This comic is a great example of why it’s so excruciatingly difficult to find a decent, compelling romance comic. The women aren’t written realistically and are fully driven by almost nothing other than their affections. Their behavior fluctuates with the situation in ways that don’t make sense. Sure, mc starts out trying to prevent her family’s destruction, but she puts figuring that issue on the back burner real quick. Blue hair challenges all social conventions by openly pursuing swordsmanship as a woman despite taking shit from everyone around her for it….to impress her fiancée/crush. It’s not about her personal desires, goals, or satisfaction, just her desire to be with a guy. That’s her entire character despite her being depicted on the surface as a powerful, confident woman in control of her life. It’s a facade. Her character is basically a paper tiger, but in the end there’s really nothing of substance. Even if she didn’t have memories of the future, mc knows that the prince and his friends mercilessly bullied her brother for shits and giggles, but that doesn’t stop her from starting to catch feelings and becoming “friends”. Even if she realized that there was manipulation behind the scenes later on, the prince executed her entire family in the future, but she just gets over it with no trauma reactions. She doesn’t even struggle with it a little bit mentally, just moves right on. Silver hair blackmails her and gets really touchy, but she just blushes, makes an angry comment, and does nothing about it. She acts really “cute” and innocent with her interactions with the guys and their inappropriate behavior (especially silver hair since he knows her gender), but never rejects or confronts them as someone with that background/personality in that society would. It just feels like a common trope to do a “have your cake and eat it too” take on the female lead who is extremely sheltered, innocent, and (romantically) conservative, but also somehow accepts or doesn’t rebuff obviously inappropriate or rude advances from attractive male characters despite the response not matching their background, the social norms of their society, or their personality . Whatever the fl’s normal personality or background, they suddenly turn into a blushing doormat to the ml no matter how toxic or inappropriate his behavior is. But it’s fine because he’s so hot she just can’t stay mad at him. They aren’t likable or enjoyable to read because they’re not people. Mc is just a cluster of shallow responses and objective goals, but there is no consistency.
This comic is a great example of why it’s so excruciatingly difficult to find a decent, compelling romance comic. The women aren’t written realistically and are fully driven by almost nothing other than their affections. Their behavior fluctuates with the situation in ways that don’t make sense. Sure, mc starts out trying to prevent her family’s destruction, but she puts figuring that issue on the back burner real quick.
Blue hair challenges all social conventions by openly pursuing swordsmanship as a woman despite taking shit from everyone around her for it….to impress her fiancée/crush. It’s not about her personal desires, goals, or satisfaction, just her desire to be with a guy. That’s her entire character despite her being depicted on the surface as a powerful, confident woman in control of her life. It’s a facade. Her character is basically a paper tiger, but in the end there’s really nothing of substance.
Even if she didn’t have memories of the future, mc knows that the prince and his friends mercilessly bullied her brother for shits and giggles, but that doesn’t stop her from starting to catch feelings and becoming “friends”. Even if she realized that there was manipulation behind the scenes later on, the prince executed her entire family in the future, but she just gets over it with no trauma reactions. She doesn’t even struggle with it a little bit mentally, just moves right on.
Silver hair blackmails her and gets really touchy, but she just blushes, makes an angry comment, and does nothing about it. She acts really “cute” and innocent with her interactions with the guys and their inappropriate behavior (especially silver hair since he knows her gender), but never rejects or confronts them as someone with that background/personality in that society would.
It just feels like a common trope to do a “have your cake and eat it too” take on the female lead who is extremely sheltered, innocent, and (romantically) conservative, but also somehow accepts or doesn’t rebuff obviously inappropriate or rude advances from attractive male characters despite the response not matching their background, the social norms of their society, or their personality .
Whatever the fl’s normal personality or background, they suddenly turn into a blushing doormat to the ml no matter how toxic or inappropriate his behavior is. But it’s fine because he’s so hot she just can’t stay mad at him. They aren’t likable or enjoyable to read because they’re not people. Mc is just a cluster of shallow responses and objective goals, but there is no consistency.