ReviewRaptor's manga / #wtf just happened?(297)

I'm at chapter 10 now and the story is neither pleasant nor interesting since it's just all over the fucking place. The 'love' feels random and shoehorned and so does the flashbacks that supposedly explain something. It feels literally like when I write a script and scribble notes at the side of a page saying "see if you can make this work as an excuse by providing a flashback and showing the bad guy actually had an interest in the MC since the very first meeting". That is literally EXACTLY how Jin's flashback moment and explaination of Seo felt. To a T. The rape-y-ness of the story doesn't help either. But maybe it works as a self-insert for some people. Doesn't hit the mark for me tho. ╮(￣▽￣)╭ Jin is somewhat interesting and I see comments saying the side couple is good, but I really REALLY cannot stand reading this any longer. It's just not interesting and badly written. It's a chore at this point. I might sometime check out the side couple, but I honestly feel like the writing isn't gonna magically turn better. Because that usually does simply not happen. (￣∇￣") Personally not at all recommending this one. Mainly due to the bad writing and randomness. But check it out, maybe you don't care much for these issues and can somehow enjoy it.

I prepared to leave a review asap but then the sudden jump from chapter 5 to 6 happened and now I'm confused if someone forgot to upload a chapter or multiple or if it's actually THAT much of a writing fault to have such a large, randomly placed and glossed over skip. The story is lovely, sweet innocent romance on each persons part, but that time skip with the way to random and quick plot solution threw me off so far you'll need to send my mail to Jupiter.

I'll be honest this is very basic and bland, I just can't get into it or enjoy it. :( The MC is so shallow and basically just a typical 2001 ditzy highschool girl in the body of a 24 year old man, it's just obnoxious. The emperor isn't in love, he's factually mentally ill and the plot treats it as if that's how obsessive love/love at first sight (since childhood) is. Which it is NOT, in case anyone isn't aware for some reason. The art is inconsistent and each face is just copy pasta with some different sauce added, anatomy is also wonky and no standard can be found for shapes and sizes. To boot, the overall detail is bland, tacky if there IS stuff like jewelery and it all just feels like stock image type of designing, just to slap clothes onto them because they can't be naked. The plot itself is very predictable and not as interesting as I first hoped. While it DOES work as a comedy, the art portrayal of said comedy is too little and too bland as well. It would need much more effort on that front to be an actual comedy and work as such a piece, tho it is a good casual page flipper if you are VERY bored. But even then I care little for the 'politics' and the romance is just not existent. The romance in this story is simply: there is romance because the author says so/demands it at the moment. The concept of marriage laws to allow their relationship IS something new and interesting, but everything else is just not good enough to make me read more. It's not quite well written and not well designed when it comes to portrayal of comedy, so it's below mid-levels of ranking for me. Maybe the novel is better but the comic I would honestly not ever recommend, it's just too low-mid levels on all fronts and nothing special or interesting compared to even dusty old BL stories with REALLY predictable and cliche plots (which is sad tbh). I think younger/less experienced people who don't know much about good writing can have a total blast with this, but to seasoned readers I think this is to bland, too basic and too boring. Wouldn't recommend but check it out to see if you don't mind it as much. If you don't mind something simple and basic to flip pages when bored, you might still like it nonetheless.

The plot of this is grand and promising, but the execution of the comic is lackluster at best. (I asume this is based on a novel, so keep that in mind.) There are very obviously things left out that are important to explain (like some names or creatures that randomly pop up and we are supposed to just say 'ah, ok' to that, all while barely needed flashbacks of character pasts are made a huge, detailed deal). Many times it feels like the comic gets side tracked and pays attention to the wrong things. Or just skips scenes that seem to be important to have in here. I assume the original work has them included, like the strange childrens gift from Winter, the reaction of the MC after reuniting was MUCH too special for the gift to be just left out/not revealed. Don't get me wrong, the base plot is incredibly interesting and has incredible potential, doing away with many cliches and mistakes, but it bothers me extremely that every other chapter the immersion is broken because another random skip, leaving something out or just a surprise random info snippet gets slapped into my face and nobody really cares to integrate it/introduce it into the story as if it was always a part of it. The way it's done here feels more like the author had a random moment and slapped something in there. Which I do NOT think the original script reads like. There are TOO many instances, even in just the 27 chapters I have read so far, that give the feeling of half the info you SHOULD have when reading the original script, are simply left out because of likely the classic reason: The comic adaptors didn't deem it important enough. Which is THE biggest issue with comic adaptations no doubt. It's not up to you as the adaptation team to deem what's necessary, especially if you definitely have no passion to convey the original plot as detailed as it likely is. If the writer included it, the comic should as well. Don't like the extra work for something you think is unimportant? DON'T MAKE A COMIC ABOUT THE STORY THEN. That's equally as unpleasant as anime/manga translators/localizers turning their job into fanfiction writing by making up what characters are saying. It's disappointing seeing this type of thing happen so often when it comes to novel-to-comic adaptations and making a potentially amazing story so annoying, boring or shitty to read. I really wish people would stop doing this. It's not givng the original story a good rep if you half-ass the comic adaptation.

I like animals and monsters and whatnot, but we gotta agree some species should at some point just be gotten rid of. For the greater good. These ones are part of that group for sure because of how nonsensical and actually creepy they behave. (WTF is up with them seeing a caretaker as their parent and trying to fuck them any chance there is??) I like me some tentacle porn as much as the next person, but if it calls you mommy/daddy I'll immediately loose my imaginary boner. So I'm noping outta this one. It's not funny enough nor is it hot n steamy with that fucking-your-mom bullshit the creature has going on. Gotta go cleanse my eyes and memory with acceptable filthy content now. This can go fuck itself. (●'◡'●)凸

I have a medium kink for this setup of a scenario, but this story honestly does a shit job with it. It's just unappealing tbh. I know what the author wanted to go for but it doesn't work for me. This is just the dumbest, most basic porn plot taken and acting as if it's deep, detailed and good. Which it isn't. XD It's not just the base scenario that is unappealing and causing an issue, it's either the translation or the writing itself. The unofficial was a shitfest that had ZERO to do with the actual dialogue but even the official translation doesn't make sense in the earliest chapters, going back and forth, contradiction what was previously said, etc.. The beginning of the story is lacklusterly written and completely half-assed which immediately makes me uninterested in giving this more of a chance. It's like a movie posting a shitty trailer online; ain't gonna go to the cinema to watch it. I know what the idea was, but the execution didn't work for me at all. This might be a good read for people who do not care about a good setup and intro to a story, just looking for jerk off material, but this doesn't do anything for me other than create annoyance. So I'm out. Sad to see that we finally get a military-type setting and the writing just ruins it. I'm starved for military setups, so this is quite the disappointment. :(

Yet another anthology that deserves each story having it's own at least 10 chapter manga. Dammit, we have been robbed of so many stories that could have entertained us for weeks or months! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ The art is really great, so I'll stalk this author. The writing is also really nice, for each story really.