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ok so I haven’t touched this manga in a hot second BUT I HAVE been reading the novels and it’s literally crazy how different they are like there was no arts festival or summer retreat in the novel and the way that certain characters come into the story are also wayyy different (for example rosette. She DOES NOT try to bribe Violette for her silence for one thing nor does the prince ever actually come up in convos between them they’re just purely friends and very cute ones). Also the manga has no business being nice to maryjune like this. No business at all.
but one thing I’m definitely unsatisfied about is how the manga is treating her family issues because hhholy shit does it not even TOUCH the depravity and absolute cruelty that she had to live with for so long.
Like. They brush over the fact that Violette was raised a boy and that her mom was projecting her father onto her and that’s bad, that’s already awful, but it doesn’t even show the full extent of how bad it was. She was like /basically/ being sexually abused/molested by her mother as a child because of her resemblance to her shit sperm donor. Her dad’s awful yes but the one who truly fucked up the poor girl to the point where even now she’s got horrible body dysmorphia AND gender dysphoria. On top of so many other issues.
As for her father, don’t worry the author herself said in one of the author’s notes “Forgiveness was never on the table in the first place” thankfully unlike the writers of a lot of other similar plots in japanese manga/light novels I get the impression she’s much more aware of matters around abuse and the like. There will be no redemption for him (actually, as of volume 4 of the LN he’s gotten his just desserts in the best way possible from the least likely suspect).
Speaking of which, y’all will NOT believe who the last boss is! In retrospect it makes sense but damn is the reveal and That MomentTM specifically quite surprising.
Also don’t worry Yulan is endgame like expediating an engagement behind ShitSperm’s back endgame!! Also the prince is meh. But unlike the manga which seems to be pushing for a surprise turn around in the novel Violette and Claudia actually mutually agree to put their past behind them /and/ Claudia is officially engaged to Rosette (the author apparently has plans for romance between them so we’ll see how that goes).
Not to mention ohhhh he puts maryjune in her place. Violette puts maryjune in her place once more too. Even [REDACTED] puts maryjune in her place which was hilarious. How is this girl so brainlessly selfish is a question for her parents.