Have y’all never had a crush on an older person when you were a teen? Like, damn let the girl have feelings. Her having a crush does not mean they’ll absolutely get together in the end.
And also? Gen wasn’t trying making a move on Beni. He was being nice to a guest in “his” house, and any romantic vibes the readers pick up is because we’re seeing it from Beni’s point of view (and it’s a freaking romance manga, c’mon guys). Gen is not a creep just for being an older attractive man who interacts with a younger girl. He had no way of knowing that moment would cause Beni to catch feelings.
The author is also not a weirdo for writing this plotline. A central theme of this manga is dealing with romantic feelings that cannot be reciprocated. So it would be very in line with the rest of the story if Gen rejected Beni, and she had to grow as a person to handle her feelings. That’s a real thing that happens in the world and I personally am looking forward to how it plays out.
Right like why so negative, what we saw just from Teenager POV. Lol
But also dating culture is so different in the east. It’s very euro-ameri-centric to impose what you think is appropriate on an entirely different culture.
so true and very fair & spot on analysis bestie! however i do get where they're coming from since shoujo authors be Like That sometimes and in terms of themes, although it is about how to deal with unreciprocated feelings, the general expectation for readers coming in to read shoujo is that it will follow the standard formula of the main leads always getting together in the end which means the love isn't quite so unreciprocated after all. so we just gotta hope and pray this one truly isn't a weirdo and actually follows through on the central theming without making beni and gen get together in the end as a sort of "reward" for beni for being able to "handle" the "sufferings" of unrequited love (which is a typically theme & plot beat that shoujo manga tends to follow and enforce)
Omg you’re so spot on about it being a “reward” sometimes!
But given how this manga is written, I don’t think that’s how the author thinks. I really feel that Beni is either going to get outright rejected or will come to understand Gen doesn’t see her that way.
To all those who wish for Arthur endgame…
Sorry I can’t confirm that, lol, but I CAN confirm that this “fiance” is not endgame. They eventually break off the engagement and become working partners instead. They still maintain contact and Mr Ex Fiance has a lot of affection and respect for Pride, but they both know they could never get married.
Who's the endgame? Spoil me!!
I read somewhere that it was Val but that could be a lie
When animals get into trouble, it’s cute because they literally don’t know better so they’re all confused as to why what they did is a bad thing. Not this cat. She knew exactly what she was doing and why it was illegal, and is smug as fuck that she got away with it.
And even if the character was a person and not an animal, I still wouldn’t care very much for her. The story starts with her being ungrateful, belligerent, and spoiled. Not even her owner/family has anything good to say about her. Drugging a rich guy into falling in love with her, just for his money? If this was a human character, she would unquestionably be the villainess of the story.
I’m assuming the cat gains better character traits as the story goes on, but I already want to strangle this animal by chapter 2 so there’s no point.
This comment section makes it so clear that not enough people are aware of restorative justice. Rotting in hell is not the only punishment, and neither is it the best one.
Believe it or not, people are allowed to change. They’re allowed to hit rock bottom and then try to do better. No it cannot erase what bad they did, but preventing them from doing good only increases the net bad in the world. And if we punish those who are trying to turn their lives around, fewer individuals have incentive to be a better person.
Lydia understands the weight of her previous actions. She carries that guilt and grief every day. If she had given up and drowned in that hopelessness, believing she was a fundamentally broken person unable to do good, then Lyrica would still be in the slums and Alterres would never know love and so many people in the opera house would have died. Her belief that she is capable of change DID change the world.
I prefer characters who are not fundamentally good or evil, because people aren’t either. And I do have mixed feelings about Lydia (perpetrator) but IMO past-life Lyrica (victim) would be happy with how her mom has redeemed herself. That’s enough for me to believe justice has been achieved.
Brilliantly said
I love when the greatest form of defeat is bringing an “emotionless” man down to his knees with feeling. Sure, a lack of empathy and compassion can drive a man to do great things. It IS the idealized form of toxic masculinity.
But then to turn it on them? Open their hearts to all the beautiful things in the world and let this new knowledge drive them mad (even though their logic tells them it shouldn’t matter)? An attack which they have no defense against, due to their own choices?
I just can’t get enough of it. (▰˘◡˘▰)
Samee Perrian here and the author really killed it
It’s SO SATISFYING
Choke on regret~
I love a good regret arc, redemption or not
Ugh I can’t tell whether that Vinka girl is trying to become a princess by pretending to be Win’s sister or if she’s trying to seduce him.
Either way, I wish they hadn’t introduced her quite yet. The whole shadowy figure seems separate from Elia and her fake dad, so I honestly don’t care at this point about Vinka. She just icks me the hell out, and if she gets worse I might have to drop this title for a while so I can binge past her parts.
She’s the redhead uncle’s daughter. ( ￣□￣)
I believe in true love, I really do, but this man thinks what he has is “true”? If it were the case, he would either have given up his title to be a commoner or figured out a way to have Aria titled as a noble so he could marry her.
The fact is he took the coward’s way out. It’s not true love, it’s selfishness. I’m betting he likes the class difference between him and his lover, either to stoke his own ego or to “preserve her innocence”.
It’s the way he harps on about not being bewitched and straying from the path of a knight. . . .but that’s literally what he’s been doing even before she got involved. She approached him after being saved and admiring him. It’s very likely that his “true love” was similar. He didn’t asked to be called a hero but he didn’t reject any of the benefits of that title either. His entire family loves and supports her and yet he still thinks she is the one who’s the problem. I could bet money that his family has never even met the mistress #－.－)
HE DIDNT ASK TO BE CALLED A HERO BUT HE DIDNT REJECT ANY OF THE BENEFITS OF THAT TITLE EITHER!
The side characters are all really interesting. Seira must have clung to the duke as her only support after the genocide, and hence become obsessed with earning a rightful (stable) place by his side. Lara has a complicated relationship with her coddling family, and Niobe has lofty ambitions even if she’s a creep. Even Gerard is not just an innocent kid, blindly trusting his master, but is someone with a sense of righteousness.
It just sucks that the story doesn’t spend much time on any of it! My only hope they’ll do side stories at the end to really explore what it was like for these characters to face their unique problems.
The empress/heroine is definitely not a good person, but I don’t understand why she went out of her way to ruin Pablo’s business if he was an ally. Why make an enemy out of someone whose skill you’ve acknowledged?
Maybe that reason is part of why she’s also targeting the Halo county. Money seems to be a large factor in the empress’s game, though I’m sure the politics is also significant.
Usually authoritarian leader will get rid of some or all of the people that helped them win the "war". She probably did it so she can keep all of the power herself; redirecting the control of the business to her instead of Pablo.
The problem is she didn’t really “get rid of” Pablo. He’s still alive, he’s still able to do business except this time he doesn’t want to give her any benefits if he can help it. If the empress had left him alone, Pablo would still be doing things for her benefit.