Agathe's manga / #Strong Female Lead(238)

33 - 4+ good values , nice story arcs (I skipped it 31/32 The og novel knowledge making the MC negative might become burdensome On the contrary, the visit to her double and the glimpses at the story are pretty astute (22 & 27 corruption, trust, i’mbnot sure if the sonn and the school trouble are in c22, there’s also a c about art and corruption ( and rulers greed)

67 - boring , i dropped weak but very cute, our lovers have a truly nice relationship and that’s really nice , despite this it’s also very slow and filled with underlying archaic values ( maid and duchess, woman place and restricted ambitions, etc) I seriously hope she’ll manage to keep him out of wars, as he obviously already have so much trauma I suppose we can expect a bit more in the political Games, which would be interesting as there were a lot of explanations on the way of hierarchy, and not just peacock strife with arrogant title, making characters all powerful with not much wit I don’t like the droopy eyes but the rest of the art is very pretty And i hope to see more about her pitiful good brother, and less flashbacks :) Thanks for the spoilers ;)

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53 - the MC from our modern world ends up stuck in a novel, which promises her a tragic death at the hands of her husband The story not only has a bad plot, it also seems she has to abide quite strictly by this unfair script, and the MC will need lots of wits to both endure and counter the commands of the world Both the author and the world are giving her challenges to beat in order to slowly lift the plot constraints , and finally free some of the characters from the influence of the story For this reason, it takes some time to see some characters go beyond the prejudices they were meant to carry It’s really not your common isekai stoy, there’s added tension and perpetual danger around the MC She needs to build a character, fitting the concept, but with added depth and background to get herself out her fated predicament It’s interesting, the very unfair feeling of the beginning slowly retract when the ML starts to escape the plot, and you can’t help wondering what kind of trouble will befall her next and how will she cleverly get herself out of it

46 - Nice female characters Nice plot,swith over powered people planning massive mind control through waves and qr codes (!) in order to make calm and obedient citizens / robots Strange sci-fi background

29 (Possibly re read after 14 when better translation appears

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30 - start wholesome, the MC truly has good values, she’s smart and self sufficient But turns disappointing There are some strong gender bias : men living by themselves for years can’t cook, have no common sense cleaning, shopping and buy ingredients It’s also a story with very strong insistence on (monetary) reward - everything becomes a transaction Cooperation is naturally something which many exchanges are not calculated, good will is mutually exchanged for good will, maintaining balance in relationships built on trust See Dan Arielli, transactions can easily bread toxic relationships (economic behaviorism) Mostly it’s very tiresome to see a person who was raised in solitude with nothing but books, becoming the boss of a bunch of grown up who seems to know nothing about anything To add nail to the coffin, you have way to much of these cooking /gardening/cleaning show, breaking the narrative to make the MC a little more of an exhausting know it all

40 - some very nice smart bits from the MC Despite a harsh background, it doesn’t fall into miserabile The matrilineal empire is a bit different but much the same The aleph thing is interesting and there seems to be a plot with well hidden strong antagonists

30 - read on webtoon Nice, the art is gorgeous, the FL feels « real », and there’s a big plot twist to make it a bit different from the usual transmigration in a villain trope as she really someone else ressembling the original badly Her friend the writer, is also here, but she’s an ambiguous character : why would she have made a vilain destined to die looking like her bestie ? Then it’s very slow with building romance with her fiancé she wants to ditch , the knight, and maybe the king brother: harem vibes are not good :/ Lastly at least a younger brother who hates her knows she’s not the real one The big bro heard about her being a world traveler, when he discovered her, but he sent for a doctor and had her treated It seems there could be a plot to replace the original as she was kidnapped and a fake was found not too far The MC does have a very dramatic background in the real world as she was raised by a toxic grandmother who was blaming her for her entire family demise in an accident The cute and funny becomes entangled with a lot of angst as she does have a very dangerous background, and could easily be condemned as a spy