she will act for him as his villainous new lover after his prior fiance was killed to find the killer. But he puts her acting to the test since he hasn't got an ounce of romance in him or acting skills. 4.9/5

The Princess's Double Life

Ongoing | 고은채,쌍필 | 2019 released

Reading official translations only. FL was a swindler on earth. She dies after she fled the country after swindling a company president and he put a hit out on her. Then she reincarnated as an orphan. Soooo, she decides to become a swindler again to survive. She joined some beggars, got the nickname "The Viper" and became infamous. Then the leader of the beggar group, The Tarantula?, sold all the beggar kids including his own bro. FL let it happen to get into the noble castle and steal jewels, but she felt bad and helped the bro escape. Then she continued scamming and being infamous until she finds herself in prison of the Duke of the Northern territory Drax. His name is like Rexxion or something, I dunno. He's known for being all brawn and no brains. But his butler is a brilliant assassin who suggests instead of killing The Viper that they should use her for their plan. Whats the plan? To make the Duke emperor. Why? To get revenge for the death of his brother and closest friend, Raven, who was the crown prince, and to keep his promise to him to become the emperor Raven wanted to be for the kingdom. At first FL makes a run for it, as originally intended, because she only ever let herself get imprisoned to steal the duke's imperial treasure, some sort of magic ring only royalty gets. But the butler had predicted that and had convinced the Duke to do a slave contract spell thing that prevents her from running away. It also makes it so that if the duke does so does she. Anyways, lots of stuff happens. FL becomes duke's heiress. She gets the prince of an allied kingdom castrated so his awesome sis can become the heir. She catches on when the widow of Raven is a spy. She finds out that the unknown enemy not only has the beggar kids leader and the only person as smart as her working as a tactician but also a sorcerer. Turns out the sorcerer is the daughter of the sorcerer old lady that visited from the north and also the wife of some other duke man who went crazy searching for her for 20 years. Better yet, our FL hasn't figured it out but she is that sorcerer and that other duke's daughter. But the other tactician knows and is using her as a manipulation tactic to get sorcerer mom to make him a potion to kill out ML. Why? Because he apparently thinks his obsession over her is love and he thinks she loves the ML. Which...she kinda does but not enough to trigger the 3rd or 2nd level of the curse the sorceror gma told her about. If they reach the 3rd level, aka love and affection, then if either one of them ever feels love or affection for another person both the ML and FL will die. ML doesn't see that as too big of a problem since he is pretty convinced he loves her and that he can find a way to be emperor and still make her his wife, but she thinks she is just a commoner and criminal and that he cannot be emperor and have her as a wife. Also butler assassin who she gets along with but says she isn't his type starts getting a crush on her after she was worried about him coming back safely from being in disguise as Raven. Also FL is nicknamed Viper because her saliva and blood are so full of various poisons from building a tolerance to them. So she has made out with ML to get him to build tolerance too, butttt he just wants to keep kissing her. Anyways, I left off right around them getting to the "widowed" duke's estate, aka her dad she doesn't know about. That's where season 2 ended. I wasn't sure about this one immediately, but it was quite different and entertaining. It's cute and smart with a good story. The art is good as well. 5/5

