Lauvil's manga / #Childhood Friends(46)

Overall a cute story. Nothing revolutionary, but good nonetheless.

Meh. The whole "mermaid's curse" is just so extra. And the fact that they STILL can have a misunderstanding between them, despite both of them saying "I love you" all the time, is beyond me. It just feels silly and stupid. Not my cup of tea.

Decent smut, silly plot.

I think I lost braincells reading this. The plot was clichéd, unoriginal and utterly uninteresting. The trope of a poor, innocent girl meeting an excessively rich, handsome, famous and popular man is so overused and annoying. I get that it's some women's dream to marry a rich guy and not having to work, but such an unbalanced relationship is just off-putting to me. Especially when the ML is like in this story. He's arrogant and forceful. He lacks respect for the FL and shows controlling behaviour towards her. Just in the first two chapters, he attempts to force himself on the FL 3 times. One would think that her reaction during the first attempt would've made him understand not to do it again, but no. Without any further romantic development between them, he tries again. And again. Yikes. Dropped.

Dropped. I just can't with those plots where the premise is "poor female has to sleep with a guy to not have her secret exposed/get or keep he job/have a place to live/etc. It's cliché, mysogonistic and rape. And I don't want to read that shit. What's up with manga and having weak female leads who can't stand up for themselves and pushy rapists as male leads?

2 stories in skit format. The second one was just uncomfortable. The uke is raped, yet the seme's injury fetish makes him completely unempathetic to his lover's pain. Yikes.