July's manga / #Isekai(79)

It's a pretty light-hearted isekai, the OL female lead is transported to another world, and to earn a living, she must cook lunchboxes. She meets some important figures in the palace and learns that she is capable of magic. Everyone is now trying to figure out who summoned her in the first place. I'm sure the romance will be between her and the wizard, but it's progressing slowly so far, and I like it. The female lead is a little ditzy and super cheerful, but she's not annoying to me, like some other similar female leads are.

This webtoon is so bad. It wants to be isekai version of Runway de waratte but can't even make itself appealing enough to be read. The art is really not good, but at least the author does an ok job at drawing clothes (can you imagine if they didn't?). There's so many problems with this story that it's trying to tell. If she was working at a factory that made clothes and died and isekai'd to this new world, she will not have the know-how to design clothes since patterning and designing are very different things. You really learn nothing about the clothing making industry reading this, because the author didn't bother to do any research and just wrote whatever floats their boat. The dream of the female lead is to make ready-made clothes, basically mass production of fashion. That seems so un-herolike and unimaginative. It's one thing to design the most beautiful clothes but it's an entirely different thing to wish to mass produce clothes to make lots of money. That's just being greedy and narrow-minded, as well as unambitious. That's why I cannot even begin to root for this boring-ass main character. And there's some side plot where she dresses like a man because she wants to be like Mulan basically. As a woman, no one will take her seriously, so she must be a guy to design clothes. Yeah. Completely stupid. Then the next thing you know, she's being arrested because they thought she was molesting a servant girl, and she laments about being disguised as a guy. You can't have it both ways. Also, you can be female and still molest people of the same gender. Sighhhhhh. Don't even get me started on the endless gushing of the Queen's cousin about how handsome he is. The art is just not up to that level where as a reader, I can also gush over how handsome he is, because he simply isn't! I honestly don't like it when the author of a work keeps trying to beat their readers over the head with how supposedly good-looking a character is supposed to be. It's ok the first couple of times to establish it as an important thought in a character's head, but not necessary in every freaking chapter. Like, we get it! And also also, they really expect us to think the Queen Cecia united 99 kingdoms? Please. Author, list all 99 of them for me. Or you can't because you just came up with 99 since it looks impressive as a number? It's literally impossible to conquer 99 kingdoms in a single lifetime, let alone however many years it took for this Queen.

It's an isekai story, but instead of a fantasy RPG/adventure type game reincarnation, it's more of a strategy kingdom-building simulation game that takes place in a fantasy setting. I think this concept is pretty interesting, since I love playing kingdom simulation games. It's cool that all the other characters in the game see the male lead as an evil shadowy blob, since his alignment is assigned to be evil. The art is so-so, the shading is great, but the character art is pretty ugly-looking. Waiting for more chapters.

Nothing about this webtoon makes any sense, largely due to the horrible translation. I really don't know what is happening at all. There's a lot of cute chibi animals and magic flying around, but no real plot. The kingdom where the female lead lives is enemies with another kingdom where one of the male love interests lives, and they're scheming stuff about using magic and taking over the other kingdom. The art is pretty bad, everything looks like a cartoon, and most of the characters are drawn in a simplistic way that is not nice to look at.

It's pretty interesting so far, a man is isekai'd to the world of a novel he was reading before he fell asleep. He's a minor villain in the novel, and he's striving to live a peaceful life with as little conflict as possible. I think he seems more intelligent than other male leads in the isekai genre, so I'm curious what will happen next. The art is not bad, I really like the look of the male lead character.

Female lead is reincarnated into a villainess, who is quickly banished to live as a nun, but she enjoys her new carefree life. Instead of despairing, she starts to cook modern Japanese food for the villagers. All is well until key characters from her villainess life reappear in the monastery she is living in, making her life more complicated once again. It's pretty decent, although weird and nonsensical at times. None of the characters are too stand-out though, so it's mostly forgettable. There isn't much of a plot going on, either.

Isekai x wine making x magic/cultivation type webtoon. Fairly standard so far, but there's only two chapters, so not much to judge by. Art is ok, but not the best. I'm not that impressed by this.

This manga is funny, it attempts to subvert isekai tropes in a unique way. The female lead died from overwork, and reincarnated inside a coffin, and it turns out everyone in this new world can use magic, including her husband, the king. The king immediately figures out that she's been isekai'd to his world and threatens her, when suddenly, the ghost of the body she's in also appears and they fight. LOL. Hoping for more goodness soon, can't wait to see what they come up with next.

Trying to bring a new twist to the both tired genres of Cinderella and isekai stories, the female lead ends up reincarnated as the evil stepmother. But this time, she's going to raise all her kids right, including Cinderella, yay~ Although it sounded interesting at first, I feel the execution is severely lacking. There's too much thinking going on in the female lead's part and nothing happening. Seriously, almost every panel is filled with her thoughts. I don't care for any of the characters, they're all bland and don't stand out. I am not getting any personality from any of them, even the main character, since she thinks too much and doesn't do anything. She's too passive and it's boring. Sigh. The art is ok, but nothing great. The daughters are ugly compared to the stepmother and Cinderella, which sucks. They don't question their mother's sudden change in attitude at all. The names are incredibly stupid. We have Mildred, Sandra, Iris, Lily, Ashley, Gary, and Fred. Like the most uncreative names ever....

The female lead isekai'd to the world of a strategy game, where she's the leader of a nation of spider monsters. This manga reminds me of another isekai fantasy strategy manga called "Isekai Apocalypse MYNOGHRA ~The conquest of the world starts with the civilization of ruin~" except the other one has a male lead. I enjoy this one more since I love strong female leads, and she's pretty promising so far. Besides it's only a strategy game when you have lots of units, which is what she has (the other manga he only has one unit). She's slowly becoming more cruel and vicious, but you still want to root for her, so that's good writing. The art was not so good, but the recent chapters look better and better. Hoping for it to pick up some more, and I may change the star rating.