5.3 - fun start but will it last?
Alas from the novel on Syosetsu, the MC have the very same bad disease as too many reincarnated characters:
(These are no spoilers if you read the first chapter)
- First she’s been born and lived for 16 years in that place, but the moment she remembers her pas life she doesn’t identify as « herself », but as her « former life self » (what the heck !! That’s a serious mental disease !)
- Hence, all starts to go crazy : reality is a « game » , the people around her and her family are « characters ».
- some of them - pretty boys with big lineage are « capture target » of a otome game
- She also adopt the « villainess » label and decide to avoid every « capture target » …
- … who, she’ll seduce blindly with a very stereotypical « love blindness » … duh
Even if she was never involved with anyone in her previous life (come one at 30 !?), she played enough romance game to be able to read the signs : even more she played « that one » which she confuse with reality
- Also she’s the typical dumb girl, not just because she’s fangirling all other (bothersome enough), but because she’s made to be uneducated
- once again a woman greatest ambition to avoid a disaster can can obviouly prevent : become a commoner, clean and cook ! Welcome 21th century old maids ? How depressing when the most common alternative is becoming filthy rich to be lazy and do as one’s please while others are working for her … sad sad world ?
While there seem to be a bit of a story behind, it is vastly disappointing and boring stereotypes ruins it.
Hopefully the manga does an awesome job an trimming a tediously long novel to get an appropriate pace. (5 chapters equivalent to more that 20 in the novel - good job mangaka !)
So maybe, with a bit of luck, the manga will manage to keep the good bit and we’ll survive until the absolute dumb MC might get enlightened (it’s just maybe : honestly there’s no signs after 50 C, just the appearance of a second victim)
Or the background story will be interesting enough ?
Do i dare to read more ? Ne ?
Well at least - so far - it’s cute and entertaining
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