vaneella

One of the isekai OGs, so it feels cathartic finally finishing this. You don't see a lot of works where you can tell the art improved by the end, usually it's the opposite. And the story stayed true to the tea theme so no complaint from me on that part. Also the emperor is just so fineee.

My only complaint is that I wished there's some depth to the prince's character. I couldn't help but think that he's there just to make Alphonse look better as the ML. He's already super green flag so I don't see why we have to have a romantic rival. The prince is obviously intelligent, so what I hoped went down instead is that he accepted his mistake and tried to mend his relationship with his romantic partners, and better yet supported these women to make their own independent decisions.

And as much as Chloe was so progressive with her tea ideas and also her business acumen, in the world where patriarchy was still rampant, it doesn't really seem to affect the society more than the capitalistic economy aspect of it. We get it, Chloe is the IT girl, but I wish her influence also helped other women and girls not in her circle too, not just limited to tea stuff.

Does anybody notice the juxtaposition of him wanting to live an ordinary life and the extraordinary things happening around him? He really wants to be average but it's slowly getting revealed that none of the people near him is. His father has a strong connection with a chaebol family, his mother is daughter of a falsely accused traitor, her sister has supernatural ability, his dog is intelligent, not to mention the weird shadow that he has... I'm very curious about the sound he hear when he regressed in the beginning and if it's the same voice/universe as what his sister hears.