yforever125's manga / #strong female lead(11)

focuses on worldbuiding- literally- she has a fief. The villainess reincarnated at the time she is being punished. With quick thinking, she avoids her banishment and works to prove herself by bringing her family's fief towards glory. As she and her country grows, she'll soon have to return to her tragic past and rejoin high society. But there's something strange about the heroine and everyone who's infatuated with her, specifically the second prince's faction. All the while, a war brews between the two kingdoms. Very compelling. Not much stories go in depth about the ins and outs of what it's like to rule a country and I haven't yet seen someone use their past life's economic advancements as an easy head start in developing the fantasy society.

Even though the premise is about 'living in the otome game'. The 'otome game' takes a back seat to bear fruit to the adorable young couple that is entirely devoted to each other. They're both overly-powered. Just wholesomeness all around.

Endo and Kobayashi take advantage of the games' "glitch" to help everyone get a happy ending. They lead the only person that can hear them, the crown prince, to encourage the heroine to polish her abilities, to set up a proper love interest for the heroine, and most importantly, to fall in love with incredibly adorable "soon d'rey" (tsundere XD) villainess.

Sasha resigns herself to be the pet of the nobles in order to live in her reincarnated life. Since she has already known the timeline of events, she plans to be friends with the heroine and avoid the villainess. However, after meeting the villainess, Sasha decided that she'll devote herself to making the villainess happy, even if she has a bad ending.

J'aime le comedie~ A really hard spin on the "heroine takes the crown prince from the villainess and the villainess is punished for her 'crimes'." The villainess never bullied the heroine, and in actuality, the villainess had the forethought that this was gonna happen, and so, prepared to be locked up in order to meticulously carry out her hilarious revenge. She supplied herself with 3 months' worth of stock and lived her best life 'vacationing' in prison. This is straight-up crack and best read not taken seriously, however, there's also a layer of thoughtfulness. Certain things resurface to be neatly tied off. I need more.

She can't shake off her childhood friend, so much so that they end up together... IN ANOTHER WORLD. Apparently her friend is the holy maiden and the protagonist ends up being banished by that kingdom. She discovers that she's the chosen one and is loved by the spirits. After being loved and trained by a grandma in the forest, she embarks on a journey to the [beastmen] kingdom, where she's treated well... AS A CAT! How did this happen? Why is it so hard to just say the truth about your identity? I'd feel bad lying to them for even a second longer. They'd be more hurt if you withhold the truth for even longer. It's almost frustrating, she's very close into the typical 'idiotic' female protagonist that I hate so much. The story is only making her stretch her "i am not a cat" confession for drama, but to be honest, it's quite cheap and boring. It adds nothing compelling to the story, yet it's /acting/ as if it's some big revelation.

This is from the "otome game but I am the villainess" genre, however, it's told from the crown prince's perspective. It's quite refreshing, also he's lowkey highkey a sadist. The villainess is absolutely adorable and you can't help but fall in love with her, especially since the story's told through her lover's perspective. Because she loves the crown prince so much, she resigns herself to the role of the villainess and decides to be the best villainess ever!! The evil-heroine-being-also-reincarnated is executed very well. Even though she might not have been a bad guy for expecting things to play out in the way she knew it will (even when it doesn't), she really did descend into the crazy beautifully.

The Ernst family's precious daughter passed away, as a result Mama Ernst is slowly going crazy... that is, until she met Hari, a homeless girl who just lost her mother and looks identical to the late Ernst daughter. They adopt her and care for her like they would their own, except, the three brothers who despise the stranger who took their parents' affection. She lived through the nightmare they put her through and is finally marrying into a different family. Then she wakes up and finds herself in her younger body... reliving the life she almost escaped from. This story needs more tragedy if it was going to be about a 'blood-and-tear-inducing life' caused by her adoptive brothers. They should've made the brothers as terrible as she said they were. Everything we've SEEN so far was petty and childish bullying. They haven't properly established what the stakes are; they haven't shown how terrible her mistreatment was, they've only told us "oh, and the brothers are despicable" and "they're young and childish now, but soon they'd do even worse". They should've showed us that in her past memory, when she was being docile/obedient/considerate, she was still bullied relentlessly, so now in the present, she's going to act without consideration. But the worst abuse she got wasn't even from the her 'terrible' brothers, it was from her aunt whose only purpose is to be a bad person so that the brothers can punish the aunt and show Hari that they care about her. To truly set the stakes, they should've given us a detailed flashback of her trauma surrounding them like if she were experiencing ptsd. From what they've SHOWN, it just seemed like they only did some petty bullying, like taking her toys, taking candy, forcing her to wild play with them, tripping her, calling names, purposefully bumping into her etc. Any time I felt scared for her was when I imagined worse scenarios, because it never felt like she was in any real danger BECAUSE of her brothers. Eugene is my favorite brother.

Claudia is blessed by the Spirit King of Darkness, as such, she possesses the appearance fitting for someone in command of such power. She is shunned by xenophobic people, yet she works hard to please everyone so that she can avoid her bad ending as the villainess. She's a very easy to like protagonist and I root for her because of the well put together angst. Even her own family (save for her brother) shuns her. The heartache makes you just wanna wrap her up and keep as yours. The heroine is incredible stupid. Who talks about otherworldly things out loud? It was almost too easy to find out that she has also been reincarnated into the story. I would've enjoyed it much better if she either also wanted to help the villainess avoid the bad end, or simply not know about the timeline of events. If she was just as ignorant as everyone else, she would've continued to be a kind-hearted and caring individual, even towards the-now-nice-villainess. Even the manga is xenophobic towards Claudia. Can't you just simply colour her as black as you say she is? Or is that really light tan the cause for all that uproar?

The angst (♡~♡) yes plsss~