This was recommended as a masterpiece with a strong female lead.
It's not.
(1) Yet another fucking prince
(2) The ml constantly violates the fl's will.
(3) I'm not seeing any significant strength in the fl. Maybe that happens later on. But she's very mediocre in the first 20 chapters I read.
Look to other comments for how good it is from a story perspective. The flaws are too great for me personally.
This is a nope for me chief.
The only good thing about this manga is its take on religion and gods.
Also the water god is pretty.
That's it. The rest is pretty bad. Which is a shame because I know people who would be interested in reading it specifically because it did such a good job on the religious aspect.
A good concept and mother/son dynamic destroyed by a really shitty ml.
He's a generic, bullshit isekai ml. He also doesn't respect boundaries, violates consent, and takes pleasure in making the fl uncomfortable and fearful. There's an aura of misogyny to this. The fl has no power outside of that men allow her to have and doesn't seek or assert her own power.
They really made her dark-skinned when she was (wrongfully) considered 'evil', and then literally blessed her with white skin when she was acknowledged as 'good'.
Yep. They really did that.
The target audience for this would be around 8-13 in my opinion. This is another of the isekai's that basically copy/paste popular themes from bigger name manga, but don't know how to write on the same level. What you end up with is basically like comparing a novel to a billboard.
The art is passable, although nothing eye-grabbing or creative. I liked the seamstress aspect of the female lead, but that was the only thing likable about her.
It's empty and not worth anyones time.
I love the concept, and from what I read the basic story is playing out nicely.
What makes this unreadable is the TERRIBLE characterization. It's the lowest tier I've ever read. The trash pile. Super annoying with a cookie-cutter innocent/pure personality. The ml's are slightly better characterized but also awful.
The art would be forgivable if the characterization wasn't so bad, but it's not good. This is a manga I would like to see rebooted by a better author and artist. I might pick up the
Absolute shit.
The art is bad. The expressions don't match what the author is trying to portray even slightly.
The story is bad and shows no understanding of human behaviour.
At first I thought the protagonist would be good. She seemed to have an unusual tone to her. But no. That was just my brain compensating for the terrible, terrible writing.
So much wrong with this one.
1) Sexism. This is very much a 'women are children that need/want to be disciplined by men' kind of manga.
2) The only thing this girl thought about from the start of the manga is the guy she wanted to get.
3) The relationship between her and the knight is fucking creepy. Made much creepier from the way she looks like a toddler.
Put this down as more shoujo trash.
Nooooooope.
Has about 5 seconds doing a shit job establishing how they related to each other originally and then the guy gets hit on the head and we're straight into a sex scene. A sex scene where the uke pushes the seme off and the seme ignores that and drags him back to ...what amounts to rape him.
Not for me.
AxA rape and forced drugging + manipulation. Not a fan.
Empress of Another World