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Ok. Arts Gorgeous. That's a given. The characters? Kinda badly written. The two maids barely have presence, the 2nd in command hasn't had screentime in a while. The characters all look the same except colors, no one has a distinct style to help differentiate. The only character with any distinct personality is that flower b*tch. ML has trauma, but he's way to back and forth, and not in an enjoyable way. It's like Author wants us to get doki dokis at some scenes, and then just excuses it as "ML runs hot and cold".
FL is the most irritating because she's at the very least 1 or 2 hundred years old, but she DOESN'T act like it. She's also somehow both incredibly powerful yet ALWAYS being defeated or saved by ML, and sometimes the story will try and explain why she lost, but it always feels like such a cop out.
This all makes the plot seem incredibly boring, because in the grand scheme of the story, they got married, fought 2nd in commands yokai, went to capital, and that's it. Like, ML also has like zero motivation, at first he wants to avoid politics and then he throws it away for fl?? Even for love at first sight that's a ridiculous thing to do. Sister needs to be healed but she has a baby, ok, why can't they, idk, fake sisters death and leave the capital? They stay, and they're like I need a reason to stay, and somehow her reviving snow magic is enough of a reason?
Also the like, suspense behind the king and his followers doesn't even work, cause it's just them standing around smirking and looking hot.
There's nothing pushing the reader to want to uncover the plots or follow the characters.
Again, I know there are worst stories, but idk, I always can at least handle shitty basic stories because they all follow tropes and those tropes work, even if they are basic. Like they use a basic character and at least it's a full character just kinda basic and boring, FL and ML just feel like pretty designs doing things without any logic or reasoning
Even MLs trauma isnt very fleshed out because it's like it's there one moment and gone the next.
This is the realest comment ever. I agree with so much of this I can't even explain it.
Everything about this manga feels like enough thought wasn't put into it. I enjoy reading it, but like it just lacks in areas that I feel are really important. Like the ones you mentioned. It's just off.
It's so wack, I wanted to really like this, but it's like, cobbled together with hopes and prayers lmao
Gosh in a world of red flag MLs this guy is not that bad. I actually really like his character, cause it's at least an understandable reaction. Marriages were transactions, he married under orders, and it was a small thing that happened years ago that was followed by political intrigue and most likely small wars (since they needed the land to help in the battles and keep it from enemy hands). cheating isn't even illegal or morally wrong in this world, just being legally married to more than one person, so he's actually doing the more honorable thing to divorce first
But he's still a prince so of course he's gonna do the method that still protects the royal families interests. Also him not knowing ANYTHING about her situation means all letters from her were blocked which is looking to be a purposeful plot.
Like he's cold and paranoid and selfish but that's a much more realistic historical ML. And this is all much more interesting and worth seeing him grow past than the BS that other shitty MLs do. Hell it's even more acceptable than the BS that some supposed not shitty MLs do. Not all character flaws are bad.