Jœjœ's manga / #Beautiful Art(2)

I like this. I love this. The first season is pretty tragic, and concentrates around Skylar's backstory. The second season has a lot of light hearted, fun moments, but as of now (chapter 73) it seems to be showing us more of Cirrus' feelings, his "real" self, and familial backstory and I'm living for that. Cirrus is a very weird character, up to this day, it's hard to understand his mentality, and he's so toxic (probably without even wanting to be so), that I sometimes wonder if this ship will get a happy ending. Seems to be getting character developpement though, and I'm LIVING for it. Things I would wish to see would be: -Skylar getting along with his family -Cirrus and Skylar both recovering from their respective traumas -Cirrus to be accepted as who he really is by his friends -Chan Il not being as "pure". I'd like to see a scene of Chan Il saying that he had always noticed who Cirrus really is, and how he copies his persona, qnd confront him about it (this isn't compulsory though, I'd enjoy the story just as much even without it) LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE ONLY ANNOYING PART OF THIS STORY: Skylar. Baby. I love you. But how do you go from saying that you never really liked Chan-Il as a person, and you only saw Minwoo (hope he gets his ass beaten) in him, to crying when you see he likes someone else, to still having expectations (e.g. when Chan Il invited him over he was like "We'll finally be able to hang out just to two of us", then he went "I forgot he was pure" when he saw all the clique was there, as if he expected something to happen between him, and his heterosexual friend who already has someone he likes). I don't really like, nor understand this part.

The art sure is pretty, but the writing's sloppy... At least 2 major plot points are wonky af. - The first one is noticed at the very start of the story: MC clearly states that she used to live a life in SK (I think that she was a free-lancer), she even comes back to this very same statement when she says "I should've studied harder". But since chapter 1, very differently from other isekai MCs, in her thoughts, she adresses Juvel's past as her own, even saying "I remember when I did this or that", and in her thoughts, she calls the duke "father". This becomes worse after the duke says that he only turned back time, and when MC actually starts remembering events from "her" (Juvel's) past as a child (after her memories were whiped). There really was no reason to make this an isekai, they could've said that Juvel was the MC from the very start and went back in time and decided to change her ways. They try to cover this up with the quote of her mother "Live your life as if you were living inside a novel", so that the readers don't find it weird that MC said that the world was in a novel. This doesn't work since we get glimpses of her actual past life in South Korea as a free lancer. - Another big problem that annoyed me was how Beatrice was the supposed heir because she hqd red eyes and red hair, but not only was her hair the exact color as her mother's, but the "red hair" of the dragon Fafnel was actually a scarlet red. If you didn't understand the stupidity: Beatrice is called the chosen child because of her red hair, but her red hair is inherited from her mother, thus having nothing to do with her powers. - One more thing is that Juvel says that the original novel stopped after Juvel died. However, she afterwards states that Beatrice would become a great mage after awakening her powers. But in the novel Beatrice only awakened her powers after getting poisonned on the day Juvel died... so how can MC know that Trice would become a great mage and save the empire??? That wouldn't even be possible since Legis killed practically everyone on that day. There were also some very minor plot holes, like how Legis states during Beatrice's coming of age ceremony of his first life that Juvel has already come of age, but in the actual story Juvel comes of age after Beatrice. There's also the fact that Legis gave a dagger to Juvel before taking her to prison, and this never gets explained even in the flashbacks, he just gives it to her and goes back. The story itself isn't that bad, I guess it is kinda cute at times. But I just stopped when they made Juvel some kind of a goddess reincarnation mage or whatever. Juvel herself stated that Beatrice would become an incredible mage, but Fafnel basically said that Beatrice doesn't have anything special. Yeah no. That's just annoying. They HAD to make her have some inherited powers because otherwise she had no use in the story. Bad storymaking if you ask me.