Comadrin's manga / #Dumb ML(87)

Not a bad story, but Crikey, if the ML was any more stupid, he would have died when he forgot how to breathe. Give him 200 more years down the road and he could be one of the billionaire Greek hotel magnates.

I see that the ML was one of the people P.T. Barnum was talking about when he said, "There's one born every minute." Evil vamp rolled him up: horse, foot, and guns. And all sucker boy can think about is revenge on the victim of said vamp.

Damn the dude was an idiot. It's made quite clear (through his own thought bubbles) that he knew perfectly well that his brother was an adulterous, entitled sociopath who would lie and manipulate people in order to seduce a young woman he had no intention of being remotely faithful to and that he would abandon his own child without a second thought. At the same time, he is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, with no grounds whatsoever, that the poverty stricken mother of his brother's child who works as a waitress and can't even afford new clothes is a devious gold-digger with a long term plan to steal the family's [hard-earned?] money. All that his actions tell me is that he's a pure and simple misogynist as well as a total moron.

He wasn't a scumbag that needed constant beating, but he sure was dumb and stubborn. He didn't jump to conclusions, he positively flew at them.

Well, he finally did the right thing, but I found him to be a rather tiresome bore. He kept her on a leash after saying he wouldn't, but still didn't have any intention until the end of returning her love.

I love Toda Megumi's art, but these three princeling stories are so hokey. The MLs are interchangeable, and all three are horndogs who use "The Kiss" which (of course) is so powerful and passionate that women forget they are being sexually assaulted and immediately lose their critical faculties, moral sense, and, half the time, their clothes. My wife and I certainly enjoy kissing and a lack of passion is something that I've never been afflicted with, but if I asked her why she doesn't lose her mind and melt like a cheese sandwich in a microwave from my torrid liplock, she would probably take me to the doctor to see if my cranium had a close encounter with a blunt object.

I really liked this one. She was a total sweetheart and he was great when he forgot his cold-hearted businessman persona. The story also made a point that I've run across in serious articles and studies. Companies that are acquired and run by people only interested in money and not the product usually ruin the company AND the product. I used to be a wine aficionado (a total amateur) and watched a number of very fine wineries get bought out by suits who then fired the top notch vintners, boosted production at the expense of quality, and tried to sell their product for the same gourmet prices. They made large profits for about a year and then became known as a brand that would try to sell Ripple for Dom Perignon. These companies run by "money-men" instead of producers of products also end up being toxic places to work, with absolutely no loyalty from the top to the employees or from the employees to the company.

There's dumb as a box of rocks, then there's dumber than a trainload of granite blocks, and finally there's this ML. No matter what the reason, no matter that he didn't cheat on her sexually, he out and out betrayed her. So did her filthy uncle. In fact, the two of them might as well have been in cahoots for all the damage they did to her. When she found out all the truth, she should have taken all, and I mean ALL, of her equity in the company, left Uncle Scumbag to prison and his crappy excuse for a daughter high and dry, told ML to hug a root for all eternity, hired Lucha Libre to beat the living crap out of her wannabe boyfriend, then left town and gotten a name change.

Uh, well, sort of...

I liked it, mainly for Babs, the FL, and the youngest girl. The ML was kind of a dope at first, making snap judgments and all, but he got better (at least about snap judgments, he was still kind of dumb). I'd like to have seen more about the FL's best friend Liz. She seemed seriously cool.