ArtemisFowl's manga / #isekai(5)

Daniel is the crown prince of Kingdom Llewylyn. He finds a street urchin one day, only to find out that this person has his face. It takes two years, but the street urchin becomes his double -- a man who he's named Rael, because the man didn't have a name before. He came from another world (hence Isekai) and was grateful he was picked up by the prince. One day, the Silver Lion, Leonhardt, visits the Kingdom of Llewlyn. Suddenly, he notices his heart beating madly out of his chest when he meets the prince (more accurately, Rael, the prince's double). He starts to follow the prince and leaves the conversation at the end of the night feeling a passionate love towards the prince. He goes to bed, and continues this behavior for the following months of his stay (but not before Daniel switches with Rael for the duration of the stay, which causes the King to stop having heart palpitations like he used to with Rael). After the several months' long stay, the King has a crazy (power-based) proposal -- have the Kingdom Llewyln gain exclusive trading rights for furs for ten years in exchange for a night with the Prince. The king of Llewyln offers the choice to the 'Prince' and (based on the beforehand deliberation of the proposal with Daniel) Rael agrees to the negotiation. Rael has three nights with the Silver Lion (which is technically not what they had agreed on before), to which the Silver Lion says he'll stay away from Daniel and that he's sorry. He doesn't come back to Llewylyn returning on his tour (which is how he met the prince), and Daniel thinks that will be the end of that. However, a year later, an incident/problem changes that (which was the end of the fourth chapter). What has changed, and what circumstances will they meet under? Let's find out... ~Chapter 4

-Chapter 75 -- Bite me *rolls eyes* Look, I liked the relationships between the seven of them, but there comes a point where all of the lying and the cheating and the hiding, for it to be revealed and exposed and the APPARENTLY (apparently the key word here) resolved, but only to realize that everyone would be doing the exact same thing all of the time DESPITE this "resolution" pisses me off. I know not everything is solved in one day, but they seemed to have a resolution of their problems, only for them to fall back into old patterns and it's making me want to bang my head against a wall. Also, as much as it makes fun of the tropes of the web novel genre (which I appreciate, I really do), it really took a sudden turn into stereotype land itself when Eun-Ho is going on and on about how he luuuurves the main character (as though it's realistic that this guy would have only had one attraction to one person -- and I'm not saying this from a hot guy perspective, I'm saying this from a human perspective -- while in middle school with a bunch of other people around), and he's going on the same way that a character in a shojou harem would. Which this is. Except that it revolves around the ML's sidekick best friend, who happens to be the main character of the story we are reading. It had a lot of potential, but sadly I'm disappointed in the execution of the overall story. *End rant* Whew, glad I got that off my chest. Anyways, there are good things about this manga that I liked. I liked her character growth, and the way that she would interact with them as people -- in terms of the dynamics of her friendship with them, which I already touched on. I liked her reactions to things, which were usually very funny. I like that her friendship with Ban Yeoryeong had depth -- that they didn't just have a friendship because of convenience, but there was more to it than that. However, it did irk me that she kept viewing them as characters -- even though she knows they are comic book characters, that doesn't mean that the present reality she's working in doesn't exist. Most of us accept our reality as real -- if we didn't, and thought we were trapped in the matrix where people still interacted with us the same way they did back in our conception of reality, we should still treat the thing in front of us as important and real. Dan-il did not do that, and that is obviously very disheartening. It makes sense that she's trying to reconcile it in some ways, but she has to realize these are people, no matter whether they are comic book people or not. They are, in real time, interacting with her, and that is what matters. I wouldn't say that she's a 'strong female protagonist' -- only that she doesn't 'fall' for the guys she's with (which she totally would have if she felt like this were 'real life' -- it's pretty clear in the way she interacts with them and the fact that she generally stops herself from falling for them by say 'oh, right, they're comic book characters' -- and end scene.) She's not particularly girly and she has a sense of humor. However, she is constantly comparing herself to her friends, and she doesn't feel like she adds up. It makes sense that she has some insecurities, but to this degree, I wouldn't say that she is 'strong' because she doesn't really try to deal with them. She just goes along with whatever. I don't dislike her exactly, but I wouldn't say she's strong. ~Chapter 76

A corporate worker gets sucked into a magical spell and becomes an accountant for a new world. He is acclimating to his role as a non-magical foreigner in this kingdom, as well as his voluntary role to sort out the nation's finances. On the side, he is dealing with the ethics of the 'Saint,' who was the intended target of the spell, and the implications of the third knight's hottie, who's got a wary eye for the newcomer... ~Chapter 18

Isekai reincarnation, where the mc is a king from an alternate universe, different from our own (a sci-fi/fantasy reimagining of the future, with futuristic and arthurian legend elements), and goes to a more fantasy based universe, where he has become a baby, learning about the magic system in the new world. There are many baby jokes based on the fact that he's an adult mind in a baby's body. Season 3 on Chapter 85 ~ Chapter 102