Emperor And The Female Knight

Ongoing | 안경워숭이,Team-iyak,winter - heyum | 2019 released

This story is completed. FL is forced into the army to get her out of the way of her sister who her parents prefer as the successor. They hope that she will die in the war. The never ending war. Female knights are not common, and no one takes her seriously. She realizes that another nations’ movements are sketchy and tries to alert the higher ups, but they all scoff at her. In the next battle, that nation attacks, and she has her platoon run away. She serves as a distraction so her platoon mates can get away. The emperor of that nation meets with her, and tells his men to kill her. One tries to feel her up first, and the emperor reading over info on her regrets having her killed. He hears a commotion outside to find her beating the ass of half of the knights. He offers her a position in his army. She accepts. He takes her seriously, although not everyone does. She thinks everyone is still out to get her, like they were in the old army. Eventually everyone sees her skills and intellect, and she is promoted and the Emperor falls in love with her, but gives up on her because she only sees him as a leader, not a love interest. So, he gets 3 concubines. FL learns from them what it means to be a woman in their society, and they respect her for the success she’s gotten at being respected like a man would. She becomes friends with them, and he gets the one she’s most fond of pregnant. But that one dies and he ignores his daughter for a while. Then another concubine reveals that she was forced to try and poison the other concubine. The other concubine asks for a divorce. So the emperor is single again just in time for FL to get a boyfriend. A boyfriend who admitted to wanting her for the money. But then she overhears his scheme to have her die so his son that he was hiding from her could take over her title. She has him cut his own dick which was great. But then she and emperor sleep together in a one night stand. And even though she’s been infertile her whole life, she gets pregnant. She runs away to have the baby so she can hide it from the emperor so he won’t force himself to take responsibility, buuuuut he comes to visit her and finds out and tells her that he’s always loved her. But she isn’t happy like he thought she would be. She’s pissed because that would mean everything she’d accomplished was just handed to her because he liked her. Not because he respected her abilities. And also, that would mean he wanted to marry her which would take away her title, and break his promise of the man she marries would have to take on her last name. Annnnnnd that is about where we ended off at. Update: they are getting married, but pretty sure the author forgot about the baby because like wtf? Just abandoned off somewhere while you get courted by the emperor and have sex and plan a wedding and find a successor...like where is your kid??? This story is soooo good. The art is okay. A different style than I am used to, but still decent. The story was compelling and I read it all in one night. 4.8/5

The Lady and the Beast

Ongoing | The maginot line,Hongseul | 2019 released

Note: they are fighting and its lasting forever and its draggimg on and on. And now he's wanting a divorce and she still says she doesn't love him. Like wtf?? I'm about ready to drop. It's lasting too long. Martina was a descendent of a witch tribe that was slaughtered by a prince who wanted to be king. He raped her and framed his brother with her to get his brother killed and get the title of king. Martina set the second prince free and killed the first prince. But after devoting herseld to the second prince, Theodore, he betrays her. So she kills him and takes over the empire. She was the last of her name. And then 100 years later she's reborn with memories of her pastlife and grows up a genius. But her families debt nearly sends her poor sister into the clutches of the cursed duke who is a wolven monster. She is to produce an heir (eh beastiality?) As part of the deal. They expect her to die, but instead she has tamed the beast. And then suddenly, he's human again and looks just like Theodore, the prince who betrayed her and the one that she loved. This is ssoooo good, throwing aside the whole beastiality thing. The art is stunning, the main character is strong and interesting. The male lead is a cinnamon roll.

I Thought It Was a Common Isekai Story

Ongoing | Doyosay,레몬개구리,아진,Wonjak ,Ajin | 2022 released

FL is isekai'd after her gambling addict brother shoves her and she falls down the stairs. She ends up in a story she was reading as a villainess character. Her character is forced to marry the sub male lead for some political reason, and their families hate each other. She decides she can live well of she just avoids doing the bad things to the OG FL, who is being raised by her new husband's family and is the love interest of both her husband and his brother and loved by pretty much everyone but her original family. Our FL was abused by her family and used like a pawn in their political schemes which earned her a bad reputation. Due to her bad reputation and the author of the story forcing events to take place even though our FL didn't instigate them (i.e. poisoning, missing docs, poisoning part 2) and also due to the brother's initial prejudice against her due to her family, FL's life is lonely and she's always suspected. Her husband is in love with the other girl, and even though she likes him she doesn't wanna fall into the trope of loving him and doing things out of jealousy. Somehow her actions win her the favor of some side characters and eventually even her husband, and now he's sorta obsessed and in love with her and they share some happy moments. But the author had 3 stipulations in place she had to follow and 3 exceptions to meet in order to make the world stop following the og storyline so she can be happy (and not die at her husband's hand). First, she slept with him. 2nd, she refused requests from him 10 times in a row. And now there is a 3rd, and the 3rd rule is that if she dies everything would reset to the original story again. Anyways, author guy is pissed she met stipulations and is trying to manipulate the main characters he still has control over to get our FL killed to reset the story. The last I read she was in a boating accident most likely caused by ML's older brother or even the OG FL. Both are suspicious AF. And our ML is suspicious of them now, finally. This is a really good story so far. Art is great. Some of the translations were a bit clunky, and the names change with every translator which is a bit confusing. Overall, though, 4.85/5